it’s completely premined, and they also did stuff like this:
Millions of MOB tokens were sold at 80 cents in a private ICO to investors prior to the announcement of the partnership with Signal; the price currently sits around 60 USD. It is reported that the investors were informed of the partnership with Signal prior to the general public (insider trading, in a non-legal sense).
it also is completely unnecessary and pushes away people from signal (a good app in principle) because of legitimate distrust of crypto bullshit