Three Important Announcements This Week

1. Community Pre-Sale Starts Tomorrow! (June 2nd)

Our community pre-sale kicks off tomorrow, June 2nd, and runs through June 9th.

In general, the earlier you bid, the better your chances of getting in early and at a lower price — early bids also help us with price discovery. We'll be using CCA as our main auction mechanism.

• Find all the details in #⭐・community-presale

• Not sure whether or when to bid? Head over to https://strato.nexus/auction and sign up for notifications. We'll keep you updated on the auction status at every stage via email.

• If you have any questions, feel free to ask in #general or #ask-ai!

• NYC Meetup — Off-Chain Happy Hour [EthConf]

If you're in NYC, come join us on June 8th for the Off-Chain Happy Hour at EthConf!

🔗 RSVP here: https://luma.com/of3zm3c5

1. Community Shoutout 🙌

Lastly, a big shoutout to the community members below who've been going above and beyond to help their fellow members here. We see you, and we appreciate you!
@craigslisp @OPD @hi_bur

As ＠vic4wong says:

"All the participants who get in early can get an allocation of tokens even if someone comes later and does a huge bid."

We chose a CCA because it benefits community members who get in early, not just whales.

Learn more and get in early through the whitelist👇
https://t.co/gmgDg0yRkH

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Hey ! 👋

We’ve been getting a lot of DMs lately about how to get more involved with Strato, so we wanted to give you a quick sneak peek into something we are cooking up behind the scenes: The Strato Ambassador Program!

We are still in the very early stages of putting this together, but when we launch, our first priority for recruitment will be people who are ALREADY active and helping out in this community.

Here is what we are looking for and how you can get noticed:
- Discord: The best thing you can do is just be a good community member. Answer questions, welcome new people, and help troubleshoot. Starting this week, we will be doing bi-weekly shoutouts for our most helpful members. Consider this a stepping stone to becoming an official ambassador!

• Twitter / X: We are keeping a very close eye on the timeline. We’ve set up the #✍️・community-content channel to spot users who are voluntarily writing awesome, educational content and threads about Strato. If you are creating great organic content, we will see it!

We are still finalizing the details, but we want the perks to go beyond just standard rewards. We are looking into giving our ambassadors exclusive privileges, VIP status on the Strato platform, and early access to features.

A quick rundown of what we've been shipping and sharing lately:
- New Integration: syrupUSDC from Maple Finance
We've added syrupUSDC to STRATO with yields up to 19.81%. You can bridge syrupUSDC over for extra yield and to earn points ahead of TGE. We're also sitting down with the Maple team on May 28th to talk credit yield and what's next for DeFi.

• Token Auction Model Locked In
  We've finalized our token sale structure — we're going with Uniswap's Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) for the $STRATO community ICO. 2.5% of supply will be sold via CCA on Ethereum. The reason for this choice is that it gives us real market pricing, full on-chain transparency, and a fair distribution that doesn't reward snipers and bots. Whitelist registration is open at strato.nexus.

• Market Context We're Tracking
  Gold market cap: ~$30T
  Tokenized gold market cap: ~$5B
  That gap is the opportunity. As more people realize they can hold gold and stay liquid on-chain, we expect that number to move significantly.

While DeFi chains are still forcing users to choose between:
- Speed
- Cheap fees
- Developer flexibility
- Real composability
Very few deliver all 4 at once.

That’s the gap ＠strato_net is trying to fill.
A breakdown of how STRATO is building a DeFi-focused blockchain ecosystem around lending, swaps, CDPs, and tokenized assets

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Why did we choose ＠uniswap’s CCA model for our token auction?

Real pricing: Unlike fixed-price sales, CCAs find the market-clearing price in real-time.

Transparency: Everything is done on-chain and permissionlessly, allowing anyone to participate.

Fair Distribution: Fixed-price sales and Dutch auctions reward whoever submits fastest, including snipers and bots. A CCA spreads each bid across the auction’s remaining blocks, so bidders compete on valuation rather than speed.

Turning gold back into money is a community project. The CCA is the fairest way to bring that community in from day one.

Register for the whitelist at:
👉 https://t.co/gmgDg0yRkH
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The market cap for gold is ~$30 trillion

But the market cap for tokenized gold is a tiny fraction of that, only ~$5B

We expect that number to change as people learn that STRATO lets them hold gold and still have liquidity without selling.

From our talk with ＠DigitalCurrents: https://t.co/1B6dTeOK4H

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