it’s been a very hectic and stressful week

here’s my reflections on the @stayloudio experiment so far:

1) support has been incredible and it’s been amazing to witness so many people coming together theorising, giving feedback, making memes and just outright having fun

2) most IAO participants are sitting on a 100x and I overall believe it was extremely fair distribution and a success

3) launch has been hectic, delays and unmet timelines caused some confusion and I want to apologise for it, especially to the Asian frens

4) liquidity deployment could have been further optimised for volatility and volume capture, a few secondary concentrated LPs were deployed in the current price range lowering slippage / volatility and leaking some fees from the POL pool -> especially on this one I think there’s room for optimization and would love to get more feedback

5) $350k in SOL fees so far have built up a decent war chest that should attract some top KOLs and start off the flywheel, overall pretty impressive

6) looking at the IAO data, most participants were real people. most people that were whitelisted for phase 2 that I talked to managed to get in which makes me very happy. some last minute changes to the frontend code prevented most automated bots from getting in

7) im overall excited for the week ahead, it’s been extremely stressful but also fun. very thankful to everyone that made this experiment coming to life possible

I would like to again apologise to everyone that got affected due to bad timezones and confusion. no launch is perfect and i agree this could have been handled better

remember this is an experiment that we’re all taking part in and have a voice in shaping, make yourself heard and leave feedback!

thanks again everyone, can’t wait to see how the future of loud plays out

Loudio.