The tezos foundation for example made a crowdfunding some years ago. People who donated in the project received an amount written in the genesis block. The foun

The tezos foundation for example made a crowdfunding some years ago. People who donated in the project received an amount written in the genesis block. The foundation started the mainnet in a beta phase with some initial validators. Holders started to participate in the PoS process until it was decentralized.