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.
If the developer team believes in the project and also the selection of good exchangers, I don't think the developer team should be afraid of dumping from hunters. I think hunters will continue to hold if the project is listed on a trusted exchanger and also has a good partnership with other companies.
Maybe that's not the nature of this bounty hunting job, it will be quickly dumped when the coin got listed inside popular exchange. Hunters will see
that as a good opportunities and they will not hold that long. Each hunters who works to earned are focus if how quick they can convert their assets
there's no need to wait as they will use the money for investment or other things that can let them to benefits from this job.