Recent Drop in ICO Investment

[cryptothief]

According to ICObench (https://icobench.com/stats), investments in ICOs were over 1.5bn in December, around 1.1bn in January and less than 200m in February (although this will no doubt increase by the time the full statistics are calculated, it seems that it will still fall considerably below the previous two months).

Average per project for previous 12 months (Amount raised/Number of ICOs)

March 2017 - 5.85m
April 2017 - 6.41m
May 2017 - 11.44m
June 2017 - 27.29m
July 2017 - 14.03m
August 2017 - 5.77m
September 2017 - 11.38m
October 2017 - 7.22m
November 2017 - 5.90m
December 2017 - 7.93m
January 2018 - 7.55m
February 2018 (ongoing) - 1.48m

In my humble opinion, this drop can be accounted for because of 3 reasons.

1. People were hoping to use profits from other investments to invest in further ICOs, then the market dropped & tied them in since.
 
2. Crash slowed down investment from newcomers to the market, scaring off people who were looking to make quick returns.

3. Number of quality projects on offer; there has been a huge increase overall in the number of ICOs, not all of which have the same level of ambition/innovation (to put it nicely)

I'm sure there are other mitigating factors, but I believe these three reasons definitely played a major part in the drop. Looking forward to a market recovery over next couple of months, and hopefully moving towards new all time highs by year end.

[Claus]

Yh sure

[sieemma]

According to ICObench (https://icobench.com/stats), investments in ICOs were over 1.5bn in December, around 1.1bn in January and less than 200m in February (although this will no doubt increase by the time the full statistics are calculated, it seems that it will still fall considerably below the previous two months).

Average per project for previous 12 months (Amount raised/Number of ICOs)

March 2017 - 5.85m
April 2017 - 6.41m
May 2017 - 11.44m
June 2017 - 27.29m
July 2017 - 14.03m
August 2017 - 5.77m
September 2017 - 11.38m
October 2017 - 7.22m
November 2017 - 5.90m
December 2017 - 7.93m
January 2018 - 7.55m
February 2018 (ongoing) - 1.48m

In my humble opinion, this drop can be accounted for because of 3 reasons.

1. People were hoping to use profits from other investments to invest in further ICOs, then the market dropped & tied them in since.
 
2. Crash slowed down investment from newcomers to the market, scaring off people who were looking to make quick returns.

3. Number of quality projects on offer; there has been a huge increase overall in the number of ICOs, not all of which have the same level of ambition/innovation (to put it nicely)

I'm sure there are other mitigating factors, but I believe these three reasons definitely played a major part in the drop. Looking forward to a market recovery over next couple of months, and hopefully moving towards new all time highs by year end.

I really like your first reason. This is the normal thing that should be happening. After all, why are people investing in crypto? They should withdraw their profits and that's what they are doing. I support that idea. It also gives room for new investors as the price was too high for new investors to come in.

[Niteroy]

You are right, now really there is a lot of ico projects and all the above you reasons have the effect on the whole on the number of investment in ICO. It is worth add and the fact that the price of cryptocurrency fell and the price of ethereum and bitcoin in which are carried out investment in ICO also fell that affected indicators investment in the dollar equivalent. Cause of decline of investment in ICO could be a ban in some countries ICO. as well as recently, there is a strong fall prices coins after the end of ICO and out of her on the stock Exchange. There are people who do not invest during ICO, and are waiting for when coin will appear on the Exchange and buy it at a lower price.

[ambrose92]

ICO dropping is just a normal business trend it will bounce back in fulll