Airdrop reporting Rashomon: Do you want structure or benefits? Crypto projects in dilemma

Author: Wang 1, Deep Wave TechFlow

Editor: David, Deep Wave TechFlow

Whether it is an individual focusing on experience projects or a studio dedicated to hairdressing, the festive atmosphere on the day of the airdrop is no less than the Chinese New Year.

But as the project team’s standards for airdrop distribution gradually become stricter, this happiness is becoming increasingly rare.

Witch checking is almost a necessary stage before airdrops for large projects, and the main expectation of users before airdrops has also changed from "How much can they earn in this wave" to "Don't be fooled by this wave." Witch".

The Woolies have gradually formed a classic dichotomy for judging projects: if you check, you have no pattern; if you don’t check, you mean the pattern is big.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. Woolies are also an important source of enlarging paper data. Faced with users who cannot be ignored, encryption projects seem to be stuck in a pattern or a situation. The dilemma of wanting profit.

In the dilemma, different projects express different attitudes.

zkSync’s Overtures

On May 22, zkSync, who planned this week’s TGE, posted, “I will never censor. Censorship He is the killer of freedom."

## As soon as this statement came out, the community became uneasy.

Everyone has speculated that zkSync is talking about the harm of censorship on the surface, but in fact it is a drunkard who has no intention of drinking. By criticizing the censorship system, he reveals his future behavior of checking witches. There may be relatively loose intentions.

After all, if you set up a flag to criticize censorship, and then investigate witches, the big project will naturally not be inconsistent and give everyone a solid excuse.

It's obviously just a scratch, and it doesn't even say that it won't check the airdrop, so why do the comments collectively cheer? It seems like it’s just an honest opinion, but why does it become news?

Because this month, LayerZero, another project that has also attracted the attention of the hair-raising community,

implemented an anti-witch mechanism that is stricter than people imagined.

L0, launching an intensifying "witch hunt"

In May 2024, the Lu Mao Party's long-awaited project LayerZero Announced that the first season snapshot has been completed and announced the launch of an anti-witch campaign before the official currency issuance.

Unlike previous project parties that used databases to identify witch addresses, LayerZero this time introduced "self-reporting" and "reporting by others" mechanisms.

Starting from May 4th, users who believe that their address is suspected of being a witch have 14 days to self-report to LayerZero, confirmed by LayerZero Afterwards, 15% of the airdrop quota can be retained, but the airdrop share of addresses that have not been self-reported will be cleared once identified.

After the "self-exposure" stage is over, the next 14 days will enter Report mode, where community users are encouraged to report witch behavior to each other. Successful reporters can receive 10% of the airdrop of the reported address. Share distribution, if the reported witch address originally deserves 0 tokens, then the reporter will not be rewarded.

Yes, LayerZero has introduced a large model of human nature - a reporting mechanism - in catching witches. This unexpected and thunderous method caused an uproar in the community. More people expressed anger at this mechanism, saying that "this is not something that should happen in the encryption community" and "would rather be shot than surrender." Although there is a lot of opposition, under this mechanism similar to coercion and inducement, many people still see the opportunity.

Before the end of the self-reporting period, LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino stated on social platforms that more than 338,000 addresses had admitted to being witches. On the second day of reporting mode, LayerZero said it had solicited 2,312 witch reports and was gradually reviewing them.

After this move, only a small part of the originally planned airdrop addresses are expected to be retained. Judging from the results, the project team has indeed achieved the purpose of "witch hunting".

Is it the pattern or the interests that we want to maintain?

But the focus of this matter no longer seems to be on the effectiveness of catching witches.

Airdrops are to reward users who invest real time and energy in the project. The original intention of Anti-Witch is to ensure fairer distribution of airdrops and protect the reward value of real users from being mass-produced by studios. The dilution of fake users also ensures the healthy development of the project in the future.

From the perspective of protecting distribution fairness and industry development, the project party’s behavior of “catching witches” is worthy of recognition, but using reporting, especially a reporting system with rewards, This may have changed.

The other side of human nature cannot withstand amplification. Under the reporting mechanism, individuals who have no interest in themselves may become opponents in a zero-sum game.

When bound to one's own interests, the reporting mechanism may become a tool for personal gain. The distrust between people will continue to be annihilated in the face of repeated reports, and will be infinitely amplified. This is really a profound irony for the creation of crypto to solve the trust problem.

Taking a step back, if the project team wants to ensure fair airdrop distribution, should they inform the witch checking mechanism in advance? Instead of waiting for many fake addresses to add good-looking data to the project data, then "the birds are gone and the bows are hidden".

The continuous upgrading of the anti-witch mechanism is a foreseeable and inevitable development trend of the industry. Once a mechanism like Layerzero is started, it will most likely be imitated by more project parties in the future, and individual users will be accidentally injured. The risks will also become greater and greater. For ordinary users, it may be a good response to try to abandon "more and faster" and turn to "fine and slow" at the operational level and think about how to be a real user.

擼空投本是一場你出錢我出力，最後你好我好大家好的「共同富裕」。

但漸漸地好像每個人都開始身不由己：專案方想要更好的生態未來，就會不斷擴展查女巫的手段；羊毛黨想要順利擼空投，就要不斷精進技術，成功瞞過專案方。 甚至現在連羊毛黨之間也要開始互相提防。

在這場「獵巫」裡，人與人之間頻繁演繹著一場場《無間道》，擼空投最終也變成一場無間折磨，再也沒有白吃的午餐，而是令人心累的利益競爭。

人性的角鬥場從未落幕，祝你在亂流下平安。

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