are you sure about that? ICO is dead?
Yes. Is it, recently, have you seen any startups or projects running an Initial coin offering having some success on their sales? No. You know why? Because people nowadays have better knowledge than the old days.
IEOs are far better since it is a guarantee that a project running an IEO would surely get listed on that specific exchange, regardless of how shitty that exchange is, trading of that tokens would surely happen and it would surely have some value. Of course there's still a chance that the value of the token/coin would decrease but that's entirely out of this discussion.
many larger ones first, such as forkdelta or etherdelta.
Are you seriously suggesting running an IEO on those DEXs? LMAO Have you seen how low their volume is and how easily the prices can be manipulated?
By my experience, only scam and shitty projects tend to do their IEOs on decentralized exchanges.
Why? because they could easily get listed, no background checks, no fees, no accountability from the project team itself and that on its entirety is bad towards any investors.