# Mandatory Team Vesting During a pool's bootstrapping phase, Goat Trading features vesting protection so that teams cannot immediately dump on users. Instead of locking up team tokens and releasing them slowly, we simply disallow selling tokens into the AMM during the bootstrapping phase that were not initially purchased from the pool. This means that not only team tokens but any tokens distributed through farming or malicious minting may not be sold until adequate liquidity is raised for a normal AMM. With this functionality, users can rest assured that they won't be blindsided by a huge dump of tokens while the protocol is still bootstrapping. However, once the pool reaches the liquidity goal, vesting will be discontinued after a period of time so that teams can sell tokens for funding or other needs. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://goattrading.gitbook.io/goat/features/for-traders/mandatory-team-vesting.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.