Safe bet is to go for one of the big ICOs (maybe at least 1 million$ worth of interest) with big names behind the project. That way it is much more likely that you will have a good project and no dodgy business happens.
Do you know any big ICOs going on in the US?
You sound like a SEC/FED employee looking for someone based in the USA not playing by the rules. Nice try.
haha! I think my OP was a pretty well-laid out argument for why I'm interested in American ICOs. Like I said, I want to invest in the new Google, not some fly-by-night operation. It's just a lot harder to trust projects coming out of countries with no track record of success in the tech field. It's not a coincidence that Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, etc etc are all American. Chinese ICOs could be interesting, too, but China is even tougher on ICOs than the US. Maybe a topic for another thread.
Idk if this thread confirms my suspicions, but it does seem like the US is falling behind in terms of blockchain development. I'll have to check out graft.network, and of course, Qchain.