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Podcast: Unchained
Episode: Jupiter Founder Meow to Critics of JUP Airdrop: ‘Give Me a Break’
Description: While Solana DeFi protocol Jupiter staged what was by most measures a very successful airdrop launch on Wednesday, achieving a market cap of close to $800 million, the company’s critics pointed out numerous ways the company seemed to unfairly enrich itself in the process. While Jupiter’s founder, who goes by the pseudonym Meow, acknowledges he might have done some things differently, he finds the criticisms of the launch mostly based on “bad faith” and misinformation. Meow joined Unchained to discuss the thinking behind the launch mechanics of JUP, how the prior launch of memecoin W...