Topic: How to Check for an ICO Hype (Read 462 times)

If there is a referral bonus, remove it from the link, and search how much the bonus' are.  If high, pass.  Coin will dump once listed.

I did not assume that at all.

What I'm saying is hype = good demand = better price after ICO.

You can rate an ICO hype seeing its bitcointalk announcement, bounty thread and social media channels. Be careful, there are many over hyped scams.

It looks like you assume hype = good product. Not necessarily true in my opinion.

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One example was Bancor, another was Status (not performing that bad though), and of course EOS. With those all waiting for exchanges and then buying would have been way more profitable. The viewcount thing is interesting but I also dont know how to do it.


I am also avoiding Telegram chats with 3k+ members, its usually a bad sign, at least I think so.


Vouch for this! This is also my indicator number one for the evaluation of an ICO (after whitepaper etc). If the team in there is supportive and proactive its way more likely that hte project will have success. But the size of the group does not matter at all, because there are ways for ICO's nowadays to make telegram groups bigger than they would be by organic growth. They make airdrops for people to join, they lure people with some other tricks, there are even people who offer their "service" on bitcointalk to add strangers to your group for a little BTC. I saw it happen the other way around. I was added to a telegram group (before I turned off that people can invite me) that had 3k+ members, the team was proactive and I was like yeah ok why not lets see what happens and stayed in the group. Suddenly the group was closed (most likely because there were too many people reporting it as spam) and one week later or so the group reopened again, guess what: it shrinked from the 3k+ to little under 200 members. So they bought their groupmembers or used someones "add-service". Always be suspicious, thats what I learnt.

I will check if that they have product release or not, is that product help trader or global users. For with product help trader, i will invest first because its price can grow fast. For product user by global users, i will keep 6months to 2 years.

The above are what I usually do. But most of all, I will understand about their business model and think whether it make sense and is it worth to invest in this project.

From my experience, a lot of hype will generate a lot of demand of course, but the supply itself is very big because the project want to collect as much money as they can so it will even out in the end. And another cons is they attract a lot of people that are new to investment and flippers. If they decided to give bonus, people will sell it immediately causing the price below ico, not to mention bounty if there's any. Flippers want to sell immediately because they want to jump into another project making the supply > demand, and the panicing new investor will also sell theirs at loss for the final touch.

why do you say so? i have always thought that hyped ICOs will get a larger exchange price bec of high demand vs supply.

Don't forget the telegram group and how they correspond with their supporters. The more proactive they are, the better. For example, cybermiles's telegram group grew from 200 members to almost 6000 members in a few weeks just based on how proactive their team is.

ICO with hype is bad usually so avoid them if you see them. I usually join their chat group, telegram / slack to see how many people in thechat room. If it's too much then i will avoid it, i also check youtube videos, if too many youtubers promote them it's bound to get overhyped.

Use #(insert ico that you want to search) on twitter, look for feedback or OG tweets about them, but be careful some of them looks like legit but in reality it's just another shitcoin.

I try to collect free airdrops only and that is all
so I never go into into ICO with real cash cause a lot of them looks like SCAM and it is real hard to understand if they are not scam

Check white paper
Verify that the team is real
Watch milestones

The better thing than all of the thing that you have mentioned in your post, just like you can try to participate in the social group or chat just like slack or discord. It seems better than just analyze it through the facebook page. Many project don't own their facebook page. If you are seeing the latest successful project just like oracle.

sorry a bit new - can you please point me to where I join telegram/slack. thanks! 

Yeah, which is why I mentioned "engagement" and not likes - comments, youtube reviews, blogposts, etc.

You can also join their telegram/slack. Monitor how active the chat is, its usually a good indicator of interest.

Yes, correct.
which overhyped ICO did you buy?

Heard you can also check the viewcount of an ICO's webpage but I'm not sure how.

Can someone teach?