The significance of this sales method is to obtain the fair value view of the overall market in the most equal and easiest way. Looking at it another way, the market can determine the initial price of the token sale. In particular, we observed earlier projects that used the Mango Markets model to establish this point. The drop in project tokens has indeed caused a lot of problems. We observe that the selling pressure in the market is likely to come from earlier investors. Therefore, the selling pressure caused by this model method largely depends on whether someone has a lower acquisition cost than IDO.
Aurory mentioned their views on Mango and Parrot, the following excerpt is from Aurory-IDO Explain:
Mango had 5% of the team’s supply in circulation and 5% available in the IDO (ie for the public). Think about that for a bit. 50% of the circulating supply at token release was held by the team-guess what happened ? The half from the public IDO raised the price, thus creating selling pressure for the remaining half.
Now let’s look at Parrot-Parrot had 2% for VCs and 2% for the team (unlocked during launch) with 10% going to the IDO. That’s a little bit better but still not great since the price nosedived after release from selling pressure . Parrot also had their tokens listed and actively traded on exchanges whilst their auction was still ongoing.
From the price point of view, Mango is considered a success. We guess the reason is that Mango did not sell the tokens to other institutions or venture capitalists in advance. Although 50% of the team holds it, the results did not produce a certain degree of selling pressure on $MNGO.
Parrot $PRT is not so lucky. Perhaps due to the relationship between private equity and team unlocking, the price of the token dropped by more than 70% after the listing.
Of course, we will not know the real reason for the market decline. We can only learn from the lessons, evaluate and learn, and then become better.