$715 mln raised total, 51% closed sale report rate Market overview 400+ ICO data analyzed by one of top listing platforms . $714 mln raised in July, twice less than in June. A clear delayed effect of the summer decrease in investors’ activity due to vacation season. ICO Bazaar Source: coinschedule.com Most successful projects of the month are with $50 mln raised, with $30 mln raised, with $24,5 mln raised. Online Sparkster Essentia In July we didn’t have any of those extremely successful ICO projects with billions of funds raised (comparing with El Petro ICO in February, in May and finally closed at the beginning of June). Telegram ICO EOS Top ICO by funds raised in June ICO token sale disclosure rate In July (241 out of 472). This result differs from June (30%) and May (46%). 51% of projects officially closed their ICO as they planned — closed with disclosure 24% — closed without info 27% — prolonged ICO 18% — no report 31% June so far was a month with the least amount of open information, . Despite the significant reduction in the accumulated token sale results, (26% higher than in June). Comparing the number of announced token sale endings, the difference would be 17% higher in July. — 241 vs 112. more than 44% of ICO did not publish information about their plans and did not appear in the calculations the number of launching projects remains quite high Actual token sale end rate in July is twice higher than in June Source: ICOBazaar.com 50% of both start and end dates were postponed. The chart below shows that the beginning of the month is usually an attractive start date. The same works for the last date of a month and the end date (and also similar to ). Only half of ICO planned for summer actually did start and end token sales. June market insights Hardcaps the projects that ended in July did not differ much from the June projects. Still, there is . For example, the in May was about $1.2 mln, $3.9 mln in June and . a trend for more ambitious hardcaps average ICO goal $4.2 mln in July Source: ICOBazaar.com ICObazaar rating — higher results in July In July the number of projects with a rating score below 3 points decreased by 22%, while the number of strong medium projects with a score below 4 points increased by 76%. The number of top-rated ICO also decreased by 30%. Source: ICOBazaar.com What is behind the rating? In general, the growth of ICO number rated from 4 to 4,4 points was due stronger technological side of the project. The weakest point for many projects during the last 3 months is media. Often the result of the initial idea evaluation is below the final average rating. Top-5 projects rated in July Top ICO categories Most popular ICO categories in July (the same as in June) were of all projects. Then goes Smart Contract, Infrastructure and “Trading & Investing with 13,9%. comparing to June. Other (+355%), (+173%), (+264%) Platform, Cryptocurrency and Business services — 39% Smart contract category gained +23% increase growing categories: Retail Real estate Travel & Tourism All : “Cryptocurrency”, “Business services”, “Trading & Investing”, “Software”, “Internet”, “Infrastructure”, “Events & Entertainment” together lost 17% from the June result. most popular categories showed slight decrease ICO by categories July vs. June What to expect We see that in July the amount of launched projects slightly raised but the number of funds raised decreased drastically. This can be explained by the fact that not all projects have yet reported on the conducted IСO, and in the next cycle, these results will be updated. In August, we expect an increase in the number of projects, but the funds will remain at a low level. A significant increase in fees can be expected in the autumn when investors return to active work. Top-20 public ICOs ended in June 2018 by amount raised Check out ICObazaar for more updates on ICO market. Telegram channel
