How can ICOs come back in the game?

[kawetsriyanto]

In my opinion, if ICOs are to come back in the game, then there should be regulations and structures set aside in order for it to meet the standards set by IEOs.

It should be, to make ICO comes back in the game, it must have some changes, especially in the way of listing the tokens or coins. People like to see a project that already lists their tokens/coins from the very beginning of fundraising. Many investors are traumatized that buying tokens from a new project but they are never listed on any exchange at the end. This is the fundamental reason that investors no longer trust ICO and turn to IEO. But if ICO does that way, how we differ ICO and IEO? 

[Botnake]

I doubt in the next 2 years, ICOs will make a comeback. There is no chance in this time period to see another form massive token sales especially after the fiasco of ICO scams in 2017. Maybe STO or IEOs will take 95% of the crypto token sale industry but the odds for ICO is very very low.

It's better not to expect something that has a very low chance of coming back, being realistic is advisable.
Why would we still hope for an ICO to come back when there's a new platform that was already appreciated by the investors, they believe in IEO because they believe a reputable exchange would not list a scam project, and there's a cost for every listing, so scammers would not waste their money for nothing.

The game was rigged with help of scammers who used the ICO to scam the last bucks of the naive investors.

It was mostly legit in the early stage, in fact, Ethereum, Binance, Waves, Lisk, and etc, these are old but good projects that until now is still in existent and has a good liquidity in different exchanges. The real mess only happened during the last bull run, so we can't blame people if they would not anymore trust an ICO. Let's accept that there's always an innovation, investors always deserves the best as they are the reason why this market is growing.

[LogitechMouse]

None.

When I said none, I didn't mean that it is literally nothing but I don't think that there is way that ICO's can make a comeback to this. ICO's are long over already since the start of 2018 and most of the projects at that time already are ended up being either a scam coin or a dead coin until now. Investors have doubts already when they are investing in an ICO because of the scams that happened over the past 2-3 years.

ICO's are not dead either but the success rate of them are very low at this times. For me as an investor, I would better invest my money in the projects that are here for a long time already. Lesser risk although lesser reward compare to ICO's.

[Kotone]

Some are still in the game actually. But mostly they are playing a cat and mouse game where your the mouse that will be crash by them if you make a wrong move. I prefer IEO actually, but with the rise of defi, the system slowly changing since some new project instead on doing a fee on big market for listing they would just tried to impress dex like uniswap to get some popularity then go for listing on centralized which they will got small fee since most exchange will give discount to high performing projects.

[judeafante]

As crypto gets exposed to the world gradually, new and more convenient features enter the market.Initial Exchange Offerings are taking over with their planned and well structured activities which put the whole project on checks and make sure investors get their holdings after making the buy orders.Again, the coin gets the opportunity to be listed on that exchange which facilitate immediate trading if not planned otherwise by the team.
In my opinion, if ICOs are to come back in the game, then there should be regulations and structures set aside in order for it to meet the standards set by IEOs.What other way do you think can lift up ICOs again?

Why still support something that harms investors and there is already alternative that can be used to do crowdfunding, we don't need regulations in ICO when IEO is fully set up to serve the needs of both investors and bounty hunters, it will take a good project with those behind it with good character for a project to do ICO but it's going to be a hard climb for that project.

[dragon695]

Why still support something that harms investors and there is already alternative that can be used to do crowdfunding, we don't need regulations in ICO when IEO is fully set up to serve the needs of both investors and bounty hunters, it will take a good project with those behind it with good character for a project to do ICO but it's going to be a hard climb for that project.

I totally agree! Why we still want something that are not beneficial for us? Developers can still be interested in ICO projects, though, investors are no more interested in that kind of projects. IEO is way better than ICO, it serves both parties. I think ICO still can exist in the field, however, it will no more be a choice for me and many investors!

[bayudndy]

There is no way to make an ICO as successful as 2017, it is too risky and dangerous for investors. And I believe that without anyone to risk at the moment, IEO will be the best and safest option if you want to invest in new projects.

[sfireman]

Some are still in the game actually. But mostly they are playing a cat and mouse game where your the mouse that will be crash by them if you make a wrong move. I prefer IEO actually, but with the rise of defi, the system slowly changing since some new project instead on doing a fee on big market for listing they would just tried to impress dex like uniswap to get some popularity then go for listing on centralized which they will got small fee since most exchange will give discount to high performing projects.

Fact! There is still ICO project in the game, however, not a lot of investors keep an eye on them. The reason is that for crowd-funding, we have IEO method which is way better than ICO. Therefore, many people shifted their interest to IEO and other method of crowd-funding. You're right that the rise of DeFi projects has brought a new hype to the market. I believe that sooner or later, DeFi will attract a lot of investors.

[Gorosden]

Only new developers can bring ICO back, the only thing investors fear about ICO is getting scammed, if new ICO project is of high quality only then investors won't have a choice but to invest

[robattfield]

Only new developers can bring ICO back, the only thing investors fear about ICO is getting scammed, if new ICO project is of high quality only then investors won't have a choice but to invest

Now there are no good projects using ICO. They will use IEO to raise funds because it will be much simpler and faster, and the same goes for investors. They will select IEO projects at large exchanges to be safe when investing

[ethereumhunter]

If the ICO can not prove to people that they give a real project to them, I don't think that the ICO can come back smoothly to the crypto. It is because many people have got trauma with the last ICO that they invested, so they think that the era of the ICO ends, and they don't want to get the same mistake. We will see what will happen with the ICO, and we can hope that they will give their promises to the investor.

That is supposedly they will do And each developer will think that seriously otherwise, they will still fail again. The trauma for every investor had felt that time is really hard to completely gone, they will surely think about and sees no difference from the new one.

Now, the challenge could be that hard but if these developers will look for the benefits of everyone, not just for them, they actually get that back and investors will see a big difference. They should have to prove it and should have not to compromise their promises for their is a reason that these investors will show interest with ICO again.

The new project under ICO will face a difficult challenge because they need to prove that they don't give a fake project back to the public. If that can happen, the ICO can come back, and maybe they can get many investors like before. It is a big challenge for every developer who wants to start the new project because they need to change the people's mindset that the project will benefit them.

[Inkdull]

ICOs can't come back, only very limited developers will choose to use ICO for fun raising and such project team must be very sure that their project is up to the standard that will attract investors

[jrrsparkles]

As crypto gets exposed to the world gradually, new and more convenient features enter the market.Initial Exchange Offerings are taking over with their planned and well structured activities which put the whole project on checks and make sure investors get their holdings after making the buy orders.Again, the coin gets the opportunity to be listed on that exchange which facilitate immediate trading if not planned otherwise by the team.
In my opinion, if ICOs are to come back in the game, then there should be regulations and structures set aside in order for it to meet the standards set by IEOs.What other way do you think can lift up ICOs again?

Regulations can't bring the ICO's into the game only better projects can bring investors towards it but most of the good projects lost their hope on ICO that is why we are seeing different kind of fund raising methods in the past two years.ICOs can be effective if the project has large community support and lot of money to spend but I doubt they will take such risks.

[torrantz]

ICOs can't come back, only very limited developers will choose to use ICO for fun raising and such project team must be very sure that their project is up to the standard that will attract investors

That's only the trusted company that can still use ICO to get the fund. As far as I know if there are so many trusted developers have already started to use ICO again right now.

Only trusted project who can use the ico to raise the funds.

[Tomcolor]

The stupidity and urgency of holding on to the time of iCO needs to be forgotten because at this time all the projects will reinforce the IEO system. Some projects may monitor ICOs to raise additional funds but I think IEOs are a good way to raise funds and hold IEOs longer if they want to.

[serjent05]

In my opinion, if ICOs are to come back in the game, then there should be regulations and structures set aside in order for it to meet the standards set by IEOs.What other way do you think can lift up ICOs again?

As you stated, government regulated ICO's can make ICO come back to the game.  It is more secure than IEO that is done on exchanges.  With this, ICO projects needs government permits and documents thus the project and team are validated.  If ever the project developer gone crazy and scam investors then there is a way to trace them and hold them responsible for their crimes.

[ene1980]

The new project under ICO will face a difficult challenge because they need to prove that they don't give a fake project back to the public. If that can happen, the ICO can come back, and maybe they can get many investors like before.

Are you talking about regulation to get investor confidence other than that there is no way to identify whether the project is fake or not even if you drill them about the project you cannot get a clue whether the project is legit or not, so unless there is a regulatory body monitoring those you will not get back the investor confidence.

It is a big challenge for every developer who wants to start the new project because they need to change the people's mindset that the project will benefit them.

If a developer is having a viable project that can change the industry then they will always find investors, the problem here is that half assed developers who want to experiment and who do not want to take any consequences are raising the money and that has to stop.

[@baoli]

Won't you take part if Microsoft or Samsung conduct ICO? sure you will. It all about trust and transparency. Any project that is not well know people won't take part because of previous experience.

[RabbiTANK]

It's left for developers to take the risks with ICO crowdfunding, they should understand that if their project use case isn't that good enough there will be problem attracting investors and investors should watch out too, not all crypto projects are good

[Miaallen]

You need to first understand that some project team still do ICO as it is the cheapest because the money or commission to be paid to exchange to conduct the IEO will also do something in the development of such projects. And you should also know that conducting the IEO through a certain exchange doesn't mean that the tokens will be listed for public trading also. That really depends on the agreement reached by the exchange and the team.