What are the factors that make ICO's gain or loose value after ICO's?

[neptunemutual]

I would answer it in a slightly different way.

What makes a blockchain project successful?

Any new token which has a real use case can become established if they can showcase their product works. However, there are 3 (or more) kinds of new tokens:

- Marketing Gimmick & Cash Grab
- Forketing
- Original Ideas

Marketing Gimmick & Cash Grab

There isn't much substance behind this kind of tokens worth discussing. It is inevitable that these will fail, taking down community capital. Some will profit, most will lose. Completely unsustainable.

Forketing

Trust me, I am not saying that all forks are bad. But if the only reason behind forking a project is purely monetary and just the introduction of a new token, I would run as fast as I can. For me, a noteworthy fork is when developers are in disagreement and one party thinks that they can create better solution than the other. And when they can't reach consensus, they part ways, and fork is created. This is a natural evolution of all open source projects. Or sometimes, a fork is created translating one technology to another to create something that did not exist. This too is equally good in my personal view.

But just forking a project for monetary gain may or may not work. This is dependent on the bandwidth of the community, how far they would like to take a project. If they lose interest, the project does not succeed.

Original Ideas

Well, the cryptocurrency industry is extremely welcoming if you think about it. Who could say that a novel idea like Chainlink would become such a massive success? But look now, they are one of the champions of the decentralized finance.

Again, the chances of a project succeeding does not purely depend on how great technologists a project has. It simply doesn't matter. There needs to be a combination of community support, competence to deliver the promises, and that's a huge team work. Not a single project has succeeded without community. But community does not necessarily mean only the people who are inside a project. It also means how open, inclusive, and permissionless a project is in the longer run for new people to join.

To summarize, successful projects are hard to determine. That's the whole beauty of this industry, that it's unpredictable.

[noorammak]

ICO is a form of raising capital in 2017 and the projects are mainly start-up projects, without products. In 2019, there was an IEO, the success of this type of fundraising is the guarantee of trading listing and project appraisal of the exchanges. ICO on coinlist is not a new form but they are mostly projects with real products, no longer a startup project like ICO.

[Rikafip]

wrong business strategies such as choosing a bad exchange and their progress does not match the roadmap that has been released. These two important things are the biggest reasons of all the downturn after listing on the exchange. Many projects look convincing and are of good quality, but they don't go as planned.

Good altcoin projects (they are so rare that it actually sounds like an oxymoron) are unlikely to be ruined by getting listed on some of the  smaller exchange with low volume, but more often than not that's the only thing altcoins have, being listed on some of the top exchanges so it became mandatory to splash the money for Binance listing and ignore the actual development.

[odukoyaewatomi27]

The chances of success when investing in ICOs is so small because so many projects fail in the ICO market right from the start or within a few months. There are so many reasons why projects fail, but some reasons are a lot more common. Some of the reasons why ICO projects fails include...
1. Poor project concept
2. Poor planning
3. Incompetent project team
4. Poor promotion and advertisement or the project
5. Not Listing on good exchange/ Delayed listings
These are some of the more common problems that i have realized that new projects do encounter which leads to failure

[uneng]

Most ICOs are copies of previous launched altcoins, so there is no reason for them to exist at first place and consequently there won't be any demand for these crypto currencies. That is why they have no real value. The only factor that keeps ICO industry alive is speculation, which boosts some altcoins for a while, although they inevitably die some time later, because again, they are copies of another crypto projects and there isn't real demand for them.
ICOs are a high risk investment and by putting your funds on it you are actually gambling with your money since it's all about speculation. For the average investor the best to do is to stick with the main crypto currencies and he will be fine.

[RussianEnglishTranslation]

We have seen thousands of ICO's in the past three years but they have a big failure rate.
My question here is very fundamental:
Why do so many ICOs loose in value when they are listed and what are the lessons to learn from them to gain value overtime?
Is it because they just want to loot the money? Or are there some factors that leads them to unwanted or unplanned failure?

so far everything I have bought on skyward finance has gone up

[Sollaes]

Actually, reasons are always different. It can be just a bad mood of crypto market or a weak marketing campaign, it is difficult to predict if this project will be succesful or not. But you can try do research to get know if this project carry any utility and idea, if there are any good partners and big investors. And what is also imporant don’t spend money that you can’t afford to lose and always diversify.

[gwdf1]

There are so many scam ICOs today, so the majority of failed ICOs initially didn’t want you to earn. Developers just did a runner with collected money.
In case we don’t speak about scams, it is also possible that people are just not interested in this token now. For example, when there was a hype around meme coins, nobody wanted to buy something really valuable. Everybody wanted this useless coin.

[conected]

Actually, reasons are always different. It can be just a bad mood of crypto market or a weak marketing campaign, it is difficult to predict if this project will be succesful or not. But you can try do research to get know if this project carry any utility and idea, if there are any good partners and big investors. And what is also imporant don’t spend money that you can’t afford to lose and always diversify.

- Bad mood indicators and a bit too small of a marketing environment mess up only a small corner of the value, this factor hardly puts any pressure on a strong ICO project and speaks to the value of strong projects, the origin of the family is the rearmost and most powerful layout for decisiveness. The child of the big systems cannot be a worthless person in the market, it tarnishes the reputation of the family members, whether they like it or not, the family will still add money so that the project at least has a small standing