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**INTRODUCTION** 
We've all seen it happen in the past couple of weeks, lots of ethereum has been pumped into several initial coin offerings such as Bancor, SONM, status and many more.  Most of these "start-ups" are just paper companies that don't even have a working product.  Besides that we don't even know whether these companies will actually add value to our economy in the long term meaning that most of them probably won't even exist anymore in just a couple of years. But what will happen with the loads of ethereum that has been invested in those companies? 

**THE PROBLEM**
These funds need to be liquidated or swapped for other tokens/crypto's at some point in time to fund the projects meaning that they will have to flood the market with ether. This would add an excess supply of ethereum on exchanges and add a lot of downward pressure to the current market capitalization. 

**THE URGENCY**
This is something that we don't want to happen. Worthless ICO's and a price crash will affect the trustworthiness of the whole ethereum project and might even cause it to fail. At this point in time, I don't think it's too late to prevent such things from happening. It's time that developers start to take their responsibilities and stop accepting ridiculous amounts of ether that they're never going to need to fund their projects. I think that the financial crisis in 2008 learned us damn well what happens when people start to get too greedy and prefer short term profits over long term sustainability. 

If we don't manage to do something fast the crash is near and it won't be a healthy correction like we have seen numerous times, it will be a severe one that might take months/ years to recover.  

Please let me know what you think about this topic and how it can be solved before it's too late.