I have been reading on Coindesk that STO time is coming
Security regulated token offering
Very much similar to IPO maybe IPO will disappear with time
But ICO time will not end i only hope that really quality ICO will overcome all that scam ICO
IPO has lost its popularity in the crypto world after ICO came out. People are into ICO few years ago but trend is setting and changing and right now ICOs are full of scams so there should be a cleansing again.
And I think similar thing would come to STO's but as long as its going to be regulated it can minimize scams.
I believe IPO, ICO, ITO STO are all the same, having only different name. These terms are pertaining to crowdfunding. I believe the essence of crowdfunding will never die, they will just evolve into some new names but the objective is still there.
As of the ICO and bounty, scammers saw that having and ICO and launching a bounty enable them to have a free marketing. They propose IDEA, create a token and launch a bounty program, with the created token as payment, they are able market their project free. If the marketing goes well, they have fund and pay people with token and let the market pay these bounty hunters. With these regulations everywhere, these half-baked project that launch ICO got a hard time collecting fund, so at the end, bounty hunters are not paid. As a result we think that ICO is dying but no, it will not die.