ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings, have become a popular way for cryptocurrencies to raise funds from the public. However, they have also become an easy way to prey on the vulnerable, and the financial regulator recently warned customers about what it calls “these very high risk, speculative investments”. It warns that there’s little consumer protection and high potential for fraud, as well as high volatility. Some ICOs are regulated by the FCA, but this is on a case-by-case basis, depending on how they are structured.
As the FCA says, you should fully research any ICO before handing over your money. “You should only invest in an ICO project if you are an experienced investor, confident in the quality of the ICO project itself,” a spokesman says. Alternatively, consider investing or trading with a regulated provider.
Research before investing in ico is a very much important for a wise investors in crypto business.
Because if we didn't apply this for sure in the end there is high chances for us to lose our capital investment.
And in every ico project there is a reference for us to find out if it is legit or not one of this are having a
whitepaper, roadmap plan their team behind the project and the background itself too something like that.