there are still upcoming ICO or IEO's actually. We can't hear so much about that because market is just newly recovering.
I think we shouldn't have focused on ICO's so much. We should focused on market value, tech developments, updates and something else but ICO's...
People so much focused about ICO. And missed some great stuff I think.
If ICOs or IEOs saturated the market it stands to reason that you would have missed some but not all would have been great investments, so many as simply scams.
IEOs aren't even promoted as much as ICOs were, they are not on any fast pace and actually may not need slowing down, they may just slowly fade out. Due to how ICO somewhat ended, I mean the days when they were flourishing, because as for now the rate of exit scams and other whatnots are so high and investors knowing fully well that IEOs are not different from them other than slightly in their modus operandi aren't too interested in IEOs as a result.
I wouldn't be too optimistic about anything(investment)coming after the IEO, there is every chance it may be worse and less secure than what we have right now.
The main reason most IEOs are not promoted as much as any ICO was because when an exchange lists an IEO they use all their marketing tools to try to sell it to the end user.
In your opinion when will IEOs begin to be reduce in number? Just as happened with ICOs, it seems probable to conclude IEOs will one day be replaced with some other form of investment facility.
The evidence are everywhere, the lack of interest in IEO is already surfacing since it isn't that easy for a project carrying out an IEO to sellout their tokens as before. The only exchange that can probably sell out (currently) has to be Binance Exchange but the dump that usually follows the IEO projects once listed must have made Binance to loss interest in carry-out more IEOs. Also the lack of advertisment could be another reason why IEOs are lacking patronage.
The idea of depending only on the exchange to promote their project is killing most project since most of this exchange don't have a strong community. Back in the days of ICOs, we had bounty campaigns used to spread the news of crowdfunding but this days only few project still engage in such practices which goes to show how the industry have changed so far and only the exchanges with large audience are/were benefiting from this IEO ideology.
The generally lost of interest from Investors due to the poor turn out of ICO also contribute (or it's contributing) to the downfall of IEOs. The market conditions of the industry is making every investment decision an Investors make turns into a bad/poor ones since the market (most especially, altcoin market) is constantly on a decline in price, which produces a negative return of investment (in most cases).
I am so glad you mentioned three important factors:
- first, the lack of interest in IEOs in general
- second, there is more than likely the inevitable dump that follows
- third, other than Binance where are any serious IEOs really taking place?
What cannot be denied is the concept of funding-via-exchange-only has effectively failed as it leaves projects tied-in and at the mercy of the exchange promoting it hoping it will entice its users to purchase.