Is it possible to make good profits through ICOs?

[PercT4b]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

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[cryptoaddictchie]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).

Not all ICOs a re profitables. Some can also have a normal entry price or even traded at a common price. There are some ICOs Ive participated with some really good IDO on good platform but still it goes down. Some of you mentioned were from coinlist and that platform handles a good project.

Some can really do a good multiplier but some also were bit normal. I can see this as based on hype or quality of the platform you gonna choose.

[isaac_clarke22]

I might be living under the rock, but are ICOs still a thing these days?
I never looked into one after they all started to disappear back in 2018.
Many of them turned out to be a scam back then.

For OP, I would just say that if it is a running ICO better do the usual DYOR.

[tvplus006]

...I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached)...

Many projects block the coins of their investors for a long time, which sometimes happens to be equal to 2 years. Obviously, this is done so that there is no mass dump when investors receive coins. In this case, as a rule, 10% is unlocked monthly, so you will not be able to sell all your coins even if the price has reached the values you dreamed of.

[bakasabo]

Do "good" projects run public ICO nowadays? I often come across projects with numerous sales round with a future altcoin lock, and projects that want to attract investors by hype and sound altcoin name. All the ICOs that can give good profit are private imho. You will never know about cool project running ICO for regular people. They are mostly open for huge investors. Lets speak frankly, how much do you want to invest? All these "good" ICO expect to raise millions as soft and hard caps. They spread insiders info about themselves and raise hardcaps via private sales in no time.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I never heard stories how someone bought $50-100 worth tokens during ICO and in few years they turned into $5000-10000.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Not sure if ICO's are still hot today as compare to 2017. Actually I haven't check any good ICO for the last couple of months. And others have been calling ICO dead already, we have a lot of new hype like the latest - NFT. Maybe there could be successful ICO projects out there, but it could he just handful as they lost the trust of many investors. If I'm in your case, would look for other ways to invest and make money today, just saying.

[PercT4b]

...I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached)...

Many projects block the coins of their investors for a long time, which sometimes happens to be equal to 2 years. Obviously, this is done so that there is no mass dump when investors receive coins. In this case, as a rule, 10% is unlocked monthly, so you will not be able to sell all your coins even if the price has reached the values you dreamed of.

Thank you so much, that's exactly what I wanted to avoid.

Do you know where I can find these clauses (maybe whitepaper, a hidden paper...)?

[DapanasFruit]

While some can be wondering if ICOs can still be fashionable, the thing is that there are still new projects that prefers to call their start-up crowdfunding activity as ICO and not IDO or IEO (in cooperation with an exchange). We should note that these are just terms and basically they are the same - they are fraught with opportunities and risks - just like in the past. So can you make profits in ICOs...the answer is a big YES but it is also possible that you can lose money big time. All new projects are just a gamble.

[Jackl87]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

It always depends on the overall state of the market if you can make a good profit by participating to an ICO. Also classcial ICO's like back in 2017 or 2018 where projects collected almost unlimited funds like 50M and more during their public-sale are over. Today most projects have a seed round and a private round which can only be accessed if you are a influencer or a VC or in a pre-sale group and then only a very small amount of the tokens (like 1 or 2%) is going into the public sale in most cases. So usually you have like 300 available spots for example for a public sale but 10000 applications for that spots so it's very luck based and random. If you manage to get a public sale spot of a good and hyped project than a good profit is very much possible though.

[BigBos]

Not sure if ICO's are still hot today as compare to 2017. Actually I haven't check any good ICO for the last couple of months. And others have been calling ICO dead already, we have a lot of new hype like the latest - NFT. Maybe there could be successful ICO projects out there, but it could he just handful as they lost the trust of many investors. If I'm in your case, would look for other ways to invest and make money today, just saying.

there may still be some profitable ICOs, but I think it is very difficult to find them for now. preferably, try to do some research on some new projects in the bounty thread. there could be some pretty good ICOs or projects there. but, so far, I haven't seen that, only a few successful bounty projects this year.

[virasisog]

This is not 2017 where ICOs are prominent in the market. There is a slim chance that ICos can bring you profit since most projects are pumped and dumped in just few hours upon listing. It is difficult to depend on ICOs nowadays since it had been dead since 2017.

[poodle63]

It's the same as investing as early investors in many startup that hasn't take off yet, there's huge possibility that you won't make any profit,
not to mention ICO nowadays is rather fading in popularity and got overshadowed by IDO and IEO.
If you can analyze which project is worth the investment the you probably gonna make some profit at least,  but there's also reason why people prefer IDO and IEO it's because
the projects that are listed there, usually are rather reliable since not anyone could simply held one.

[isaac_clarke22]

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Surely in CMC, they already had their own site provided there and from there you can see the whitepaper or any stuffs that you still need to know about the projects like Roadmaps, etc.

[finaleshot2016]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

Actually, I don't have any idea about the current ICO because the last time I joined ICO is the year 2018 but I think it's still the same because nothing has changed. I can tell that there are still many scams that occur in the crypto community and some of them aren't really profitable, only the devs are getting profit.

In this kind of situation, I really recommend to make research before investing money in new altcoin, one of the fundamentals to do in crypto.

[smartaction]

ICO is profile then normal investment. But it is more risky. Because now a days lot of scammer make project run ICO, Saledrop and after got some investment they leave there project. So, be careful

[Sled]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).

Honestly, most ICOs are shit projects. You can find some worth for investment but it makes it hard to find them. Well, I hope you could.

Investing in ICO is riskier than we go directly to known coins. I'm hearing that many investors making a huge profit from ICO (they got lucky) but if you analyze it well, that mostly happens during the bullish season. If you will invest in the ICO today, just be sure that it will survive until the next pump otherwise, you will lose your money.

[acener]

I've stopped following or even searching on ICO's when things got  bad most of them turns to be scam and others couldn't keep their price above or even near their ICO's price.
So I think ICO isn't really profitable anymore but I guess there is still a chance to gain from them.
But it is too risky to risk on initial offerings only few could survive or hit their target.

[michellee]

As long as you can profit from any coins, that will not be a problem because you can use the coin better than the other. But you need to know that you search for the right coins or ICO at the market because that needs observation before you can select that coin or project. People tend to chase the bigger profit from any project, but you do not need to follow them because that will be difficult. It is better to profit than to chase the bigger profit if we do not have a chance.

[Fundamentals Of]

While the ICO market is not as vibrant as before, I am still not ruling out the possibility that a profit could still be made out of it. But if I were to risk on making money, I would rather choose another way than to invest in an ICO. It is possible to make money from ICO but not probable, unless the project is a really huge and anticipated one and with an all-star development team that could easily get investors, partners, and supporters. Otherwise, I would rather use my money to buy more sats.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Well, maybe before 2017, ICOs were highly profitable, but this days, not all ICOs are profitable as most project over price their coin or token which always results to immediate dump below ico price as soon as the coin or token gets listed on exchange, very very few ICOs come out very profitable this days but most times, this profits are not immediate, you have to wait for the project to fully develop and deliver their products to fully maximize the profit as selling early even before the project fully develope and launch their product will mean you cutting your profit short.
So my conclusion is, ICOs that brings high profit this days are very few, and to be a partaker of this high profit, you have to hold for some reasonable amount of time while the project develop their product, don't expect to make millions from an ICO overnight cus you gonna end up very disappointed.

[tvplus006]

Thank you so much, that's exactly what I wanted to avoid.

Do you know where I can find these clauses (maybe whitepaper, a hidden paper...)?

The conditions for selling coins at an early stage are always indicated in the whitepaper. It also specifies the period of blocking coins and how many coins will be unlocked by TGE, as well as the conditions for further unlocking. Those coins that were unlocked by TGE (20-30%), as a rule, allowed to return the investment in full. But now the situation has changed very much due to the dump of the market and the tokens show an increase of only 50-150% of the pre-sale price.

[TWW]

you can make a plan that looks good for your ICO project investment. but the current situation is not all ICO sales projects are successful and can survive in the market for a long time.
don't be surprised the new tokens from the ICO project look more expensive at the beginning of the listing later. because indeed it is part of their marketing to attract more investors.
pay attention to the team and the cooperation they do. as well as planning cooperation with the best exchanges.
I've been wrong in choosing my ICO investment. I hope you don't experience it.

[unusualfacts30]

that depends on what the project is about and how creative the idea is. Always check whitepaper before getting in any ico. There have been ico I have participated in that resulted in 20x profit, while others not so much due to team slacking and not doing their part. Team management is the most important aspect in making ico successful. Locking team tokens for certain period of time is a good way to go to build investors trust while building a solid plan to keep price stable before full launch.

[imstillthebest]

careful because the cheap price that you see could be one of their assets to attract and scam investors .
 if you only knew the amount of scam ico's way back , you will say that investing regularly on them is a bad idea but you could still try , do your own research .
only invest one at a time and if the results are good . you can search for another ico .

[Lee_Mire]

Are ICOs still even a thing?  With that being said, the earlier you get into an investment the more gains you will make. But with those gains comes risk. New projects are way more likely to fail and are magnitudes of times more risky than established projects.

[Xsinx]

ICO is a thing of the past, Its better to buy or invest in a tradable or liquid token rather than invest in a whitepaper or to an idea. But there are still few good ones if you do some research you might find a hidden gem.

[bakasabo]

ICO is a thing of the past, Its better to buy or invest in a tradable or liquid token rather than invest in a whitepaper or to an idea.

Why then you are promoting "an idea or a whitepaper only " by yourself ? Do you think that polkadog will have a huge liquidity and demand? Just another dogecoin imitator. There were tens of them in the past, there will be many more in the future.

I disagree that ICOs are "things of the past". No doubt that the number of them has decreased, but this is due to people understood that is no use to put blockchain in every ridiculous idea. There are still plenty of cool ICO, we just dont know much about them, because their hardcaps are raised during private sales.

[trauchot]

There are many excellent projects that conduct ICOs and in which you can participate and, of course, if the project turns out to be very popular and in demand, you can get a good profit from your investment in this project, but the main problem is that most cryptocurrency companies that conduct ICOs are actually scammers and therefore now it is very difficult to find a really worthy project that conducts ICO and which, after receiving your money, will not turn out to be scam.

[tvplus006]

Are ICOs still even a thing?  With that being said, the earlier you get into an investment the more gains you will make. But with those gains comes risk. New projects are way more likely to fail and are magnitudes of times more risky than established projects.

Despite the fact that everyone understands that during the private and seed round, the coin price is at the minimum values, not everyone can participate at the early stage of the coin sale. As a rule, the sale of coins at an early stage is carried out in the amount of 50 thousand dollars and above. And if you do not have such an amount, you will be able to buy the coin no earlier than the public sale round.

[akirasendo17]

the answer is yes, but, there are things you need to consider about ICO, if this were just sent to you by random email, there is already a hint there that it will be a bad idea to invest, second you have to choose where to invest, by making a research about the project and what they have to offer, look for a person in their company who might be already in the business and have a good image, from the community, and lastly, ICO really have probability to make good profits but here is the problem, investors are too greedy and want more , they don't get any capital or small portion of the profit, they want more, so when bad things happen, their capital and profit are gone, don't be too greedy a profit, is a profit.

[blockman]

It's not a good option and time to invest anymore with ICOs. Just so you know the days of ICOs were now gone and it's not ideal to put any amount with it. If you think that you can still get good profit with it, maybe you can but most of the ICOs that might exist in the future, probably are not serious with it and you have no idea if the team is serious with what they've started. And if the crowd says that you shouldn't invest in it then do not be surprised if you'll only get the same opinion and suggestion that it's not ideal to invest in any of those today.

[Questat]

To make good profits through ICOs is possible but its very hard to find such ICOs. Most of the ICOs turn into scam and they just want to stole people's money. Without proper research it is not wise to invest in ICOs.

You can never find such an ICO, I mean, their time has done already (last 2017) and we are now moving to Defi and NFT projects.
I could say that during their time many investors had made a huge profit as the market is in Bullrun but after the hypes, they are dying and some turn to scams. Most of them are already abandoned by their developers doing an exit scam and until now, people are still hoping that they could make some money from them? It just a waste of time for me. 

[lixer]

I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).

Honestly this is a surprise for me because people are still talking about ICO; I was thinking like people will know more get attracted toward ICO as IEO and other similar crowd-funding mechanism have replaced ICOs some long time back itself. Still I'm sure, if devs plan for ICO on this forum then definitely they may not able to achieve the target level of funds as most bitcointalk users are aware of dangers of investing with new and unknown projects.

ICO prices are cheaper and anything which is available for cheaper price does not guarantee you to make good returns. So, do not look for cheaper prices but always look into reputed projects so that you could get good returns for your investment.

[Botnake]

ICO prices are cheaper and anything which is available for cheaper price does not guarantee you to make good returns. So, do not look for cheaper prices but always look into reputed projects so that you could get good returns for your investment.

No, the right thing to do is, do not to invest in ICO anymore.

Why would anyone still be interested in investing in ICO when it's already obsolete, it's easy to invest but the risk is high due to the fact that there are no successful ICO now, and this platform are only used by scammers. How about old coins, I mean old coins that are undervalued, I think they are way better than investing in ICO as they are on exchanges and you can tract their performance.

[Balmain]

It doesn't make sense to invest in icos for now. It can be evaluated in the bull season, but it is necessary to do good research, new projects are added to the market every day. It is not easy to get good projects as well as it used to be. You need to draw or stake, or different sales methods are applied to get it. You said bythnext, this project was pre-sold on bscs, for this you would need to stake bscs.

[bL4nkcode]

Is ICO still a thing today? I thought they are just history now.

Better to invest on IEOs. Binance launchpad is way better than these ICOs today. They're not even profitable now, but may? but only after several months or years lol when they get listed on popular exchanges.

[sujonali1819]

P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

Making profit in ICO's is possible even You can earn profit more than trading. But here you have a big chance to lose due to most of the project are now scam , some are go away after finishing ICO, some are don't get listed in big exchange after ICO, Some don't try to go long their business. So Fast of all you have to choose the right project. Then you can earn some profit from it. Otherwise you could lose all you capital by investing in ICO's. It looks like gamble to me.

[RealMalatesta]

Honestly this is a surprise for me because people are still talking about ICO; I was thinking like people will know more get attracted toward ICO as IEO and other similar crowd-funding mechanism have replaced ICOs some long time back itself. Still I'm sure, if devs plan for ICO on this forum then definitely they may not able to achieve the target level of funds as most bitcointalk users are aware of dangers of investing with new and unknown projects.

ICO prices are cheaper and anything which is available for cheaper price does not guarantee you to make good returns. So, do not look for cheaper prices but always look into reputed projects so that you could get good returns for your investment.

Yeah, these days we have less of that and more of fee's in the coins usecase which is what the developers making money from. ICO was a thing only because developers of a project wanted money and nothing more, a coin should be good all by itself after it is published, is Satoshi around to still make bitcoin good? Or does vitalik/CZ ask you to give them some money to make ethereum/bnb good? They are making money however and that's it, nothing more.

These days we are back to that, like look at pancakeswap, they are not asking you to give them money to make cake any better, they charge you a fee for the farming and swapping and that's about it, nothing more. That is what you should be looking for and nothing more, if a project is asking you to give them money so that they can use that money to make the project better, they do not deserve your money to begin with.

[Pamadar]

It doesn't make sense to invest in icos for now. It can be evaluated in the bull season, but it is necessary to do good research, new projects are added to the market every day. It is not easy to get good projects as well as it used to be. You need to draw or stake, or different sales methods are applied to get it. You said bythnext, this project was pre-sold on bscs, for this you would need to stake bscs.

You need to extend your time analyzing the project, it's not easy  to pick from those many new tokens that being created.

More on self assessment and observation, if you feel the potentials after doing your research then it's  a good sign to continue investing
with the project, but if you are still hesitance to take part taking your time to think more careful before making your decision, there's always a risk you can lesser that by doing your home work.

[Wassabbi_]

Of course, just do some research to choose the right project. You can look into Black Eye Galaxy, it's a decentralized cross chain NFT token that enables users to buy a solar system and planets. People can earn by staking.

[Argoo]

I might be living under the rock, but are ICOs still a thing these days?
I never looked into one after they all started to disappear back in 2018.
Many of them turned out to be a scam back then.

For OP, I would just say that if it is a running ICO better do the usual DYOR.

Now you can see that the market capitalization is growing very much due to altcoins, and if you get to know this issue deeper, you can see that many new coins and tokens give profits even much more than bitcoin, ethereum and some other top coins. Therefore, some ICOs continue to be relevant. It is important to correctly convert the required cryptocurrency as an object for your investment. Here, everyone should have their own approach, their own strategy and tactics.

[fvb]

There are very few such projects, but they still exist. I have come across such platforms more than once, and in some I even took part as an investor. And I was very pleased with my investments, as well as the percentage I received from participation.

[Mihawk]

Investing in ICOs nowadays takes a lot of courage, I say this because there is no more innovation and most things are not applicable and useful. These issues must be taken into account otherwise the project is a target of pure speculation. This need to be applicable is everywhere in cryptocurrencies, but very few projects can guarantee it. In addition, ICOs are already marked as things that are only valued and devalued and with that it will take a huge filtering to find something decent.

[Quidat]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

I have long time turned my back into ICO thing since this trend or market had really involved lots of shitty and scammy ico out there but surprising i wasnt really expecting that it do still
exist nor still relevant even up to this day considering on that tainted reputation because of what happened in the past and also surprisingly on where there are still investors who do really
still get engage with these things believing that they could still hit up 10-100x profits of their investment.I dont know if this still possible nowadays or not already.
You wouldnt know if you wouldnt try but i would say the risk would really be on the roof.

[kokrokok]

ICO today is not like in the past which can generate profit for every investor and I personally would never invest in ICO, better choose Long term investment or invest IEO on binance

[BigRasputin]

ICOs maybe, but these days the real gain is with whitelists of ridiculous meme coins. Just get whitelisted and buy with cap then sell after 30min-1h launch at worst x2 usually it makes x7-x10.

[Woodie]

I think any ICOs that are showing up after the first wave have a 35% chance of succeeding because very few stay in line with their long-term plan as most projects exit the markets after collecting our money and disappear.

So honestly speaking good profits aren't easy to come by after the ICO boom as most never hit market cap or never even raise enough to have the funds to hit an exchange.

[nelson4lov]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

These days, we no longer have ICOs, STOs and even IEOs are not so popular these days. Just Binance and FTX are doing some IEO projects every few months. Token sales in general are still a profitable venture but you have to understand that to benefit from it, you have to research and be lucky enough to get in on top token sales just like the ones being conducted on coinlist. The competition is usually high but once you're in, you're in for something good ~ Mina, Casper and others like FLOW gave good profits to everyone who invested in time.

You have to do more research work from your end and do enough to get a lot in those sales.

[smyslov]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

It's profitable but also high risk, ICO is unregulated the devs can run away with the funds and there's no agency or authority that can run after these developers if the ICO has potential in the market, you can make goods profit, especially if they are offering bonuses if you are interested in one ICO be sure you know who the developers are and they are truthful and transparent.

[Meta anggraini]

I never trust ICO anymore, the one and only ICO i join is Ubex.ai , its promising at beginning but its like a bullshit project which deny their own token.
They just crowdfunding us for their bussiness and have no plan to have any token implementation on their bussiness, now the token price keep decreasing.

[Shasha80]

I never trust ICO anymore, the one and only ICO i join is Ubex.ai , its promising at beginning but its like a bullshit project which deny their own token.
They just crowdfunding us for their bussiness and have no plan to have any token implementation on their bussiness, now the token price keep decreasing.

I won't blame people who don't trust ICOs anymore, because it's a fact that many ICO projects are only for crowdfunding. Once the project owner
and team get the money they want, the project will be abandoned and the price of tokens will fall even more. But not all ICOs are like that, there are
some ICOs that are good and can be profitable for investors. Our job is to do research and analysis properly every time we participate in the ICO,
so we don't choose the wrong projects.

[adzino]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

I thought ICOs were dead now. Didn't the hype end already? Is ICO still a thing? Even if it is, I doubt it is profitable anymore like it used to be. Back then people made a lot of money through ICOs. When the hype ended, most of the people lost a lot of money. They knew they were going to lose, but still tried out their luck and now regrets.
Most of the ICOs are scam. They raise money and then makes an exit scam. Safelaunch sounds like scam project to me lol (probably because of safemoon haha).
If you are looking for "good profits" and not 10x 100x, then why not invest in top well known crypto currencies?

[mhine07]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

Yes it is possible to make good profits through ICO's, but depends on the ICO that you want to be a part of. In the past years there are so many ICO's that have emerge and most of them are scams and many people loses their money investing in the projects. You must be aware first of the risk in investing in ICO's because most likely some are just scamming.

[Masterhalo40]

I think that if you know how to manage and trade correctly you can really get a lot of benefit and profit from the money you are using.

[laohe628]

ICO today is not like in the past which can generate profit for every investor and I personally would never invest in ICO, better choose Long term investment or invest IEO on binance

I also think so, the ICO era is long gone，it ends in 2018. Since then, most of ICO projects were lost money, just few have made a profit. It's not worth the risk.
Although i am not quite sure ICO projects that OP says , but I still want to persuade OPs to invest his money in high marketcap coins, such as BTC, ETH or BNB.

[ILuckyGuyI]

It was really possible to make a good profit through ICOs in the past. But for now, I'm not so sure about it. Because there are new kind of projects now (like DeFis etc.). People have started being interested in them more compared to ICOs. But of course it doesn't mean that there are zero good ICOs. Still, there are really good ones. You just need to do a very detailed research.

[senyorito123]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

I couldn't believe that ICO these days would be effective in sense that there's a lot of uprising projects has more advantage compared from old ways. Let's just think about more potential outcomes instead of risking out for non developing projects. Let's embrace for another prospected alternatives, which soon make your profit goes even better instead of sticking to the old system.

[fr4nkthetank]

Only ICO im participating in is the ongoing NEOS VR (ncr) one.  Not a traditional ico though, more long term.

[conected]

Last one year not participated on ICO project because many scam ICO coin right now, better I trade and buy coin have listing on exchange, this not very risk because have any exchange listed coin and we can know when coin have pump or dump. But with ICO we got much profit more than 100% depend success for listing great exchange, but when listing on shit exchange have ready to loss much.

- Wanting to participate in ICO is also quite difficult when recent years have been a purge with this option, ICO is not feasible in safety and in accordance with the wishes of investors, you have also announced the situation we can get from the ICO, if it's not a scam, it can also only list on bad exchanges and to sum up, no profit here. Trading with listed tokens is also sometimes less risky than this option, if we are passionate about investing, NFT market is also a modern system line on the market, quite a lot of updates and promising projects

[Kelvinid]

It was really possible to make a good profit through ICOs in the past. But for now, I'm not so sure about it. Because there are new kind of projects now (like DeFis etc.). People have started being interested in them more compared to ICOs. But of course it doesn't mean that there are zero good ICOs. Still, there are really good ones. You just need to do a very detailed research.

Yeah, to find reliable ICO projects this time is time-consuming or even we just waste time searching for nothing.
We have done good and bad with ICO's in the past. If we have a good deal in ICO's in the past, not for sure if it still the same as of today as we know that scam are sprouting and a lot of people become a victim.

Maybe it was time to forget them and look forward to the next chapter with NFT. But, we still need to be cautious with NFT's, because happens to ICO might be the same as a scam projects still exists.

[Botnake]

It was really possible to make a good profit through ICOs in the past. But for now, I'm not so sure about it. Because there are new kind of projects now (like DeFis etc.). People have started being interested in them more compared to ICOs. But of course it doesn't mean that there are zero good ICOs. Still, there are really good ones. You just need to do a very detailed research.

Yeah, to find reliable ICO projects this time is time-consuming or even we just waste time searching for nothing.
We have done good and bad with ICO's in the past. If we have a good deal in ICO's in the past, not for sure if it still the same as of today as we know that scam are sprouting and a lot of people become a victim.

Maybe it was time to forget them and look forward to the next chapter with NFT. But, we still need to be cautious with NFT's, because happens to ICO might be the same as a scam projects still exists.

In every platform that is hype, there's always a risk and it's always high.

Though ICO failed or lost its popularity, we can say it has also contributed to the market, ETH and BNB is a product of ICO and they are now leading the altcoins market, so it's not really bad to look for a good project, just don't generalized the platform as good and that you'll just invest blindly because of confidence.

[FanEagle]

It used to be very profitable to this by the way. I know many people are not understanding the point of ICO these days because it makes no sense at all in 2021, however back in late 2017 and early 2018 it was THE deal because so many people made so many profits. There was this guy I do not remember his name but it was something like goblin or something and he shared the ICO's he believed that could profit, he invested in them at the price he says available at the time so it wouldn't be fake, and then he shared the current price of the day as days gone by, so you know he was legit and that dude made a lot of money from it.

The ones that gone down would go down 50% at most, but the ones that go up would go up as much as 10x so he was making a big amount from it overall. ICO was the way to make money at the time but slowly it just became worse and worse.

[tabas]

Only ICO im participating in is the ongoing NEOS VR (ncr) one.  Not a traditional ico though, more long term.

How can you be sure that those are long term? There's no assurance that those are for long term IMHO. Most ICOs that goes in the long term, they are losing more investors.
It is because everyone is dumping.

[DrBeer]

Today, the ICO has outlived its usefulness and is actually not used. But there are similar mechanisms for investing, for example daomaker.com (not considered advertising). This is one of the alternatives for a controlled and secure investment similar to an IKO. And if we talk about the classic ICO, its time ended somewhere at the end of 2018 / beginning of 2019. There was a loss of confidence in such a process, since a huge number of ICOs appeared on the market that were extremely fraudulent.

[kawetsriyanto]

Most new projects today didn't provide ICOs only, they usually have planned to have IEOs after the ICOs ended. Rarely ICOs can be successful nowadays because the interest of investors to join ICOs getting less and less. Investors know that ICOs are no longer the best way in initial token sales, also many projects failed if they only rely on ICOs. So, investors don't want to risk their money in ICOs.

You may be lucky in joining those ICOs, but I am not sure you can be successful in the next ICOs. Be careful to join ICOs, there are already many projects that died early because of relying on ICOs only.

[Ziskinberg]

ICO are not that active anymore though there are still good projects to look for but it's not like before, ICO are being left behind by many options created on a different network. If in doubt with ICO then try IEO, or IDO they are still doing good and some projects succeed even if we are down right now. I'm not investing on any pre-sale for now because it's a down market and usually most of them failed to raise funds, that's why it's too risky for ICO.

Apparently, there is a lot of new projects created nowadays. But it finds more challenging this time as most of them are just a scam thing, of course, we can still found reliable and legit projects but that we need time and effort searching them. That instead of spending more time and wasted, why not invest in those who have been proven potential and besides, these ICO's are also relying on the top coins like in Bitcoin.
It was time for OP to open his mind and forget about ICO, it makes no sense at all. It is done and we can never take it back, new ICO projects now are hopeless, we just lose our money with them.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

Sometimes projects that we think are good and will be successful are not always what we imagine. dont talk about profit yet. some of ICO had no value at all . many  people also lose with investments like this. do your own research about that ico before invest . they can promise you anything just dont trust anything they claim.
 

[TheUltraElite]

with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

If people could make even a decent 5x gains with ICO coins then every mainstream investor would have been talking about - dont you think so? Use you common sense here. Now its not that they dont know about it or some huge conspiracy that is keeping them out of it, No. They know it is a loss, and I will tell you why.

The ICO profitability depends on what price you bought it and when you sold it, just like any other asset. But what these coins lack is the inherent capability to generate a market in order keep the demand/supply ratio up. Hence the ones who go in at presale will sell as soon as the coin gets listed and then the coin will never go back up again. It will linger at -10x of its ICO price and go down with time only to be gradually abandoned by its team and owners.

Honestly your money would do better outcomes with bitcoin or traditional fiat markets, my honest opinion.

[Cling18]

I don't think ICO's these days are still profitable. As for me, the ICO's that we have these days are too different from the ICOs that we had last 2017. There are lots of ICO's that fail these days and some of them are scams. Most investors prefer investing with well-established coins rather than joining ICOs.

[iTradeChips]

I do not have any idea how the ICO's work nowadays but I do remember that they are such a big hit in 2017 to mid-2018, even during the "crash" of 2018. Many people make good money then and I think many small time investors were able to pick good projects then because there are a lot of good projects during the period. But of course after that crash happened. Bitcoin weakened and less and less ICO happened. There maybe ICOs nowadays but I think they are only a few good ones.

[pinoycash]

I do not have any idea how the ICO's work nowadays but I do remember that they are such a big hit in 2017 to mid-2018, even during the "crash" of 2018. Many people make good money then and I think many small time investors were able to pick good projects then because there are a lot of good projects during the period. But of course after that crash happened. Bitcoin weakened and less and less ICO happened. There maybe ICOs nowadays but I think they are only a few good ones.

Many developers are offering a ready made sites or ico website that makes it easier for scammers to run a fake ICO project. its hard to detect which one is legit and which one is just using its ICO to scam its investors.

[onecall123]

I don't think ICO's these days are still profitable. As for me, the ICO's that we have these days are too different from the ICOs that we had last 2017. There are lots of ICO's that fail these days and some of them are scams. Most investors prefer investing with well-established coins rather than joining ICOs.

yup, ICOs hype almost over and not as popular money making system as before 2017. Not to say all ICOs are scams, but most of them definitely has a red flag. So, Things like before launch a ICO in order to fund their startup is not working out. Investors become more smart, they want sure profits and safety.

[Pamadar]

I don't think ICO's these days are still profitable. As for me, the ICO's that we have these days are too different from the ICOs that we had last 2017. There are lots of ICO's that fail these days and some of them are scams. Most investors prefer investing with well-established coins rather than joining ICOs.

yup, ICOs hype almost over and not as popular money making system as before 2017. Not to say all ICOs are scams, but most of them definitely has a red flag. So, Things like before launch a ICO in order to fund their startup is not working out. Investors become more smart, they want sure profits and safety.

Investors learned from those past experiences where scammers runaway with their money,

ICO's is no longer effective as supporters are very less though there are some who still in hope that they'll get some decent profits if
the project run smoothly and able to list inside decent exchange, but the popularity is not that  huge anymore and like what you just said, investors are finding some safe investment with more lesser chance of getting scammed.

[sapnu]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

It depends on the ICO if ever it becomes successful but ICOs are not that profitable anymore unlike how it was before. Due to the sudden emergence of scams on ICOs, many people started losing interest on working in such. Now, there are a lot of ways on how you can be profitable in crypto but ICOs are not on the top list anymore. Even though the hype and the relevance of ICOs are long gone, scammers are still everywhere and considering that there are just a few number of ICOs right now, scammers are much more evident than before so I would advise you find new ways cause ICOs are not effective anymore in making profits.

[leatutz]

Last one year not participated on ICO project because many scam ICO coin right now, better I trade and buy coin have listing on exchange, this not very risk because have any exchange listed coin and we can know when coin have pump or dump. But with ICO we got much profit more than 100% depend success for listing great exchange, but when listing on shit exchange have ready to loss much.

We can also divide the bullrun season. We can't trust the new ICO even though I'm not confident to suggest any ICO. Recently I followed so many good ICO those were listed CMC before completing their ICO. Even though the ICO price crashed below ICO. We can buy those coins at a low price from some good exchange. IEO situations must be different, especially Binance or top exchange IEO.

[panjay]

meh..not good anymore..

everything will pump in bull market.

If you get some allocation on ICO's gets ready with a dump on release by vc/seed fund who got 10-100x entry from your public allocation.

[tvplus006]

We can also divide the bullrun season. We can't trust the new ICO even though I'm not confident to suggest any ICO. Recently I followed so many good ICO those were listed CMC before completing their ICO. Even though the ICO price crashed below ICO. We can buy those coins at a low price from some good exchange. IEO situations must be different, especially Binance or top exchange IEO.

After the bull run was stopped, many projects no longer give such a large profit to their investors after TGE, which was previously estimated by thousands of percent from the price of the private and seed round. Thus, the price after TGE for many coins is lower than on the public round, which gives a good opportunity for investment. And if you believe that the bull run will continue, you need to take this opportunity to buy coins at a low price.

[reza7777]

In 2021 you are still talking about ICOs remember that the ICO storm has passed and is no longer a conversation with investors, many ICOs end up being scams and that's what makes ICOs so scary. maybe out of 100 ICOs only 2 or 3 projects can really bring you profit

[SlimShadyMmp]

Try maybe get into private sales or if you are lucky with counlist or polkastarter public sales then congrats It's normally a 3X to 5X thing most time so basically is a huge profit

[Slow death]

this is no longer the time to invest in ICOs, so many people have realized the disaster that ICOs have caused, now they are in the new fashion: NFT

in my honest opinion, I prefer to invest money in bitcoin because it is safer, if you want to invest in altcoins you can invest in ETH, BNB, LTC which are altcoins that have dropped a lot in price compared to bitcoin but if they rise again they guaranteed you profit 4X easily

In 2021 you are still talking about ICOs remember that the ICO storm has passed and is no longer a conversation with investors, many ICOs end up being scams and that's what makes ICOs so scary. maybe out of 100 ICOs only 2 or 3 projects can really bring you profit

I even doubt that out of 100 ICOs there is something that is profitable and does not become a scam

[carrigan]

If you get some allocation on ICO's gets ready with a dump

It happens not only in ICOs, the dump after official launching or release on the market also happens in IEOs, ITOs, or IDOs. It is something difficult to avoid, so depends on how the team of the project can choose the right way to minimize the dump on the market. Just choose buying new tokens from a project with a good strategy in managing their token values.

In 2021 you are still talking about ICOs

There is no problem talking about ICOs. He may be still curious about the potential of ICOs nowadays. So, he wants to get some suggestions or opinions from members of this forum.

[Wong Gendheng]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

the first thing we have to understand in crypto investment is to be prepared to lose, of course we try our best to analyze the project that we will participate in, crypto is different from other types of investments such as gold or stocks, here our money is like a roller coaster. I've participated in several ICOs and got 10x profit in 3 months, and also lost 90% in 2 months.

[Bitstar_coin]

It is possible although the chances are slim compare to before,  for you to be able to make good profit from ico you must ensure that project is high quality with lots of hype surrounding it, people are still making profit from taken sale depending of the strategy the team use to conduct the sale, and also the time at which the same was launched, I know some sale can be very successful regardless of whether bull or bear market, such projects are very highly rated and outstanding, they are not very common hence you need to do thorough research to fish them out. Also don't forget that many ico's only result to failure, so don't get carried away.

[sana54210]

Another Bull run will come. It is all about doing research in Alt projects right now. Only invest what you can lose but big gains are till possible. But yes, stack up in the projects you already like and are invested in when you can.
Black Eye Galaxy is a project I am excited for. But only investing in what I can lose.
Black Eye Galaxy is a decentralized NFT token. Players buy planets, starships and space stations. All as NFTs. Each planet will have it's own resources which can then be mined by staking.

That is exactly what I am doing right now. People who think that we will never see increased prices are minority, we all know the price will go up. However there are some people think that the price will fall even more and they can gain a lot more profit if they wait and buy at even lower prices.

I do not see that as a strategy in my opinion, I just like to invest more and more into things I already have, I saved up a good amount of coins aside nowadays and hopefully when the next bull run comes I am going to be able to actually have a good capital, it is still nowhere near enough for most people but I am fine with having a good capital to start something after that. I am planning my future 3-4 bull runs before, make profit on first, get out at right time, get in at next and do this 3-4 times more and you will have enough money to call yourself rich.

[devil2man]

in 2017 it was certainly possible to make good gains with ico, even now you can find good opportunities among the countless ico outgoing but it remains an unknown, a gamble if the ico will be successful and if the investor will have a gain there is no certainty of success, perhaps it is better to look for other forms of investment

[QueenVera]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.

Centrifuge isn't launched yet, the version of the coin trading is IOU which means it doesn't represent the value of the coin although from research online it seems that the project will turn out to be a success as they have very strong development ongoing. ICO is quite old as we have better alternative in IFI but you have to be very careful as scammers are using the opportunity to defraud many investors.

Sites like CoinList are known for the quality project they introduce to the market but I doubt you can get in on any of their sales as multiple accounts are all over the web and queue is very long compared to only Launchpad sites. You can simply wait for this coins to get listed and buy them instead of risking getting scammed from presale.

[isaac_clarke22]

~

Many even became a prerequisite before the NFT became kind of trend in crypto. I recall people discussing about IEOs a lot after the ICOs tend to disappear after 2017. They were hyped a lot due to how investor thinks that compliance of the exchange's requirements before listing of token would reduce the possibility of scams.

[7788bitcoin]

Many even became a prerequisite before the NFT became kind of trend in crypto. I recall people discussing about IEOs a lot after the ICOs tend to disappear after 2017. They were hyped a lot due to how investor thinks that compliance of the exchange's requirements before listing of token would reduce the possibility of scams.

The secret to make money in the cryptocurrency space is to follow the trend and if you are able to jump onto the hype pretty early then you can make a lot of money. There are many projects that started during the IEO hype and everyone who invested made money and then comes IDO and DeFi and now NFT, anyone investing in earlier projects will make a huge profit and just follow the trend.

[terciduk123]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

Before talking about the ICO referred on this topic, We need to straighten out some understanding of the word of ICO.

The OP said ICOs are on CMC, Now we visit the list of ICOs on CMC. Then we will see various types of token sales there from old trends to current trends (ICO, IDO, IEO, ILO, Launchpool and so on). So what ICO means here (in CMC) is all types of token sales.

Participating in ICOs can be said to be very profitable and unprofitable, even very risky we could lose our money. it all depends on the project we are participating in, please do a reset before participating. don't join the ICO just because other people say and don't be greedy, use good money management.

[libert19]

I might be living under the rock, but are ICOs still a thing these days?
I never looked into one after they all started to disappear back in 2018.
Many of them turned out to be a scam back then.

They are certainly a thing and with the ethereum's bull cycle many icos did give multifold returns.

Most of these won't be here in few years just like 2k17/18, regardless they do give good returns if you get in and out at 'hype' period.

[SirLancelot]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).

There are people who invest in ICO, you’re not the only one that has plans to do so, people has been doing it since. And why their prices are way lower than their opening price is because after the ICO launches, a lot of the earlier investors sell their tokens to make profit ,and as the token gets dumped, the price goes down.

So, if you’re investing in the ICOs and you have plans to make good profit in return like you have said here, then you will have to be ready to sell earlier once the project launches, although I usually advise people against doing this because I feel that it is totally wrong for them to be doing it, since it affects the newly launched projects and their teams, they should be given the time to grow.

[indrakusumaindra]

I might be living under the rock, but are ICOs still a thing these days?
I never looked into one after they all started to disappear back in 2018.
Many of them turned out to be a scam back then.

For OP, I would just say that if it is a running ICO better do the usual DYOR.

yep seems hard to find a good ico right now , i also thing ICO is not a thing in 2021 but if we look behind in 2020 i believe there is still good one but its IEO like cartessi which perform quite good. I do think there might be good ICO out there but its hard to find and also hard to trust a new ICO.

[TheUltraElite]

Most of these won't be here in few years just like 2k17/18, regardless they do give good returns if you get in and out at 'hype' period.

Hard truth, in-spite of doing well in terms of price most of the altcoins, about 99% of them have no inherent market making property. They are all based on the Hype started by the first successful ICO and seem to be riding that for years and still being able to scam some noobs off their 100$.

Most of the ones I know either ended as abandonedware or team revolted and hostile takeover occured or plain left the scene. Either of which the money or time put in to acquire those coins went to a wastepile. Someone intelligent enough would think that it would have been better if people who bought into ICOs at that time could have made huge profits today if they bought bitcoin at three digit price instead.

[gurunanakji777]

Even we can not expect every ICOs will be profitable or worth buy only there are some projects that attract the investors otherwise most of them unable to achieve the soft cap and end up as failed projects or some label it as a scam. In recent times AMEPAY  did well in the starting but later on, the dev could not keep his promises so the price of the coin falls in the current market even many of the bounty hunters who promote the AME pay project are still waiting to receive their bounty rewards. No doubt Amepay is a good project but till now they are failed to keep their promise to implement their words or promises otherwise ICO investors hopefully made a good profit from this project.

[Orange89]

Before talking about ICOs you would understand what is ICO it is stand for initial coin offering and the trend of ICO if disappeared in 2017 18 no doubt in that time ICO given a good profit but now trend changes and instant of ICO we have IDO initial dex offering their are many advantage and disadvantage of ICOs the biggest advantage if you don't have to wait for any sale you can buy any coin anytime and these trend promote many coin but after some time they are many scam coin that listed got disappeared and team also remove liquidity this make the people take less interest in ICO also it's not that secured as compared to Ido and it had less profit

[Xsinx]

Yes it is but not all are profitable and most of are scam so be careful, there are some ICO that can make you gain profit for x3 - x5 within an hour specially when there is a hype on it, just make sure that you are into good ICO, there are so many scam ICO, even those hype, and do not also rely on the number of members in the community as they can also be a bot.

Most people are aiming for this x3 x5 after pancakeswap listing, specially those tokens from DXsale launchpad. X10 is easy in the first 3 hours. just always remember know when to sell since the pump will not last long and dont be greedy expecting more BNB just take profit and forget,

[wheelz1200]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

Can you profit off some yeah.  But why not wait until all the scam ones are weeded through and buy the select few after they make it or show they are legitimate.  I mean you won't make the same return but your downside risk is much lower.  Ypu can wipe out your stack picking a wrong couple of scam icos

[Maslate]

Yes it is but not all are profitable and most of are scam so be careful, there are some ICO that can make you gain profit for x3 - x5 within an hour specially when there is a hype on it, just make sure that you are into good ICO, there are so many scam ICO, even those hype, and do not also rely on the number of members in the community as they can also be a bot.

Most people are aiming for this x3 x5 after pancakeswap listing, specially those tokens from DXsale launchpad. X10 is easy in the first 3 hours. just always remember know when to sell since the pump will not last long and dont be greedy expecting more BNB just take profit and forget,

ICO projects are good and profiting at the their time but it was over and most of them are scam, fake, and abandoned projects.
I'm not to blame them either because that motivates them but the problem is that they choose to invest in those projects that seemingly don't give them such good and exciting rewards. Honestly, they just fool themselves into believing that ICO nowadays will do a favor with them because the truth is that they are dead already.

[Ziskinberg]

Yes it is but not all are profitable and most of are scam so be careful, there are some ICO that can make you gain profit for x3 - x5 within an hour specially when there is a hype on it, just make sure that you are into good ICO, there are so many scam ICO, even those hype, and do not also rely on the number of members in the community as they can also be a bot.

Actually, I like to know from you if there are specific ICOs that are profitable to invest now, I believe ICO is a waste of money as this platform are just abused by scammers, and since we have a choice to invest on other platforms like IEO, then why would we still stick to a proven scam?

[cunguks]

That's right, now ICOs have expired and there are even better substitutes, although the concept is not much different, but for now ICOs are no longer seen by many crypto investors, because they have also found something better than that.

what's better than an ICO in your opinion right now?
IEO or something else? try mentioning friends.

The ICO is still running several times. and there doesn't seem to be a better system. it's all about trust and acceptance from the market.
after all today investors will not see how they make a sale. Today's investors are smarter by seeing real products and collaborations.

[tersek]

I might be living under the rock, but are ICOs still a thing these days?
I never looked into one after they all started to disappear back in 2018.
Many of them turned out to be a scam back then.

For OP, I would just say that if it is a running ICO better do the usual DYOR.

yes, most of the ico's nowadays just follow the trend and end up being a scam. Only a few projects were successful.

[typerex987]

ICO? not sure
IDO? yes, for sure
recently i have found such project as deedy.digital and i am going to invest in that
i can't say if that suits you, but probably it could give you a good profit in the future
think about it

[Meta anggraini]

I never trust ICO anymore, the one and only ICO i join is Ubex.ai , its promising at beginning but its like a bullshit project which deny their own token.
They just crowdfunding us for their bussiness and have no plan to have any token implementation on their bussiness, now the token price keep decreasing.

I won't blame people who don't trust ICOs anymore, because it's a fact that many ICO projects are only for crowdfunding. Once the project owner
and team get the money they want, the project will be abandoned and the price of tokens will fall even more. But not all ICOs are like that, there are
some ICOs that are good and can be profitable for investors. Our job is to do research and analysis properly every time we participate in the ICO,
so we don't choose the wrong projects.

I have done research and analysis before, its will be huge if A.I Blockchain and Advertising combined as a project on Ubex.ai, but its just an utopia because its never realized.

[Golftech]

Not all Icos run as expected by investors [get big profits]. especially with the hope that if we buy at Ico we will benefit when the coin is registered. sometimes if we follow an Ico on a failed project [never listed on any exchange of coins they have] of course this is a lesson so that we are more selective when deciding to follow an Ico

Lsson to learned and serve as good basis before taking your participation investing with ICO's,

there are chances that if you do your DYOR you might pick the right project but not an assurance

since even you already deal with your research sometimes the the is not for real and they just

made promises with their fake projects.

[pixie85]

It's possible if you get lucky but ICOs are a thing of the past now. You have more chance of getting profitable with defi than ICO at this point, so why take additional risk if you don't have to?

I'm all about safe and steady returns so when I buy altcoin projects I usually go after things that actually have an idea about what they want to achieve. The profits with such coins are usually lower but so is the risk. If I want to gamble I'll go to a casino.

[Darktongue]

I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).

I have been seeing that situation for almost 3 years. ICO prices are higher than exchange rate prices. Although instantly we have opportunities to make some profit. For this case, I highly recommend top exchange IEO. Actually, the cryptocurrency market situation makes us take action. What I mean, ICO situation could be better in the near future..

[viananda2525]

Not all Icos run as expected by investors [get big profits]. especially with the hope that if we buy at Ico we will benefit when the coin is registered. sometimes if we follow an Ico on a failed project [never listed on any exchange of coins they have] of course this is a lesson so that we are more selective when deciding to follow an Ico

ICO was not recommended again for cryptocurrency investors, we have another safer scheme to invest in crypto market. sometime ICO project run their investors money due there is no third parties that will be middle man. And now we have IEO in several popular exchanges, usually they have more better quality and also hype in market especially if launched at binance . most of them will success and gain multiple times.

[chanler]

Actually, if the project is really good, it will be very profitable where you can buy it at a low price and resell it at a high price. it all depends on the project, whether the project is a success or not. that makes it difficult because we have to really choose which projects are good to invest in. I think there are still some really good projects to follow, we can see from the team as well. investing in an ICO is indeed quite risky, therefore I advise you to be careful in choosing projects to invest in.

[Golftech]

Actually, if the project is really good, it will be very profitable where you can buy it at a low price and resell it at a high price. it all depends on the project, whether the project is a success or not. that makes it difficult because we have to really choose which projects are good to invest in. I think there are still some really good projects to follow, we can see from the team as well. investing in an ICO is indeed quite risky, therefore I advise you to be careful in choosing projects to invest in.

Timing is very important, if you are lucky to buy it from the pre-ICO price then the coin

managed to list in any exchange, your chance to collect good amount of compensation is

very high. Just a matter on how to select good project to invest your money. Most of the

time high risk is needed to take if you wanted to ride the right train.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Actually, if the project is really good, it will be very profitable where you can buy it at a low price and resell it at a high price. it all depends on the project,

If we talk about the ICO, I believe that the most supportive the project to become succesfull is the capital from the project, because there have been many examples of projects with good ideas and concepts and get many good responses, but they ended up failing and just being abandoned. while those some ICO are not clear with the purpose of project and have a lot of funds for promotion, collaborating with paying partners become successful, the capital from the project in my opinion is very determined.

[imamusma]

Yes, it is always possible as long as you participate specially the real project. Avoid those project with malicious identity and not transparent. ICO token price might be high or lower after the schedule particularly during listing. Majority the token price raise but there are also token that decrease the value. Possible to make good profit but not always.

True, but most of what everyone has seen is the price drop after being listed on the exchange because many people prefer to sell it rather than hold it, this is a case that I see very often in new projects, although there are one or two projects that don't like it that.

[bogdalanadelrey]

ICO? do you still miss 2017? only IDOs, braza!

and i think that Deedy Digital is next one that will have a moonshot. really great potential.

[deathcode]

Yes, it is always possible as long as you participate specially the real project. Avoid those project with malicious identity and not transparent. ICO token price might be high or lower after the schedule particularly during listing. Majority the token price raise but there are also token that decrease the value. Possible to make good profit but not always.

True, but most of what everyone has seen is the price drop after being listed on the exchange because many people prefer to sell it rather than hold it, this is a case that I see very often in new projects, although there are one or two projects that don't like it that.

I think such a decline is reasonable. but not all ICO token holders will release it. some of them have long-term plans if indeed the project being supported has potential. because sometimes we can only see good projects develop after 1-2 years of them being developed.

[domoy77]

I think such a decline is reasonable. but not all ICO token holders will release it. some of them have long-term plans if indeed the project being supported has potential. because sometimes we can only see good projects develop after 1-2 years of them being developed.

Yes, that's true, because every project has a different roadmap so there are those for the long term and there are also those for the short term, where everyone has to be more patient if they follow a project with a long term concept.

[Orange89]

I think ICO is disappeared so nowdays people get aware their first concern is that their fund should be safe and in ICO fund security is not guaranteed their are many project that came and take benefit from community and then exit the market no doubt ico had given us good profit in the past 2017 but such project came first with solution So therefore i think that ICOs trend might be end

[gurunanakji777]

Yes, there are several ICOs that gives good profit to their early buyers with good bonus but the majority of the ICOs are not good to buy I would say it depends on the community strength. Generally, ICOs are profit-making in the bull run I can say as per my experience and I notice during bearish market ICOs could not perform better when listed most of the time dumped hard. So ICO's success also depends on the market conditions also and we should also act according to the market conditions.

[Review Master]

Yes, there are several ICOs that gives good profit to their early buyers with good bonus but the majority of the ICOs are not good to buy

Looks like, presale is referred and it's true that presale investors are gaining huge profits because of the bull season as most projects which are doing fund rising on any IDO platforms are doing great. Many users became millionaires because of the current hype of IDO which is just slight different from ICO though. TBH, ICOs are now old and IDO's taking the place of it. Moreover, many projects tried to do scams when hype was going on, but investors were having the bad experience from the previous ICO trend, that's why scammers couldn't be successful in current bull season.

[accounting 181293]

no, people have left this way. they prefer the safer way. no more ICO investments yielding good ROI. It's hard to find decent projects these days, because the average project released today is pretty bad. no innovation, all plagiarism from existing projects. if we can't rate the project good or bad, it's better to buy btc or ethereum. this is a safe way to profit from the crypto market.

[TheUltraElite]

Yes, that's true, because every project has a different roadmap so there are those for the long term and there are also those for the short term, where everyone has to be more patient if they follow a project with a long term concept.

You still believe everything an ICO team tells you? It is called snowballing and it is about time that you woke up from the bubble and started pulling out investments and putting them somewhere more reasonable like bitcoin.

I have seen project start out in 2017 and four years have passed in case you have been keeping note and only a couple of them have actually been able to set up any ground, most of them bankrupt after the bear run and some had hostile takeovers while even more ended up a scams and the owners vanished into thin air without any justice.

A simple logic can explain all this : mainstream companies cannot be given any sort of competition by niche companies. The former will smash away the second one laughing at their face. So be wise and put your money in bitcoin and traditional fiat markets. Say no to Altcoins!

[cryptobrzy]

It is very possible to make good profits from ICOs even in 2021, however a lot of research has to be done in order to invest in cryptocurrency successfully because the cryptocurrency market is so unpredictable and sometimes the most promising looking project turn out to be scam projects. Always do your own research into the team, token metrics and most importantly the target market for such cryptocurrency

[iged_war]

It is very possible to make good profits from ICOs even in 2021, however a lot of research has to be done in order to invest in cryptocurrency successfully because the cryptocurrency market is so unpredictable and sometimes the most promising looking project turn out to be scam projects. Always do your own research into the team, token metrics and most importantly the target market for such cryptocurrency

personally i am prefer invest in IDO or IEO, in ICO honestly i am still affraid if send my money to developers team directlY. As we know many ICO project run with investors money, and its should be best experience for us . Hype in IDO also better than ICO, no one talking about ICO now and i think it is over now.

[sherenikaw]

If the ICO is good and safe, of course it will be profitable. But I think currently choosing a really good ICO is quite difficult, maybe because there is a lot of competition between ICOs and the results are not that great either. I am also still learning to choose a good ICO where each ICO offers its own advantages. I believe that there are still good ICOs nowadays but it is not as easy to find them as in 2017-2018 when there were still many good ICOs. But we must remain optimistic and vigilant to choose an ICO to invest in so that we can make a profit.

[barabeku]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

First of all, you should understand that there are a lot of scams nowadays. Developers can just raise money and then do a runner with them. So before investing you had better do careful research.
What comes to taking your money immediately after you see a good profit, it is not always possible. Sometimes it is a lock up that prevents people who buy on ICO from quick selling of tokens, as this way the price will drop very significantly, so everything depends on tokenomics.

[coin-investor]

Hi there, I was looking at a couple of ICOs on CMC today (especially at Safelaunch) and it's been a while that I started to analyze the "results" of some previous ICOs like Centrifuge, Bytenext and other random coins.


I noticed that their ICO price was way lower even than the very first opening price, so I was wondering if it could be a good idea to regularly take part in these events, and, if an ICO allows me to freely manage the money I placed in it (for instance, immediately taking back my money if my profit target has been reached).


P.S: with "good profits" I don't mean bullshit like 10x, 100x and "to the moon", (obviously everyone has a different conception of "good profits"), but a decent amount of money that allows me to make an accumulation plan, would be great to see other people's experience.

ICO is not a good way to launch crowdfunding be sure you have done research on the potential of the project you are investing in, problem with ICO is it's being unregulated it all depends on trust and before you count your profit, which is way too early check their roadmap and their potential to get in the top exchanges in the market, no exchange no value, no liquidity and no profit for you.