The Jupuary vote has locked in one more airdrop after 2026, leaving 700M $JUP ready for 2027- if the community votes to proceed. otherwise this currently has nothing planned.
But what if we took a different path?
Imagine this:
A group of us, alongside Meow, opt to lock our $JUP until 2030.
You still earn ASR on your locked tokens.
The 700M $JUP earmarked for 2027 instead becomes a bonus pool exclusively for those in the 2030 lock.
Distribution is pro-rata based on how much and how early you lock.
Why This COULD Makes Sense
Emission Control: yes everyone cries about the increasing JUP emissions… Those 700M tokens wouldn’t hit the market until the end of another bull cycle in 2030, easing concerns about short-term inflation.
Proving Long-Term Commitment: By then, participants will have held $JUP for up to 7 years - these are the holders who truly believe in Jupiter’s future. Plus it would be interesting to see who actually puts their money where their mouth is. Theres probably only one guy I am 100% convinced that is locked in JUP long term and that’s @JD-SOL84 , others , maybe 90%. (No disrespect to anyone… I’m happy to be proven wrong)
Backing a Winning Product: By 2030, Jupiter will likely have the strongest product suite in crypto, making locked $JUP even more valuable.and like we said from the start… “make Jupiter a household name”.
This isn’t just about waiting, it’s about staking your belief in the vision and reaping rewards designed for those who refuse to sell out early.
Question is… who’s willing to lock until 2030?
Thanks for sharing Lochie, I really like this idea! When we had the vote for Meow, I didn’t love that the bonus was coming from community share - but the community had no ability to also lock up and get a bonus? Surely your suggestion would represent the alignment that Meow and team always talk about?
I also think this would benefit the DAO and holders as a whole, because it provides more transparency and certainty around how future emissions would unfold. Currently, people buy the token and have absolutely no idea how the team will decide to distribute future tokens and whether this would be positive or negative to them. There is an obvious conflict between, “growing the jupiverse” (which I support) and, “supporting holders” - and despite being the biggest DAO in crypto, stakers have no control or say at all. That doesn’t feel right to me.
I think we’re seeing this conflict play out with the JUP price. As time goes on, I would like to emissions better rewarding those that are doing the things the team wants. Obviously a completely selfish opinion but I’m sure it’s shared by many.
I don’t like this. What possible value, apart from value signalling could this give?
People (including yourself) should be able to sell tokens. In fact a healthy Jupiter would be able to easily accommodate core contributors selling large chunks of their tokens. It would dilute the concentration of voting power and send a strong signal that Jupiter was a healthy ecosystem with sustainable revenues.
Only shaky projects can’t weather token unlocks.
Anyway, people like RainFi let you create a liquid staked version of JUP, which you can then borrow against. I expect other versions will follow. This essentially allows trading of locked tokens so the lock length is rendered a little meaningless at that stage.
I’d focus your energies on aligning JUP to the centre of more revenue generating activities. Then locks don’t matter, whatever people want to sell will have willing buyers.
There was a whole vote about it. He funded tokens for new team members out of his allotment, locked them up until 2030, but for doing this, he earns 250m tokens from the community (plus gets back the tokens he gave to new team members), so essentially a 250m token bonus for locking up.
I’ve always been a sucker for staking. I would be one of those people that would do this without a thought. I think it might cause friction from those that aren’t deeply tied to the community as they might appreciate a lock with quicker turnaround, but still love the Jupiter tools suite.
In the end it feels good that people are putting such deep thought so far out into the future. Bringing this topic up continuously will mold whats next for jupiter. Love the thought process bro.
Good Idea but 2030 is a long year, this requires a great execution because this crypto space people will ask for too much profit and where will profit coming from when we’re heading to the last jupnuary.
I never read that as a lock up bonus. I just read that as voting on performance bonus (like stock options) for leadership.
But he’s actually working at Jupiter, that’s a far cry from what most people here are doing.
If this is supposed to a be performance bonus vote, then let’s just vote on that. No need to debate token locks, just vote for what a performance bonus should be and materialise that as a token lock.
