Do you use emerging cryptocurrency exchanges? What are your thoughts on trusting these smaller exchanges? Additionally, some of these exchanges host events where we can earn altcoins. What do you think about such events?
I have a local exchange that I use and most times I receive notified on when I made some extra coins in rewards when I do transaction on the chain, some of the rewards value may be low but then their offer such rewards to keep tester and user on the network, and since the exchange have some level of reputation within the people, it help such coins to gain popularity among the exchange users.
So once there is a trust level already established with those exchange, whatever program they bring our should be taken as somewhat support for those projects and to help the general cryptocurrency space to grow.