Letter from Aggrieved INS Token Holders Following Questionable Actions by Insolar Technologies Inc.
To Whom It May Concern:
Insolar Technologies, a Swiss company with offices/employees in Moscow and New York, raised $40million in cryptocurrencies in a 2017 Initial Coin Offering “ICO.” Originally designed, Insolar was to create an app to “connect consumer goods producers and customers.” However, the app failed to gain traction, and, after researching other options, Insolar chose to use ICO funds to create a highly scalable enterprise solution based blockchain. After two years of development, Insolar was to swap tokens from its ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain to its own native blockchain “XNS.” When it came time for the mainnet XNS launch and token swap, the terms of the token swap were presented to holders and ICO participants.
The terms included expanding and diluting the supply vastly and unfairly prejudicing token holders and ICO participants; self-dealing hundreds of millions of new tokens out of thin air for the benefit of Insolar, a private fund, and enterprise partners while at the same time keeping the original token supply and reserve the team was allotted in the ICO; compelling a 3-year (revised from 5 years) vesting formula on holders who already have been waiting two years at a 90%+ loss; finally, upon revising the vesting formula, Insolar encouraged holders to vest their tokens without giving them clear examples of how such vesting would affect them, giving them a non-linear highly fractional annual return in the swap, which prevented them from making an informed decision. All of this was done in the name of compliance with regulators like the U.S. SEC.
Holders respectfully urge interested parties, including regulators, to examine whether these actions violated securities laws, corporate laws, or other norms of business law in the relevant countries. If interested parties are a Partner or Exchange hosting INS or XNS tokens, holders respectful request these parties consider the actions of Insolar and whether they are congruent with your compliance obligations and business integrity.
The ICO:
The token raise was done as an Ethereum token where 50million ERC-20 Tokens were minted. 60% or 30 million tokens were part of the public sale while the team received 15% as well as a reserve fund of 20%. Finally, earlier advisors received 5%. ICO participants were told “No token creation, minting, or mining after the end of the Token Sale period.” See ICO slide below for more details.