As I have mentioned and this is my personal opinion and not an investment advice, the
Aeternity market cap will melt to $9 million due to management incompetence and ignorance and it means that the
AE token can slump below $0.03. The state where the project is now and lack of communication from the top management and the team leads me to conclusion that something bad happened with funds collected in ICO. The other projects made bigger progress, have better ecosystem and it took them less time than Aeternity team to achieve more in a time they had. Aeternity has no good blockchain explorer yet. Just compare everything with a new kid in a block(chain) - Polkadot.
Today I will let you compare Polkadot Treasure to Aeternity BRI. Polkadot created their treasury to be transparent and governed by token holders. It will engage community of token holders to decide what projects and directions they want to fund and it will engage development teams to compete for these funds:
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https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/en/learn-treasury-
https://polkadot.network/writing-history-the-first-teams-submit-their-proposal-to-the-polkadot-treasury-2/Aeternity is not transparent how funds are spent. The top management made a huge mistake regarding inflation and tried to fix it by grabbing some part of mining reward to BRI. But they haven't gave a community a tool to manage and control that funds. This shows that the community doesn't trust them. 10% of mining rewards goes to BRI and I was against the initiative as the management haven't show that they are credible to manage the funds. On the other hands it could be a lot more, than 10% and I think even 30% or 40% if the will do it how Polkadot did. But the community didn't want these money to be defrauded in an not transparent funding processes. If Aeternity community was given the promise that the funds will be managed by community itself (token holders), I would advocate to cut mining rewards by even 50% to decrease inflation and build the community managed treasure.
Aeternity has a huge problem with trust to this project and there are a lot of speculation were the money went. Because as you can see, with the money collected, the progress should be 100x bigger. And the price reflects that.
Aeternity after so many years and millions of dollars collected still has no blockchain explorer that can interact with contracts.
After so many years, the top management transparency is tragic. Money management is not open and transparent. In contrast the Polkadot is using their blockchain platform to make processes transparent, engage community how the funds are spent and were the money goes. They communicate well to the community and report to it. That build trust, credibility, community of investors, believers and developers. Aeternity can't compete with that. It is not and can't be a top project. Something is fishy and smells bad with the project when you compare it.
There will be more examples to show how Aeternity management compromised the project in comparison to the other projects:- communication of Polkadot team vs Aeternity team (check Twitter, YouTube, blog posts, forum responsiveness)
- governance and power of community:
https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/ vs
https://superhero.com. In short Aeternity doesn't support token holders, developers and investors and decided to pay "aembassadors" proxies to engage them instead which is ineffective. Polkadot gave the power to the community and supported them by tools (dapps) build on its blockchain, used attractive staking and burning policies, voting and governance (proposals and referenda), forums to create an amazing community of token holders, developers and investors in no time. The Polkadot
https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/ is focused on development of the platform, this is in contrast to Aeternity
https://superhero.com/ which tried to be a more general "Twitter" platform with voting in which almost nobody participate.
https://superhero.com/ is not solely focused to support Aeternity and that is not a purpose of it. Polkadot have a strong strategy, Aeternity tries to do something but the incompetence is more than acceptable and everything looks so cheap, below any standards. By these actions, the Aeternity development and ecosystem is centralized and in decay, while the Polkadot's is decentralizing, in rise and flourish.
- funds transparency: Lisk and Aion quarterly reports vs no reporting from Aeternity
Due to incompetence in management and shortcomings in vision of Yanislav Malahov and Nikola Stojanow, the Aeternity is stagnating while the other projects are making enormous progress. Stay tuned.