How can ICOs come back in the game?

[smyslov]

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.

You have a point if they ever do that people will take part and it will be a huge success because these are big and very stable company you are handling your money to a legal company that has a very good reputation.
but if you say that an unknown company will do an ICO I don't think they will have a chance at all they have to work double time to prove that they are legit and honest in their road map and goal.

[ethereumhunter]

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.

Maybe the regulation can give trust to the investor to invest in that project. Or maybe the regulation can be made in the country which the project come from, so they can register the project before the developer and the team's launching the project in public. I think the investor will see that the project already passes the verification from the regulatory in that country, so if something worst happens, they can ask for help from that regulatory to investigate.

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.

What you are saying is right. Many of the developers are not seriously to continue every phase from their project, but they say that the market is not good to continue the project, so they delay the phase without telling the reason. If they can be honest to the public, especially to their investor, I guess they will understand for the reason, and they will not complain to the developer and the teams.

[chanc3r]

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.

Trust is playing the main role in this case and the trust from the investors can't be gotten by the developers instantly and the team must prove how reliable their projects to create a good impression for the investors.
In this case, the development can bring trust from investors.

[Henrytrust]

I believe that regulations can assist to bring sanity to ICO's in the cryptocurrency space. The major reason why we had several misguided and dishonest projects was because there was no regulations. Most of these projects were launched simply to take advantage of investors. If the team and developers are registered and regulated, we would most likely not have the issues we have with new projects today.

[kingzpro]

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?

Yes ICOs can again come to life with following of some professional SOPs about transparency and competency. Some of my suggestions would be:
1) All team should openly and publocally present themselves with video intros telling about themselve and their experience and what they think about the project. Also if each team member provides copy of their Govt ID that would add to projects points.
2) Developer team should regularly update the community weekly or monthly about the updates regarding the development of the project.
3) Tokensale should be transparent with tracking links provided to check the amount of funds raised.
4) The team should have demo or sample of the project before raising funds.
5) There should be guarantee that the project will continue despite the amount of funds raised in tokensale, the team can look for alternative funding sources if they deem necessary.

All these steps will boost investor confidence and only legit and real projects will come up as a result of these SOPs and ICO culture will flourish again.

[FairUser]

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

The risks of ICOs now are too much, so I believe investors will not dare to accept it. IEOs are a lot more secure and the profits it will bring would be huge if it were held at the top exchanges in this market.

[affandi]

It will be difficult to bring an ICO to the surface of cryptocurrency again, even if a company wants to hold an ICO with a real vision and mission and has a credible team, it will still be difficult to attract the attention of investors, because too many investors are disappointed with the many SCAM projects. IEOs have taken over and it looks like investors are more comfortable. so why should there be an ICO?

[Dollar_Hunter]

I think there is still a chance for the ICO to be trusted again, because many DEFI projects are now holding ICOs or their pre-sales are very successful, maybe the ICO for the Defi project can still compete

[bitkanu]

I think there is still a chance for the ICO to be trusted again, because many DEFI projects are now holding ICOs or their pre-sales are very successful, maybe the ICO for the Defi project can still compete

The chance will always there and it should not be asked again as so many new icos have already proven it as they can reach their hardcap instantly. The investors are not so stupid as people think and investors have already learned from their past experience about how to avoid the scam project.

[bluebit25]

I think there is still a chance for the ICO to be trusted again, because many DEFI projects are now holding ICOs or their pre-sales are very successful, maybe the ICO for the Defi project can still compete

Well, if they have a good development team and a lot of great partners investing in their projects then I believe they will get a lot of investors in this market, and their ICO is sure. will be successful. I have seen a lot of Defi projects succeeding lately and hope it can help make the ICO come back

[Marble777]

there is no right way or guarantee that investing in an ICO is safe or profitable. ICO's reputation at this time has been bad, there are many problems about ICO especially fraud which is getting rampant. I think there is no way to restore confidence in ICOs, unless the current ICO is like the ICO in 2017.

[blue_hurricanger]

The biggest problem for ICO is they need to make investors trusting it again. Regulations and structures might work but I don't think it is a game-changer for ICO compare to IEOs. Maybe if there are more successful ICO projects again, people would slowly trust it again.

[trauchot]

Too many scammers create cryptocurrency companies to collect money from investors and then just run away with this money, and this is most likely the biggest problem why ICOs are not so popular anymore and in order to return the former glory of the ICO sphere, every cryptocurrency company that will conduct ICO must be checked for fraud and for various other verification procedures.

[BeginToMine]

ICO may never be like before many trusted it and invested. The way I am seeing ICO now is based on recommendation or instruction decides to buy but by bounty promotion or hyping by some paid groups it may really not be successful. Some projects did ICO lately and came out very successful but that doesn't mean others can if you don't play your card well by proving to everyone the genuineness. 

[ethereumhunter]

The biggest problem for ICO is they need to make investors trusting it again. Regulations and structures might work but I don't think it is a game-changer for ICO compare to IEOs. Maybe if there are more successful ICO projects again, people would slowly trust it again.

In this situation, it will difficult to gain trust from the investor because the investor is already hurt by the scam ICO. The investor needs to recover from the last scam, and I think the investor needs time to get their money back from other ways. Meanwhile, the project needs to run still and show the progress to the public, so the public can know that the ICO project still runs and the ICO don't want to scam them. If the ICO can do that, I am sure that the investor will also see what the developer and the teams does, so the investor will think again about investing in their project.

[Pasutinmeur]

I think there is still a chance for the ICO to be trusted again, because many DEFI projects are now holding ICOs or their pre-sales are very successful, maybe the ICO for the Defi project can still compete

This must not be a question as so many new icos have already succeeded with its own crowdsale. ICO will exist forever and I think that IEO and ICO will be running at the same time and people are feeling good again with the revival of ico.

[Kopetunto]

I think there is still a chance for the ICO to be trusted again, because many DEFI projects are now holding ICOs or their pre-sales are very successful, maybe the ICO for the Defi project can still compete

This must not be a question as so many new icos have already succeeded with its own crowdsale. ICO will exist forever and I think that IEO and ICO will be running at the same time and people are feeling good again with the revival of ico.

Currently there are still many ICOs running, but they are not as popular as 2017, 2020 which are the ones that became popular are IEOs, so just follow IEOs, ICOs are a lot of risks, and choose IEO on Binance, because there will be launch IEO.

[popeye95]

With a lot of flaws like ICOs as it was back then 2017-2018, of course, it needs to have regulations and structures to allow it to have a chance to stood against IEOs. Some other way I can think of to help ICOs have more chances to fix its flaw and have a decent shot at IEOs is how projects need to be serious about their plan even after the ICO done.

[irixo10]

I don't think they can come back to the game again as it were before because IEO is now leading and there have never been signs of it slowing down, let alone for ICO. IEO has really proved that ICO has many downsides which ends up only benefiting the team. On a more serious note, why thinking of ICO when before investing in a project, as an investor you can either decide to do so or not when looking at the exchange the IEO will take place on; yes because exchange plays a vital role in the growth of any project and IEO gives investors the power to make choices based on that.

[TimeTeller]

I don't think they can come back to the game again as it were before because IEO is now leading and there have never been signs of it slowing down, let alone for ICO. IEO has really proved that ICO has many downsides which ends up only benefiting the team. On a more serious note, why thinking of ICO when before investing in a project, as an investor you can either decide to do so or not when looking at the exchange the IEO will take place on; yes because exchange plays a vital role in the growth of any project and IEO gives investors the power to make choices based on that.

But there are still few projects which are running their ICOs trying hard to raise their funds.
And I don't think they will be successful unless they are backed with bigwigs.
IEO is also showing its true colour, most of them are not really on track in terms of their developments.
We will be seeing more and more types of crowdsourcing but the bottomline is, if the project is not solid and sincere, they will just disappear without a trace.