As was announced earlier today during the planetary call, we have some important news for the DAO: With the advent of the 6 month voting pause and in the spirit of the DAO reset period, we have decided to evaluate our own scope as the CWG — and realized that almost all of it had been completed in some form. Although we originally set out for this to be a 4 year task, we took a full audit of everything we intended to do. And while there are a couple of maintenance items remaining, the CWG as it was designed has reached a natural point of completion. The DAO has changed so much since it began nearly 18 months ago, that it has now evolved beyond the need for a Core Work Group as it was envisioned. Simply put, the CWG scope was designed for a different era than the DAO we have now. During our first year, we brought several of our scope items to a point of finality. For example, we were originally tasked with handling the Discord moderation staff. However, in February in conjunction with the team, we helped to skill up the moderator staff to become the full fledged Jupiter support staff via an initiative called ‘Operation Support Snipers’. It was a raving success and to this day that staff continues to handle the entire Zendesk operation. Other such examples that can be reviewed in the quarterly reports. Rather than trying to cobble together another scope out of the few remaining items, or sitting back and collecting our DAO-approved JUP — we’ve decided to do what we feel is best for the community and voluntarily step down. We are eager to remain as contributors to the ongoing conversations about the direction of DAO 2.0, but we feel that this doesn’t require us to exist as a fully funded workgroup to happen. What does this mean for all of its members? * Morten will be joining the Jupiter team in a full-time capacity as an ops addition and quality control engineer. * Kemo will be returning to his own project, Radiants, while remaining a Jupiter community member. * Prior contributors have been informed well ahead of time and have also since stepped down from the group. * The remaining members will spend the next 2 weeks working with the team and other workgroups to ensure that any lingering items are adequately taken care of, including passing on any guidelines or recommendations such as the quarterly reports and budget reviews. As for the fate of the 4.5 million vested $JUP that was granted to us at the CWG’s initial vote, we have chosen to completely return it to the DAO wallet. This $JUP will better serve the community if redirected towards other valuable initiatives within the ecosystem, which we believe is a more appropriate path forward for all. Additionally for the sake of full transparency: The Jupiter team has gifted us a partial amount of what our cliff would have been from JUP they had purchased themselves. We are immensely grateful to all of our contributors who we personally believe are exemplars of both the DAO and Jupiter community. So we want to give a special thanks to 0xray, Scarlet, and Isak for everything they have done for us and the DAO. These past 18 months have been an exciting journey of experimentation and discovery. Now we look forward to seeing the DAO progress to its next chapter, and hope to continue working on it together.