Topic: The return of ICOs - page 15. (Read 2866 times)

Are ICOs still a thing in 2020? I don't know why you think the ICO game can still be played. Even though new ICOs demand for even less funds, It'll be hard to get people to invest. Gone are the days when people fomo into token sales. I doubt we'll have such a time again with ICOs.

Also, If you take a quick look at the market, world economies etc, the overall sentiment isn't great. Even IEOs that are held on trusted exchanges find it difficult to sell out as they used to. If would be another boom in token sales, It definitely won't be with ICOs.

On the other hand, think that the ico can be very successful, as long as the costs of the initial coins are contained, it does not make sense to pay a 50 cent coin with a supply of 500 million when everyone knows that the initial costs for the project are far lower. The value of the coins should increase with the results not with the whitepaper, many ico have not been successful as the team took many millions before demonstrating the real value of the project. Giving value to IEOs could be dangerous, it would become a mafia. List only recommended projects.Do not forget that there are projects that have never asked for money or ICO or IEO, today they are successful projects ... therefore the ico should be made but careful when they ask you too much money for a tokens created for free.

You're right. It is not right to say that ICO gone forever. Actually, there is a lot of ICO projects are about to be released. However, you're right that ICO projects nowadays can't compete to IEO projects. The reason is that IEO method is safer than ICO method. Moreover, many people got scammed by ICO in the past and they no longer believe in ICO. Personally, I think ICO can't survive in this market anymore.

ICO could return, but it is uncertain given that there is now a much better IEO, which provides security for investors.

I still see new projects asking absurd money to buy their coins created almost for free, for that there are still a lot of scam projects, easy money make lot scam people around! Look at bitcoin and many other project , no ico  no ieo collected, but today are best project.

I think back in the day or 2017 ICO is really trendy especially here for some bounty hunters since a lot of users earn a big amount of reward even in the past year 2017 there are already a lot of scam ICO's but a higher percentage of ICO's is going to give you a reward even if its small but the important thing is it is not a scam. I guess as to the scam ICO raises even and this year I think ICO is not going to make a comeback as there are already a lot of tokens or altcoins in the market leaving a lot of it as dead tokens.

Yes ICOs should make a comeback and ill tell you why.

A while ago I came across an article and it made total sense: http://blockadvisor.io/2019/04/22/the-problem-with-ieos/

IEO's are just the exchanges way of subversion of the ICO idea. The whole concept of the ICO is to allow average joes to get in on the ground floor in investments. Allowing for potential huge profits on the users end. To do this in traditional markets you HAVE to be an accredited investor. IEOs open it up so anyone can do it in a decentralized way.

The "scam' argument is played out at this point. Are there scams? Yes. But there are scams everywhere in life. You must DYOR and not invest more then you can give up. Too many people were throwing 100K at projects in 2017 trying to pretend to be institutional investors. You have to be able to spot the crap and not go in too hard if you cant afford to.

Second. Even in the traditional markets, there are tons of zombie corporations that do sh*t all. Horrible investments, yet they are still there. Welcome to planet earth. Not every investment is a good one.

Third. People need to understand that most ICOs are STARTUPS. With that said, most startups fail. This is jus how it is. Were looking for the gems in the rough, it's a gamble but the risk to reward is what makes ICOs attractive to high risk profile investors.

Fourth. I cant count how many IEOs ive seen release on exchanges and because the exchange made shady rules in the NDA the project in question fail. Ive seen exchanges hold up coins on the exchange, not letting coins be withdrawn, exchanges suppressing the price of coins so the can buy up the supply and more. Im not sure why so many people in this space are so trusting of exchanges and/or think these exchanges have YOUR best interests in heart. They don't. So furthermore, why do so many people want exchanges to hold the power of ICOs??

So yes as the link I shared states in the vision of satoshi, decentralization and giving the power to anyone who has the nuts to take a risk and does his research properly ICOs are superior to IEOs. Both for investors AND projects.

Agree, 99% of ICO's are SCAM. Only some IEO's on Binance can be trusted.

Many projects have claimed they have gained a hardcap from the ICO, but after being listed at the exchange, the price dropped 5-10 times or even more. I don't know why but I think the group doesn't make price protection

Because raising funds is not enough, we have a lot of ICOs in the past that raise over $100 million but they are nowhere to be found now or they are already inactive, so how much more a project that raises a small amount and they want to be successful in this tough crypto market times.

The time of Icos are over and IEO has taken over and i don't think the game will be changing any moment from now because major exchanges that host IEOs seems to be listing only credible projects with lots of return potentials and that's perfectly what investors and traders wants instead of ico that can hardly be vet to know the credibility

Some big icos that have already ended this year were not putting a huge cap as their hardcap. As far as i know of they were getting raised only a few million dollars like what have been doing by IEO these days.
It looks like ico tried to compete with IEO again.

I believe that the return of the ICO can only be if there is a return of trust, which we now unfortunately do not observe, as well as an influx of new money. You are right. The economy has suffered and blockchain technology has the opportunity to be sought after. But as for cryptocurrencies, there is a big question. At this moment, many chose a waiting position in the hope of a new flight to the moon. I often monitor new projects and tell you that most of them are very bad. So, the ICO is hoping for a return so far very early.

IEO was seen as a way out because people imagined if there is a coin that gets listed that quickly, it would be much better, it would cause the price of that coin to skyrocket and would be valuable. Only because it is listed on an exchange, that is the only difference between an ICO and an IEO.

However, they realized just because its listed doesn't really change anything, people really do not care about any coin being listed since they only care about selling their shares and getting out right away and make a quick profit. This means people are moving back to ICO times since they could at least invest, let it breath for a while and get listed afterwards causing the price to be consolidated a bit and not go down that quickly. ICO could be the future for a little more while.

IEO is still popular, but it's not for everyone. Because the hardcap for IEO is very low, it's not like an ICO. Only those who are lucky and have enough money can participate in the IEO at the leading exchange in this market

I dont think there will be a comeback for ICO, but for sure the successful ones are those who distributed their tokens via IEO. Theres a lot of manipulation and corruption in ICO. Blessed are those who joined in good ICO.

today many people are disappointed with ICO because it causes too much fraud in 2017-2018, for now, many investors are more supportive of IEO, where they are already bound to several exchange contracts.

A good platform for conducting IEO is Binance. Due to the fact that they carefully select projects, investors participating in IEO get a good profit after the start of trading on such a coin. I remember that only one project was relatively unsuccessful out of all that were conducted on this exchange.

only IEO becomes an update from ICO,
the IEO system is also good if it is done by a good exchange, but if not, the same as scam ICO

IEO is only good when you select large exchanges, if IEO is organized by small exchanges then I believe it will be like ICOs. Price will be poured many times and making investors lose