After OKX and Binance announced the launch of Sahara, @SaharaLabsAI released their Tokenomics and airdrop rules. I checked, and unfortunately, I didn't get the airdrop.
But I can understand. Because I didn't spend much time participating in the labeling, the tasks were indeed a bit difficult. I just logged in daily and went offline, not making any real contributions, so it's normal to be filtered out.
Moreover, they also announced the listing on two major Korean exchanges with the Korean won pair, another grand slam project, and fortunately, I invested through buidlpad.
Looking at the community's gains, compared to another project that silenced everyone during the same period, the Sahara WeChat group I am in is full of joy. As long as we stick to the tasks, 2000 sp can earn over 8000+ tokens.
Many people are also showcasing their gains under the official Twitter airdrop post: the top 1000 UCCY of the third season, a total of 8.6k SP and 5k fragments + 25u of ETH in the wallet, receiving a total of 17K Sahara allocation; Little Bear, who just joined in the third season, still managed to earn over 40K allocation through daily data labeling and screen recording.
This time, Sahara AI's Knowledge Drop strives to cover all contributing users, with a clear and transparent reward mechanism that considers the interests of different roles in the community:
Participants in labeling tasks receive basic airdrops through SP points, ensuring the rights of direct contributors,
Participants in social tasks receive some token incentives based on fragments, while special roles in the community like Mods receive extra USDT rewards (Mods from neighboring communities probably feel heartbroken seeing their efforts turn to zero),
Content creators can participate in the allocation through buidlpad.
Regarding witch identification, it wasn't a blanket judgment. Instead, those identified as witch clusters, such as completely blank accounts, are given a 0.2x multiplier, and this portion is redistributed to addresses holding a small amount of 0.01 ETH, creating a double airdrop, with additional incentives for real users on OKX.
Recently, some projects have allocated shares to Kaito in a bid to control mainstream voices, but whether there is a debt to community participants, everyone has their own scale.
For instance, many creators received tens of thousands of newt tokens to dump before the community airdrop unlock yesterday. This behavior appears to reflect a large vision for creators but is actually just saving their marketing costs, letting the market bear the burden.
In contrast, Sahara's TGE airdrop indeed prioritizes the user community of the product, not directly stuffing tokens to creators; giving some IDO quotas is relatively fair and acceptable for everyone.
Of course, unlocking 44% on the first day, followed by locked and linear releases, does make some community members uncomfortable, but this is also to balance the project's long-term development.
If you need to reward yourself and improve your life in the short term, you can completely choose to hedge, especially since top CEXs have listed it; if you believe in Sahara's core value, then I think waiting is also acceptable.
After all, just a few days ago, Meta spent $14.3 billion to acquire a 49% stake in ScaleAI, a company in the same data labeling sector, and Innodata's stock price is also skyrocketing. Looking at it this way, Sahara's current valuation isn't actually that high.
Sahara just announced that it will launch the AI Agent Builder and Marketplace Open Beta on the mainnet, allowing creators to fully own AI. Looking at the recent heat of Virtual, there may be many alpha opportunities ahead.
