Thapaliya, a participant behind the Movement, disclosed the inside story of the airdrop and pointed the finger at Cooper

Odaily Planet Daily News Sam Thapaliya posted on the X platform to clarify the details of his early involvement in the Movement project. He revealed that he had assisted Movement co-founder Cooper in incubating the Move language-based project Satay, and provided Cooper with multi-faceted support in the early days of Movement, including financing and token economic model advice. Thapaliya revealed that when Cooper transformed and launched MVMT Labs (before Rushi joined the team), he provided Cooper with multi-faceted advice and support, and worked closely with him to launch Movement. After co-founder Rushi joined the team and took charge of technology, the project vision began to truly come true. Thapaliya then focused on marketing, and when the project approached TGE, he worked with Cooper again, especially to provide advice on the upcoming airdrop plan. Thapaliya further pointed out that Cooper commissioned him to find a data science team to audit the proposed airdrop dataset after the Movement team found that the dataset they relied on did not accurately reflect the testnet usage. Due to many problems with the dataset, he suggested that Cooper flatten the rewards for all airdrop participants. However, during this period, Cooper insisted that specific 75,000 wallets receive the highest proportion of tokens per wallet. In addition, Thapaliya also showed a heat map and pointed out that these wallets were almost the only addresses that claimed and were able to bundle and sell more than 60 million MOVE tokens in the Move token airdrop on December 9, 2024.