What was the first-ever ICO you’ve invested?

[soramon]

Well actually i never invested on any ICO since i joined cryptocurrency. I dont know i dont have any interest to put money on ICO. Mostly i hold tokens from bounty campaign. But, i do following news about good ICO/IEO for research.

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[carlisle1]

as far as i remember it was Yahoo's managed campaign that i first invest and lucky that i earned half of my investment.
and then there is another that managed by Strawbabies and after that 2?i stopped investing because it was 2018 already and the scam is really rampant those days.

SNM was my first and the last ICO. Around -90% roe

Whaaaat/ Negative 90% ROI?

thats very horrible mate,and you are right if that will be the experience?then for sure there will be no other following investment.

You may be hated the ICO since then.

[Vishnu.Reang]

The very first ICO in which I had invested was the Mozotoken (which was a South Korean based project). Initially the project gave good returns, and it was listed in some of the better exchanges. Fortunately, I cashed out my tokens during the initial days and after that the exchange rates dipped by more than 90%. I don't know what happened to the project and the last time I heard about it, the development activity was on hold.

[coinfinger]

Honestly I have somehow managed not getting into ICO contribution; I could not recall any reasons but participating bounties could be one reason like when I am getting paid in bounties why should I need to go for spending my BTC or ETH for buying same tokens or coins. I rarely found time to analyze few white papers but I do follow as per my friends recommendation to participate into ICO bounties. So, due to the fear factor of unable to find right project for contributing while ICO, must be another reason why I never touched ICOs. But, I have bought few tokens like MTC after hitting exchanges.

Doctoken(MTC) must be one good memorable ICO in my experience as I got chances to buy them lesser than its listing prices and then I sold them for 5 time higher prices. Due to its huge profits in really short time duration, I still mention it as one of my good altcoin experience regardless of how many worthless tokens I still hold.

[Iyeman]

Mine was a lending coin because I was already into many HYIPs and lending projects. So I thought the only way to make quick bitcoin was to lending coins and quickly make money. It was a bad lesson. I should have stick only to existing project, all these madness was in 2017.

How big profit that you will get from the lending site depends on how much your annual yield. FYI so many people were also getting scammed by HYIP and lending site too.
The biggest profit still came from the ICO. I have ever gotten a bunch of money from my first ico too.

[wywoc]

Well the first ICO I have ever invested was a Ponzi coin - Hextracoin, back then 2017 when ICO hyped and many projects that promised their token will 10x or maybe 100x after ICO. I lost around $100, but it'll my an unforgettable lesson for me when come to this market.

[sayulita]

2017 was the year that I have started my cryptocurrency journey. During that year alone, I invested in some few ICOs on top of participating in airdrops and bounty programs.

Blackmoon Crypto Token (BMC) was the first ever ICO that I’ve invested. I think I shelled out $10.00+ for that since I’m just a micro-investor. I remember the time that Blackmoon Crypto Token is almost sold out, so I had to catch up and good thing that I did.

Unfortunately, Blackmoon Token didn’t profit more than $1.00 when it was listed in exchanges. My $10.00 worth of BMC is now $0.42 only. The reason I hold it until now is because I want to keep this as a remembrance of the first-ever ICO that I’ve invested.

The other ICOs that I have invested next to Blackmoon last 2017 are Paragon Coin, Electroneum, Universa, Crypterium and LoyalCoin. Unfortunately all of these ICOs I’ve invested are at a loss, but I didn’t sell them until now.

On top of that, I also invested some TRXs as well during that year and until now I haven’t sold them. XRP is another coin I have invested when it was still around $0.77, but successfully sold them when it almost reached $4.00. I also bought DOGE when it was still $0.006 and sold it when that coin is on it’s way to an all-time high for a quick profit.

What about you guys? Could you share the very first ICO that you’ve invested? Thanks!

My first investment in a crowdfunded project was in Ethereum and after that I have done a lot of investments in the ICO trend of 2017. My best investment was in XRP which I brought very cheap and also held onto XRP until the ATH and when the price was falling then I sold my XRP.

I also bought DOGE when it was still $0.006 and sold it when that coin is on it’s way to an all-time high for a quick profit.

DOGE is also a pretty good investment when you enter at the right time in the market, it having a history of mass periodic price increases almost every year which makes it even more interesting, although after that price increase it again come back to its initial price as well.

[investgarant]

The first ICO I invested in was mobilego in april 2017, but it hasn't made much profit to me, as well as others I later participated in.

[kkofor]

Well the first ICO I have ever invested was a Ponzi coin - Hextracoin, back then 2017 when ICO hyped and many projects that promised their token will 10x or maybe 100x after ICO. I lost around $100, but it'll my an unforgettable lesson for me when come to this market.

I have known this project in the past and actually Hextracoin is one of the projects that I have made the most profit since joining. Of course, only the first person can make a lot of profit and I'm also lucky to have made more than 400% of the profits from this project. However, after a few months of operation, this project showed signs of scam and that was when I realized that this project was not good and was fortunate to withdraw all assets from it.

[bgaf]

I forgot which one I first invested but there are lots of ICOs  that I invested during the golden time and lose a lot too. I think mostly us lose but this time I think the defi ico have encouraging results. Check out the ico of orion, it gave investor 7x of profits. I wish I had some like this too on my ICO investments before.

[Coin_trader]

I forgot which one I first invested but there are lots of ICOs  that I invested during the golden time and lose a lot too. I think mostly us lose but this time I think the defi ico have encouraging results. Check out the ico of orion, it gave investor 7x of profits. I wish I had some like this too on my ICO investments before.

I believe you should not post here at all if you forgot the ICO you invested first. This is not a mandatory thread to answer at all. There are a lot of ICO before that gave profit more than x7 and above profit. ONT and ZIL pump price more than that percentage during there peak price compared to there ICO. Its not too late to find potential project that will give mega profit. You can start on choosing DeFi project which is the hot crypto investment right now.

Answering OP. I made my first ICO purchase on HVN(hive terminal). I was hyped because they win first price on some famous crypto awarding event that time. I made tons of profit too that time. I really missed the golden age of crypto where having 100% is easy and normal because fresh fiat money keep entering in crypto space. Right now most of the people are onboard that's why crypto market are stagnant compared before.

[olamidey]

In 2018 my friend who is a successful cryptocurrency investor talked me into investing in Electronum ICO, i was a little bit skeptical because that was my first time investing in a project that is not Bitcoin.

I read through it's whitepaper and followed them on all their social media handles, i must confess their team did a great job when it comes to customer service.

I can't really remember what they were selling but I was fascinated by the concept of mining with my mobile phone. I bought so many tokens that I thought I would be a millionaire in no time lols, when I look back now I just laugh at how naive I was.

[bearexin]

I remember that I have invested into at least 10 ICO projects by 2016 and 2017 and then I decided to stop completely after most of the projects never hit exchanges to get me any returns. When your coin getting listed but you are unable to sell in profits is different than your coin is not getting listed on any exchanges. In first case you, you may get chances to recover your losses at some percentage; I guess getting back some 50% also will be somehow consoling whereas no exchange is available to encash your coins/tokens then will be 100% losses; Yes, I got zero returns for most of the ICO I contributed.

I'm confident about my due diligence skills but I still do not know where and what went wrong with my ICO experience to get me absolute bitter things.

I believe, over the time ICO operators were becoming too smart to make themselves look like perfect legit in order to convince investors. Because, I have not invested into any ICO on my own opinion alone but after few experts suggestions as well. Still, I made losses. After such a bitter experience with ICOs, I have missed the many good opportunities in IEO as well.

[levyashin]

It was polybius. I was a newbie and i attracted by the shilling. I wasn't aware there was something as shilling and bought it. After so many years i guess i still have that tokens but project seems like a dead end. Still it was a good experience for me.

[Finestream]

It was waves which was my first investment in ICO, however, I was not able to make good money when I sell it, I sold early, I didn't wait for the bull run period to sell my coin but then ,even if I have sold it that time, I would not make much as Waves does not rise as crazy as some coins in the market.

I'm just happy that waves until now is still stable, unlike other coins that have already lost its volume and its value in an exchange.

Actually, I even made more money from the bounty that time than investing in altcoins, that was the luckiest moments of my life.

[abeecrypto]

Not a good experience for me. When I delved into the crypto world, I wasn't really into ICOs. Then at a time in the end of 2018 or so, a project got my attention. The project is ARR. It is about augmented reality. I kind of saw the potential of the project. So, I invested. Down the line, it hasn’t gone well. I still have this silly belief they will be back with a boom. Just a silly feeling.

[siddartha1492]

I clearly remember my first ICO. It was in October 2017. Hash Rush, a project that aimed to merge blockchain with gaming. At that time, no other project thought seriously about this concept. At the end of ICO they raised around $1M, but then in May, like many ICO projects they became victims of massive bear market swipe. They survived somehow and are now finally able to release their Beta game this month!! After so many years, they are finally fulfilling their promise and I'm excited for that! You can check them out on www.hashrush.com .

[noormcs5]

In 2018 my friend who is a successful cryptocurrency investor talked me into investing in Electronum ICO, i was a little bit skeptical because that was my first time investing in a project that is not Bitcoin.

I read through it's whitepaper and followed them on all their social media handles, i must confess their team did a great job when it comes to customer service.

I can't really remember what they were selling but I was fascinated by the concept of mining with my mobile phone. I bought so many tokens that I thought I would be a millionaire in no time lols, when I look back now I just laugh at how naive I was.

Almost all of us had similar stories and we can only regret the past. Although i did not invest big amount in any ICO but i bought a lot of Holo when its price was 19 sat. one of my friend told me that i can buy a lamborghini because this coin will be the next bitcoin. I believe him and bought a lot of Holo with almost 1 bitcoin. Now the price of Holo is around 6 sat and i think i have lot my investment.  

[LogitechMouse]

I still remember 2 ICO's that I've invested.

The first one is the Streamex ICO which is an exchange. I invested a small amount on it (around 0.003 BTC only IIRC) and hold it but I don't expect too much on it. Now their website can't be found already and their telegram has been in a mute mode where we can't type anymore meaning it turned out to be a scam. When I last visited it months ago, there is not that much volume on their site so I see that it will be a scam coin already.

The 2nd one is the Bethash ICO and I've invested small amount here too. Luckily, the site is still up and many are gambling on the site already. I'm just staking on their site, doing some gambling sometimes but just for a small amount.

Sadly, I'm not still into crypto when the tokens which are in the top 100 right now are still on their ICO/tokensale.

[Jancuki]

The first ICO that I joined at that time was the Cybermiles project, you could say this was my most successful investment in joining ICO. But the more I come here, I am less interested in participating in ICO, and if I want to participate in the sale of tokens, I choose to participate in IEO and even if it is held in a large market. For example when I participated in IEO BTT which was held at Binance.