We are considering granting free Verium to VRC holders. Our idea right now, though not set in stone is:

At the end of the ICO, the top 250 VRC addresses in terms of balance at that time and having had staked at least one block in month preceding the ICO end date will receive 1 VRM per 500 VRC with no partial VRM for between 0-500 VRC. For example, if you have 20,000 VRC, you would get 40 VRM. If you had 20,499 VRC you would still only get 40 VRM. Your VRC private key would be able to redeem the VRM by importing it to your wallet. If you keep your money on an exchange you would get nothing.

This will reward VRC stakers who are contributing to the security of VeriCoin. It will also help VRM gain some early adopters. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement, one of many in the Veri ecosystem.

What does everyone think of this idea? We have not made any decisions yet, but this will definitely play into it.

In addition to this, as effectsToCause mentioned earlier, we have proposed taking 50% of the ICO funds and donating it to our VeriFund endowment: VFEndownxxnHea9mv59kZx8c7TysGbndYx. This address is only going to be used to stake perpetually. No donated coins will be used for funding anything. Only interest made off staking will ever be used to fund and support VeriCoin. Consider it a staking burn address where you know your donation will never help reduce the price of VRC.

Please comment with your take on our ideas for the VRM introduction and swap.

Basically:
Be in the top 250 list of VRC Addresses: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vrc/#!rich
Stake your coins regularly
Get free Verium