220m $JUP Strategic reserve - use for ASR

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The 220m $JUP from the community reserve would be better spent elsewhere!

The Jupiter 2030 Plan is one of the biggest governance decisions in JUP DAO history.
A key part of the upcoming vote is deciding “should meow front 280m personal allocation + 220m from community reserve (as a bonus)

One compelling idea? Funding ASR with it.

Imagine a scenario where the unclaimed Jupuary airdrop from 2025 is combined with this reserve to supercharge Active Staking Rewards (ASR) for the next four quarters.

What Would This Look Like?

If 180M JUP from the 2025 Jupuary remains unclaimed, plus the 220M $JUP community reserve, we could have a 400M JUP pool dedicated to ASR.

This means:

:fire: 100M $JUP per quarter for ASR—double the current system!

People’s main concern about asr is diminishing returns + onboarding people to stay comes at a financial cost.

The benefits!?

:white_check_mark: More $JUP staked – Higher rewards encourage more users to stake and vote, reinforcing JUP’s strength as the best governance token in crypto.

:white_check_mark: Onboarding new users no longer dilutes ASR – The current ASR system forces existing stakers to share the same 50M pool with new entrants, making it less appealing to onboard others. With a 100M ASR pool, onboarding no longer comes at a personal cost.

:white_check_mark: Massive price appreciation potential – A higher ASR yield could lead to more buy pressure on $JUP, increased demand for staking, and a more bullish ROI for stakers.

Why It Makes Sense

• The community reserve was set aside for strategic initiatives that grow Jupiter’s ecosystem. Using it for ASR is strategic as fuck.

• Stakers and voters become the backbone of Jupiter’s growth—encouraging long-term participation and creating a positive flywheel effect for $JUP. This means we can onboarded without suffering diminishing returns FOR A WHOLE YEAR!

The Jupiter 2030 Plan vote is coming soon—and the community has the power to decide how to allocate these resources.

I will be voting for option 1 so that the 220m community reserve can be used elsewhere! :saluting_face::green_heart:

Would you support using the 220M JUP for ASR?

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I would support this one fully.

The benefit for funding the ASR system in terms of the actual rewards is one of (or the) biggest issue I am seeing with the future of ASR rewards through DAO.

For example, the amount of new unique addresses and new Staked JUP tokens surpasses 100k+ and 150M+, respectively. This means that the overall rewards from the ASR program are getting diluted quarterly through the vast popularity and expansion of the DAO, which means that everyone gets less and less rewards through DAO voting as the time passes.

I would strongly suggest that as time passes, the ASR fixed amount would have to get increased simply because of the fact that investors and believers of the project (JUP DAO) would get annoyed by the fact that rewards would fall off gradually.

Thanks for the post, Lochie!

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As a stakers, we would love this. But… I don’t feel that’s the main issue. The main issue is that the 220m is coming from community funds and the reasoning to allocate the funds as a bonus to @meow is lacking a lot of detail. I strongly opposed to this unless we get a lot more details.

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I’ve written a lot in the discord, as well as another thread here, but in summary I completely agree that the 220M JUP would be better spent back into the ecosystem rather than as a “reward” for Meow loaning his tokens for 5 years - something which I don’t really understand the utility of.

Some thoughts:

  1. JUP incentives for hitting certain price goals could be a good idea - especially for newer team members who may not have as large shares as someone like Meow. Perhaps we bring up the discussion of whether or not price targets are a good idea, and if so, how those rewards should be distributed and paid for?

    Clarity on current compensation structures would be immensely helpful for this.

  2. ASR is great - but do we want to experiment with other flywheels / carrots to bring in and engage more users? Perhaps focusing on specific products, such as perps, bridging, or Ape? I think deliberating as a group as to where our JUP allocation is best spent is a good conversation to have.

Most of all, I think this is a great opportunity for the community itself to be the driver when it comes to determining the investment of DAO controlled JUP. Most proposals feel like they are pushed, for better or worse, by the team - and for good reason, that’s where people look to for guidance. I think this is a good chance to step forward as a collective and decide how WE think the DAO controlled JUP is best spent.

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It’s a big issue for sure, if not the biggest issue in the dao right now.

I remember the team speaking about this during the jupuary vote discussion that perhaps a portion of jupuary may fund asr to buffer it

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Me too bro

I just wanna know how the 280 comes back to him when didn’t we spend it on funding A-tier projects?

Where will it come from?

Will it come from jupuary 2027 allocation?
Will it come from buy backs?

We need to know this and discuss this well and truely before the vote.

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I don’t particularly understand fully what the point of it is either.

  1. Meow is already locking his JUP until 2027. I don’t want him to have to wait any longer.
  2. The main point is “we don’t want to add team reserve into circulation” it will one day or another so let’s do it now!
  3. If we are sticking to 50:50 plan . Then all community funds need to be for community and all team funds need to go to team.
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On another note too:

The “in 2030 there will be a vote on whether meow deserves it”.

Regardless of the result, I think everyone will say he deserves it. Kinda defeated the purpose if we gonna say yes regardless of result

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Regarding releasing more tokens into circulation - considering Meow’s tokens are locked until 2027, wouldn’t tokens be released either way, regardless of whether they come from a treasury or from Meow’s allocation? They will be given to new employee’s as “incentive”, but with no vesting, no cliff, just flat? I’m curious about the logistics of this, 280M JUP is not a small amount of money.

Also, yes I totally agree everyone will vote yes. I think the way to do this better to set KPI’s (as Jurek was saying) that if hit, then dull out rewards. Whether or not we want to set up an incentive system like that, to me, is a longer conversation and needs to be community led, not proposed by the team.

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This isn’t discussion about logo

100% bro

Circulating supply ain’t bearish. I think the whole Jupiter community agree with that in each Jupuary

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I think this statement is also somewhat misleading… aren’t his tokens vested for another 2 years until they’re fully unlocked? So is it truly a loan for 5 years?

any ideas on potential flywheels? the more the merrier!

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Was there a mention regarding an AMA? and when it will be? I gotta listen to the call again, or at least find that spot.

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100% agree. I think it’s a great for the DAO to have a healthy discussion about this. Would love to hear some good reasoning on the 220m bonus, but not if the reasoning is just from a koolaid perspective.

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I would like for this vote to be a super majority like for Jupuary. This is not a small some of JUP coming out from the community…what do y’all think about this?

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Agree… but doubt it will be.

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So if they’re still locked for another 2 years, how is he able to use his personal allocation as incentives for new employees?

This is the sort of structure I’d like to hear some elaboration about.

Other flywheels could include:

  1. Carrots for onboarding friends to JUP mobile
  2. JUP kickbacks to the biggest PERP losers on any given day, incentivizing more PERPs usage (and thus more fees generated)
  3. Community volume goals for Ultra swaps that if hit inject liquidity into either voting rewards (staker community) or straight to swapers (mini-jupuary for broader community)

On a side note, I do think gating some of these reward systems to stakers is fine, as staking SHOULD be encouraged via reward systems, imo

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No mention- I asked a question live and kash said there will be a later opportunity to ask questions

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I agree- super majority is fair

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That’s a good point

But I don’t think his tokens are physically locked on chain (in code) I believe he just voluntarily committed to not touch his $JUP until 2027.

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Considering that the ASR is set to expire this September, this might be a good idea.

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