While the blockchain industry is still fervently proclaiming the ideals of "decentralization" and "community governance," the Redstone oracle project crushes the passion and trust of 200,000 community members under the capital gears through a meticulously planned "labor harvesting plan." This is not a technological revolution, but a naked digital enslavement—squeezing community creativity with false promises, then harvesting all hope with a code-written sickle.
1. A meticulously designed "labor concentration camp": from expedition activities to airdrop scams.
The Redstone project team is well aware of human weaknesses. They built digital cages with three phases of "expedition activities":
Task design is akin to 996 benefits: from the first phase of the Galxe platform to the third phase of the Zealy platform, task difficulty is layered and increased. Participants need to spend hours studying technical documents, creating in-depth analysis articles, producing original image materials, and even require participants to continuously output "Chinese New Year-themed content" during the Spring Festival holiday. These KPIs, which "cannot be completed with scripts," essentially force users to become free content farmers.
Airdrop certificates have become psychological manipulation tools: the project team quantifies user labor into "RSG points," claiming this is the "only certificate" for future airdrops. But when community members overdraw their health to work late, Redstone has long buried a code bomb of "98% invalid labor" in the background.
On March 5, 2025, this carefully orchestrated farce finally revealed its true nature, as the Redstone project team subtly designated those who did not receive airdrops as bad miners and witch attackers on their official Twitter, while only a mere 2% were labeled as good miners:
Out of 200,000 community members, only 4,386 people (2.19%) received airdrops, while the remaining 195,000 were crudely labeled as "witch attackers" and "bad miners." Those real users who modified article images at three in the morning and created marketing posters on New Year's Eve instantly became "invalid data" in the project's white paper.
2. Textbook-level PUA rhetoric: The "mind control" of the blockchain era.
The Redstone project team has built a complete cognitive control system:
Faith kidnapping: "Real builders will not be let down"—packaging labor exploitation with Web3 ideals.
Shifting responsibility: "The airdrop rules have long been specified"—in reality, the criteria for judgment have been obscured into a black-box algorithm.
Shaming and suppression: "Not receiving rewards means insufficient contribution"—negating users' months of real efforts.
Ironically, Redstone did not publicly disclose the specific rules for the airdrop, and the airdrop rules are very abstract. Even having over 10 million RSG points, one is still defined as a witch attacker and invalid labor. This is akin to saying that you are clearly working at Redstone, yet the higher-ups at Redstone say, you are not our employee. Even if you generate revenue for us, create labor, and add value, you are not our employee; you are not qualified to receive our benefits. This resembles what a slave master would say to his slaves, meaning you are my slave; you do not qualify for my rewards, and I can discard you at any time.
Of course, there is a deeper meaning: we now have the world's largest exchange, Binance, and Coinbase as endorsement. We don’t need you slaves to support us; there will be more slaves like you behind us to take over our $RED tokens. In other words, Redstone acknowledges that they currently have only 4,386 community members, and the other 195,000 are not considered part of the community because they view these people as medieval slaves. As slave masters, they have the right to abandon these 195,000 people.
However, the matter did not end here. The Redstone official authorized community MODs and management to mute community miners who expressed dissatisfaction and expelled them from the official Redstone Discord community, permanently blacklisting them. This behavior inadvertently acknowledges the slaves' identities and ignores the labor value of the 98% of community miners, merely using the fake proof-wrapped "RSG" points as a hypocritical reward for the labor of these 98% miners. However, these have no actual significance, as they hold no value. Moreover, in response to miners' complaints, Redstone’s measures were to remove community members and permanently blacklist them. Their arrogant attitude is undoubtedly because they have already been listed on the world's largest exchange, where a large number of secondary buyers are paying for their ugly exploitative behavior.
3. The double harvest of digital colonizers: plundering labor while stealing hope.
The essence of this scam is a new type of exploitation model in the Web3 era:
First harvest: Free access to a wealth of quality content.
Technological analysis articles produced by the community are packaged as "proof of ecological prosperity," and user-created holiday posters become materials for exchange listing roadshows. These contents, which should have cost millions of dollars, are compressed into a few lines of on-chain points.
Second harvest: Manipulating token economics to complete wealth transfer.
The project team converts 98% of community members' labor results into "invalid points," but uses the saved token shares for market making on exchanges. When Redstone's official RED token surges on Binance, the real builders instead become the ones taking over in the secondary market.
This arbitrage model of "using your blood and sweat to pump, and then using your savings to take over" can be described as the most despicable commercial closed loop in blockchain history.
When the Redstone project team raised their glasses at the Binance celebration, 200,000 betrayed builders were scattered in the digital ruins. This is not a failure of a single project but a crisis of values in the entire industry—if even the most basic dignity of labor cannot be guaranteed on-chain, the "value internet" we advocate will ultimately devolve into a vampire protocol's bloodsucking paradise. Remember: any project that requires you to burn your life yet refuses to make clear commitments is a digital slave master of the new era.
