Bitcoin Forum

If a project is unable to reach their soft cap will they pay participants their reward for bounty activities.

Depends. But most of the time, if a project turned out to be a total mess, resulting in failure to reach the soft cap, the project wouldn't push through and rewards wouldn't be distributedn, also have refunds to those who had invested on it (ethically speaking). For real situation scenarios, if the project turned out to be a scam, devs would most likely keep the funds for themselves and run away with it.

There will also be tokens, but most of them will fail. If you don't even get a bonnet, this is a bad project. It's not a good project to invest in.

I had with that bounty not reaching the softcap and it just turns into a total waste of time and effort.

Once I participated in ICO, which was connected with agriculture. They did not collect Soft Cap. But the project wasn't fraudulent. They returned my Ether after the end of the unsuccessful ICO. In the same project, there was an airdrop. I checked there too. Of course, no tokens were sent to me, as they were not. Since they mostly pay tokens of the project itself for participation in the bounty. That, of course, you will not be paid, unfortunately.
However, if the project is fraudulent. Then, developers don't pay for the bounty & don't return money to investors either.

I did baunty in which every week paid coins, this coins came to my wallet, but this project didn’t collect anything and their coins turned into garbage. One more project could not gather CAP, but they paid in ETH for every week. So situations can be different.

its depends on their team
because, if they continue the development without enough funds, that same as run a car without gasoline,
but, if the team have another plan with their project, i think they will pay for your support
maybe they will run an airdrop, etc

Lately, I heard of a project that had similar challenges with this you just mention and I heard the Dev Team had to return fund back to their contributors and they all went smoothly in peace while they had zero worries.

It depends from project to project. Some pay even if they don't hit their soft cap and some don't. You can ask them on their Telegram channel on what is their official statement about that. Sure, they could not tell you the truth, but you could at least get some feeling about it.

Not a lot of them do. Mostly when a project don't reach their soft cap, they stop the project completely and start working on refunding the investors who invested in the project which means that the project is then discontinued so even if they did pay you the tokens that you are owed, they would be useless because you couldn't sell them anywhere.

Depending on the project. if the platform proceed to run the project then bounty it will be paid, if they choose to stop the project then investor funds will be refunded and bounty will not be paid.

As it is the wish of every ICO to make their projects reach at least softcap but if unfortunately it could not, that brings the end of such project and no reward is expected afterwards.

no mate. Mostly when the team could not manage to reach the soft cap they simply postponed the ICO and make a second plan to make it better. But sometimes such kind of outcome can not give a good impact to the investors who are seeking an ICO to invest.

I dont usually participate with bounty campaigns because im not interested with new coins that still not listed on any exchanges. But just think if your project doesnt reach the minimum cap that you need to fund your project then the project has no chance to continue so what is the point of releasing those tokens if the project will no longer have a development or future goal? So as a participant on that bounty will you still accept it if you already know that they will not continue? Of course not because it will worth nothing because there will be no exchanges that will want to list it.

There are different options in this case. If you did not achieve the soft cap you most likely will not be paid, but there are cases when payments on the bounty are still being made, but the tokens will hardly cost anything.

If the project decided to not refund investors money and continue with the development even tho Softcap not reached, then the bounty rewards should be rewarded to all participants. On the other hand  if the project refunded investors money and decided to not continue the development of the project then no bounty should be paid because you will getting a useless not usable Tokens anyway  ( Tokens without investors and without development ) .

I think if a project does not reach the soft cap then they are bound to refund the investors so they have no funds to pay bounty hunters, the only way out is to reduce soft cap so that project can continue and bounty will be paid.

I doubt that. It is illogical and counterproductive at the same time. Even if they give you any tokens, they can not start their project because of lack of funds. Would they have any value? I do not think so. As bounty hunters, we must admit sometimes we will not be rewarded for our effort. Unfortunately, even the best-looking projects can fail even before they had a chance to make some noise.

Usually not.  I would love to see a bounty manager hold a fraction of the tokens for each successful bounty as bank to pull from in the case of a flop given all the hard work.  I think the stability will be appealing
 

It will not as the softcap of a project is the minimum requirement for an ICO to start the project which in return will be the basis of the price of the tokens of the project. That is why evaluating the ICO and its bounty is essential and looking for red flags should always be your priority when choosing.

Of course yes that's the benefit of the participants get the reward from bounty as bounty hunter's and wait until the rewards have value in the market cap
holding the reward for long term the tokens or coins came the project become valuable in the future to earn profits as participant.

You can't expect this to be possible because softcap target is the minimum amount needed to launch the project and if the softcap isn't reach, project cannot be carried out and most of the investor will be refunded,
Definitely nothing for bounty hunter.

Unfortunately, there aren't any tokens that will be distributed if a project is unable to reach their soft cap because investor's money would be refunded and the project wouldn't have anything to pay bounty participants. That's why some bounty hunters carefully analyze a project first before joining into it since their effort would be wasted if ever the project didn't reach softcap.

It depends, if they willingnto continue the project they will pay however if they are not willing then they will not and ofcourse they will return all the investment garnered during the ICO. If they pay you must dump it fast because that coin has no future.

Based on experience the project that was not able to reach soft cap will not reward bounty tokens. This is a fail ICO, they usually return the money of investors and no reward for the bounty hunters. But I think there are some bounty that the marketing fee is fixed and regardless what happen to the project, it will be paid. But as I said, base on my experience, I work for that bounty for 3 months but it fails to reached soft cap, then sorry for all of us. The good thing is, I was able to upgrade my rank because of this bounty from a Jr. Member to Full member.

I think it depends on the project team. However, based on my observations most of the projects that did not reach softcap did not pay bounty participants because the project failed.

It's simple. If a project didn't reach soft cap. They wont pay reward for bounties, because the project is a failure already and there's no point giving out a useless token. Failed projects that are not scam will return the ETH contributed while the con artists will simply disappear with your funds

Base on my experience they won't pay us because there is no money that they get in their icos. I had join several bounties and some of them don't pay because they don't reach soft cap but i'm lucky because they return my investment. The only thing that wasted is my time and effort.

They don't. Even if they do, the tokens would have no value.
The Soft cap is the minimum amount of money they need to raise for the project.
If not reached, they'll return any investment made. And the bounty campaigners will get nothing.

It depends on the allocation for the bounty. If it is in percentage, they will pay equivalent of your work. But if is in tokens, some will pay and won't pay because they didn't meet their Hardcap.

Usually no, because its considered the entire project is scrapped, but theres exceptions. Still its not a good thing for bounty hunters either way, doesnt reach soft caps with theres not much fund invested and theres no sufficient value to pay bounty hunters as much as promised earlier, it could be just in dollars which I had been recieved few times already.

based on other experience about that if the ICO never reach the soft cap the company and the team will decided to stop their ICO project and to those who invest in first stage they will refund the money that they get so obviously they never pay reward of all the bounty participants.

Projects that do not reach the soft cap, the project fails. So the prize participants will not get paid and usually the funds for investors will be returned.

No, if don't reach the soft cap, usually the ICO has failed. Even if he sends you coin, it has no value.

I experience that situation right now, until today there is no distribution of tokens and there is no update regarding the project. That's why i totally considered it a scam project.  It is totally waste of time and effort.

Mostly, when an ICO doesn't reach the softcap and they don't extend the projects (refund the investor money), the bounty hunters will not get the rewards. It is of course, all parties in the not softcap projects will not get any payment including the developer, bounty team, and all bounty participants.

I believe there's no such action from the team because we are just a bounty participants and our payment is dependent being dependent from the success of the ICO.

If the project doesn't reach the soft-cap, then that means that the ICO has failed. Even if the bounty manager distributes the tokens to the participants, it will be of no value. You will get the tokens in your wallet, but they can't be sold anywhere.

I don't think so. If they don't raise enough money, most of the time they will give up the project.
The reward thread you participate in will not receive any bounty.

I've followed a bounty campaign with softcap that was not achieved. and I did'nt get paid from it. it becomes a learning for me in order to better in choosing a project that legit in the future. and as far as I know if the softcap is not achieved then the bounty hunter will not receive payment.

based on that I experienced no payment for it. ICO does not reach soft cap means unable to walk or stop. so, of course, there will be no funds either to continue or to pay for the bounty. so if you choose the safest bounty is indeed looking almost or has reached the soft cap so obvious paid or not.

If a project does not reach the soft hat, then it is a very failed project, they will not give the reward, even if the token is issued, there is no value. So don't waste time on a bad project.

No bounty reward will be given to those bounty hunters as the developer will not continue the said project and they will the funds of the investors. Better choose a good bounty that can collect enough funds for better reward.

after the ICOs it did not reach soft cap the project will be stop and the investment will be returned to investor. you will not be paid even you completed the task given. the project can be considered a failure.

No, particularly, the participants of the bounty programs will not accept the payment fro their working if the project itself doesn't meet the softcap. Not only the bounty participant, but also all teams in the ICO will not get the payment for this work. It means that the projects fails and it becomes our risks to accept.

Im afraid no. When a project did not reached the softcap, they usually will refund the money to the investors. When they refund those money to investors, how could you expect to get paid?? however, it usually noted on their whitepaper, whether they will refund or not if softcap didn't reached.