I think the free VAL giveaway is stopped and that's a positive news for the coin.
Actually free coins ruined the market totally. Hope it will revive soon. The dogecoin exchange price has increased a bit but still there is no buyer in bitcoin.
Hope people will understand and stop selling VAL at 1 satoshi.
If people cant do anything about the coin then all they have do to is sell it rather than keeping it,just look at how many coins has been distributed for free.