I was wondering, when buying tokens on ICO, is there any 'guarantee' that the token will be listed on an exchange? In other words - how can one know for sure that an ICO token/coin will be included on an exchange after the ICO is finished?
Some coins are taking to long for listing in exchange but there is no specific guarantee when they are going to list in the exchanges. Some companies are listing in exchange with in days but it is not possible to identify whether they will list in the exchange or not.
actually most of them sets a date or announce a speific date on when will they list the coin in an online exchange and it is verry rare for an ico bounty to hide this details not unless they are shady or scam. usually most of them will list the coin after their ico has been finished but there are some that their tokens and coins are actually listed before they run an ico bounty campaign. overall , running an ico isnt easy at all that is why most of the ico are delayed in order for them to count the stakes or rewards of their participants, so much better if you can just wait for a while.
and also there are several survey to do for a tokens to be listed on some Exchanger most of ICO nowaday before ending their ICOs use to have a survey or voting system on where the participants/ investors want to trade/ sell their tokens. Announcement on these kind of issues usually announce at their main threads or main social media accounts/ pages.