As you are aware, we intended to close the 50 shares by May 1st, 2023, however the tremendous success of the business has attracted many bad actors to our parent protocol ZeroQT. We fought these people's botnets 24/7 for two months, allowing genuine and legitimate supporters to profit without investing a single penny in the project.
However, A.I.-powered captchas, A.I.-powered algorithms to check by IPv4/IPv6 address, browser agent, and several other tools at our disposal resulted in a very inefficient way to distinguish bots from humans, simply because a few attackers improved their modus operandi in order to get that fat free money in the most greedy way possible.
Because of these individuals, we have reached a moment of decision: either we reduce the APYs and continue fighting the botnets with a tolerable margin of error, or we close the 50 shares earlier to avoid affecting the investors, who, until proven otherwise, always come first in our corporation's priority chain. As a result, we've chosen to go with the latter and stop the purchase referrals option, as it would result in significant losses for most of the investors.
We understand that many people will be upset, but we should remind you all, free users, that it has always been stated in our
docs that we reserve the right to control these participants' shares and make significant changes at any time, such as returning borrowed shares or reducing their yield, without notice for the benefit of the investors. As of today, the average daily outflow generated by free users is $4,500 (~$135K/mo.), which is far too close to our model's projections without bots.
For the record, user liquidity is unaffected, and investors holding 100 shares or more will continue to receive dividends as usual. The flexible staking programme is similarly unaffected and available to users who do not hold shares.
As we have already established a user base, the VC can now focus on spending that ~$4.5K per day wisely on development and marketing.