If you are talking about the unswapped coins, I assume they're still untouched ... do you have an address where these should be located?
Using them for hiring devs is actually a pretty good idea.
What unswapped coins? Was another swap that i missed or i not follow you. Second, what you suggest, to use my coins to hire devs, and why i would do this? Why to care about if the project will continue developing if i dont have any espers coins left?
Almost 2 years ago there was a swap from Espers 1 to Espers 2, carried out by Cryptocoderz. Not every single ESP1 coin was swapped, so there were a few coins left (about 1 billion) that he could either burn or keep. It was decided to keep it for future use, e.g. for marketing or development expenses, which was publicly explained and agreed on by the community. I'm not exactly sure how much is left at this point, but if it still exists Cryptocoderz could spend it for hiring developers. It hasn't anything to do with your coins.
I know about the swap, I know about ESP1 and ESP2. I was thinking that was another and I have missed it. It looks you know better the project and you are following closely the project, is this right?