There is no need for 10 BTC daily trade volume but constant (at least once per hour) trades. Unless traders see constant trading they will not be investing into XCR, that should be clear by now. At this moment, with hundreds of coins out there, you either pay a lot for promotion or you play dirty, anything else won't give you satisfying results.
An idea that developers holding onto a shitload of XCR and not having money for promotion is better than having money for promotion and less coins where those coins are then in hands of someone who might start promoting coin possibly big time because he loaded up nice amount for cheap is hilarious, you and developers are obviously a bad market makers and traders.
Do you read what I wrote?
1) We have funds for marketing and promotion, but not $2200 for CoinTelegraph or $3000 for CoinDesk.
2) If we dump XCR at 800 sats like you suggest we:
- Have to dump 1.2% of ALL XCR there are to get on CT
- Have to dump another 1.6% of ALL XCR there are to get on CD
- Have to dump between 0.03% and 0.27% for every press release we do
That means after 1 month on CT and CD we would lose 37.4% of all foundation XCR. Let it make another month there and a few PRs and the foundation would have 0XCR.
With every XCR less the team would have less incentive to continue.
3) We have to think in months here. We are building consistently, no pump&dump like you suggest. We get covered and promote more and more. It's an accumulation process. You don't build abrand over night with pump and money, you build it over a long time with releases, customer support and consistent news.
4) XCR which were bought by team members in private have nothing to do with the foundation. They are regular investors. For example I buy small sums since the beginning. With every new XCR my incentive to promote Crypti grows, but it's not obligatory for me to dump those XCR to promote Crypti, so the XCR, I then don't have anymore (but you have), are more valuable.

However, we are open to any idea. We will discuss the trading volume within the team at tomorrows board meeting. If you have cost efficient ideas, say them please.

Thank you.