Final Pre-JUP Reflections First off, we have no idea what is going to happen. We have chosen to take a pragmatic yet utopian approach, focused on maximum transparency, zero manipulation of liquidity, zero supply squeeze, simulataneous participation, open market price discovery and for team to get the capital they need in the most long term beneficial way possible. This open and non controlled approach obviously leaves a lot of room of chaos and unknowns, but i strongly believe that these dynamics are the right, most retail friendly, best way to build a community, and long term advantangeous to the project in the long run. It is not just for JUP, we wanted to create a new meta for launching tokens, and we know that if we do not do this for JUP, we will lose our chance to do this forever. Therefore, embarking on this arduous and extremely intense process to not just launch a token, but build an entire new product line and new launch meta is not a choice, it is a neccessity. Most people I know criticized us (some with dumping intentions, some with constructive intentions) at several points along this entire journey for "overcomplicating" it vs taking more tried and tested methods. Even at this point, 3/2 hours before launch, I have so many questions. Is the current price curve (.4, .7, 1.6) designed well? Is there enough buy demand for an immediate open supply? Will bot mitigation approaches be enough? Will the infra hold up, from regular servers to rpcs to the network? How will the absolutely chaotic interactions between all the gazilion users and markets play out on chain? Ultimately, the question is this - would the world end up judging us, as many have - for fumbling the easiest bag in the world when we did not just leverage on the massive Solana hype in december to either do a fundraise or simple airdrop and cex launch? I really dunno, and if we do not do well today, they will certainly be right to judge us as such. But if we did that, we would not be living true to our ethos as experimenters, advancing the decentralized meta, and in general trying to do the best thing possible despite massive pressure to do the easy thing. We got to where we are by experimenting, pushing the limits of what is possible, and doing what is correct despite massive consensus. And we will enter this new phase the exact same way.