According to a study by the international consulting and auditing company PwC and the Crypto Valley association, 537 ICO projects were held from January to June 2018, totaling $ 13.7 billion. During this period, Telegram ($ 1.7 billion) and EOS ( $ 4.1 billion).
Last year, 552 teams came on the ICO, which received $ 7 billion.
Yes, the progress of the investors' interest is evident, but hardly all those ICOs managed to keep their tokens at least on ICO level - most of them dropped far beyond -50% of the initial value. That's why projects that came in June-August 2018 postponed their token generation events to November-December 2018 or even the first quarter of 2019. The second half of this year showed the worst trading results ever, so the investors have become much more careful when choosing a project to invest into.