I don't know why they are sending all these free coins to Vitalik when he has so many and doesn't need the money? Maybe they think that sending him these coins will boost the project but it turns out they are wrong.
Publicity, they tried the shiba way, although those guys sent those trillions of tokens thinking they are getting burned and decreasing the supply, not that he would actually use it. But it became news, it looked like and endorsement and here we are, no wonder there are so many trying to replicate the idea. And after all, it's free money, they printed those tokens it's not like it's going to cost them, if the token doesn't get traction and fades away they will lose more than this.
Neiro was increasing in price a few days back; I was tempted to invest in it, but thank goodness that I didn't. By now I would have been feeling bad reading about this.
It's down 15% on the day but if we look to a longer period like 7 days it's still up 27%, way more than the other markets.