I don't think this promotional campaign is anything close to Hashlets which were POW (which required computation power purchased by GAW) and Lifetime contract with the ability to trade the resource. The Ionomy staker that being offered is a Proof of Stake (POS) contract that requires Ionomy to stake the resource and provide a daily earnings at a fixed rate. This staking contract expires in 90 days and the initial investment coin is returned to the investor. The Ionomy business is offering a higher rate of return to compete with the high earnings investors have been making using Masternode.
In simple terms, Ionomy is proving a better earnings (for a short period of time) to sway investors into the well established Ionomy staker program... this is what is called competitive business for the ION investor's money!!!
Get on the train and leave your GAW problems behind....
Not this shit again

Hashlets were not POW... or PO (proof of) anything at all, except Garza's ability to coerce someone into drawing those PNGs.
It was a fucking ponzi scheme as the SEC explains quite eloquently in its lawsuit. And it was based on marketing tricks like that.
Fast forward to 2016, you got ION stakers from some mysterious unknown source being sold for BTC, as a promotion for... what exactly? Or is it yet another round of crowdsourcing? Weren't you shills just recently trying to say that ionomy has been using its ICO funds slowly and wisely and doesn't need any more investments?
Obviously Garza's model has been improved here, you get payouts in ION, which the team has a free supply of.
Edit: if it's not immediately obvious - ionomy stakers are also not POS or proof of anything, you can't lie your way out of this one (although you'll try for sure).
Ionomy makes coins from staking (you refer to these as free coins) the invested coin and from coins (refer by you as free) made from masternodes to cover the staker if it is boosting with Electrons... The rate you receive is variable depending on the current ION block reward rate... Using a Ionomy staker requires no additional resources from the investor and locks the rate of daily earning for 90 days... The investment coin is returned to the investor at completion of the staking contract..
This technique has been in use for a 1 1/2 years with payouts being made daily without any problems noted from the SEC or BCT trolls...