Yes, I heard about the staking part. Isn't it more of an additional hassle and risk? Say, you invest on a certain crypto project so you are releasing money, but you cannot take profit from that investment even if the coins are already rising in value because you are compelled to hold it for a certain period of time. Is that right? And who are those who are not obliged to stake their coins? Do the devs normally have a certain portion of the supply which they could dispose of anytime?
There must be some great projects using IDO but they're probably a few among hundreds or even thousands.
I think most of the centralized based ido platforms require you to buy large chunk of their tokens, then stake before you can get allocated to participate in presales in their platforms. I think they get away with such terms because presales usually do well on their platforms. If you want to avoid terms such as staking and kyc; then you need to participate in decentralized ido launchpads on crypto currency, such as pinksale etc. Remember when it comes to DeFi idos, you dyor always