I asked this question more than a month ago, it is not clear why Athero continue to post on the forum, create tg group and even send out tokens to the bounty participants, and after that he disappear again. There was also a message about the beta launch at the end of August, but this did not happen and now again complete silence from the Athero account owner.
The developer tried to increase the demand for tokens on the market in the ways you mentioned, but apparently that method did not work so the developer disappeared again.
So don't get your hopes up because this is a scam project
I don't understand what's with the Athero team, if they are really serious about developing this project again then they shouldn't disappear. their words at this time are hard to believe and I also don't really expect this project. the proof so far there is still no update from Athero and indeed this is %100 scam.