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Thanks for participating in the sale! We changed out DVIP with IDXM, and loaded the IDXM and AURA into the wallets holding DVIP. DVIP has been permanently locked down forever, consider it a badge of honor in your wallet showing that you participated in the sale 

When launching the new IDXM and AURA contracts we launched them on ethereum with the balances already set, this means that instead of minting to one wallet and sending them out we actually minted them specifically with the balances of the wallets that were holding DVIP. This resulted in quite the gas cost savings as there were many less transactions than sending them out one by one. Because we did it that way they will not show up on etherscan/ethplorer until you make a transfer. I contacted them to see if they could get them to show up and their response indicated that they didn't have the manpower to do that. Included in the blogpost from your quote (click the link that I saved in your quote) are instructions to get them to show up in your wallet on MEW, MetaMask, etc. Any wallet that allows you to input custom tokens will work fine, once you have done that you will see them show up.

Please don't hesitate to ask if you have further questions. Thanks again for your participation! We really appreciate it!

Hi everyone, Alex from Aurora/IDEX here, just found this thread so wanted to address a few concerns.

1. The option for private keys is to allow people who so choose to have the best trading experience. Using a private key directly you don't have to sign each transaction so each order is instantaneous. The private key is stored locally encrypted in the browser and deleted every time you log out. For those who have concerns (totally understandable) we integrate with metamask and ledger.
2. Regarding the comment of getting paid to trade, that was the slogan we came up with for our market making rewards program (though I can see how in this space it seems extremely suspicious). Those who trade on IDEX will earn our network token, AURA, proportional to the amount of trading that they do. This token will enable people to run a node to support the future version of our platform and earn a portion of the trade fees for doing so.

Article on our rewards program - https://medium.com/aurora-dao/idex-aurora-decentralized-exchange-rewards-4e092c77affc
Article on our plans for staking - https://medium.com/aurora-dao/the-aura-token-share-in-the-success-of-idex-and-aurora-cf4212ba2e2a

Let us know if you have any other questions, we're experiencing great growth and just recently passed Etherdelta as the number one Ethereum token exchange and the most active smart contract on the Ethereum network!

Bounties will start going out this week and will be paid in IDXM, which is the new DVIP asset. DVIP is what we sold in the sale.

The bounty was originally for DVIP only, the token we sold in the sale, but we had an issue with the fact that DVIP only had 2 decimal places. The plan was to then pay out DVIP to those who had over a 0.01 stake and pay out AURA to the rest. When creating the stakes it seems that it was accidentally put in all AURA due to bad communication on the teams end (the bounty manager did everything correctly). Once the sale ended we locked DVIP for life and replaced it with IDXM. IDXM and DVIP have the exact same benefits, the only changes are a new name and the fact that IDXM has 18 decimal places. By changing DVIP to IDXM we were now able to fulfill the original bounty terms, which was solely for DVIP.

That AURA is going to the growth hacking initiatives. We have been transparent about that from day 1 for anyone who asked in our telegram and in our main thread. Here is a direct link to us answering this months ago - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2215360.msg24756187#msg24756187. Unsold DVIP is burned and the AURA claims are going back into initiatives that help Aurora grow.

The bounty never included the AURA airdrop. It was for DVIP and then fixed such that those with below 0.01 DVIP would get AURA. Then we fixed DVIP (with IDXM) so that everyone could get it.

There was no sale for AURA. They were airdropped after the sale on those who bought DVIP (now IDXM) in the sale. Bounties were for the tokens in the sale (DVIP), we even listed what % of the sale tokens went to the bounty participants.

While I admit that there was a miscommunication from the team that lead to the stakes being listed in AURA (not the bounty manager's fault) the bounty paying out in IDXM is in line with the original terms.

As I said above the original plan was DVIP which meant only those with bigger stakes could be above the 0.01 threshold and AURA for those below. This was miscommunicated into the stakes post and showed up as all AURA. IDXM is now able to meet the original terms which was DVIP for everyone without needing to give our AURA to those below.

You will also notice that what you quoted says "It is equal to %3 of tokens offered in public sale."

The public sale was selling IDXM. AURA was airdropped after the sale. The bounty was for the tokens in the sale.

Yes, bounty participants will be getting IDXM which is the new DVIP. This is in line with the original terms of the bounty, it was only after it ended that it was put as AURA.

What are you trying to do?

Bounties are going out this week!

Per the whitepaper and ANN post this is the breakdown of AURA distribution:

AURA Distribution

50% of AURA tokens will be used to help accelerate adoption of the Aurora network, the other 50% will be used for operations. 40% will be used to help subsidize the growth of Aurora by distributing AURA to users and community members through programs such as market maker rewards, marketing campaigns, and air drops. 10% will be given out proportionally to individuals who purchase IDEX memberships.

Yes, that is exactly the case. The bounty was originally for DVIP, the token we sold in the sale, but we had an issue with the fact that DVIP only had 2 decimal places. The plan was to then pay out DVIP to those who had over a 0.01 stake and pay out AURA to the rest. When creating the stakes it seems that it was accidentally put in all AURA due to bad communication on the teams end (the bounty manager did everything correctly). Once the sale ended we locked DVIP for life and replaced it with IDXM. IDXM and DVIP have the exact same benefits, the only changes are a new name and the fact that IDXM has 18 decimal places. By changed DVIP to IDXM we were now able to fulfill the original bounty terms, which was solely for DVIP.

DVIP is currently trading at 2x the ICO price.

Do not fear, that IDXM you are getting is worth over .86 ether. https://idex.market/eth/idxm

The original bounty terms were for DVIP, which was the token we sold in the sale. We realized that it would not work given that DVIP only supports 2 decimal places. IDXM is the new DVIP and has 18 decimal places, falling in line with the original bounty deal.

Hello everyone, thanks for your participation! The bounty will start going out early this week and will be fully sent out by Friday!

Thanks for being patient with us over this last month. Since EtherDelta was hacked IDEX has seen a massive influx of users that is growing every day. This has lead to a huge strain on our systems and resulted in us working nearly non stop on scaling. We have also been going through hiring more devs, which is taking a lot of manpower as well. Factor into the chaos that from around January 10th until January 24th we were under a massive DDOS that took all of our focus we just haven't had the time to breath and catch up with our other duties.

Now that things are a bit more stable we will be sending out the IDXM this week!

IDXM is the new version of DVIP. Originally the bounty was for DVIP (the token we sold in our sale) but we ran into the issue that the precision of DVIP was only 2 decimals. This meant that those with small bounties would not be able to participate. We have since rebranded DVIP as IDXM, which has 18 decimal places, and will be paying our per the original bounty terms.

Right now 1 full IDXM is trading at over 6 eth per IDXM on IDEX! https://idex.market/eth/idxm

1 full IDXM gives you no trade fees on IDEX until 2021! Hope to see you all trading there with your fee discount.

Thanks again for your participation!

Why not burn what? Trade fees will be paid out to those who stake their AURA, this creates the incentives needed for the system to operate in a fully decentralized fashion. The first iteration of staking will be used to keep a p2p orderbook up to date in real time and the second iteration will be POS mining on our sidechain.

Great! Thanks a lot for your support!

Right now we can handle upwards for 50 trades per second, that is over 5 times what ethereum can do. Once we put work into scaling that number we can get into the millions of trades per second. This requires ethereum to scale as well to match our capabilities.


Trades still require gas fees but we have made gas free cancels. Unlike etherdelta or 0x exchanges which cost about a dollar to cancel your trade our design makes cancels free. This makes running bots much more cost prohibitive on IDEX than our competitors.


Membership token (DVIP) is a crypto membership that comes with free trading on IDEX until 2021 and double AURA rewards (from the rewards program) for life after the free trades runs out. AURA is our utility token that will be used for POS staking our sidechain once IDEX moves from ethereum mainnet to an ethereum sidechain for scaling. AURA token holders will stake our chain and get paid in IDEX trade fees for providing the security to the network. As Aurora expands into decentralized banking the revenue from that venture will also flow back to AURA stakers for running the network.

Each DVIP also comes with 50,000 AURA tokens. So for $3,000 you get free trades on IDEX for 3 years, double AURA rewards for life after that and 50,000 AURA tokens. DVIP works now and AURA will be used for staking as soon as we have our sidechain live. Getting the sidechain live is our main focus after we do a few more minor things to stable out IDEX.

Yup! We're creating a price-stable cryptocurrency called the boreal. Boreals are backed up by debt from loans, ether reserves and acceptance at retailers (starting with IDEX) at the target value regardless of the market rate. The various tools backing boreals will ensure it stays price-stable at the target value. Users will be able to come to the bank and get loans in boreals with interest rates based on their blockchain based credit score. Our goal is to bring decentralized banking to all corners of the world.


0.1% fee for makers and 0.2% fee to takers. Takers also pay the gas fees.


Check out the diagram in our ANN thread. Unlike other ethereum based decentralized exchanges IDEX is a hybrid model that combines the best of both worlds in the form of real time trading (like Binance or Bitfinex) with blockchain custody and settlement of funds (like etherdelta). This means it is as safe as etherdelta with the speed and UX of Binance.

Thanks for your support!