Following a snapshot in March, over 695,000 users are set to receive 17.5% of ZK’s total supply of 21 billion tokens. Sybil accounts, which are defined by a single entity controlling multiple accounts, were found to have accumulated thousands of tokens. Meanwhile, some single-account users were reportedly ineligible for the airdrop, further fueling community scrutiny. One user, self-described as “Artemis the Sybil Hunter,” claimed Sybil accounts could receive up to two million ZK tokens from the airdrop.
“Anyone who knew the criteria could’ve easily farmed the sh*t out of it”, Gupta said as the broader defi community reacted to the latest airdrop debacle. Data provider Nansen clarified that the firm did not provide “anit-Sybil” support to zkSync’s parent Matter Labs. Although the details are public, the project reserves the right to decide who could receive the airdrop, leaving room for criteria changes in the near future. This year’s airdrops have been contentious, to say the least.
Users who spent several months to multiple years engaging with protocols were sometimes left disappointed with distribution plans and tokenomics. The pattern is not strange during crypto airdrop, but users were more frustrated with the allocation.
