Leaked airdrop memo from zksync headquarters

COMEDY POST - nothing said here is true

Leaked internal memo from zksync headquarters. Dated 08/23/22.

" Much thanks to the airdrop design team for their efforts putting together the first draft. I think we can all agree the criteria are reasonable and won’t need much tweaking from here. You worked hard over lunch break to put this together, and as a token (pun intended) of our appreciation the VC overlords (kidding of course haha) have agreed to give you an extra 1% of the total ZK supply.

Main takeaways:

1 – For determining allocation we will deemphasize using the native bridge, bridge volume, transaction volume, number of transactions, months w transactions, unique dapp interactions, defi activity including dex liquidity, gitcoin grants and passport (especially the grants), use of other established L2s, mainnet activity, and especially solo stakers (who needs them anyway honestly).

These criteria are easy to sybil and are not the basis of a strong airdrop design.

2 – We will emphasize a seemingly random set of criteria. Examples include degen wallet activity like large purchases of memecoins that we’ll identify at a later date (and nobody on the team will purchase on side wallets after they have been identified), holders of a fancily named zksync NFT (ideas are to use a latin name because it sounds smart, and make the NFT maybe turn into a cat someday), and – probably the best idea of the whole session – holding whatever NFTs are held by Scott’s yet to be determined intern on 09/01/23. Scott’s intern’s NFTs could end up being literally anything, so there’s no way to sybil that.

I think we can all agree that if we want Ethereum to scale in a trustless / decentralized way, then these defi yield obsessed, liquidity providing, home staking, long term users who bridged and transacted a ton of ETH thinking it will get them an airdrop - who are mostly obviously sybils – are NOT who we want governing zksync.

Thanks again to the airdrop team. We can finalize the design over beers at happy hour on Tuesday. "