I just took a look and also think that the pump project team doesn't need to do anything else; as long as the presale is completed, their task is done. The presale has brought in a solid $500 million in cash, and they could just take the money and run. Manipulating the funding rate to create a short squeeze is just a clever trick... However, there will still be many unexpected situations during the funding process, like this time when the exchanges collectively had bugs, and many people likely didn't get their funds in and ended up hedging, now completely stuck in a virtual hedge.