We have been coming across thousands of ICO projects here every day and in last 10 years I am sure there would have been at least 100k of projects announced in this forum and did airdrop to bounties to campaigns in last 10 years. As expected more than 95% of them turned scam to shitcoins/tokens still there might be some projects launched their business and surviving.
I am just curious on learning what are the projects announced or did ICO on this forum and entered into real business or at least being traded in exchanges with decent volume for more than 1 year.
In my observation,
1. Litecoin : Oldest altcoin surviving which was announced here.
2. Dogecoin: Had ANN topic here.
3. Ethereum : Did ICO here.
4. Crypto.com : Did ICO and bounties.
If you are aware of any project, please continue this list and let's discuss on why we still run behind altcoins/tokens even after lots of scams.
Probably you are right, Litecoin (LTC) was the first altcoin which was created in 2011 as fork of Bitcoin with similarl features of Bitcoin, that is why it is often called mini Bitcoin, its network is faster with lower transaction fee compared to Bitcoin.. It has been discused many times on Bitcointalk forum regading its technicals and fundamental analyssi but I don't think its bounty campaign was ever launched here.
Ethereum was the first to introduce smart contracts, and its ICO was launched in 2014 as well as its bounty campaign was launched on Bitcointalk forum during its early days.
Dogecoin was not launched through ICO, it was created for fun and pay tips/rewards, and its bounty campaign was launched on Bitcointalk forum, and it has been extenssively discussed here.