zkSync airdrop query online, what are the follow-up steps?

Original | Odaily Planet Daily

Author | Asher

The big one finally came. ZK Nation announced this afternoon on the X platform that the zkSync airdrop query has been launched (click here to jump to the query link), and will airdrop 3.675 billion ZK tokens to early users and contributors next week, accounting for 17.5% of the total supply of 21 billion ZK tokens; at the same time, it is stated that this will be a one-time airdrop, and users will be able to claim tokens starting next week, with a deadline of January 3, 2025.

zkSync Airdrop Inquiry has been launched

As soon as this news came out, major ‘rubbing’ communities suddenly became lively, and users participating in the interaction went to inquire about the number of tokens they received. From the emotions on social media, it can be seen that this ZK airdrop has both happy and worried people:

• “The overall witch rate is very high, after all, there are less than 700,000 addresses out of several million. The hit rate of personal addresses is around 15%, all of which are on welfare. With the ZK price so low, there is not much point.”
• The more interactive assets, the more you get early. The minimum for a single wallet is 450 ZK, and the maximum is 100,000 ZK. Overall, a single boutique number gets more, and it is unknown how the batch number will harvest. At least from the total of 6 million addresses, only 1/10 received the airdrop. It seems that the witch’s investigation is indeed a bit harsh.
• "UniSat, a casual interaction, has a $800 PIZZA guarantee, while Ordinals, a casual interaction, has an $8000 DOG guarantee, and zkSync comes with the sentence “Unfortunately, address is not eligible for the airdrop.”
• "Just 4 numbers with magic lamp NFTs are eligible for zkSync, Nothing else, just lost.

Overall, the overall witch rate is very high, and even many ‘fur party’ and studios have experienced a situation of ‘complete destruction’. So, what are the specific airdrop rules for ZK? Below, Odaily Star Daily will organize the rules for this zkSync airdrop based on official information.

ZK tokenomics

According to the relevant information given by ZK Nation, zkSync’s native token is ZK, with a total supply of 21,000,000,000 ZK. Community allocation accounts for 66.7%, while team and early investor allocation accounts for 33.3%. The specific allocation is as follows:

• Token Assembly: 6,153,000,000 ZK, accounting for 29.30% of the total supply;
• Ecosystem Rewards: 4,179,000,000 ZK, accounting for 19.90% of the total supply;
• Airdrop: 3,675,000,000 ZK, accounting for 17.50% of the total supply;
• Early investors: 3,612,000,000 ZK, accounting for 17.20% of the total supply;
• Team: 3,381,000,000 ZK, accounting for 16.10% of the total supply;

ZK tokenomics

About the airdrop, this time there were 695,232 wallets that qualified for the airdrop, and the eligibility and distribution of the airdrop were based on the zkSync Era and zkSync Lite activity snapshot taken at 0:00 UTC on March 24, 2024. This time marks the one-year anniversary of the zkSync Era mainnet launch, and 17.5% of the ZK airdrop is allocated to two groups of community members:

• Early users (89%): zkSync users who have conducted transactions on zkSync and reached the activity threshold;
• Early contributors (11%): Entities that contribute to the zkSync ecosystem and protocol through development, promotion, and education.

ZK Airdrop Distribution

ZK Airdrop Rules in Detail

To distribute tokens to real users, the zkSync user qualification review and distribution process consists of four consecutive steps:

Step 1: Eligibility. Each address that has conducted transactions on zkSync Era and zkSync Lite will be checked against the eligibility criteria. The eligibility check is conducted to determine who has actively explored zkSync. Each address must have at least one point to be eligible for the airdrop (point rules as shown in the figure below).

ZK Points Rules

Step 2: Allocation. Based on the amount sent to zkSync Era and the duration of these encrypted assets in the wallet, a value scaling formula adjusts the allocation of an address. The allocation of eligible addresses is based on a value scaling formula. This formula adjusts the allocation of addresses based on the amount sent to zkSync Era and the duration of these encrypted assets in the wallet.

In other words, an address that sends 100 US dollars to zkSync Era at the launch of the mainnet will have a higher weight than an address that sends 100 US dollars only a month before the snapshot. The encrypted assets held on zkSync Lite are not taken into account when determining the allocation of an address.

Step 3: Multiplier. Addresses that meet specific criteria can receive an allocated multiplier. Each address can receive a multiplier based on activities indicating human behavior or potential contributions to zkSync. These multipliers apply to eligibility and allocation for zkSync Era and Lite.

Step 4: Identify robot detection. The standard anti-counterfeiting filtering method uses heuristic methods to detect robot behavior. The combination of qualification standards, numerical scaling, and multipliers eliminates most robot groups. However, the team’s witch detection method further filters the remaining robots.

The first is the reuse of deposit addresses on CEX. CEX creates deposit addresses for customers to handle deposits. The second is to study the pattern of fund acquisition. Every time a new address is created, its owner needs to use ETH to fund it to pay for the Money Laundering. If it is found that the final contributors of a group of EOA are the same, they are likely to belong to the same entity.

The figure above shows an example of a robot group detected using this method. There are 1,029 EOAs that ultimately obtain funds through CEX (i.e., red nodes).

OTC Market

With the opening of the ZK token airdrop query, ZK’s off-exchange trading price on the AEVO platform has fallen short of 0.35 USDT, now at 0.3411 USDT, with a 24-hour decline of up to 47.88%.

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