Today is a bit disappointing.

Because of the successful precedent of Hyperliquid, I was looking forward to the MegaETH airdrop. However, today I am completely disappointed. The eligibility for the MegaETH airdrop actually requires spending 1 ETH to buy a ticket (NFT), and you can only share 5% of the airdrop. I feel this "collect money first, then release coins" tactic is even more profound than an IPO. If you have a lot of money, you can give it a try, but I’m not interested anymore.

Now, the project teams are getting more and more astute. Berachain's decision to expose the airdrop studios to risks is not surprising. But now they’ve come up with a way to tie liquidity and staking together—Proof of Liquidity (PoL)—which means that validators, while maintaining network security, must also provide "real liquidity" for the ecological DApps.

It sounds like a version of Curve's "bribery" model, except that the "bribery war" is now moved to the layer of block rewards. Who will pay? Who will take the rewards? A series of economic games. However, when it’s all calculated, the biggest beneficiary turns out to be Berachain. Bribery was originally intended to incentivize liquidity and compensate for the impermanent loss of liquidity, but now it also solves the security issues of chain staking. So, the ones who suffer can only be the liquidity providers. It might be better not to participate.

Source: Airdrop Reference