We did not block NMX received from bounty – you can still fully use it to pay for trading commission.
In additional, when we created rules of NMX token distribution, DeFi was not in trends. Times change and we change too.
NMX tokens will be distributed every day in equal parts. And soon after the NMX listing we will integrate mechanism which allow you to stake your locked NMX and get NMX for it, which you will be available to immediately withdraw to another wallet.
So the main purpose of having a bounty campaign for your project was not to promote your exchange but it was to increase your number of users for your exchange...
Now that all who promoted your exchange can only use your token to get some discount on fees you're hoping that some of them would deposit some funds to your exchange and use that instead of whatever exchange they're using right now.
To me this whole thing looks like a big scam attempt and I'm not talking about the fact that they didn't pay bounty hunter but I think these are all just to make more people(bounty hunters) to use their exchange in the hope of getting some benefit out of it and when they get enough users and funds into their exchange they can just exit scam with all the money.