# kaal:claim:3067615-024

**Claim.** Hardcoded lockup periods can protect token holders against supply side induced devaluation, but they also decrease the token economic flexibility the promoter team needs to raise additional funds, so the remedy trades investor protection against issuer financing capacity.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- tokens subject to hardcoded lockup periods

**Source quote.**

> However, while such lockup periods may protect token holders against dilution, it also decreases much needed token economic flexibility for the promoter team to raise additional funds when needed.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Marco Dell'Erba, *Initial Coin Offerings Emerging Practices, Risk Factors, and Red Flags* (2017), IV.1 Intangible or No Product, page 17

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Marco Dell'Erba, Initial Coin Offerings Emerging Practices, Risk Factors, and Red Flags (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3067615

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**Failure mode.** Lockup versus token economic flexibility tradeoff  (family: token-transferability-defect)

**Topics.** tokenomics

**Keywords.** token-lockup, dilution, issuer-flexibility, remedy-tradeoff

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