Interesting project, I invested ~1btc, lets see how this works out.
In the real world, everything is about advertising, advertising is big money, but not sure how well would this catch on, hence the risks.
There was a mega dump in the price of AdEx since it hit the exchanges and it went down by 100% in a short period of time and i do think that the team is behind the initial dump rather than the investors or the bounty hunters,there are many advertisement based crowd funds recently and lets see who will reign the market.
^ This does not mean anything, almost every first few tokens of any crypto gets sold on the exchange are hugely different value to when market calms.
Think about ZCash, that was the craziest one of all and with huuuuuuge volume+crazy pricings at the millions of dollars per coin right from the start.
many people got burnt but that's the risk they get for hyping/trading the first bunch of coins on exchange.
A good example of "possible" manipulation on first release is when you have huge volume, not when you have no volume. manipulations dont work with zero volume.
Think of EOS, collaborating with Yunbi and Yunbi has the biggest volume and biggest pump. Very possible that the owners are pumping it with the money that they will get from ICO, that Dan guy is f*cking smart at this shady shit, from bitshares to steemit now on to EOS. look back in the history, same greed tactic shit again and again.
He is getting away with it because his tech is actually good. but he sure is one of the top greedy name in crypto sphere.