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Also what does ownership of a token actually get you I understand its ownership in the platform itself however what is the value of these tokens and what are the dividend payouts based on, are there fees related to the funds that shareholders will gather or something along those lines? I'm trying to read the whitepaper but I can't find this info so far.

Let's assume in the first year iconomi.performance invests 7000 BTC into icos, with an average return of 4x. That's 21000 BTC profit. ~20% of this profit will be sent to ICN token holders as dividends. 21000 BTC × 0.20 = 4200 BTC dividends

Let's assume the market buys ICN tokens up until the dividends equal 5% APR. 4200 BTC ÷ 0.05 = 84000 BTC market cap

^^^ That's just talking about the iconomi.performance fund. Add in the dividends from the ~2% management fee on the iconomi.index fund, dividends from the fund management platform, dividends from any other funds iconomi may create, speculation, and the fact that the market loves to put money behind innovative ideas with trustworthy/hardworking teams, and this will rise up above Ripple market cap level (400k BTC).

I think the only reason the price is so cheap on liqui right now, is no one is trusting to send their BTC there to buy.

So under that scenario, if I have $1,000 worth of ICN, how much would I receive in dividends. And would that amount change if the market cap was bigger? In other words is what I get in dividends will always be the same percentage to the number of coins I have?

Under that scenario, 4200 BTC ÷ 100,000,000 ICN = 0.000042 BTC in dividends earned per ICN token held (and distributed as ETH). Keep in mind that's not accounting for dividends also earned through the index fund and OFM platform as MoveCrypto has said.

Ok, so it's all independent of the market cap. I'm still learning about this. I'll learn everything little by little.

Yes, there may not be as much of a correlation between dividends and market cap as my example. None of the high market cap cryptos are paying dividends at all, yet they still have a high market cap.

Even a 100k+ BTC market cap crypto like STEEM actually has reverse dividends. Where if you buy the token, you are sending dividends to bloggers.

So dividends may just be the catalyst that adds extra boost to the launch here. Especially when a lot of people are re-investing the dividends back into ICN.