Death of ICOs

[electronicash]

indeed there are a lot of losses that occur when fundraising uses the ICO method and for now I think many are no longer interested in ICO, they are more interested in the IEO method which according to investors can be safer.

this IEO is also going to disappear soon.  investors avoided it because of the KYC from the small exchanges that partnered with the scam team doing IEO. the death of IEO is also inevitable. there is just no safe way for fundraising a project without the risk of scam. its possible to big exchanges, it may not look scam but the unpleasant experience due to liquidity is terrible.

[Greatchu]

Let what's gone be gone, ICO is no more and it's not coming back again, many new developers have moved to IEO because they are way better, even investors don't trust ICOs anymore because they are mostly scammer

[Blackdeath]

ICO terminations in 2019 were unimaginably inadequate contrasted with 2018 August and October both had none, while January 2018 had 160 projects. All things considered, 2019 projects raised additionally funding on average $6.8 million contrasted with 2018 $132,000, still ICOs are losing popularity because of

1. Concerns with funded projects
2. Regulatory hurdles with selling the tokens
3. Crypto bear market

Most projects nowadays are really not successful especially ICO projects, that is why a lot of investors started to quit in investing their money cryptocurrencies because they are wasting a lot of money and time, and they didn't get any rewards to it. It is the reason why IEO projects does not have any potential to grow more further because we are lacking of investors today.

[Hamphser]

The recent bear market is the first reason for mentioned consequences, other cases are not as important as the poor market situation. Scam projects have drained the juice of interest by fake teams, I doubt the dead ICOs will retrace back to the old position, IMHO.

I hope people will learn the past experiences about of these ICOs and never to repeat it today. ICO era has been a drastic scam events in the past that took almost all the trust of these future investors. Now IEO should not be like the ICO era in order to make the crypto market clean from the scammers.

[puertorikosena]

Of course, now the time for ICOs projects is not the best, especially after a huge amount of fraud in this market. But still, I think that they will continue to exist and sometimes even raise enough funds. But when there is another bubble in the market, the amount of scam will increase dramatically.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

Although there is many people who just depend on hype which mean they come to the some places which can be trusted will give them a huge profit but when they felt to the scammer they will learn more about the system correctly. Because they have known that is the worst thing to do and eventually they will never fall to the scammer for the second times.

This is what happened on ICOs markets. I know, not all ICOs project are scam and have a good prospect for the future. But, human attitude is not like that. They will judge if there is a place which is rated as a scam/fake then many people will assume that all ICOs project are scam and everybody must avoid them. Moreover, there is a new way to take a part with this kind place i.e IEO which more safely and can guarantee the money will be save.

[llecrf]

The last ICO project that I encountered was the Ferrum project, but until the end of 2019, I did not see any successful new ICO listed on coinmarketcap.
this year maybe we will not see ICO, because IEO is already gaining popularity in 2019 and there will be new projects but I'm not sure if IEO will continue, because there is already IEO fraud in 2019

[Colt81]

The only reason why ICO is starting to die because there are really a lot of projects here that are scam that after the project was finished the team members will start to not reply in any of our personal messages, that is why ICO became does not reach their soft and hard cap due because most investors lose their trust. There are also issues about their KYC policies that it should not be implemented because it could lead to identity theft.

[KrisAlex18]

Of course, now the time for ICOs projects is not the best, especially after a huge amount of fraud in this market. But still, I think that they will continue to exist and sometimes even raise enough funds. But when there is another bubble in the market, the amount of scam will increase dramatically.

I don't believe that ICOs are already dead, not because most of ICO these days are irrelevant or already existing but I mostly think of them as idealizing what else they can bring to the market so more of like a pause in market. I think ICO are still a thing especially in funding projects because it is working in all aspect of offerring , it is just that not time to go with scam projects simultaneously now.

[mobilestrike]

ICO terminations in 2019 were unimaginably inadequate contrasted with 2018 August and October both had none, while January 2018 had 160 projects. All things considered, 2019 projects raised additionally funding on average $6.8 million contrasted with 2018 $132,000, still ICOs are losing popularity because of

1. Concerns with funded projects
2. Regulatory hurdles with selling the tokens
3. Crypto bear market

These three points had reduced the popularity of ICOs and the interest of investors in it but as in the past many of them were successful and because of ICOs many people are now millionaire so I do not think that it will be its death but a hibernation period which I think also better for the crypto market as it will eliminate the fraud attempts and when the market will be all green again then many good companies may start their ICOs.

[Nadziratel]

ICO terminations in 2019 were unimaginably inadequate contrasted with 2018 August and October both had none, while January 2018 had 160 projects. All things considered, 2019 projects raised additionally funding on average $6.8 million contrasted with 2018 $132,000, still ICOs are losing popularity because of

1. Concerns with funded projects
2. Regulatory hurdles with selling the tokens
3. Crypto bear market

Did you ever looked any upcoming ICO's?

According to icorating there are over 1100 ICO : https://icorating.com/ico/upcoming/
According to icomarks there are over 1000 ICO: https://icomarks.com/icos?status=upcoming&whitelist=&kyc=&bounty=&mvp=&email_confirmed=


There are more than 1000 upcoming ICOs. Don't you think they didn't realize the ICOs were dead? It doesn't matter whether ICO or IEO, the good project will always collect money. ICO amount is getting less recently because bear market affect is getting increase. If any bull season come again we will see a lot of ICO's also.

[Jocuserious]

It's wait movement and looking next market conditions for everyone new project i think we in new year 2020 even though lot of difference almost two years ICO days very bad. Actually more investors already forget ICO time and they want always looking a great project with IEO performance.

[magneto]

ICO terminations in 2019 were unimaginably inadequate contrasted with 2018 August and October both had none, while January 2018 had 160 projects. All things considered, 2019 projects raised additionally funding on average $6.8 million contrasted with 2018 $132,000, still ICOs are losing popularity because of

1. Concerns with funded projects
2. Regulatory hurdles with selling the tokens
3. Crypto bear market

I think at the end of the day what matters most for ICOs to successfully raise funding is still the sentiment of the market. If the sentiment of the market is bullish then I would have no doubts that these ICOs will likely do much better than they are doing in this current climate of bearishness.

But overall, markets have structurally changed where it no longer favours these new projects, but rather wants to focus on existing coins that are much more established.

Perhaps this colud be attributed to institutional investors who are seeking safer investments, or perhaps it's just a sign of a mature market.

[Rengga Jati]

Correct. ICO is losing popularity nowadays. We rarely saw ICOs that can provide fundraising successfully. Most ICOs failed to get funds and the rest failed to keep their token's value on the market. Finally, those conditions lead all ICOs to become dead projects.

By the way, I think some vital factors are :
1. Lack of investors
2. IEO becomes popular
3. No changes on ICO's condition
4. Most investors probably focus on Bitcoin for upcoming BTC halving

[jossiel]

The concern for these projects is likely being thought that most of them are scam projects. That is the reason very few investors are looking towards it. And if a project succeeds in its sale, the next struggle is coming and that is when it will be listed.

The complain of investors and hunters at the same is what making them rush to list it as soon as possible. And the result, they are putting it to unknown exchange so just to say that they have complied to the demand of those complainants.

[minersday]

ICOs are not seeing any success with fundraising because of the previous numerous scams that have engulfed this space. Also, investors got to realize that most of the ICOs that are being launched into this space have no good use case and real world benefit other than just a bunch of ideas which are not feasible.
Another thing that is off a great concern is the greed of the team members. I have seen projects whereby team members abscond with the funds of their investors.

[salty]

There are already tons of alt-coins out there and most of them are dying.

That's exactly the reason mainly lies in the overabundance of projects that have interesting ideas but do not yet have a product as such.Many investors simply joined the purchase of already released promising altcoins.This is less risky than investing your money in an ICO.

[aioc]

ICO terminations in 2019 were unimaginably inadequate contrasted with 2018 August and October both had none, while January 2018 had 160 projects. All things considered, 2019 projects raised additionally funding on average $6.8 million contrasted with 2018 $132,000, still ICOs are losing popularity because of

1. Concerns with funded projects
2. Regulatory hurdles with selling the tokens
3. Crypto bear market

It stopped being secured crowdfunding, scammers are now ruling the ICO industry, they are all after money and not the development of Cryptocurrency, the bear market is also a big factor so many of ICO did not reach their even their softcap, because investors are now more on investing on coins that are on the market, they want to recover their losses in ICO.

[ahyadinnn]

There are already tons of alt-coins out there and most of them are dying.

That's exactly the reason mainly lies in the overabundance of projects that have interesting ideas but do not yet have a product as such.Many investors simply joined the purchase of already released promising altcoins.This is less risky than investing your money in an ICO.

I myself prefer to buy coins that have been registered in the market rather than invest in the ico project because the current ico project rarely makes a profit but instead loses because I have to wait a long time to enter the market yet the price does not match their sales

[oscarftw]

ICO terminations in 2019 were unimaginably inadequate contrasted with 2018 August and October both had none, while January 2018 had 160 projects. All things considered, 2019 projects raised additionally funding on average $6.8 million contrasted with 2018 $132,000, still ICOs are losing popularity because of

1. Concerns with funded projects
2. Regulatory hurdles with selling the tokens
3. Crypto bear market

I think all are because of bear market. Selected coin for funds rise is Bitcoin and Ethereum, those price was  almost 20K and 1.35K USD now ten times down so liquidity also down. Extra token sell for another crash. Giant amount of token selling of course dump the price. IMO plans is good 90 percent token lock