The NEC has never been sold as part of an ICO or underlying token exchange. It was developed by leading retailers of the old Ethfinex exchange. Unlike projects that will raise millions of dollars in 2018, NEC has a few large owners willing to keep many small businesses afloat.
The first target users of the NEC utility are the only Ethfinex distributors who, along with other companies, need to use the NEC to purchase regular EVTs (Ethfinex voting tokens) that they can sell or vote on the open market. so they wanted. As such, external NEC holders were not significantly encouraged to sell or resell their NECs and there was little outside interest in information other than current Ethfinex users.
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