If there is something clear nowadays is the way ICOs have appeared to become the new crypto-revolution, the new uncharted terrain to which many have run towards as if it was the promised land, full of easy riches in return of high technical programming skills.
Some time ago, in the beggining of May, a person accused the team leaders of theft and fraud, since such person had posted on bitcointalk about how the SONM team leaders refused to pay him more than 3000ETH that they owed him, he alleged. Also he wrote how experienced developers atracted the initial capital for the preICO, and how they were replaced by an unexperienced team of developers.
On the other hand, sooner today, the person who was firstly appointed to be the escrow, had to make some pressure just to be told out of the blue that no escrow was to be used on this project, but Instead an ICO smart contract with multisignature. Some people shouted SCAM all over the place as it was expected.
However, after all the fuss, and the uncorfortable questions raised by the potential investors, by the way not answered appropriately by SONM team, by the time I am writing this story, 289.341.336.47 SNM out of 331.360.000 SNM tokens have been sold, raising 63,225 ETH, about $20,837,338 (@ $329.57/ETH) despite some initial problems around the sale of tokens via BTC and alternative cryptos such as XMR, DASH, LTC, ETC ...(pun intended)
Now is the time of the core team to demonstrate who is the boss and go through all the accusations, all the tense moments lived lately and get the job done. COME ON TEAM !!!
In the case you are interested, you may still go and try buying some tokens (with BTC or the alternatives posted above).
You may lucky and maybe is not completely sold out
https://ico.sonm.io/
Disclaimer: none of the above have been proven and personally I have bought some tokens and expect the best from this project, and also the logo above has been taken from their web page.