We should treat every cat equally, unless you don't consider it a cat

We should treat every cat equally, unless you don’t consider it a cat.

Jupiter has been striving to build an open, transparent, and truly trusting community.
Over the past few months, Jupiter has achieved this. However, at this moment, the community is facing a significant test.


  1. We should treat every cat equally, unless you don’t consider it a cat.

No cat wants to see the community divided. In the world of crypto, I believe we need to pursue our ideals while also facing reality.
Currently, the biggest conflict stems from the tension between stakers and traders.

Stakers argue that new tokens will dilute their shares, and traders contribute nothing to the ecosystem or its loyalty.
Traders believe they are also part of the ecosystem and deserve the airdrop.

I personally appreciate the PPP philosophy and believe that all cats should be treated equally.
Let’s completely set aside those arguments like *“stakers already have ASR, traders just enjoy and sell out, stakers take on more risks, traders bring in real revenue.”

Both stakers and traders have made significant contributions to the ecosystem, and no cat should be excluded.
Therefore, I believe rewards should be provided separately to stakers and traders:

Stakers are part of the community, and rewards can help strengthen community cohesion.
Traders might not yet fully integrate into the community, but rewards could help them join more quickly.

This way, our original community can become closer, stronger, and more loyal, fostering mutual trust, while the newly formed community can be full of vitality. Wouldn’t that be ideal?

  1. Trust is the foundation of everything, and transparency is the foundation of trust.

There has never been a truly empowered DAO in the history of crypto, and we should do our utmost to make this one a success.
Therefore, before proposing any airdrop plan, I believe the details of the airdrop should be made public, including:

Which cats will be considered
How much allocation different cats will receive

The snapshot has already been taken, and we can’t change the past. There’s no need to worry about cats manipulating data at this point to hunt for airdrops.
We should also be transparent about key questions like: Were there any Sybil attacks? Were bot accounts excluded?

If possible, providing an advance query tool would also be a great idea.
With this information, every cat can reflect: *Am I excluded from this family?


  1. Stop all forms of KYC—cats don’t have driver’s licenses or passports, only Discord identities.

In the crypto world, decentralization has always been one of our most cherished values.
Perhaps KYC is designed to ensure that each account represents a unique individual.

But the truth may be:
We can never truly prove that an account belongs to a unique individual.
Whales and resourceful individuals can easily acquire multiple KYCs, while ordinary cats cannot.

This doesn’t help regular cats benefit; in fact, it could harm them.
Cats don’t have driver’s licenses or passports. Cats only have their Discord identities.


  1. Let’s shout it loud once again: Treat every cat equally, unless you don’t consider it a cat!!!

Jupiter’s traders, JupDAO’s stakers, voters, active participants in the Discord community, as well as users of products like JLP and APE—all are cats.
Every cat should be treated equally.

Since the user base, benefits, and activity levels of each product are different, I think our focus could be on discussing the allocation for each specific type of cat.
But I firmly believe that no cat should be abandoned.

Cats may give up their own cat food, but cats who don’t receive cat food will feel sad and leave their home.
This is not selfishness—it’s a cat’s emotion.

Finally, I hope this proposal reaches every cat, so that every cat can find a home.
Thank you.

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This is really great post sir! :heart:

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Thank you for your reply, meow!

This couldn’t have been written any better.

Some key mindset points mentioned here.

Great work @xiaoyu

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Thank you for the compliment; it will make a cat happy for an hour.

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This a nice reflection of a lot of values that are largely core to Jup’s vision. I agree with most of your views, but we must also acknowledge that “equal” in this context doesn’t imply literal equality. In life, the more effort you invest, the more you typically gain; greater risks often yield greater rewards. Within this spirit of fairness, it’s important to recognize that fairness should align with individual contributions. I see no issue with that perspective.

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I would agree on almost everything you said here!
Pretty much sums up the JUP ethos, well done!

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Trading is part of the JUP ecosystem as its swap, DCA, LO, VA, limit,… and all those who use any feature are users and at the same time "testers → they stress test the platform for its limit and sometimes encouter alternations on the site so its being reported so it continues to get improved. Since 98% (my realistic view and not backed by data) of traders are negative long term they help increase the JLP price and add fees, interest to JUP. Now think again who creates no value to the JUP ecosystem.

Stakers already get their more than fair reward (ASR) which is around 70%+ APY for their voting. They don’t do any other contribution than this so it doesn’t make sense to give them part of jupuary as extra for doing nothing extra. meow already confirmed that stakers won’t be part of jupuary and that is on point and common sense thinking. Only selfish ones will advocate to get something more by doing nothing in addition.

I can talk about both stakers and traders cause i am in both groups and as well look objectively on the whole thing. I would have a completely different view if i would think of myself only = took the subjective perspective.

In the big part of this text i don’t agree at all. why? See the following scenario:

  • 1st person is constantly active,creates value, drives jup narrative for JUP and gets 1 JUP and

  • 2nd person does minimum for JUP and gets 1 JUP.

Not fair and we are not equal. Just being a cat doesn’t make you equal. It is still merit based what ADDED VALUE you bring to the whole ECOSYSTEM and each action has different value.

2024-11-19 22_22_20-• Discord _ #catdets-chat _ Jupiter Space Catdets — Mozilla Firefox

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yes Macx i agree with this. Whilst it would be nice to give everyone an equal amount og $jup, it does take a communist regime style stance. Jup is a democrqcy so this style would not work. Like imagine somone who has sent 10 messaged in jup discord saying “wen air drop” compared to someone like you who:

  1. shows up every day
  2. learns so they can teach new comers
  3. creates a supportive environment
  4. provides intel on this forum
  5. been loyal to jup
  6. and so on…

People seem to be anti-whale, Im not a whale but if they contribute to proportionally to their holding ABSOLUTELY they should be rewarded. It doesnt matter if they hold 1 jup or 1000000 jup, if they contribute they deserve it. We can punish them for being “whales”.

Great analysis macx

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Cats that lives in JUP help other cats, vote based on transparency, trust their leaders and spread the voice around SOL universe.

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Couldn’t have said it better myself…

…And I’ve attempted it a couple times, so TY!:saluting_face:

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Thank you for your reply. I believe what you said is very reasonable and absolutely correct. However, those who hold opposing views have also presented many valid points that, to this cat, seem equally correct. These days have been filled with arguments, and as a cat, I’ve grown weary of all the disputes and do not wish for this division to persist. There are countless perspectives, data, and examples to support debates, but for now, this cat just wants to return to the simple emotions of being a cat. Thank you again for your reply. I sincerely think your viewpoint is fantastic.

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Without volume/Traders jup is no more jup, they are the ones generating revenue which is the lifeblood to the product which works long term sustainability for the platform we need to consider that rather pointing on each other, ill just add a screenshot for more visibility.


ill just quote one of my reply here, which might not be relatable to topic.

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You know jup take ZERO fees for swaps? so that arent doing anything

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ikr features do, ive added a screenshot you might want to look.

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Then we can make use of discord identity to identify the cat

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Yeah
We should be talking of equity and not equality

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That’s right. That’s how a fair system is built!

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Appreciation for well articulated Content, I absolutely loved reading your content!

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You did a Great job xiaoyu!

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