I have been following the ICO for a long time, and I truly believe it will be worth it in the long haul.

Crypto is such a manipulated trading market, investors are often victims of currency manipulation, and does not have many options to spread their portfolio into more stable assets. Welltrado tackles that problem by connecting 4500+ p2p investment platforms into a single network, making over 1 million investments available to the cryptoworld.

I think it will be great way to hedge, and gain solid returns at the same time.

Okay, that was a very lacklustre response from the ICO founders.

Maybe we should ourselves just review these ICOs, with the above parametres. Could be helpful and quick.?

I would actually never trust an ICO ranking site explicitly.
But I do use them in my evaluation process.

I also tend to grill the team about certain aspects. Because often you'd find a very dumbed down white-paper, because it needs to appeal to the masses. But that doesn't neccesary mean the project is shit.
That's why I use Telegram alot, and ask founders directly.

One of the reasons why I did not put my money in Celsius was actually due to some hard questions. I must say they did one of the best campaigns I have ever seen. So skillfully pumping marketing drivel outthere drowning out everybody with understanding of the economy involved. When I look at Welltrado, they have at least solved some of the problems. Avoiding using crypto as collateral, is certainly a step forward.
However I really don't understand the burning. Also I'd like to see some of the "partner platforms" speak out for Welltrado.

Shamelessly stolen from another thread, I thought that it would be awesome to let the "founders" themselves answer the ICO questions posed by the community.
Here is the incomplete list of good questions from Danna_R:

So ICO founders!! FIRE AWAY!

1. Are they real? - LinkedIn, etc.

2. Independent verification - award-shows etc. Don't matter if they actually win anything. Just that they are outthere.

3. Business model - can it live outside of crypto (CRUCIAL!)

4. Are they "chaaanging the world" - then you are out. get out. I want ICOs that actually happen. Not elephants in space.

5. Does the token model insure that I will make money? Preferably by incorporating burning in the service layers.

6. How is the ICO using blockchain? First. Educate yourself on how the blockchain works, and the current limitations! Often ICOs want to use the Blockchain for an insane amount of transactions. Or put things on the Blockchain which really should not go there.. However it sounds "cool" and "crypto" friendly.

7. I disagree about the apparent consensus that an ICO project should use the Blockchain for something crucial. That seems to be a rule made by crypto-evangelists, not business oriented people.

8. Check if the project is backed by VC. Check if the VCs have legitimate business outside the ICO industry.

9. Don't use xxx amount of social views, xxx amount of Telegram users etc. For anything. ALL the teams hire external marketing. Some of the agencies, if not all,  tampers alot with the numbers, to sell the hype that they promised the ICOs. Don't necessarily let weird numbers weigh much in your decision.

10. Hype is cool. But a good business model, and an idea that can survive outside of crypto because it was born outside crypto, is preferable.

Probably NEO and Eth. Still waiting to see what will happen next week though.

Of course not.
www.welltrado.io was pretty easy for me, because I have been investing in P2P lending platforms while also investing in crypto. Even contacted one of the partners(due diligence) , where I have already invested.

My biggest concern is if they can convince crypto - which let's realize it, is often first time investors, to try something new. I think most of them think investing in a crypto-index is smarter.

Hahahaha. You wish.
Maybe you guys should get better advertisers, I really want this one to succeed!

That's sad!

Not a single under the radar ICO, with some decent awards and ratings under their belt?
Share your wisdom guys!

Hi guys,

So, seeing that the amount of new ICOs are going insane, I am often thinking about which tactics you use to find new prospects?

The new ICOs are spending sick amounts of money on marketing and influencers, and it is becoming hard to distinguish good from bad.

The only real promising under the radar project I have found this month is Welltrado. I base that on a 5.0 rating on ICObench, and a double gold win at d10e. Trustworthy sources in my book.

However I don't want to spend all my allocated money for April on that one project. So guys. Do you know any upcoming ICO projects with great ratings and real-world backing that could be worth a look? I don't give a shit about bitcoin talk  hype. Give me something real, not bought by coin drops and affiliate bullshit!

Hold and wait. Not much else to do right now.

Most of my investments will go into Welltrado. Rest Lendingblock. Still thinking about a few others though

First of all I remember BTCjam, and that was a bitcoin lending platform. Their problem was that they where truly at the bottom of the lending chain. The last place desperate people with awful credit scores would go. That is hardly relatable to this project.

I mean. Welltrado is not even a P2P lending platform. It is a marketplace connecting all the platforms together into an ecosystem.

I have dabbled alot with these types of investments, I have only experienced that a loan didn't pay back, when I got to greedy and was part of loan with 48% return rate. Luckily I didn't invest much in that. Because due diligence, and spreading your money across many loans. Which is exactly what Welltrado.io promises to do

I usually join the telegram channels. But use icoalerts for the rough sorting.

Bit of a jungle out there.

I am somewhat of a sceptic. Very few ICOs catch my eyes these days. Mostly because the core ideas are hopelessly naive. Which is a shame.

I hope that when regulation swoops in, we will all be better off.

My recommendation is Welltrado www.welltrado.io

As a finance professional, this to me, is one of the best ideas to come out of crypto. Anyway Judge for yourself.

It needs to be fee-based if the company needs to employ risk assessment experts etc. Just like Bloomberg doesn't offer this type of service for free.

Any comment from the team?

Diversification. Diversification. Diversification. Diversification. Diversification.
Most important lesson for any investor. So ofcourse!

Well I am a girl

- and I find some of the male commentary here. A bit. heh. Well let's take that talk another day.

I don't think I am better at investing than males are - maybe not so ideological - perhaps? I find many inhere to be truly blind towards what will actually work in a few years time.
Shamelessly buying into whatever new "robot" thing they find.

Patience.

I think it is all well and good that Google / Facebook ends this mad goldrush... Or at least try to curb it a bit.
We need better regulation, and stronger investment safety - and actually I think that is pretty pathetic that is going to privately owned companies like good and facebook that starts this move towards more responsibility.
It is also a strikingly strange thing to happen.

When has those companies ever said no to money, unless it was downright illegal?

Many ICO's are actually trying to solve some real world problems. However they are overfunded to the extreme.
Projects that really only require 1mln, gets 100mln.... At which point they can nothing but fail to deliver on that promise.