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IEO market analysis – April 2018
Regretfully, none f the five IEO projects from UK and UAE has not raised any funds. According to the statistics, IEOs on Binance Launchpad has raised the highest number of funds ($79 million), but at the same ime Exmarkets Launchpad is most popular launchpad for IEOs where 11 projects chose this launchpad.
- Thus, trust and security make IEO projects more attractive among the crowdfunding platforms.
- The IEO model was spearheaded by Binance, whose token sale platform Launchpad hosted a high-profile token sale for the Tronbased BitTorrent token (BTT) this January.
- According to the CEO of Binance, exchange-hosted token offerings are no less subject to regulatory hurdles than their initial coin offering (ICO) predecessors.
IEO Statistics
- $266 million has raised by 42 ended IEOs so far
- IEOs on Binance Launchpad has raised the highest number of funds ($79 million)
- There are already 60+ IEO projects listed on ICObench
- 6 projects have raised the most funds ($182.9 million)
- Exmarkets Launchpad is most popular launchpad for IEOs (11 projects chose this launchpad)
- 3.6 is the average rating for IEO projects listed on ICObench
- $180 million has raised by 23 IEOs since February
- Singapore and Hong Kong have collected almost a half of total amount of funds raised by all IEOs ($124.5m)
Market Overview (H1 2019)
- Total IEOs in H1 2019 - 72 projects
- Total Amount Raised - $262 million
- Average Amount Raised - $3.7 million
- First IEO in 2019 - Bittorrent on Binance Launchpad. Raised $7.2 million in 14 minutes
- Binance started the IEO frenzy with Bittorrent in Jan 2019. Shortly thereafter, many other exchanges began launching their own IEO platforms as well.
- IEO projects seem to have a ceiling of $20 million in amount raised.
- Only 5 projects raised more than $10 million via IEO. They represent 31% of amount raised in H1 2019.
- While only 50% of IEOs are profitable, you would still see a gain of 44% if you managed to buy all IEOs.