It is alleged that the promises of the white paper which were the fundamentals of the price of the token were not delivered to buyers.  

Reports suggest that Liquid planned to aggregate all major crypto exchanges into a single world order book and use Forex exchanges to blend order books across different FIAT currencies. 

Allegedly, this idea crashed when the Quoine Team realised that they also needed to move FIAT across accounts to make that work, the idea of blending forex markets into crypto allegedly failed or simply was not implemented.

More than one year has passed since the inception of the ICO and, there are now allegations surfacing that not a single point of the white paper has been accomplished; Quoine/Liquid is reported now just as an exchange which has allegedly lost some of its market share against more successful competitors and allegedly failed to deliver any of the peculiar feature promised in the 2017 white paper.

Investors have reported that the price of the token was inflated with statements such as:

• ‘’We envision QASH could even become the preferred standard Token used to pay for all services provided by the broader financial industry…’’
• ‘’QUOINE is already in discussion with multiple financial institutions, FinTech startups and partners to make QASH the preferred payment Token for upcoming and existing financial services.’’
• In Q2 2019, Qash will have its own blockchain
• In Q3 2019, Quoine will be granted a banking license

On the contrary, allegations suggest that Qash has never been used to pay a single penny of any financial transaction and there are no financial institutions considering it for payments, Quoine is allegedly not applying for or being granted, a banking license, and Qash will allegedly not have its own blockchain in 2019 or ever.

Consumers reported that of all the complex diagrams, flow charts, and mind-blowing dreams, advertised in their 2017 white paper, nothing has been achieved, not even the internal order book which was meant to simply aggregate Quoine’s own internal order books.

Fourteen months after starting their project, Quoine officials have allegedly not been able to name a single Exchange officially onboard for Liquid project. Some of the investors are reported as unconvinced by team’s claims such as: ‘’some of the exchanges we are in contact with, do not feel comfortable to have their names disclosed…’’

While investors’ expectations have been pushed aside, it has been alleged that a massive effort has been deployed to build up a squadron of sycophants called ‘community champions’, meant to simulate participation and interest for the few genuine members of the chats in which they participate, as well as surveilling and banning any critical comment or negativity on media such as Telegram, Reddit and others.

Investors reported that Quoine has allegedly simply chosen to pocket investors’ money and put up something to soothe their anger and despair. 

It has been alleged that the Liquid white paper lists 3 uses for Qash tokens:

– Transaction Fees

– Prime Brokerage

– Other Services: System Co-location, Automated Trading Strategies, Trading Tools

Allegedly none of the above has been implemented or will ever be.

In regard to transaction fees, reports suggest that:

• Transaction Fees refer to those to be charged in the new platform featured with the world order book, Forex exchange, and everything described in the white paper, but none of that has been allegedly delivered yet
• Coins with fluctuating value, are allegedly not suitable for fees payment other than in their market pairs
• Reports suggest that there is no point in paying fees with a token that is first bought with FIAT or BTC and then translated to fees in FIAT or BTC back again. Reports also pointed out that there is no need and no point to buy tokens in the year 2017 to pay trading fees in the year 2019
• Fees in Liquid are allegedly way too low to justify a $105m ICO, not to mention that allegedly an additional amount of tokens is still to be released, which is nearly double the original release

Reports suggested that in regard to other objectives/utilities of the project such as Prime Brokerage and Other Services, Quoine executives are allegedly not willing to do anything about that, they allegedly just buried the promises made at the time of the ICO, which were sheer hype with nothing to back them up.

Overall, it has been alleged that the only accomplished utility of Qash is filling Quoine bank account.

It has been alleged that Quoine executives have blatantly stated on several occasions that some of the resources dedicated to Liquid project, were diverted to help Quoine to comply with Japanese regulators.

Reports suggest that came at the cost of significantly delaying or even abandoning of the goals of the project.

Consumers reported that Qash buyers have financed the project as described in the white paper with the purposes of making good use of the tokens, not with the purpose of fixing Quoine’s financials and operations.  

Moreover, in regard to the allocation of tokens proceedings, the white paper stated:

It has been alleged that any of the above has been maintained:

• 20% of 100m would make a hefty $20m of investments in the development of the Liquid platform, but looking at what has been released so far, the result is allegedly worth a tiny fraction of what it was supposed to be.
• 50% ($50m) of the proceedings in liquidity: as far as the architecture of the project is concerned, these proceedings were allegedly supposed to be deposited and used in those accounts opened at the partner exchanges, but because the project allegedly never started, investors expect them to be still in Quoine bank account.  

Allegations have surfaced that what Quoine presented in 2018 as Liquid, is merely a new UI design of Quoine platform with an improved market maker running the order book; nothing of that is allegedly in the interest of or beneficial to Qash buyers, who allegedly remain still unserved in their expectations of service/product.

Investors reported huge equivocation between Liquid ICO parties: subscribers fairly expect things such as the return of their investment, good use of the tokens etc., conversely Quoine executives allegedly believe that the money was given to them as support for their corporate interests and financial performance, and bear little obligation to deliver promises.

Overall, Quoine allegedly has never released a single piece of information about how ICO proceedings have been spent.

It has been alleged that the project has not shown to date any evidence of innovative technology justifying the 105m fundraising.

Consumers suggested that technological claims, which inflated the price of the token at the ICO, such as:

• the implementation of the world order book
• the integration of crypto markets with forex exchanges
• coo-location services

were allegedly misrepresented or simply not delivered/implemented.

Allegations surfaced that Quoine has misrepresented Liquid project, and allegedly undelivered contractual terms.

It is reported that QASH is nothing more than an industry-standard ERC20 token, allegedly overhyped and under-delivered.

Investors reported that Qash at the press time is trading at less than a quarter of its initial value it has also been alleged that Qash markets have very poor liquidity and no support against even mild dumping.  

Investors suggested that funds are still held by the issuer, and allegedly they are used solely for paying salaries and dividends at Quoine.