Quote from: BartS on July 27, 2018, 04:46:02 PM

Quote from: Heavens90 on July 16, 2018, 10:43:48 AM

Hi,

I've been reading about the strategy ICOs use for unsold tokens in case they do not reach their hard cap.

As far as I understand, there are a few options to be used for this scenario.

1) Unsold tokens are burned - the most common option used by ICOs. If tokens are burnt, token holders share will increase, therefore its price.

2) Unsold tokens are not burned - founders keep them. It's not a good option at the eyes of the token holders. It can be used as a personal interest.

3) Unsold tokens are airdropped - A few ICOs (eg. FundFantasy) used this strategy. As far as they see it, the token price will be decreased but will be readjusted because people will use it.

I'm not aware of any more alternatives to those three. What are your thoughts? Would you use option 1 or go for the other two options? Would you come up with another possibility?

Thank you very much.

In my opinion a better strategy is to redistribute the rest of the tokens in proportion to the amount invested in the project, if the icos instead of trying to set a fixed price for their tokens decided from the very beginning that they will distribute all the tokens independently of the amount of money they raised then they will not have any need to use any of the methods that you describe above, but there are very few icos that have followed the method of distribution that I describe.

I think it depends on the commitment of devs. from the beginning, but mostly devs. use the burned option to make the token amount not excessive and still valuable.