{"id":9271,"date":"2018-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2018\/10\/10\/is-the-end-of-the-ico-era-near\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T00:00:00","slug":"is-the-end-of-the-ico-era-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/is-the-end-of-the-ico-era-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the end of the ICO era near?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Throughout 2017 and much of this year, ICOs have played a very important role in the growth of the adoption of blockchain technology<\/strong> on a global scale, covering almost all possible economic areas from the perspective of a tokenized economy.<\/p>\n It is also true that not everything has been positive, and that many scams have occurred and the losses have been multi-million. However, the ICO as a financing phenomenon<\/a><\/strong> for leveraging projects have left their mark.<\/p>\n According to a recent report<\/a><\/strong> by PwC \u00a0and the Swiss Crypto Valley Association, the amounts invested in the ICOs have almost doubled those of 2017. When you look at this, everything seems to indicate on a first impression that more and more investors are relying on the proposals of the projects whose financing is based on this crowfunding method.<\/p>\n However, there is a reality that traditional investors also distrust cryptocurrencies and it is not reasonable to consider that traditional investors are going to these riskier projects in terms of non-guarantees and lack of regulation.<\/p>\n It also raises the qualitative question about whether the ICOs are effectively generating greater innovation. And we do not talk about innovation in a nominal sense, limited only to ideas, but in an effective sense, in terms of the effective realization of the projects that carried out its fundraising through an ICO.<\/p>\n