WHUF Founder: When the token price is below the ICO price, redeeming tokens will result in destruction

The founder of the WHUF project posted on X that the WHUF trading price is below the ICO price. He stated that the price guarantee is functioning as designed, and the redeemed WHUF will be destroyed and permanently removed from circulation. The team originally expected this mechanism to reduce sell-offs close to $3.57, but 23% of the original purchase amount did not receive guarantees within the protection window, which currently constitutes the largest outflow.

The founder mentioned that the team focuses liquidity on Coinbase, hiring two market makers and allocating 175 basis points of centralized exchange liquidity, with only about 25 basis points on-chain. The launch pool has about 20,000 WHUF and less than $100,000 USDC, with auction buyers selling about 101,000 WHUF in the first hour after unlocking. A single $10,000 sell order caused the price to fluctuate nearly 20%. Of the 1,402 auction wallets, 298 sold, with 92% occurring in the first 3 hours. The team refused to pay for listings, and the exchange's +/-2% depth sometimes only amounts to $10,000 to $40,000. Of the $7.14 million raised from the ICO, $7.14 million has been reserved for price protection.

The founder stated that if the auction is redone, they would choose Uniswap CCA and use the Sonar platform fees to inject liquidity. Redemptions must check against the sanctions list, and Sumsub has flagged 5 individuals who did not pass, with reasons including terrorism and crime. Redemptions for non-sanctioned users have been automated, and the team will return USDC in batches and destroy the corresponding WHUF, which is expected to take at least several days. At the time of the project's issuance, 20% of the supply was sold, mainly raised from the community, and provided protocol usage rewards and ICO price protection.