Is it an airdrop game for the wealthy?

The adjustment of airdrop rules on the Binance Alpha platform has recently sparked much discussion within the community, with some users believing that its development trend has deviated from its original intention.

Binance launched the Alpha platform at the end of January, aimed at providing early exposure opportunities for promising emerging cryptocurrencies, increasing their trading volume and market recognition through platform activities, and gradually evolving into a mechanism for airdropping new coins to participating users. Anyone who trades on the Alpha platform has the chance to receive airdrop rewards.

With widespread community attention, the concept of TGE (Token Generation Event) in Web3 and Alpha airdrop activities have quickly become popular. However, this has also attracted some studios that use bulk operations to obtain airdrops through a large number of wash trading activities, leading to a significant decline in the participation experience for regular users in subsequent activities.

In response to this phenomenon, Binance has successively introduced several mechanisms to limit airdrop eligibility, ultimately introducing the Alpha points system. The threshold for the first Alpha points event was set at 45 points (April 25), while the recent event's threshold has been raised to 205 points (May 13 for users with a last digit of 7, within the range of 170-204 points), and a points deduction mechanism has been added.

Some users believe that the current points mechanism is not only aimed at combating studios; its high threshold has effectively excluded most retail investors. Although there are views suggesting that boosting Alpha trading volume helps enhance the value of $BNB , the actual effect remains to be verified.

Some participating users who have benefited greatly often have asset scales far exceeding 85% of users on the Binance platform, raising questions about the fairness of airdrop distribution.

The main issue with the current Alpha platform is that the changes in points thresholds lack transparency, making it difficult for users to predict tomorrow's points requirements, resulting in users who invest time and funds to boost trading volume facing the risk of futile efforts or even losses.

Therefore, some users suggest that for retail investors with limited funds, investing significant resources to boost Alpha points may not be a wise move, as the final outcome may be far from expected. The original statement of 'welcome everyone to boost airdrops' may more accurately be 'welcome all users with assets greater than 10,000u to participate in our airdrop.'