We had a marketing service who took 8k from us per " famous endorsement" they lied and scammed us once we found out it was from cameo we were all pissed. Oh we didn't control what anyone said we were lied to and ripped off. But I disagree many companies crypto/non crypto related have had endorsements like that. Also in regards to the partners the web design team was out of asia and they put rubbish like that on there and I told them to take that down and they left it there as "place holders" we are NOT Affiliated in any partnership with those companies. The updated site however does have the real partners.
Fair enough, I guess that could have happened.
Problem is, exactly the same excuse has been used so many times before by a bunch of scam projects each and every time they got caught for something; whether it was incompetent team member who forgot to include reference links in the whitepaper, or simply lazy developer who used placeholder images for team members. Point is, it was always someone else's fault so even if sometimes that's really the (very rare) case and project didn't intend to scam anyone but were victims themselves, no one on this forum will belive it.
I agree with you on that, and I 100% respect you guys trying to clean up the market and set standards. The market has been tough but we have persisted and there have been bumps on the road, but we have kept it moving forward and also are looking into how to dive into the NFT space, and we haven't taken a dime in outside investment.