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# Why choose a Pre Sale

Providing a **high-quality** product and ensuring a successful launch while keeping the investment environment as sustainable as possible is not a trivial exercise, quite the opposite. It entails a great deal of technical complexity and is absurdly capital intensive – in other words, really hard and very expensive.

For the protocol to succeed in this complicated task, a large amount of capital is required and as such, in order to provide our users with the **most stable trading environment** we can and to avoid price manipulations during launch, we have opted for a presale.