Some of you may heard about KICK token Frozen Drop, where 888,888 KICK was sent to 167,375 addresses (useless locked tokens). I decided to check KICK Ecosystem and their KickEx exchange that is in development at the moment, and to be honest, all this looks a bit dodgy to me. Whenever something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Up until recently KICK tokens were basically worthless, reaching ATL of 0.000044 USD on January 24th this month( down 99.99% since their ICO back in 2017 when they raised 25 million USD). Despite having their Frozen Drop going on since November 26th, there was no change of price, and then suddenly , in the matter of 2 weeks, KICK reached 0.000818 USD , they are still pretty much worthless, but gain is almost 2000% (after reaching that price KICK went down a lot, current price being 0.000266 USD, that is almost 70% decrease in a few days). This is red flag number one for me, as it looks like pump&dump scheme.
Another interesting thing that they have going on is KickRef, referral system with 10 level depth. To me this looks like classic MLM scheme.
SourceTo further hype this referral system and bring new investors, they gave few example how much can people earn from it. Sure, they say that earnings will depend on the activity of your referrals, but this really reminds me of ponzi schemes, where they use similar language and graphics to attract new users.
SourceAs i said in the beginning, they already airdropped KICK to 167,375 addresses, but now they have few other things going on and will continue with it. Since this Frozen Drop was random, now they introduced new mechanic where you can increase your chance of getting KICK tokens through their airdrop by holding 500k KICK. By the end of Frozen Drop, they plan to send 888,888 KICK tokens to
1 million Ethereum addresses.
This is huge amount of tokens , and i don't see how KICK will have any value after this is over.
All these airdropped KICK tokens are locked , and in order to unlock them, first you will have to register on KickEx exchange, go through KYC and then trade on the exchange in order to unlock those tokens. The more you trade, the more KICK tokens you unlock.
Goal of this tactic is to pump the volume of the exchange, and therefore attract new projects and traders.
Another issue with KYC part is that they required from people to go through KYC while their exchange is still in beta stage, and no real trades are possible. Since few days ago this requirement is removed, but still it didn't make much sense at all, and unfortunately, many people gave them their info already.
I would like to hear opinion of others regarding this, and if someone has some additional info. Is this just an aggressive marketing campaign that is trying to profit on people's greed but is completely legit, or there are more things going on here, as for me this is just a way to advertise, pump, and then dump KICK tokens, as i don't remember any legit exchange having this kind of marketing strategy.
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