This is nothing.
I think the researchers may fail because they see things in different perspectives. They think it all about money and greedy. Their minds are filled with biases.
I strongly believe there are many developers who want to build "real products" that work. Whether they fund them via crowdfunding or not is up to them. Such developers most likely do not care too much about the monetary rewards. They feel like their lives depend on building the "real things". They won't give until the real things are built, whether by them or someone else. It'll be hard to quench such fire
Topic: Are ICOs really DEAD or simply cleared a path for better projects? - page 13. (Read 1936 times)
October 06, 2019, 05:19:58 AM
October 06, 2019, 05:04:17 AM
Unfortunately or fortunately, tokensales in the form in which we have already become accustomed to seeing them are really dead. Investors need more protection to open their wallets again. Even IEO do not provide such protection and participation in them is more reminiscent of participation in a lottery or gambling than a real investment act. Maybe STO will be the solution to the problem, but there are also many pitfalls and risks. Worst of all, I do not see any new creative ideas with viable potential among new projects. Sad.
So far, of all the past service stations, there has not been a single one truly successful, although this is a much more preferable option for investors than ICO. For the first half of this year, about 20 service stations were held with a total capitalization of about $ 20 million, which is not much. It does not seem that the trend really gained momentum.
October 06, 2019, 04:54:35 AM
Not exactly dead but just getting more fewer than it used to be in the past, one of reason is because ICOS aren't hyped anymore and people have some other options aswell like IEO and STO. Most of the project nowadays also choose to have IEO hosted by popular exchange just for advertisement and to attract investors.
my opinion is ambiguous. recently, ICO 90 percent dead. yet 10 percent of them are alive and developing at a rapid pace. from this it follows that we need control over ICO projects that would Scam was not. then everything will work at 100
The project is good then it's good, doesn't matter ICO or IEO for example if the developers are some kind of popular people as well as the advisors it will be a huge success regardless the method of crowdfunding. IEO or ICO is only the way to the funding and not an the factor that decides whether it will be succes or not. October 06, 2019, 04:28:59 AM
in my opinion like this because there are many projects that come out so they have to scramble to be the best, for example exchange-based projects that come out every day between 10-50 projects are likely to succeed only 2 or 3. So every project that wants to issue ico and ieo must really make new innovations, or fields that haven't been there before,
October 05, 2019, 02:09:29 PM
ICOs have bad times, investors are very cautios and that means that all high risk investments are in retreat.
But do not worry, with the next bull run ICOs will be again popular, people love to se 100X profits.
But do not worry, with the next bull run ICOs will be again popular, people love to se 100X profits.
October 05, 2019, 01:56:48 PM
I think they already are dead people are just not leaving hope and still trying to raise funding. I think the concept of ICOs was never good because it wasn't regulated at all. people were just blindly coming up with anything over blockchain and raising funds and were never actually working for that idea. Moreover, most of the investors also never cared about the goals of the project. At most they were bothered about a major exchange listing after which they could sell their holding at an exponential profit. People tried to buy in pre-ico in the anticipation that listing on exchange would fetch a price close to the last selling price. So all on all ICOs are dead and maybe this would pave a path for better projects but in a different refined form where the actions of the team could be accountable.
October 05, 2019, 12:55:25 PM
There seems to be two primary factors at play here.
1) General crypto market depression. With prices still down at least 50% for most coins from ATH people are skeptical. They don't want to let go of what they've already accumulated or what they perceive they "overpaid" on to take yet another risk. Perhaps the fact the drop off occurred after prices tanked is just a delayed effect.
2) Regulations. The US and other countries are cracking down on ICOs. Look at Kin, basically paralyzed by SEC investigations. The price has fallen through the floor. The Kinit app still reminds you ever day to earn some KIN! But those functions are disabled.
If a team or organization can't even properly discern whether the token they're issuing is a security or utility then the average investor probably doesn't have the confidence to dip their toes on, let alone go full bore investing in more ICOs.
Time will tell but I expect a resurgence of ICOs when the market becomes more bullish. When prices skyrocket people are emboldened to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
1) General crypto market depression. With prices still down at least 50% for most coins from ATH people are skeptical. They don't want to let go of what they've already accumulated or what they perceive they "overpaid" on to take yet another risk. Perhaps the fact the drop off occurred after prices tanked is just a delayed effect.
2) Regulations. The US and other countries are cracking down on ICOs. Look at Kin, basically paralyzed by SEC investigations. The price has fallen through the floor. The Kinit app still reminds you ever day to earn some KIN! But those functions are disabled.
If a team or organization can't even properly discern whether the token they're issuing is a security or utility then the average investor probably doesn't have the confidence to dip their toes on, let alone go full bore investing in more ICOs.
Time will tell but I expect a resurgence of ICOs when the market becomes more bullish. When prices skyrocket people are emboldened to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
These are good points why ICOs had been havig a hard time getting enough money. Not to mention the number of scam ICOs and successful ICOs who also failed to deliver or even launch their product and service due to the market situation. We will see if the same will happen once the market starts to move again. Let us hope we can see some new projects risig once the market starts fully recovering from the recent crash.
October 05, 2019, 12:46:12 PM
The bull run mushroomed a lot of unplanned and haphazard projects and ICOs. They were focused on collecting money rather than doing the job. One of the reason for such a long depression in crypto is due to ICO. And I'm glad they are going. Crypto surely is a good platform to collect funds but people used it to scam. Now investors would only believe in projects that are actually regulated.
I agree, many ICO's were created specifically for quick collection of money, and then left in an unknown direction. For new project, it is difficult to gain the trust of potential investors, in addition, adverse conditions for new coins. Therefore, we have what we have. 
October 05, 2019, 10:26:13 AM
In my opinion, investors (the targeted market of the ICO projects) are already tired supporting projects, buying tokens with many of them doing it for the long-term because they were convinced of the beauty and potential of the projects and then only to be shocked later that the value of the tokens they are holding just got dumped like a hot potato. And not to mention the many scams and failures which all literally raped investors out of their money, trust and confidence. Then we saw the regulators coming in making it hard to do the crowdfunding in the USA. Though most shifted their attention somewhere but we know that the damage has been done so things are never gonna be the same again. ICOs in their original form can be classified as officially DEAD. This situation has risen to STO and then IEO...but again we are not going back to normal as investors are now very discriminating and just because a project is doing an IEO does not mean that it can get the financial support it is wishing to have. I am thinking...after the IEO will there be another metamorphosis or maybe a variation of the IEO thing? Let's see...
October 05, 2019, 10:15:02 AM
my opinion is ambiguous. recently, ICO 90 percent dead. yet 10 percent of them are alive and developing at a rapid pace. from this it follows that we need control over ICO projects that would Scam was not. then everything will work at 100
October 05, 2019, 10:03:32 AM
ICO was great at the height of its popularity. but now maybe IEO is the solution to too many scam projects. although it does not guarantee the project is not a scam. at least this reduces the existence of project scams and even fewer new projects are released every day.
October 05, 2019, 10:00:14 AM
With late 2017, we see that crypto has taken lots of attention of people which result in great price increases. After, people started to buy altcoins as well as ICOs. Some scam ICOs made the environment really terrible for the investors. This is because there is no regulation, there shouldn't be I guess, and people didn't know how to invest in these ICOs. After we learned through our mistakes, we started not to invest these dead ICOs and their price went to zero through exit scams. I think, they cleared the way for better projects, we cleared the way through not investing them.
October 05, 2019, 09:56:55 AM
The ICO is really dying. Back in 2017 with friends investors discussed this topic. Concluded that inevitably will happen and will be reborn in something another. And so it happened. Now there are IEO and I do not think that it is for a long time, it seems to me that the IEO will soon pass.
October 05, 2019, 09:51:31 AM
It is obvious that the ICO industry isn't yet as profitable as a few years ago, and the number of investors is also decreasing nowadays. Now, most startups prefer to run IEOs which is looking more profitable and attractive to investors than ICOs. The situation of altcoin markets is also not helping ICOs to grow up actually.
October 05, 2019, 09:45:36 AM
IEOs became more popular. ICOs also raised a lot of money. This was higher than their needs. There was too much scam ico. Investors are smarter now. There are many reasons.
October 05, 2019, 09:05:59 AM
Many here write that ICOs have died, but they themselves carry advertisements for existing ICO and IEO projects. ICO projects have now become really noticeably smaller, but this does not mean that ICOs have died. Now it’s just a very bad period for them. All tokens fell sharply in price and in such conditions, investors prefer not to take risks. At the same time, I see that the quality of those few projects that are now at risk of starting fundraising has generally improved. Although, of course, there are simply fraudulent projects that have no prospects for fundraising.
ICO teams are still waiting for the general rise of the cryptocurrency market, then they will begin to appear on this forum.
ICO teams are still waiting for the general rise of the cryptocurrency market, then they will begin to appear on this forum.
October 05, 2019, 08:34:35 AM
actually ICO/IEO is not really dead. there are still many good projects that are successful today. just look at large exchanges such as binance, they routinely launch a new lunchpad every month and average project that does IEO there ends successfully. so I don't think ICO/IEO is dead. it's just that there are exceptions for projects that have good quality and large funds.
October 05, 2019, 08:11:59 AM
You could say ICO is not dead but only less profitable. Although there is a bonus, the fact that the loss after entering the market cannot be avoided. I think even IEO can still be indicated scam. Because we don't know when the developer will come out of the game. In this case it might be a learning step for the crypto world to be even better going forward. I believe there will be better projects in the next.
October 05, 2019, 07:56:33 AM
ICO is over and everyone is turning to IEO. only good projects can develop in IEO, because it all depends on the exchange where the project is doing IEO. without a large exchange IEO will not be successful, and only projects that have funds can do that.
so a scam project will be able to do that.
so a scam project will be able to do that.
October 05, 2019, 07:46:26 AM
ICO's have indeed reduced in number since the introduction of IEO's but does that mean ICO's are dead?, certainly not, ICO's are still alive but struggling to compete with IEO's, the ones that are surviving are dormant, some need funds to move onto their mission, some are stuck in this wide market and the only way ICO's can continue to survive is by regulation.
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