Can't say Im surprised, anytime there is a massive delay, the writing is usually on the wall.
I guess monaize has zero interest in a fair "whale proof" distribution and will simply release the old fashioned way of, oops we sold out in 30 seconds now buy from the whale at 10x the price.
Too bad barterdex can't limit what coins can be exchanged for other coins. In this scenario monaize could issue a temporary trading coin on their platform that would then be used to obtain monaize coin on barterdex in a very fair distribution manner.
Well, I hope atleast monaize paid komodo team for all the help setting up their business plan.
I'm not much surprised either, but they should have communicated better during this time.
I'm happy they will continue to experiment with Komodo for their banking and blockchain stuff, there could be some interesting applications born out of it, especially after Komodo gets smart contracts.
I also hope they have plans for fiat gateway to crypto
Actually after thinking about this, the barterdex as is would still provide a perfectly fair distribution model. An ico, monaize in this example, can still follow AML and vet their investors. Sell them a temp ico token with offer to redeem unspent tokens. Then use barterdex to trade for monaize ico tokens. The barterdex orderbook will have already been populated with temp token/ monaize utxo pairs. Only vetted investors will have the temp tokens so nobody else can buy as temp/ monaize pair is the only market. Monaize mentioned that they will still trade on barterdex so once an investor gets his monaize they are free to create their own pair.
End result is a fair distribution that is instantly tradeable on barterdex.