The fear of dumping often makes the project team fear or avoid the payment of hunters until sometimes after the exchange listing. I wonder why the team make themselves restless on an easy thing like that when they can easily conduct their bounty with bitcoin or ethereum for payment. That will safe them of the fear that the bounty hunter will dump after the exchange listing.
Is not that easy for them to pay btc or in ethereum if their project run only if it have investors. a lot of projects now, dont have sufecient funds and they rely on a free listings and free advertisements of new sites. all good projects are not afraid or have fear of dumping, they have fear if they can't fool investors and they are already working hard for their fake project.
Let's always sympathize the situation, projects are finding fund for their investment to run and we are all aware of that and they wanted their tokens to be utilize and for this to be known worldwide, so why they are going to pay for Btc, or any other stable coin/altcoins right, it doesn't make sense at all, what they need to do is to have the right strategy to minimize dumping.