Not aimed at any specific project, but have seen a ton of discourse recently on the topic so figured I’d share my take on good token distributions:
1) tokens, not points
2) don’t farm the farmers - teasing and creating ambiguity around a token distribution to grow your numbers is bad behavior. If you don’t know yet, don’t speculate publicly. If you do know but are not ready to share full details, don’t tease them out. Just share real details when ready
3) real liquidity day 1 - low float tokens are malicious and my biggest pet peeve. You don’t need to work with exchanges or market makers. It’s so easy. Just distribute enough tokens publicly that real price discovery happens on DEX. People should start thinking in FDV not mcap when valuing these things
4) don’t create absurdly high token supply to farm people with unit bias, this is also bad behavior
5) don’t be stingy - give a significant amount away. If you don’t think the community deserves a significant amount, don’t release a token
6) don’t market token price - if you tweet about how your token is going to moon or hire influencers, or marketing firms to do so I assume you’re just trying to get rich quick vs build real value
7) keep it simple
8) put real thought and care into your decisions - so you can stand behind them and explain your rationale. Don’t end up in a situation where you’re fighting or apologizing to crypto twitter. Create something you’re proud of and stand behind it
FAIR LAUNCHES ARE DEAD.
These days there is no such thing as a fair launch.
Snipers, people who use bots and are fucking professional at it is who you’re going against when a coin launches.
By literal definition that’s not a fair launch.
They’re not playing by the same rules as you and you will lose money 100% of the time. Stop being completely delusional.
These people will always have an unfair advantage as soon as any coin launches, they’re on the sidelines waiting to crush and destroy a project the second it goes live - I can promise you that.
The greatest possible outcome you can hope for is to have a solid team behind a project who understands this and protects that project and community at all costs - including buying up most of the supply, distributing it overtime and allowing the project to build naturally and flourish with a growing community as the marketcap rises.
These are the projects you want to invest in and get behind.
Not so-called “fair launches” with snipers and bots that are guaranteed to leave you in ruins once the snipers all dump their bags within hours of launch and move on to the next coin they can demolish and make endless money on.
Wake the fuck up and stop being delusional.