As ICONOMI first published their whitepaper they said they will pay dividends in form of ETH to their ICN hodlers, but at a certain point they realized that this will make ICNs a security so they switched to buyback method and Jani said that they will give ICN a utility on their DAMP platform (final product).
This means ICN isn't a security anymore it's a utility token now.
As Bigsmoke is active with his moon talk and conjecture, close to an important date, you can probably expect most of his ICN to be sitting on Kraken right now, waiting to dump on your heads

All of my 42 ICN are rdy to get unloaded on ya heads!! Learned it all from you, the best! Mendeleev was once my mentor!