Most Successful ICOs of 2018 So Far

According to CoinSchedule, ICOs raised almost $7.8 billion during the first few months of 2018.

So who are the most successful ICOs of 2018 so far? Defining "Success" in ICOs is tricky.

Is it raising the most money? Developing the most loyal user base? Building the best product? Here are a few companies who have met different metrics for success in the 2018 ICO market so far.

Telegram raised $1.7 billion through its two private pre-sales, making it the largest ICO ever.

Telegram's ICO has been the subject of hype and worry - private buyers have already begun flipping their SAFT allocations for Telegram's TON Tokens on private exchanges, raising concerns about a speculative bubble.

Telegram was a world-record-breaking ICO, but even without Telegram, 2018 would have been a record-breaking year.

That's thanks in part to the ICO Dragon Coin, which raised $320 million.

Mobius didn't raise hundreds of millions, but they did make an impressive accomplishment: their ICO hit their hard cap and raised $39 million in only two hours.

Mobius instead plans to rely on Stellar, signaling what CoinDesk reporter Brady Tales calls "The growing interest in some corners of the crypto community for faster and cheaper payment rails as Ethereum, like bBitcoin, struggles to scale." Mobius is by far Stellar's largest ICO to date.

Though the ICO world is theoretically about platform utility, any crypto trader will tell you it's also about ROI. According to the Its Blockchain Blog, Ontology generated the highest ROI for ICOs during the first quarter of 2018.