The most rational ZK airdrop rules review

Author: Bale Source: X, @AirdropCatCom

Now, scolding Zk seems to have become politically correct, because nine out of ten people did not airdrop, scolding him means political correctness, traffic, support, applause, and a moment of pleasure.

However, very few people really calm down and review the airdrop rules of zksync. Some do not want to understand, some really do not understand, and some half understand. The main reason is that the airdrop rules of zksync are too complicated, and there is indeed no Chinese Twitter that really explains the rules clearly.

So, what exactly is this extremely complicated airdrop rule? Why do so many people criticize him? Why did this rule eliminate 90% of people?

1. Initial exploration, a mess

At first, our small group of 50 people discussed for a long time. They were all well-known professional hair pullers on Twitter. The conclusion was:

Most of the combinations have LP, but some do not. Therefore, LP may be a decisive factor, but not an inevitable factor. Some combinations do not have LP, so the rules are not clear.

In the following days, I found a lot of review tweets,

Among them, the most comprehensive one is @sunlc_crypto:

https://x.com/sunlc_crypto/status/1801542409068953859

His conclusion is: He used the cases of ten people to prove that whether there is an airdrop is closely related to the average daily amount of coins held, which can basically explain most of the cases, indicating that his analysis is very close to the truth. However, the amount of his dozen boutique accounts is very large, and most of them did not receive airdrops. He attributed the reason to the project party deliberately not giving it, and made the airdrop rules chaotic again.

Also, the one who wrote more accurately is @Naive_BNB 

https://x.com/Naive_BNB/status/1801219795322564878

He really understood the rules and summarized four rules. But it is not comprehensive, and he did not explain the logical relationship between the four rules.

So, there is a magical fog in the all-Chinese Twitter, and no one can really explain the rules of zk:

Either the rules are vague, do they have anything to do with LP? Or the rules are too complicated, do they have anything to do with the balance? Anyway, no one understands it, it's a mess, @zksync @TheZKNation, if you don't get criticized, who will? ! !

So what are the real airdrop rules? There are several reliable sources of information:

1. Official blog (This is the most authentic official interpretation. If you don’t have time, you can skip this because I will analyze it one by one below):

① Summary version: https://blog.zknation.io/zk-token/

② More detailed version: https://docs.zknation.io/zk-token/zk-airdrop?ref=blog.zknation.io#usage-based-airdrop

All in English, few people read them carefully.

2. The official 9 questions and Chinese translation report from panewslab

https://docs.zknation.io/zk-token/zk-token-faq 

Fuck, the official also released a Chinese version of the question reply:

https://docs.zknation.io/zk-token/zk-token-faq/zk-dai-bi-chang-jian-wen-ti-jie-da

This is the Chinese report from panewslab:

https://www.panewslab.com/zh/articledetails/4jvhw9wd.html

2. Airdrop rule formula:

(0-7)✖️(0-N)✖️(nX)=airdrop amount

First, let me say the conclusion. The real airdrop rule (the interpretation is mainly the airdrop allocation of ZKsync users, accounting for 89% of the total airdrop, and the rest of the participants, GitHub and other contributors are not within the scope of discussion) is the following formula:

The official ZK said that the airdrop rules have the following four steps:

Among them, the first three parts are the three elements of this formula:

1. Basic conditions 2. Average daily assets 3. Multiplier

It should be noted that these three elements are multiplier relationships, not addition and subtraction relationships!

If any element is 0 points, then the airdrop you get in the end is 0.

The last one is 4. Witch rulesThrough the above three parts, in fact, witches have filtered out 95%, so zk's witch rules are relatively simple. It is the same number distribution and those basic witch-killing strategies. No more details.

Below is a widely circulated Chinese translation:

Below are the three factors of the formula explained one by one:

The first factor (0-7): These are the 7 basic threshold conditions. If one is met, 1 point will be added. The lowest score is 0 and the highest score is 7.

The 7 basic conditions are analyzed one by one, and the butcher cuts the cow:

① Interact with 10 era contracts.

That is, you need to interact with more than 10 dapps. This tests the deep interaction of the ecosystem, which is actually quite difficult. If you only use 9 dapps, you will get 0 points here.

Regarding this, I attach great importance to it and have indeed done it.

I wrote several tutorials before and after. This is one of the tutorials I wrote at that time:

https://x.com/AirdropCatCom/status/1681567534116646913

The number of dapps should have reached 10, as shown in the figure below:

②Use paymaster 5 times.

This is still very difficult. Many kols mentioned this point at that time, but I guess most people only used it once or twice. I only used the main account many times, and I tested several dapps just for writing tutorials. This is a paymaster tutorial I wrote at that time:

https://x.com/AirdropCatCom/status/1763225094393147535

But none of the secondary accounts did it. I only achieved monthly activity and used the secondary account once or twice, which did not meet the standard.

③Trade 10 ERC20 tokens

This is actually quite difficult. For 10 tokens, I swapped them with eth and usdc/usd+/ceBUSD, received one or two local coins, and traded wstETH at most. It is likely that there were only 7-8 tokens traded, which should not meet this requirement. NFT actually minted a lot, but they were not ERC20 tokens

④Add LP and borrow at the same time

Please pay special attention to this point: here is and, not or, it means doing both at the same time, there is no point for only doing LP or only doing borrowing!!!

Let's take a look at @sunlc_crypto's top account:

https://x.com/sunlc_crypto/status/1801542409068953859

The average daily amount must be very high, but in the end only two accounts had airdrops, why?

There is only one explanation, that is, none of the 7 conditions of the basic threshold are met, and he obviously did LP, then there is only one explanation, he does not have these airdropped accounts, and there is no dapp that interacts with lending at the same time, so the points of this basic threshold should be 0. Then it is futile to have more average daily amounts, which is a pity!

The tutorial I made at that time interacted with LP and lending at the same time, and both lasted for more than 24 hours. See the tutorial at that time:

The tutorial that requires more than 24 hours

One ​​more sentence: eralend was also stolen at that time, and then he was rushing to withdraw money all night, withdrawing it little by little. He took out most of it, but in the end he still lost the assets of several accounts.

⑤Holding the Magic Lamp NFT

I only traded the Magic Lamp NFT, and did not hold it when the snapshot was taken. My own son, I can't say anything, no wonder the Magic Lamp fell at the end of March, someone did know the news.

⑥lite was active for 3 months before the launch of ERA 

There are two necessary conditions that must be met at the same time: one is that it must be monthly active before the launch of ERA, and the other is active for 3 months.

The first condition means that you must be an old user. I got the ZZ airdrop before ERA went online, and I haven't sold it yet. I lost a lot of money. At that time, only Zigzag could be used, and Zksync's own wallet page uploaded pictures to build NFT. If the LITE transaction record is added after ERA goes online in March 2023, it will not be counted.

The second test is actually loyalty. It is not something that most people can stick to for 3 months. However, there was no other dapp that could do it at that time. Old LITE users are likely to get this 1 point.

Let's look at the case of @sunlc_crypto's 1,200 accounts:

https://x.com/sunlc_crypto/status/1801542409068953859

Brother lite's points definitely cannot be counted, because he has only been active three times a day at most, and the minimum requirement for this basic bonus point is 3 months of monthly activity, so he definitely has no basic points.

From our sharing above, we can see that @sunlc_crypto's only basic score is to add liquidity, but his best account may not interact with lending dapps at the same time, resulting in him not getting 1 point for adding liquidity and interacting with lending dapps. If other categories do not exceed 10 dapps and 10 tokens, and there is no magic lamp, it is likely that many of his basic scores are 0, so his hit rate is so low in the end, only 2%.

This speculation and analysis, if @sunlc_crypto sees it, can you verify whether it is the case?

7. Donate to the gitcoin project using the lite network. When lite was launched, there was indeed a gitcoin channel. I remember that the rules were relatively simple at the time. It seemed that there was not even a 20-point passport requirement at the beginning. I can’t remember the details, but I did make this donation.

To sum up, my personal account should have at least 4 points in the basic score. I randomly picked one of my own accounts:

The second factor {0-N}: the average daily holding amount, which is a range from 0 to N. The multi-party cross-validation of this daily average amount must reach more than 100u to get the airdrop. If this multiplier is too small, the total amount will be less than 450 points, and it will be taken back by the official.

#zksync proposed the concept of average daily holding amount in the airdrop rules. This average daily holding has three core elements:

①Balance = wallet balance + asset balance in DEFI  

This calculation method is generally better than starknet, because starknet only looks at ETH balance, defi balance and even usdc balance are not counted, so some of my accounts at that time had eth balances that did not meet the standards, and they did not receive the strk airdrop.

②DEFI assets have a 2-fold multiplication, that is, if you add 100u of liquidity, the balance will be calculated as 200u, encouraging assets to participate in dapp interactions.

③The time span is within one year of the launch of ERA, from March 24, 2023 to March 24, 2024. The average daily account balance must be above 100u.

The official gave an example of the daily average balance calculation formula:

The general meaning is that Bob sent 1000u to the account 25 days before the snapshot date, of which 500u added LP, then his daily average amount is (500*25+500*25)/366 days=102.46u.

Then the question is: How is the balance threshold condition for the airdrop of 100u derived?

Because, in the official reply to 9 questions, an example of a table was given:

https://docs.zknation.io/zk-token/zk-token-faq/zk-dai-bi-chang-jian-wen-ti-jie-da

From this example, we can see that

30 US dollars is only 340 points, which does not meet the requirements and is withdrawn, and there is no short investment qualification;

50 US dollars has 1040 points, which is eligible;

However, these three addresses have a prerequisite: the basic score is 3 points,

In fact, the average user may only meet the basic score of 1-2 points.

So it can be roughly deduced that in order to get the airdrop (more than 450) in the end, at least an average balance of 100u is required.

In addition, we can also verify the threshold and conditions of the amount of 100u from other cases listed by brother @sunlc_crypto:

https://x.com/sunlc_crypto/status/1801542409068953859

We can also deduce from this case that the LP of 50U is calculated by doubling the balance, which is actually a balance of 100u.

About the balance issue, there is another extreme case, that is, from the official reply to another question, you can see this invisible rule:

It is mainly because the chain asset of era is 0, so the average daily asset balance is 0, so the whole formula ends up being 0.

An extreme case listed by @sunlc_crypto can also verify the answer to this question:

https://x.com/sunlc_crypto/status/1801542409068953859

It was useless for him to brush lite in September and October last year, because the monthly activity of lite in March must be era is only useful before it goes online in March 2023, so they are all scrapped. 。 。 。

3. The third factor nX: multiplier weighting, n is 5 weighted items, and X is the weighted score.

n weighted items, which are designed to be particularly digitized and detailed. Let's analyze them one by one:

①Hold one of the 7 native NFTs: Dudiez, Hue, Moody Mights, Webears, ZKPENGZ, zkSkulls, or zkVeggies.

I am not very familiar with these, I don't know any of them, and I probably don't have any of them.

②Hold more than 50u of native ERC20 copycat dog coins: AAI, HOLD, KOI, MEOW, MUTE, RF, ZF, ZORRO.

These coins, except for mute, I have seen them, and I am not familiar with the others, so I probably don’t have any.

③AA wallet, created a smart contract abstract wallet on era

At that time, kol promoted the AA abstract wallet, which is also the advantage of zksync and starknet. N interactions can be done at the same time in one transaction. Unfortunately, I was afraid of trouble at that time and didn’t download it.

④Hold 50% of the airdropped ARB/OP/ENS for more than 90 days 

I have to say that I have not sold my ARB yet. It was probably collected in the exchange at the beginning of this year or the end of last year. I would like to add that I have not sold it yet. . . . . A big complainer. . . .

I have indeed done this for each account, as evidenced by the screenshots:

https://x.com/AirdropCatCom/status/1772798279723712802

⑤Interacted with eligible Ethereum smart contracts at least twice in the top 1,000 addresses. Qualified contracts are contracts that spend at least 100 ETH in transaction fees.

This is actually very difficult, because you have to interact with Ethereum mainnet smart contract dapps with more than 100 ethgas twice, and be in the top 1,000!

I should not have reached this weighted item.

So, in the end, each of my accounts only received a multiplier weighting.

III. Summary of rules

1. Past experience has failed. The airdrop rules of zksync are the most complex, obscure, opaque, and difficult to understand short-selling rules

Our positions are naturally opposite to those of the project party.

The project party wants to: find real users and exclude witches!

We want to: pay gas and get airdrops!

Objectively speaking, the airdrop scale of $zk is the largest among the four major airdrops for personal interactive addresses, but this is destined to be an ending that will disappoint 90% of people!

No matter what the conditions are, in the end, there will definitely be more disappointed people than excited people. This is determined by the base number and also caused by the unfavorable PR, opacity, and lack of timely communication of the @zksync project.

Just talking about the airdrop rules of zk, there are 7 basic thresholds, an average daily amount, and 5 weighted multipliers. These three levels are indeed very accurately designed, and each one directly hits the witch's seven inches!

Because we are all empiricists, arb, op, and strk are actually the same three things: monthly activity, transaction amount, interactive tx, and dapp. We naturally speculate that zk should be like this! But zk was unexpected this time! A very complicated short-selling rule was created, which indeed excluded all the studios and caught most of the witches.

①7 basic thresholds, all of which were unexpected.

Except for the monthly active users of lite, 6 of them were actually invented by zk itself. For example, the 10 dapps and 10 currencies all test the transaction width, but the general gamblers are all large-scale, only gamble with fixed transaction pairs and mainly brush the transaction amount. I didn’t expect that the cunning project party chose to go against the trend and completely gave up the transaction amount this time. 。 。 。 Paymaster, Magic Lamp NFT and Gitcoin donations are also unique to zk’s ecology. Only one of them, adding liquidity and lending agreements, is a regular action, but he also cunningly made an and, and both must be done at the same time to add points. 。 。 。

② Daily average holding amount is indeed scientific, and it has blocked most people

In terms of balance, $arb actually started, but arb is a deduction project, not a veto, so the sun shines.

The veto comes from $strk, but strk directly chooses the eth balance, which is simple and crude. Although many people do not meet the requirements, they will not be wiped out, and the boutique account can always be saved!

It is different when it comes to zk. His daily average holding amount basically wiped out the traditional witch studio. . . Because the studio pursues scale and large-scale account listing, it is inevitable that each account will not be allocated a lot of assets. Occasionally, a large amount will be swiped, and it will not stay on the account for 24 hours, and it will not be counted in the daily average quota at all, not to mention that it is a year's daily average quota. . . . The time span is so large that no one can match it.

③Multiplier weight

Focus on two points: First, native assets, native NFTs, and abstract wallets. Only real users will pay attention to the native ecosystem and buy and sell native NFTs and native assets. Investors don’t care about whether it is native or not, because the first consideration for scale is to minimize wear and tear. The liquidity of native assets is a problem. Wear and tear must be very large, which is not in line with the professional qualities of our investors. The more strictly controlled studios are, the less they will consider native assets.

First, the main network transaction record and other L2 loyalty. The top 1k of the main network is actually very difficult to achieve. Those who can interact with the top 1,000 mainstream dapps are all great gods. Great gods will definitely not care about the airdrops of a few melons and two dates, and will not easily sell them. Airdrops will make them pay attention to new plans, and they will actively participate in the new chain ecosystem; other L2s have a 90-day restricted sale period, and the compliance rules are really amazing! It can not only be with other L2 strong customers, but also ensure that these customers are loyal customers!

Fourth, why review?

Learn from history, we can know the rise and fall.

What are the rules in the past? It determines the future direction of airdrop rules!

Airdrop is the best way to distribute chips fairly, especially the US FIT21 Act clearly states that token distribution should be fair, and airdrop is the best way!

But the number of people who are getting more and more crazy is destined to be more and more difficult, and the rate of return is getting smaller and smaller.

ZK's anti-slip tells us:

If you don't thoroughly understand the rules, don't keep up with the times with the iterative strategy, and continue to slip according to the past ideas, will the next one still be reversed?

Calm down—>Reflect—>Grow—>Strong! This is positive feedback!

Mindless abuse—>Follow the crowd—>Confused about the rules—>No growth—>Repeatedly being reversed! This is negative feedback

Why do we make money?

Don't make it hard to make money!

Money doesn't come in a hurry.

Think calmly, analyze rationally, and patiently judge the rules, then you can make the next big one!

This time the boutique account won a big victory, where is our future?

Use the strategy of a few people to make money on a project with a large number of people!

Objectively speaking, I think ZK's rules are indeed complicated this time, but his rules do work and get rid of most of the studios.

I know that many people still want to criticize after seeing this, instead of real growth and iteration. It doesn't matter, just criticize if you want, I don't care.

After all, mindless abuse can relieve anger, feel good, and feel good, while taking out your own account, starting to review, compare, summarize, grow, and deny your previous self according to the formula, it seems complicated, tedious and painful. This is the real reason why even God can't wake up a person who pretends to sleep. We all just want to choose a short-term relaxation instead of painful reflection.

This is human nature. I neither expect to change human nature nor have the power to change human nature.

If one in ten people read this and are inspired, then I sincerely wish all mature and rational people good luck. If you can gain a little bit, and iterate your next strategy and take action, then the wealth you get next time is what you deserve.

The way of heaven is to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency.

The way of man is not the same, to reduce the deficiency to serve the surplus.

The law of operation of this world is so realistic and cruel:

Wealth is only in the hands of a few rational people, and the rich want to be rich, and the poor want to be poor, because the rich are good at thinking and improving every day, and the poor are good at complaining and doing nothing.

The way of heaven is like this, those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish, and there is no exception.