Noon’s Public Beta is Here: Join Us at the Ground Level
Noon
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January 26th, 2025

We’ve been building Noon with one goal in mind: creating a more intelligent, more fair stablecoin. Today, we are taking a big step toward that future. We are opening the doors of our Beta to the public on January 27th, and we couldn’t be more excited to invite you to join us on this journey.

Here’s what this means for you, for us, why we’ve been keeping things small so far, and why now is the perfect time to jump in.

Why Launch a Public Beta?

The Public Beta is our way of opening Noon to the world while staying true to our values. It’s for early users who believe in what we’re building and want to join us close to our inception. This is your chance to help shape the future of Noon, refine our product, and contribute to create something extraordinary.

Let’s be real: everything won’t be perfect. Of course, the core essentials—safety of funds and stability of strategies—have been rigorously tested. But the finer details, like UX/UI and expanding partnerships, will evolve during this phase.

That’s the beauty of a public beta: we’re building with you, not just for you. We didn’t want to build something fully formed in our ivory tower, and only then expose it to the real world. No, instead we adopted the approach of building a strong, robust foundation, and then putting it out in the wild for our users to interact with. We think that together, we can build Noon to be much better than we could by ourselves.

Why we kept our Private Beta focused

We have mentioned how fairness is important to us - and we’ve done everything in our power to ensure that Noon is built as fairly as possible. One of the things we’ve seen often in this space is how well-connected insiders often get access to preferential terms, be it in early investment rounds, or in early liquidity deals.

So, during our private beta, we decided to do things differently:

  1. We politely shut down funding conversations with some of the biggest funds in web3. While we never initiated any conversations with investors, we were flattered that some of the biggest names in the space took the time to reach out to discuss investment in Noon. But we never deviated from our user-centric values, and we made it very clear that our protocol would eschew fundraising from and token allocations to investors, so we could maximise our users’ governance token allocation.

  2. We focused our private beta on our product, not our TVL. We also were approached by high-networth individuals and funds to deploy into our private beta - but we turned many of them away. Largely because we wanted to focus on building our product, but also partially because we wanted to give everyone a shot at deploying capital (and earning governance tokens rewards) while Noon’s TVL remains relatively low, and the incremental dollar deployed would earn more.

In sum, we wanted to make sure early adopters could meaningfully contribute—and benefit—by being first. Your funds, you first!

Here are more details as to why we adopted this approach:

  1. We want to reward our early users with $NOON governance tokens (TGE: ~Q2 2025) that reflect their contributions.

    • The more you deploy into Noon, the more points and governance tokens you’ll earn. The earlier you deploy, the larger this proportion will be, and the more rewards you receive.
  2. We believe governance should be fair and widely distributed.

    • If we allowed massive amounts of TVL during our private beta, insiders would dominate the governance token holdings. That’s not the future we’re building.
  3. Imagine this: if there were already a billion dollars deployed, and a retail user joined with $10,000, they wouldn’t earn many governance tokens.

    • Not much upside, not much to say.

    • That’s why we kept the private beta small—so when the Public Beta opens, everyone has an equal chance to benefit, and to make an impact.

By keeping our private beta focused and opening the Public Beta early, we are making sure anyone can join the party, or the Noon Saloon as we like to call it**.**

Our north star: Maximising user value

From day one, maximising value to our users has been our north star. That’s why we’re taking this step now. The sooner we open up and build with you, the better our product will become.

We have designed Noon to reward your participation. The larger your share of the total TVL, the greater your share of governance tokens. But it’s about more than rewards—it’s about creating a system that’s built by its users, for its users.

What to expect during the Public Beta

With the Public Beta, we are bringing you:

  • Real-time monitoring to ensure you know exactly where our reserves are at all times.

  • Daily transaction limits to ensure security as we scale.

  • A chance to buy or mint USN and sUSN by depositing supported assets.

  • Opportunities to multiply your Noon rewards, and double and triple (maybe even quadruple) airdrop farm with some of the hottest protocols on some of the fastest growing chains in web3

  • A multichain launch: Ethereum, Sophon, and ZKSync(more to come soon)

Stay tuned for new chains, new protocols, new yield opportunities, and much more over the next few months. And most importantly, we welcome your inputs, feedback and comments - please do not hesitate to reach out via any of our social channels to get in touch, and get involved!

Remember, you choose your own adventure at Noon, with your own DeFi appetite.

It’s not just the launch of our Public Beta; it’s the start of something bigger. Together, we’ll test, refine, and expand Noon into the future.

Join us on January 27th at 12pm UTC, time for the rodeo!


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