With enough volume and users we dont need any funding, thats the point. Self-sustainability. We need to get to that point. Once the pendulum is ready and live and 1 more audit round is done we expect significant liquidity coming in to support the trading.

Waiting a while to get users and volume and then ask DHF money would not make sense. When we get to that point we dont want to rely on the DHF.
That would be the leeching you describe.