The myth of making money through airdrops is shattered: Who is stealing the fairness of Web3?
The recent airdrop event of Berachain has caused considerable controversy in the cryptocurrency circle, and has also made everyone pay more attention to the problems of Web3 airdrop ecology.
Airdrops were originally a way to attract users and give back to the community, but now they often become a "game" between project parties and capital players.
😡In Berachain's airdrop, test network users worked hard and earned $1 per person, but 6 NFT big players raked in $300 million!
😡ZKsync's secret operation: 1.3% of the addresses eat up 24% of the tokens, and ordinary players are not as valuable as a penguin NFT (Pudgy Penguins make money lying down)
😡LayerZero mistakenly killed millions of users: In order to prevent "witches", it would rather kill 100,000 by mistake, and the ENS domain name party was innocently shot!
This "rich-poor disparity" makes many ordinary users feel dissatisfied and feel that they have been "cheated". Moreover, the airdrop rules of the project are not transparent enough. Berachain has not disclosed the airdrop algorithm, and ZKsync has also been questioned for distributing tokens to some NFT holders who have not participated in the ecosystem.
The original intention of airdrops was to attract users, but now many users are disappointed. In the face of these problems, we need to rethink the mechanism of airdrops and return airdrops to the essence of "contributor priority". The project party should disclose the airdrop parameters, introduce third-party audits to verify the rationality of the rules, and let users truly understand the airdrop allocation mechanism. At the same time, DAO governance can be tried to allow users to participate in rule design and let the voice of the community be heard.
In addition, a gradient distribution method can be used to dynamically adjust rewards according to the user's contribution, limit the monopoly of giant whales, and allow ordinary users to get the returns they deserve.
Airdrops should not be a "wealth transfer game", but a bridge of trust between project parties and users. Only through transparent rules, community co-governance and technological iteration can the trust foundation of the Web3 ecosystem be reshaped and value creators can share value. This is the ultimate answer to the spirit of decentralization.
