Well , I wouldnt be  be expecting any bull run , like I mention before , unfortunately this market becomes so un predictable . Lets  hope that we will be facing an uptrend in slow terms , no need bulls for now to make money , let the coins rise hopefully .

I like this article about the investments in ICO wriiten by BY  MORGAN E. WESTLING 

Investing in an ICO, or an initial coin offering, can provide both huge financial benefits and huge risks. Many people are intrigued by the growing digital currency industry that includes blockchain technology, because the potential is there to raise money very quickly. However, long term, the outcome can be grim, and many people end up losing the money they initially invested. There are many reasons why most ICOs fail. When investing in an ICO, people must exercise due diligence and make sure they know the risk they are taking. Here are some of the most common risks when investing in an ICO.

Regulatory

One big risk regarding ICOs is the fact that right now, every ICO is unregulated. However, in the future, this may not be the case. Everyone is currently investing in ICOs to make a quick buck, but they don’t realize that the quicker ICOs become popular, the more likely ICOs are to become regulated soon. If ICOs do become regulated, what will happen to the ICO tokens that have been previously purchased? Many ICOs may be sold or lose value. ICO regulation is a huge unknown and a huge risk for those looking to raise funds and keep them.

Business

Investing in an ICO is risky whether you choose an Ethereum ICO or a Bitcoin ICO. While smart contracts may be put in place to help you with your exchanges, there are no official licenses in place to solidify your investments. If you are contributing to or trying to start your own business, a developing team of many ICOs and ICO contributors may seem like a great way to raise money; however, long term, this may come back to bite you. The ICO price can drop quickly and you can lose everything your company was built on if you aren’t extremely careful.

Taxes

There are many tax risks and issues that can arise from investing in an ICO. ICO tokens can be classified as many different things when it comes to taxes. Some are classified as equity, some are property, some are debt, and some are prepaid goods/services. Every ICO must be treated differently depending on its tax classification. The risk that comes with this digital currency is making sure to report and withhold every ICO token correctly. Getting in trouble with the government over taxes is no joke in the real world. Many people may think they can get away with small slips in their taxes when using blockchain technology, but this is not a risk worth taking.

Cyber Attacks

Venture capitalists who invest in ICOs take a huge risk, because blockchain technology is a digital currency and can be easily susceptible to cyber attacks. Along with many other risks, cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to hack the system and steal cryptocurrency through the web. The most common way that cyber attacks happen in the real world is through phishing scams, in which individual’s identities are stolen.

Fraud

Along with cyber attacks, investing in an ICO has the risk for fraud. Identity theft is common with initial coin offering ICOs, because if a person’s identity is successfully stolen from outside the United States and their digital currency is taken, it is very unlikely that the authentic owner of the ICO tokens will be able to recover their funds. Unfortunately, once outside of United States jurisdiction, there is not much power over the situation. With the internet and digital space being so large, it allows fraud to happen internationally, and the risk becomes much more real.

Token Risks

When investing in an ICO, you can have ICO tokens. These tokens are based on smart contracts such as Ethereum. The risks of buying these ICO tokens is that they can be stolen, lost, and your online or offline wallet can be hacked just like real world money. Also, when buying ICO tokens, there is no guarantee that you will be able to sell these tokens later. The game of Ethereum ICOs and ICO tokens is a risk you must be willing to take. Make sure you know how to buy an ICO the right way if you do decide to buy the tokens.

BY  MORGAN E. WESTLING 

https://thechain.media/risks-of-investing-in-an-ico

Panic is necessary , because people are worried about their investments . Conditions of the market is not optimistic for a long time . People can not even predict of the future of the markets . I think governments must adopt block chain tech and crypto currencies for trade and further more . So market can rise again .

Well I always go with the sites like foundico ,ico bench,ico mark, coin and also I search bounties here as well as bountysuite and sites where I can found info for solid and trusty websites.

Sometimes we judge books by cover , but some of did really good job . Still like its mentioned in the topic there are really weird  names . I wonder how they come up with them

Well it depends on the way , that you wanna keep your position  . Nothing is predictable in these days , maybe you want to split the risks and you can keep the half and hold on to some of it or you can search and trade it with another coin or altcoin .  Good luck

Here is an article by Jeffrey Tucker is editorial director of the American Institute for Economic Research.

Collectively, ICOs of 2018 have already raised $11,690,981,663 of investments, which is 10 times bigger than the cumulative sum of investments from ICOs of Q1-2 2017. Excluding EOS, the cumulative amount of funding received from ICOs of Q1-2 2018 is 6.4 times bigger than the one of Q1-2 2017.

The total amount raised in the second quarter of 2018 is: $8.4 billion dollars. That doesn’t sound like a dead market to me. It’s true that half the new ICOs in the second quarter were unable to raise more than $100K in funding. But this suggests a downgrade in the quality of listings. That is no surprise to anyone who has watched this sector over several years. A market with virtually no barriers to entry for upstarts is going to attract...well, just about anyone.

It’s for this reason that only 7% of new tokens have managed to obtain listing on established crypto exchanges. But judging by that standard is an extremely high bar. The exchanges are listing thousands of tokens, and even people who obsessively follow this space have to admit that they can no longer keep up with the volume, variety, and frequency of listings.

It’s too much for anyone.

In that same vein, 55% of all ICOS in Q2 2018 failed to complete crowdfunding. But that is only 5% more than the first quarter, and this is in a period of notable pullback in the markets. And also note that there was an 11% increase in the quantity of projects choosing this funding route.

The report further says:

On average, the top projects for Q2 raised 50 million USD. Only 3 mentioned projects attracted all their funds in the course of 1 day. On average, these projects raised their money within 63 days (the average campaign duration time is the same as in Q1, but there is an evident tendency for an increase, at least by 10%). Compared with Q1, the number of projects offering tokens with service characteristics decreased by 24%. The share of projects that offer security tokens decreased by 8%. The number of projects with utility tokens increased by 32%.

What about geography? Despite all the talk of crypto-utopias being set up in far-away lands, North America is still king of the ICO, with 64.7% of all funding attracted. Second is line is the Singapore, then UK, and then Switzerland. Asia showed an increase in funding but a decrease in the number of new projects.

In terms of sheer numbers of business registrations of high-value tokens, the geography is very different: Malta, Gibraltar, and Singapore rank as the top three. “We attribute this to an openness to blockchain projects and the legal changes enacted by financial authorities in Malta and Gibraltar,” says the report.

Keep in mind that all this happened despite true setbacks in the markets as a whole. The median return on tokens in the second quarter was a dismal -55%. The average number of investors per token was 7,871, showing what a truly thin market we are really talking about. The great exceptions to the general pattern were Telegram (a communications platform) and EOS, which sports a new governance model for decentralized applications.

The least successful ICOs were cryptocurrencies. In that sense, Q2 was the quarter of burnout on this asset. We have more than enough monies, markets seem to be saying. The success leaders were service and utility tokens, which is to say protocol assets not designed for monetary exchange but rather assets backed by new services that exist apart from their fundraising potential.

What industries are we talking about? “Following Q1 trends, the most popular industries with the largest number of projects were finance, gaming, and infrastructure. The number of gaming projects doubled compared with Q1.”

In general, the report has vastly more information and detail than any normal person would ever need to evaluate this new sector of financial life. What it all points to is precisely what many of us came to believe in 2017. Something truly spectacular is taking place that could change finance, investment, and entrepreneurial innovation forever.

So why the long faces? It has something to do with the short-term temperament of the investor community as it developed in 2017. This community became addicted to extremely high returns, fast progress, and the belief that everything was changing much sooner rather than later.

History shows a different reality. Railroads in the 19th century had a long and rough start, and the markets were replete with frauds, mishaps, booms and busts, and hence skepticism. The internal combustion engine for tractors took a whole generation to be widely adopted. Internet commerce experienced a spectacular bust in 1999 that traumatized a generation of investors, and we are only now seeing that anti-digital bias fade from people of a certain age.

In the end, crypto markets can’t be about this quarter’s prices, this year’s high-flying coins, or this or that company’s fate. The confidence that one has in crypto traces to a conviction concerning the technology itself and what it can and is doing for the well-being of the human experience.

I head editorial at the American Institute for Economic Research founded in 1933. I've written 8 books and speak regularly worldwide on topics of money, trade, and innovation. Disclosure: yes, I have personal investments in the cryptoasset sector.

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Jeffrey Tucker is editorial director of the American Institute for Economic Research.