BitPanda user here. I got some free PAN from volume of all my previous trades there, so if it's true it starts at 1 cent I have just over 5 euros of PAN. Was actually a really big fan of the exchange, great rates, great speed, great support, but since GDPR they've cut off verification providers and my nationality can't be verified (they outsource verification) so I'm stuck with daily/monthly limits. Not that I meet them, and I only use them to sell Bitcoin and Ether, but it's made me look around for others. Still got the best sell/buy rates for Euro/GBP/USD, though plus free SEPA withdrawals.
The 1 cent (€) will only be the price per token for the start of the trading and afterwards it will
trade for a completely different price when it is obvious how much demand there is.
I suspect they had no other choice, because Bitpanda doesn´t offer orderbooks
like other exchanges where you as the end user can see the bids of other users.
I got it from the start but don't know how they managed to keep the buy order for 1 EURO Cent per token at first, may be they have placed buy order with their own fund and took the risk. Thankfully price is moving up which also can't be verified because there is no any orderbook and not even a statistics to show how many people are buying how much PAN for what price etc.
They haven't exposed their actual pricing policy, how they will justify current massive surge on PAN, I am happy about the price growth as one of the investor but where is transparency. Is there anything stopping them from manipulating the price
You're right to be concerned, not that having an orderbook would make them any less vulnerable to manipulation. I'm always a little cautious with exchange native tokens, probably will follow the pattern of surging like other exchanges have, especially with the market sentiment changing.