Crypto exchanges market affected by ICOs?

[MrDave]

How ICOs affected the market of exchanges?

[passwordnow]

How ICOs affected the market of exchanges?

It's already 6-7 years have passed since the domination of the ICOs in the market and it has really affected the entire market. It's given the exchanges that they can crowdfund through ICO and that's what the majority of the exchanges that has tokens did. Those that became popular during that time, many of those projects are likely the ones that are still remaining in the market today.
The perspective of investors has changed a lot with ICOs and it's like anything you invest in the ICOs market during that time, it's most likely going to be successful no matter what the project is. And good thing that it has come to an end because the bubble was pretty much obvious.

[cytpoway121]

How ICOs affected the market of exchanges?

ICOs did not in anyway affect exchange platforms, if you windback on the years, icos were very prominent in the year 2015-2016 during the early years of altcoins. Since then, icos have evolved from ico (initial coin offering) to ieo (initial exchange offering) to ido (initial dex offering) and so on. None of this have affected exchange platform because after every successful ido/ieo/ico event; these tokens end up listing on exchange platforms.

I think the major factor that affected market of exchanges is overcrowding; there are too many exchange platform in the space today with many redundant and without volume.

[OcTradism]

ICO is a past story but people mutated ICO to IEO, IDO and more. They have different names to use but the main task is to raise funds from the crowd, from investor community or speculators. Nowadays, after the ICO scam time in 2017 and 2018, you will hardly to find projects that raise funds by ICOs.

The cryptocurrency market is not affected too much by failures of ICOs, IDOs, IEOs or DeFi, NFT, Metaverse projects. It is mainly impacted by Bitcoin and you can see it very easily by market capital domination.

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

[leonair]

ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. One is an old means by which a new project sells their tokens.  Of course ICOs then played a lot of role in getting a coin into a good position in the market.  But now this medium is not used much.  Because now IDO, STO etc. mediums are more common.  But they only bring investment to a project and help them sell coins. But in addition to this, there is marketing. Marketing is the life of a project.  And to manage and develop a project or an exchanger well, a strong team is needed.  So I don't think Crypto exchanges market affected by ICOs

[Xal0lex]

How ICOs affected the market of exchanges?

And how can they influence the exchanges market at all? Exchanges can listing any token, as long as it meets their internal rules and the developers of the token are willing to pay for the listing. Most ICOs have been insolvent scams, so they have passed by the major exchanges. So I think the answer is obvious, they didn't affect them in any way. The ICO market rather affected investors and their attitude towards cryptocurrencies, especially after 2017.

[ryzaadit]

You need to ask specifically.

There is not effected anything, because each of project have their own fundamental. Exchange only want to get as much coin they can listed because they can gain more customer on their platform + getting a payment from listing the coin.

My answer, is no but if they listed a scam project and other think their exchange marked as shitty exchange.

[TastyChillySauce00]

I remember that binance was also coming from ICO back in 2018. ICOs were giving very huge impact not only on the existence of exchange sites but so many projects that are running now started from ICOs. I can even mention some like ethlend and many more.

ICOs have been evolving in various ways now. People were starting to explore the potential of icos to be evolved into various kinds of fundraising in the crypto. ICOs were also making market have so many coins too.

ICOs were greatly impacting so many things right now. People were saying ICOs were not impacting exchange site while binance as the biggest exchange site was coming from ICOs. that's pretty funny to see that.

https://coincodex.com/ico/binance-coin/

[WalkerIVIV]

I think ICO back then was the reason getting listed insome exchange are difficult, it gives scarcity towards exchange listing because there were simply too mane ICOs out there which many of them are rather low quality and despite of that they still wanna get listed in some exchanges somehow therefore they are trying to get listed with any method, therefore back then some coin listing was rather vital for these projects and it created high valuation for every listing.

[shinratensei_]

I honestly think you should elaborate further what your point is, but if you ask whether ICO affected some exchanges then it certainly did in the past, there's reason why IEO is being released, basically it's just ICO but being reviewed by some reputed exchanges and this boost credibility of the ICO that's why this method of IEO has quite literally killed the existence of ICO, even though there are still many ICO being released by some just considers only IEO that is legitimate and is guaranteed than the other alternatives.

[dothebeats]

ICOs were the bread and butter of some exchanges because they are being paid upfront to host it. It affected them positively although for sure, a lot of investors and traders were burned to these marketing strategies because these ICOs usually are gone after a few weeks. That's why there was an intense ban on ICOs past 2017 due to the damage they brought to the crypto economy and to a lot of investors as well. Exchanges side, positive; everything else, negative.

[uneng]

ICOs were profitable for exchanges, due to investors and bounty hunters using them to trade the tokens from the ICOs' projects. At least, profitable on the peak of the popularity of such tokens. On the other hand, the impact right now is inexistent, since the hype finished and investors migrated to another niches of crypto market, like NFTs. If you are attempting to profit through ICOs, I believe you should not have many hopes on this matter. Better to focus in something else related to the currently trends of the market.

[GreatArkansas]

ICO is a past story but people mutated ICO to IEO, IDO and more. They have different names to use but the main task is to raise funds from the crowd, from investor community or speculators. Nowadays, after the ICO scam time in 2017 and 2018, you will hardly to find projects that raise funds by ICOs.
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As you can see also that the evolve from ICO to IEO -> IDO became more centralized things and regulated. For sure a lot of people got their lesson after what happened on lot of scams during ICO.
For me, it's a good thing that there are already a lot of ways for projects to conduct token sales for their retail investors. Overall, there are still a lot of people who are manipulating these kinds of token sales ways.

[Dave1]

How ICOs affected the market of exchanges?

What do you mean ICO? Lol, that market has been dead for years already, we have IEO that replaces that whole scheme.

But if you talk about IEO, during it's hype some of the top tier are really enjoying because obviously there are a lot of money flowing in their launchpad. But it seems it's also a dead trend now, because we have new hype like Meta and P2E and others. So forget about ICO/IEO though, it's already 2023 and no one is talking about it anymore.

[avikz]

The ICO boom affected the entire crypto market in a bad way. Scammers made millions while commoners like you and I, lost everything! At the beginning it definitely paid well for those who left the market at the right time. But those who kept on holding with the hope of a rebound, lost money.

It's very similar to the NFT market. Whoever gets in at the beginning of the hype, makes money! Rest all are loosing money provoked by the scammers.

[lobo13hf]

ICO was massive mess back then it was infested with scammers even though there's certainly some left that are good and legit but overall it was being misused heavily.
then comes IEO after than and ICO was completely replaced, IEO gaining more attention and since then ICO trend was going down so heavily that it has come to this point where you rarely sees some of these ICOs anymore. at the end only IEO that still strives at least until today and maybe into the future.

[Vaskiy]

From ICO we were able to encounter good sum of growth as well as different marketing methods. It is the early projects that gave good support for the exchanges to grow. Over the years different things happened as the market grew, noway ICO served to be a distracting factor for the growth of exchanges. Earlier days more new exchanges survived out of the ICO tokens trading.

[Fundamentals Of]

It would have been better if you clarified your question. But I think there were many exchanges during the time when ICO was at its peak. The competition between exchanges were vibrant. During the times when ICO was so strong and many even reach their hard caps easily, what everyone anticipated with so much excitement afterwards was when the coins or tokens are listed on exchanges. When the announcement comes, everybody would flock to the exchange and either buy or sell the coins or tokens. It wasn't even surprising to see a coin pump hard upon listing.

When the time came when ICO slowly died, the tendency for people to follow the coins to their exchange are also slowly dying. Exchanges must have lost a lot of revenue ever since.

[doomloop]

From ICO we were able to encounter good sum of growth as well as different marketing methods. It is the early projects that gave good support for the exchanges to grow. Over the years different things happened as the market grew, noway ICO served to be a distracting factor for the growth of exchanges. Earlier days more new exchanges survived out of the ICO tokens trading.

Growth of what? The exchange? They can list a lot of ICO coins but it doesn't make them successful because we know that most of those ICO coins are only just a scam. ICO coins doesn't also contribute on the standard cryptos (ex. BTC and ETH).

Their value is the only thing that pumps if ever they got lucky and many people have invested on them but when the time they dump the standard cryptos are also affected because the investors think that all cryptos are the same that all for them are not to be trusted. Not only ICOs but even the new type of crowdfunding can still affect the crypto exchanges if they will support shady and scam projects.

[Anonylz]

The system of ico is not the problem, the real problem is the greed, many projects where raising huge amount from ico unrill some of the dev team started getting greedy, scammers also did there part to bring the whole ico system down.
It is through ico some of the great project in top 100 in cmc where launched.