Gate launching OpenAI Pre-IPO at this point in time is kind of interesting—mainly because the price really has an advantage.

According to the announcement:
The subscription price for this round is 722 USDT/OPENAI. If we take the current market mirrored price of about $825 as a reference, that’s a price gap of roughly 12.5%.
Minimum 100 U to participate, with a maximum of 277 tokens per person; the assets are unlocked in three tranches.
What I think is worth pondering most is the timing.
Recently, Gate has been in a low point in the news cycle over FUD about user assets being stolen and withdrawals being frozen. At this time, bringing out a scarce OpenAI product with a discount—I can understand the intent to re-attract funds and help repair market sentiment, at least somewhat.
So these two things can be looked at separately:
For the security issues, keep criticizing; for assets, isolate them as usual; whether the product is worth participating in should be evaluated on its own.
In previous Pre-IPO rounds, there are often oversubscriptions. This time, with the market in a lull, I guess the participation capital won’t be that crowded—so there might actually be a bit of a bargain opportunity.
One sentence: Complain as you want, benefits are benefits.
Do your own research!