The common denominator for NVO and Xenio is nemgun. This self admitted sociopath weaseled his way into a founders position at NVO by helping Ton out for free before the NVO ICO. Ton is probably wishing he never met nemgun at this very moment(Ton is no "Angel" either). nemgun also tried the same tactic with Enjin Coin but was rejected by the founders. This stuff is not pretty with nemgun resorting to death threats and other unsavory behavior. He called David Irvine from Maidsafe a C**t. I do not know much about Maidsafe as I am new to Crypto. However, with my limited understanding, I feel this kind of thing was not warranted. I have proof and working links for all of this. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.

I was trying to figure out how these guys are going to scam everyone with escrows in place. Then I found this from nemgun himself.

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"..the problem isn't about the escrow it self, because yes, the escrows are trusted, but when they release the funds, these escrows are no longer responsible for their usage. There happens the scam. What ever you say, an escrow never engages his reputation in a project, he is just a middle man holding funds for a short time."
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It would seem "Over-capitalization" is the plan. Raise way more than you need. Complete the mile-stones with minimum expenditure. Escrows are obliged to pay out. Make off with most of the funds raised. People can't even call you a scammer because you delivered a working product. It's not your fault if the DEX is hard to use and nobody wants to use it, right?

Kind of villianly clever when you think about it.