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Have you ever asked yourself this question?
What happens to unallocated bounty tokens?
There have been several bounty campaigns where some participants do not qualify after being screened, such as those who fail to pass the kyc due to multiple accounts or other reasons, detected bots or cheaters who use other people's details.
Most times, stakes would have been calculated and tokens allocated on the spreadsheet to be submitted for distribution, before the screening process is completed. Which then means that some tokens will be left undistributed.
Where do these tokens then go to?

In my opinion, in order to reward the faithful and sincere hunters, I want to suggest that all the screening should first be completed, before stakes are calculated and prior to allocation of tokens to bounty participants.
So stakes should not be calculated for cheaters.

This is just my opinion, it is opened to discussion.
What do you think?

I totally agree with you on that to enhance rewarding the few ones that do their task diligently but I think the team and bounty manager would prefer the former in order for them to get some free tokens/coins for themselves which I think is unethical hence bounty managers should start having the unbiased interest of bounty hunters at heart

From my experience, undistributed tokens from bounty campaigns were either considered as unsold tokens and burned or they were returned to reserves.

Those tokens should be redistributed to the legit bounty hunters.

I think each team from each project has a different reason, but the reason that often arises when tokens are not shared is due to bad market conditions, and they wait for the right time to share them and enter a stock exchange.

It's better for you to ask the past manager of the campaign that you've been with.

It will be easier for you to find out on where are those undistributed tokens are. But I also doubt it that he will you an answer because its quite a very controversial question to ask if its about the compensation or budget of the project. Although, I believe also in transparency.

sometimes the unshared token will be on the team still, the other team are dividing the tokens, for example for the 10 persons who joined and only 7 who passed the kyc the allocation of the 3 person will be added for the shared token of the 7 person. it is still depends on the team decision.

The token that has already been calculated and then the participant is proven to be cheating, then the token will return to the dev itself, because they have the right to hold it, if for the advice you gave it is clearly good and has been applied to several projects, I agree with your suggestion.

It is not about the right time to share the tokens, but that the tokens should be given to those who have taken their time, effort and resources to promote the project.
Which is why some of these cheater cannot afford to comply with the kyc process, because they know that they will not be able to get tokens on all their cheated accounts.
So the advise given by the OP is a very good one and I believe this should work well in the interest of the diligent bounty participants.

Really? Not sure if the developer had all of the tokens since there will be a dividend amount for the developer itself.

you need not worry about these small amounts of possibly unallocated tokens that remain from the cases you mentioned here. because there are lots of shady stuff going on with all of these "bounty tokens" and majority of the coins distribution is unclear. it is so easy to own the largest amount of the tokens for the creators with fake accounts and then dumping them at best time to crash on you.

In my opinion, if someone is convicted of cheating or dishonest work, his tokens should be distributed among the other campaign participants, in the same way, if this person hadn't registered and participated in the bounty campaign at all.

Correct, mostly if ICO have allocated tokens for bounties and not distributed for some reason, they are usually burned by the projects.

As far as cheating though, those bounty hunters are just wasting their time. They're going to regret because I'm sure that it's difficult to swallow that at the end of all the hard work you've done, you will not received your tokens. Moral lesson, don't cheat and follow the rules.

I think it's all just their excuse not to share gifts and wait for all that to be good, if the tokens they have are of good quality on the market, they need not be afraid to share them with bounty hunters, because I think if there are no hunters, project awards they will never succeed.

Had an experience, that after all what you mentioned, tokens were recalculated in accordance with new stakes.
But it was exceptional case.

Officially tokens must be burned. Unofficially they are spitted between bounty managers and devs (IMHO)  ::)

I think it happen in two different things! if the distribution is done with the team ofcourse the unallocated tokens will stay to them and if the distribution was done from any Bounty marketing company im sure it will stay to them thats why sometimes some unspent or balance token was used again for another round of Bounty. thats only my analogy about the situation.

I think most of the unshared token will be burned but sometime I think it will be give to the bounty manager who manage the bounty campaign. I mostly encounter this kind of situation where there are many tokens left but there are time that the project team will take it and then they will locked it.

It is done intentionally to give out little tokens to bounty participants, they know what they are doing, a good bounty manager would have removed and disqualified undeserving participants before sharing stakes if otherwise then the manager and the team did it to reduce token to be given.

If there is a specific bounty campaign budget, some projects divide it to participants. Others, burn the remaining unclaimed tokens to increase the value of the coin in the market. Somehow I agree with you but again, this solely depends on the team running the project.

They will burn unsold and not distributed tokens. So they will reduce the total circulating tokens and that means higher possible price for 1 token.

I have every experienced it for several times. At this time, we have no choice to make it better. I have participated in some bounties and some of them were scam or even failed. Then, I didn't get the tokens or coins. This is one of the risks that we can face. Therefore, we must have better and more careful strategy in choosing the right bounty.

That is well said by the author. This is why every bounty manager should try as much as possible to remove the cheaters in the cause of the campaign, so that those who actually did the work in the right way, will get their tokens.
Then if the campaign ends and there are still some detected, it will be best for the stakes allocated to the cheaters be removed from the overall total stakes and then go ahead to allocate the tokens.

As to my own opinion
I think what happened to all unshared token is that, it will be burned or even shared among the  teams for a better use of it or probably locked for some certain reason(s).

In my own understanding, for what is happening to unshared bounty token, it goes to the BM in my own opinion.
It is on the jurisdiction of the BM on how are He going to do it. Because the only token that will be burn is the unsold token, not the bounty allocated in the campaign.

The team will keep the tokens by their own if someone can't pass KYC or something even after completing the post require8for getting rewards but when someone don't meet the requirements they can be disqualified from stake calculation.

I often question that and honestly I am very curious about the answer but I think there is actually no right answer because everything can change at any time, so I decided to wait and if it doesn't change anything then I will try to forget it

Most of the campaigns I joined only makes the final computation after the team closed the window for completion of all tasks required to receive bounty. Only then they will distribute tokens according to total stakes of legit participants.

In some campaigns, undistributed tokens goes back to the reserve pool.

Often, such tokens simply burn, but I had occasions when they were distributed among the participants who met all the requirements - and this was my most profitable bounty. I think it is fair.

I have experienced this, so I checked the telegram group to make sure the admin and bounty manager can do their best. the problem is that there are many bounty managers who have not handed over the total stake gained by the participants and I check the announcement when the distribution is done.

unfortunately, every ico/bounty handles it differently. some projects make sure that everything is 100% fair. in other projects, the dev team does not care if you get a few tokens more or less. such teams retain the undisbursed tokens.

That's also what I've learned from most campaign, they allocate every spare tokens as a bonus for those who Excel or who did their job well, and most of the time they just do nothing but to keep those spare and bring it back to the original coin fundings, there's no exact answer I guess but always depends from the team itself.

I believe that unshared bounty tokens usually goes to the bounty managers . It's an easy way to earn additional money and most managers don't miss such an excellent opportunity to earn extra money . Managers are people too and they also need money, nothing personal  ;D

BM has negotiated with his team for manager fees and reward allocation. So the BM has already been paid first by the team, but if a participant is rejected, then the reward will go to BM, which means the manager gets doubled?

Unallocated tokens are usually returned to the team, although this is unfair, because they promised the participants a bounty a certain amount, but in the end - they are deceiving because some of this reward they taken for themselves and thus significantly reduces total bounty pull. There are many such cases of deception.

The fact is that many managers remove some participants from the Bounty company, who have done all the work and have calculated their steaks, in order to take their earnings. I had such a situation with pundi X. I received a negative rating after the end of the bounty of the company, but the manager still did not give me a reward.

I think it is pretty unfair that the whole bounty pool is not distributed to the participants. Normally, the team says that all the remained tokens will be used for further promotional campaigns or they will be burned.

maybe yes for unshared bounty allocation are burned, but few campaign take the unallocation fund for the bounty manager team or the developer team, even they get separate allocation for them

I agree with you on this one because in most cases almost half of the token allocation are left unclaimed die to the failure of the hunters to pass through the different check due to one conditions or the other, and this tokens are not specify where it goes to in my own opinion I think the unclaimed token should be added to the faithful Hunter as a bonus.

Usually it should be burned or transfered to dev fund . I don't see any big deal in this , because usually bounty fund is no more than 5% of total supply . Some projects even got 1% bounty fund allocated . Im just happy that people got chance to participate in such bounty activities and earn tokens / coins :)

Some project developers and bounty managers they give it to the qualified participants. And not all bounty managers do that as some take it back to the developers and probably burned the tokens. But, it's better to split all the unclaimed tokens to the qualified hunters as they managed to meet all requirements and be rewarded by their efforts.

There are many different possibilities that can happen with unshared bounty tokens. The most common thing to do is just to burn the leftover tokens. The team can also keep them for the future and sell them when they feel like, lock the tokens up for a certain time or just use them to have airdrop like events. There are many more, but those were the first ideas that popped into my mind :).

It actually depends on the project involved. Unshared bounties could be channel to other marketing options or could be burnt or given as bonuses to project investors. Also in some cases, could be gathered together and put into another bounty pool as bounty phase 2, 3 or 4 depending on the situation. Some projects could be very generous and distribute the tokens amongst bounty participants.

If unshared bounty token go to bounty managers, then that might make some of them to start cheating. They might always aim at bounty participants not getting g all their tokens. It is possible he creates even fake entries by himself in order to cancel them at the end and direct the tokens to himself.

The OP has actually given good solution. All the tokens should be calculated to favour bounty hunters who are truthful to their work.

I will go with you about the screening and KYC done before tokens are calculated but I also believed that the undistributed token are most at time burnt which a project I participated in did that but also some dubious BM can just keep the tokens for themselves

I wanna  believe this input is one of t best ways to handle this issue well. It's quite cool if this  can be done to reward the faithful and diligent soldiers who have done the work well.

My view is the same. Usually team don't distribute these tokens and nobody will see them. It would be better to distribute the rest of tokens between hard-working bountyhunters. The difference isn't so big but it's our money.

You are very right with that and I have also been worried over such token and also the real allocation in their white paper which in some cases allocating 5% of the total supply but 2% were used for bounty and the remaining 3% were not used but after listing you find out that the total in circulate are not showing that as unsold token but among the total supply which show unfair from developer side as many of them are not trustworthy but used those token as reward for themselves and it is very bad to the industry as a whole.

It is realistic and most useful to all
That these codes are burned because no one actually
deserves them according to the laws of the campaign
This will reduce the supply of goods and thus benefit everyone.
 

In bounty campaigns I participated after the participants get their stakes there is a week or two period for complaints where everybody can raise his issues. After that period the stakes are recalculated according with the changes and there are no remaining stakes or coins, all are split among the participants. What you mention is a problem with KYC participants who do not pass it. Some projects burn the remaining tokens or they go the the reserve funds.

in some cases I see if the bounty uses kyc and there are participants who do not do the kyc their rewards will be in total and some will be distributed to participants who do kyc but there are also those that are stored as their team

I think this is very fair, so I almost don't participate in the settlement of weekly wages in tokens, only participate in the settlement of weekly wages by number of shares, so I can get a higher reward.

Should be based on the terms of the bounty program, but if there are cheaters it's not wise to share it to those who are entitled to receive the bounty since they did not make an effort to earn over what is stipulated in the terms. What I like is just the team should always be transparent so there will be no chaos in the end.

Maybe this indeed could not be known to him. for every manager will have the ways and measures of their own to the token that is not distributed. may be added to the participant could be even. transparency in matters like this that have not been discovered until now and be a secret from the manager that is running.

This kind of thing has been felt by many Bounty participants, which makes everyone disappointed. Tokens are not given for various reasons, even though bounty hunters work on projects 2 to 3 months. Of course, this is not fair if they do not receive tokens because they did not pass KYC. I hope things like this have a better chance going forward.

I should think that the right thing would be that the unshared tokens would be the possession of whoever is holding the token distribution, either the BM or the project company. We should also realize that having the tokens left over may not have com planned. There are cheats everywhere. The social media is a terrible place.

They will burn it but sometimes they keep going but using share system, meaning dividend. Developer know that as risk and they already have solution, burn it and create again. The problem is burn token meaning they not success with the project, people will think twice before join their next project. Become developer is not easy but keep going is more important than burn.

it's depend on project owner, my past experience is most of the campaign unallocated tokens will give back to project owner and used for project development funds, sometimes bounty manager decided recalculated the stakes and give all the tokens as rewards, but bounty allocated tokens only 1-5% of total tokens, so no need to worry too much about that.

you speak bounty who must do KYC, they should be tokens that do not pass KYC must be allocated to participants who have done KYC but it all returns to the team's policy from the project, sometimes they take the token with reasons for future development

Absolutely agree on that, but most of the teams on the project are not transparent enough to tell the community this kind of stuff. They will not re-allocated the rewards for those who are not qualified to do the tasks. But I encountered one project that burned all of the allocated tokens to those who does not qualify.

That's a good example of a good team, they are transparent and they will earn the respect of the investors to that.
A project team should also do things for the best interest of their investors, if what is written in the white paper, it should be followed.
Withholding bounty not distributed will cast doubts to investors, because they are the one who are really concern even in small details.

If my opinion, It is all depends on bounty manager. Before he put all coins/tokens beside of stake, he must count again stake for those who KYC if he plan to do it. So, what reports they give to project's team, already exclude people who not do KYC. And then bounty allocation wouldn't changed.

I have already asked the bounty manager or the official telegram, they did not answer it. even though they distribute it, but this is not fair. for those of us who pass KYC, we should get more tokens than those that do not pass KYC. it should be like that. but they ignore us.

That depends on the developer's decision, some of them are distributing the unsold tokens to the participants while there are others platforms are sending back it to the wallet to be used for the marketing purpose. The rest of platforms are burning it.

Maybe the unshared bounty tokens will be back to the project, or it gets burned because I know some coins do this. The unshared bounty tokens can be a new airdrop to many people so they can get more tokens. Or maybe they will give all of the tokens allocations for the bounty hunters no matter if they get more than before. But if you want to the true answers, maybe you can ask with every dev owner or the teams so that you will know the right answer.

That actually depends on who keeps the bounty tokens are and how the calculation is done. Some bounty tokens can be on escrow, and if they first eliminate the cheaters and do the distribution of the reward in that way, there will be no unshared tokens left behind.

Not distributed according to the idea should be burned, but something can hardly be believed. Most likely, they are sold in the future.

When you got ICO was success and touch hard cap and listed at market with higher price, but you are bounty campaign participants do not received you token, maybe better forget it because the team of bounty campaign manager is fake, I have got one campaign until now never get payment.

That is the issue with untrusted bounty managers or team. Transparency is sometimes an issue when it comes to some ICOs.
There were some projects done in the past, who gave the entire tokens to those who were qualified, but this is mostly done when the project is managed by the team itself.
If the tokens are distributed by the managers, they are likely going to be held back by him, if there are leftovers.

I have long said that KYC is needed by project developers in order to reduce the amount of payments for bounty hunters.
I don’t know where exactly the remaining tokens go, but I’m sure that they are never divided for the remaining bounty hunters who have passed the KYC.

In 2017, most projects counted tokens from the entire bounty pool, regardless of the number of participants in the bounty program.Ie if the signature of the company were 2 people the whole pool passed into their hands.Now this is simply not.If the number of participants is small, then the bounty pool in all different ways either cut or distribute tokens based on the last count of the spreadsheet.I don't know where the team sends Unallocated tokens,but this is clearly not fair to bounty participants.If I believe in the project and advertise it in different ways, why not divide the bounty pool equally?I think it would be logical.

many bounty hunters have difficulties in KYC problems because of various things, so they don't get the proper gift. For some bounty managers it is a gap to cheat because the number of bounties has been set at the beginning. I agree that all screening must be completed first, before bets are calculated to be more transparent

I already participated on multiple bounties and this thing never hits on my mind. You really have a point, they should pass the KYC first before calculating the stakes because there could be a chance that the allocated bounty were being cheated by the bounty manager or the team itself. This should also be clarifies on the OP bounty if they are asking for KYC after the campaign.

It depends on rules. I faced 2 different approaches. In a first case bounty pool is being splitted between all participants and in 2nd case unclaimed tokens remain with founders.
Also unshared bounty tokens can be used for futher bounties

I think it's a very confidential question to ask and in a professional career, you really don't have to ask that to your colleagues.

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But it's good for them if they don't hide a thing from the people, they can freely answer that and tell the people where it really goes. If it goes back to the devs or they are keeping it or they are adding it to the distribution of stakes.

I think it's not important to cheat or not. because cheaters also work hard to get their stakes. they also help the project become more famous as others. The important thing here is that the project now seems to be disdainful of bounty hunters and investors. They do not have any respect for the bounty hunters after the project ends. They may not pay us and may delete our account from the chat channel. That is crazy.  >:(

Yeah, but he was asking about what happens after bounty campaign with undistributed bounty tokens. Most probably this exact amount will be burned but sometimes it is going into dev team funds for marketing and promotion future expenses.

so in General, the idea should be, that is, there is a pool and there is a reward, all who do not pass the KYC do not get anything, but his tokens should get others. And the company first consider the table, and then spend KYC and not paying us they leave the coins themselves, it is very unfair, but the question is how to deal with it???

Back then, when bounty was still very much lucrative, tokens were shared completely among all the qualified participants, unlike these days.
We only have few trustable bounty managers, who would want to be transparent in their dealings.
I have also seen cases where the team wished they do not even pay the bounty participants, such as Envion.
If such do not have any choice, but to pay, they may want some to be left for them to hold back.

unshared token reward for bounty naturally still in dev hand, i also wondering about this since at bounty thread they wrote that token to be shared to all participant and token allocation should be set already in their site, whether it for marketing, project development, token sale and bounty
i agree with you, to prevent people from cheating in bounty program all rule should be set already and screening should take before people start doing their task and not after bounty period end. and stakes for those who cheat in bounty program should be voided so token allocation go to hunter who really sincere in promoting the project.

It seems to me that everything that is not distributed goes to the profit of managers. I don't think they return coins. Well, this is of course just my opinion.

What happens to unshared bounty tokens? That depends on the rules. Every bounty manager has his own rules and deals with ICO teams.
Usually token pool is distributed completely according to the number of stakes. There could be another rule - if we don't have stakes system, tokens can be paid directly, for completed tasks. In this case either this bounty lasts until the pool ends or undistributed tokens are taken by the manager or by the ICO team.

There are different answers to this question
But since the bounty managers usually sends the spreadsheet to the project team for distribution(most cases)
We can assume that unshared bounty tokens are burned

I also think that it would be better to distribute these tokens between the other bounty hunters, who worked well throughout the company. In any case, I think that they are distributed on a good cause. Either in reserve, or the developers will dispose of them as something else for the benefit of the project.

There is no evidence as to whether these tokens are burned by the team of the project or not.
Had it been the evidence of burning is given, then there would have been transparency, but most times, if you ask them, they tend not to give you a clear answer to it.
I am even assuming that, one might be told that if is already written, that the have the right to change rules.

Most crypto projects fail to bring light to the financial data so this kind of speculation arises.

I think so too. Indeed, with the coin not being shared, the manager will certainly get the advantage, so the benefits we should get will not be available to us.

I agree with you, as there are a lot of bounty managers and everyone can do as he wants. I think a General rule needs to be introduced.

And, what can you contribute to this kind of problem? Or what can you suggest to stop this phenomenon?

This is all about how greedy the dev team or lacking some knowledge to continue their project that's why it happens most of the time.

Bounty shouldn't cheat in the first place as what the rules mentioned but some of them are too greedy too and that's their fault.

They just throw away their hard work to nothing because of their greediness.

I don't think it will be burn, cause it's not usually counted on the rules. As long as the bounty manager provide txhash or transaction id allocation history ( stands as evidence ), he can manipulate the unallocated crypto tokens. And its up to him if he keep it or return it to the project it self. ( Sound like extra income and it possible to be greed of course. )

Financial support is probably the main reason for not continuing the project even they are legit( to see). As the market declines a lot of ICO's were failing cause they  can't eventually raise enough money to support for their project and even can't pay for their promoters.
Not to say that they greedy but they are concern of the possibilities of what will happen in the future if there is no huge capital to run with. But it is disappointing that they don't speak to the community of their status and its transparency.

The team will burn the token from the crowdsale only, i meant if there will be token remaining and it will be used for marketing purpose in the future, So many teams were not burning their bounty token if not all of the amounts are being distributed to the campaign.

I am agree. Before distributing the stake, bounty manager should integrating between KYC and KYC approval. Right now, looks reward from unqualified hunters KYC, back to developers team and for development the project.

I totally agree with your suggestion TS to do the screening first before computing the stakes. We are joining a Bounty hoping that we can have maximum compensation that we can have but because of these cheaters, the stakes sometimes divided and what you will get is just a little portion of it. Though some checkers work hard to disqualify proven cheaters before the distribution of stakes but not all checkers are like that.

This is a bad scheme employs by bounty manager, they should first do the KYC screening before the bounty hunters start campaigning and not after so the bounty hunters will not waste his time, this bounty hunters should be tagged for implementing this .

I also supported what you said about stakes not to be calculated before screening process are completed because the failed participant's token ought to be share among the genuine bounty hunters. This is why every bounty hunters must first put the bounty manager experience and reputation into consideration before joining any bounty. However, this why is choose to work iwantapony.

The risk of following a bounty is that we don't get paid, it happens to lots of bounties. In the beginning, we certainly felt interested because there were so many good offers, but many bounties were running away because the developers did not run the projects they had. This is a risk that we can achieve, but if we choose the right project, we can get good results. Choose a bounty that does have the possibility to get success, when the project won the hardcap then we had a great opportunity to reach the bounty with tokens fairly and well.

I think those tokens will be reserved for their team and they will sell it when it has the  high value. They have many reasons for this, we can't interfere with it and hope its price will go up

Agree on this, there are so many tokens who were left undistributed.
Some Team do tell what will happen to those tokens or get another bounty plan.
But some are not and they dont lend time to participants.

I hope to overcome that from the crypto market for the prices of altcoin that are very low, and that happens. That may be different if the previous fluctuations were not so heavy, and I am very sad for that problem  :'(

That's right, it is possible that it is impossible to get rid of it from somewhere and I don't expect it to lose anyone's money, I hope someone can do anything to handle it. Chances are that it is good, but now I only see the bad side from it  :-[

Basicly team keep this amount for own purposes or sometimes burn as unclaimed tokens. In recent  times there are cuts of pools in case of small amount of participants. Bounty management don't respect community and always prolong bounties and cut rewards!

I think if in a project there is a screening of participants who pass KYC, multi accounts, preferably the rest of the tokens are redistributed to participants who are loyal and fulfill all their rules.

this of course depends on who shares the tokens, of course, for most managers submit spreadsheets to the ico team, and most of the ico teams share them. except for a few managers who are given full rights to it.
it's possible that the manager will have the token

Those stakes are also counted for the bounty hunters who are eligible, if not, then developer burns those coins. This is not a matter which we think about. Most of the times, there is a total allocation and those are distributed as per stakes.

Bounty distribution is either done by stakes or tokens.
In the case of stakes, the total application will be shared irrespective of how many hunters  participate in the campaign.
In the case of tokens there will most likely be tokens left that isn't distributed and that will likely return to the team for the project development.

And do see bounty campaign not sharing all the token allocated for the bounty, I think no. They will find a way to solve that since they are most calculate on percent and each campaign share the percentage allocate to them.

Yep. Besides that, unshared bounty tokens can be shared with the bounty management team who are willing to accept payment using token from the related project. CMIIW~

Tokens are not burned, but distributed to other teams. tokens that are burned are unsold tokens.
usually prices will change but now this debate is not important because the bounty even postpones payments or delays exchanges.

And I never thought about this topic, because I participated only in bounty companies, when first they check everything and only then they put the shares and the number of tokens.

Some bounties certainly have their own rules regarding the tokens they will share. If filtering occurs, of course they have a reason to do that. Because more fraudulent bounty users are increasing and participants don't understand what the other participants will overwrite at all. An unallocated bounty token issue might be retrieved by the bounty owner.

This is a very interesting topic to discuss, because it has been my concern since i started discovering bounty campaigns with leftovers.
Sometimes, the determinant might be the agreement between the bounty manager and the team.
If the team of the project hands over the distribution to the bounty manager, then he has all the authority to decide on what to do.
The same thing is also applicable to the team.

Expectations does not mean to happen due to some reasons such us unknown persons behind the project, market turns to red, natural calamities, unwanted result of the campaign. The unshared bounty token would be use for another round or maybe burned. The power to change the rules is in the hands of the admin passed to the hands of manager.

Yes, your opinion is good. which I know the remaining tokens will be burned so that the value of 1 token will be more stable. the existence of regulations will have a positive impact on participants participating in the campaign.

What? those who didn't buy when the ICO phase runs out? Some putted it into the liquidity pool if they are an exchange project and some burns it for fairness and goodness of the project.

The team of the project most times device on what to do to tokens that are not distributed due to one reason or the other.
Sometimes, the tokens are added to those in reserve, which will be used for the growth of the ecosystem, such as using it for more partnerships.
In some situations, they are burnt.
There are times that they are used for more campaigns.

For tokens that are not shared, of course, there are various considerations. As market conditions collapse, shipping costs are still expensive and can even be a project that is fraud. It all depends on how we determine the Bounty project we must be more careful.

From what I know, unshared tokens are always burnt. Heard people talk about bounty managers and the team behind the project  sharing up the left over token.  Presently, can't verify how true that is.

I have ever faced this condition for several times. I didn't get the bounty because missing to pass the KYC progress that needs more than one step. Commonly I have passed the first KYC process, but in fact there was an additional form to fulfill and I missed it. I got nothing after work for 3 months. This is so sad. But i cannot do anything.

Yes, it is not uncommon for us to find such a bounty. Unmarked tokens may be stock for investors. For them, there are certainly many places to allocate these tokens. So let those who handle them know better than us. But if we get cheating in the bounty it is obligatory to criticize.

I don't know why people are concerned about the unshared bounty tokens as long as the manager paid your own tokens in full, trying to probe into in this unshared tokens do not make sense to me, this is left to the discretion of the team to use it for what they like since they have fulfilled their own commitment to you

This is a bit of a gray area and is not ordinarily stipulated in the terms and conditions of each campaign however, most projects that are transparent will either re-allocate the tokens to the approved participants or burn the tokens with the unsold amount but this isn't always the case

That should be the opposite things and a lot of platforms are not transparent for that. They can change it anytime because they have control over all of the bounty funds. Not so many platforms are being transparent in this time.

In my opinion, it would be depends on the team of the project, some project would burned the coins, and another project could just spread the excess coins for another participants, or in another case the team would just add the excess tokens into their fund pool, for future development.

Bounty tokens are part of marketing allocations, they will remain and be used in other cases, maybe unshared token will be used for trading competitions or even for airdrop.
or maybe they will sell it to get funds to be able to list on several exchanges

This is actually a good question and something has to be done about this because after all the kyc and screening off scammers i think all this should be done before allocating tokens to the bounty hunters not after allocation then they start screening, i think the team members just share amongst themselves because have never heard bounty hunters getting more tokens than what has been allocated to them , i know some projects burn unused tokens

I personally prefer projects that are all transparent so we know what to do. However, there are many projects that use KYC and I think that has been delivered since the beginning of the campaign. But it seems unfair to get those who pass the KYC. And tokens that are not given I think will be deleted.

There are cases where no matter the number of participants, there will still be left over tokens.
Take for instance a bounty where tokens are directly awarded, instead of awarding  stakes, which are later calculated to tokens.
Since, it is certain that tokens will remain in this case, then, it is either the team burns the remaining or return back to reserve. It can also be used for other promotional works.

I think it is best that for those unallocated tokens the team should decide to burn them, instead of splitting it and to distribute it to other bounty hunter player. Because it is wise to burn them because they have lower the amount of availability of the token.

Your point there is the bomb. Those who do not qualify should not be given stakes in the first place thereby denying the hardworking ones their hard earned stakes. If on the long run heaters are detected, I suggest the stakes recalculated and added to those who worked hard for it.

I think unshared bounty tokens are saved by the dev team, which some projects later use for promotional purpose while some just used them for themselves, and some even share them with the genuine hunters.

More often managers of projects themselves steal the rest of tokens using fake accounts. They can even steal honestly earned tokens from people who wait for their payments. Most people are disappointed

Often, this process will be completed before the announcement of the final spreadsheet.
Of course at that time the shares were divided equally for the rest.

Usually, bounty-tokens that were not distributed to members of the bounty for any reason - the team leaves in its reserve fund. In other words - the team assigns them and puts it in their own pocket. I have not heard a single case that these tokens were distributed to other participants of the bounty.

In such cases, these tokens must be distributed to honest bounty participants or burned.

It seems to me that in most cases someone appropriates these tokens to themselves)

The idea that TS offers is reasonable and correct, but it will not be interesting to bounty managers and those projects that conduct a bounty campaign on their own. I think the cause is not necessary to write ;D ;)

If tokens all the allocated tokens are truly distributed to honest bounty hunter, it would have been the best and it will go a long way to foster more honesty in bounty.
The issue with some projects is lack of transparency and they most times do not reveal or make known to the public, what will be done with the left over tokens.

there is usually an error from the bounty manager or team of the project so that income from the bounty is not distributed. tokens will be in one of them and this is what we often call fraud.for the time being, not infrequently the project does not provide results from work on bounty hunters but most of them do not get success from the projects they handle.

I honestly have not met a bounty company that first count steaks and the number of tokens, and then instead of sending people these tokens, just cut them.

Burning decision will be fair than distributing among bounty hunters. On some cases bounty participants are not respecting to terms of project and they sell for cheap prices.

Bounty managers should be tagged negatively by DT members if such cases are still actual.

One good idea that I have is to burn the tokens that werent used for bounty rewards. Managers should get only their static reward for their work.

Undistributed tokens are returned to team members and they have the sole discretion on what to do with them, it should also be noted that there may be other bounties even after token sales to promote awareness about the project.They can be put into such use

As a rule, those tokens that are not distributed at the sales stages are burning. Only low-quality projects keep tokens for themselves

It seems to me that, to a greater extent, it is new projects that today have no support in society. Only isolated cases show good results in the cryptocurrency market, And all other coins are unclaimed and are not sold anywhere.

This your suggestion has merits, unfortunately not all bounty managers are honest, many of them intentionally bring in the issue of KYC and screening after they have already calculated all the tokens so that there would be leftover for them because some people are bound to fail.

Processing KYC should be the first thing to comply to trigger earlier those cheaters participants in bounties. If those cheaters have shares of stakes it's very unfair to those hunters doing proper participation with respect the rules, so they should be eliminate in the first place.

And those failed to do KYC, it depends on the team or BM handling the project. Some token was automatic added to other participants or they burned that token.

I think there is no right answer to say. because almost all of them experience this, and those who know the answer are of course the project. because those who do not share the token are the project, so the use of tokens that are not shared must certainly ask the parties concerned

Most likely they would accumulate it and send it split part in all those bounty hunters. I think that is a wise move for the team. But if they only have small portion of the token, they would burn it immediately, they send it on an unknown address and cannot be recovered.

Many bounty managers introduce a KYC check for bounty hunters in order to weed out scams and distribute the reward only between honest members. With this approach, all coins are distributed equally. In my opinion, if there are Unallocated coins, then such a project is unfair.

As far as I know, the team must burn the remaining tokens and this must be made public. If they somehow retain the unshared tokens then something is shady among that team and I would advice to stay away from the project. I encourage everyone who knows about projects who didin't burn the unshared tokens from bounty to post here the details.

Very often we cannot trace where Unallocated tokens disappear. Project managers say they're burned,and in fact, these tokens were distributed to several dozen addresses belonging to managers.We need a clear state control over the ICO.

One of the biggest issues  that most projects team have, is lack of transparency. Although, they own the token and it is their right, but they know very well that if they claim they have the sole right to do whatever they like, the they might not get good support from the community or investors.
I expect that they disclose what they intend doing with all this tokens, so that they can earn more trusts.

They are going to be used for another bounty rounds. But I think that the team members are sharing them within the team. It is only a theory and if the project is really honest, they will burn them to increase the token price.

I think it will be used for promotional projects during other times. Since the token allocation they have written is for marketing, perhaps airdrops are reasonable in most cases that the bounty tokens are not yet allocated.

Everything that i know about unshared bounty reward will be burned to keep the value of the coins high.
There is unlikely that those allocation to be given into the dev's account, cause it could affect the price of the coin itself.

Although im just new in this bitcointalk, but i just read about this significant topic, and i think the unsold tokens would be probably burned, also the unsold tokens would be distributed for an airdrop.

Long ago, i've also wondered about that, but sometimes ago i heard a news from bounty manager that the coins that aren't distributed were burned. So it won't go anywhere, but instead it will be gone forever.

This is a good suggestion but it should be stated on the rules of the ICO, we cannot dictate them on what to do.
Actually this is not an issue if the team are responsible to follow what's written in the rules, investors are looking on these things as well
as they know this unsold tokens still has a value and it could affect the market.

As far as I know, these tokens are burned because they can affect the market, I don't want to think negatively and this must be done by an honest and responsible team.

usually they explained about unsold token in their announcement , whitepaper or in their said.so they will it clearly to their investors, no more ask about team plan about unsold token,

I tried to keep thinking positively, that the team was doing the best for the participants, namely by holding the distribution of tokens until the bull run occurred, and the participants got a much better exchange rate.

we wait until the distribution arrives. indeed it's been a long time, but this is what really happened and when this bear market situation. we think positively that the team holding down distribution to keep the exchange rate good when the bull run occurs.

As far as i know, all the unshared bounty tokens will be considered as the same of the unsold tokens. I believe they would burned up all those tokens after they finish distributing them, that way also a way to prevent the price from falling.

That will not work, how strong their hand to keep the token and that will be useless until they can try to create a cooperation with an exchange which can give them all a huge daily trade volume to attract the more buyers.

Again, that should be the right thing to do if the dev team is honest, burning spare tokens in order to lessen the supplies. From that point,
the volume will be much lesser. Chances for the value to rise follows if the team will succeed. In order to gain more trust and supports, the investors should be aware of these kind of reports.

Any spare tokens, though still in the hands of developers, they have all the capabilities whatever they like to do with it.

Then those allocated tokens will be removed from their stakes and will be put back in total stakes, and will be distributed to remaining participants.

Sorry for bad wording, I don't know how to explain lol

It's the project teams that decide what happens to such tokens but to be fair as you rightly pointed out KYC should be over before tokens are allocated to participants that way those who qualify enjoy the full dividend for their works.

I think it will be considered as unsold tokens as the ICO owners will count all paid bounty tokens and will compare it against the spread sheet. KYC bounty is mandated by the ICO owners and not by the bounty managers therefore the ICO will still can compute and can trace transactions of the paid tokens against their target bounty allocation.

In most cases, unallocated tokens are taken by the project developers.Rarely, but there are times when these coins are distributed to the remaining bounty hunters.

There are two options, the bounty manager never pays to bounty hunters and take the coins to his wallet or the campaign owners never pays to bounty manager and no one gets coins. I had some problem with that, the Sonder ICO never paid to their bounty workers and on telegram channel they made fun of us and unfortunately humiliated us. That was very sad times. Here is the bounty threat: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3111897.msg47456614#msg47456614

i think we have to consider the calculation type that used by bounty manager.if they use fix allocation each week , the token left will return to developers.but if they use stakes type they will distributed token to bounty hunters.

It depends on the strategy of the team. Some return it to the bounty pool to be shared again by the remaining participants. Some include it to reserve tokens for future development of the project and some just include it to the tokens to be burnt. The bounty managers could also keep it to themselves if they are tasked in distributing it, this rarely happens though.