For all of you saying a coin won't do good without ICO you are so wrong ,I have seen many coins that doesn't launch ICO and they perform better than the ICO ones ,do your research very well ,this is even why ICO is the easiest way to scam in crypto space now ,there are many coons with no ICO and they perform better
Yes, ICO is just an option for any crypto. Moreover, ICO is needed when devs are not having enough funds for developing a platform then they go for asking crowd-funding in the name of ICO. But, after ethereum based tokens and its ICOs had changed the purpose of ICO and that must be the reason why someone is asking like why not a crypto without going for ICO. How deeply those eth platform had misled this community 
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