According to ChainCatcher, Robinson Burkey, co-founder of the Wormhole Foundation, posted on social media to share some of the progress made since the W airdrop went online nearly three months ago. He mentioned that the anti-witch work carried out through Allium for more than 5 months has been successful.
After sorting out the addresses to prevent Sybil attacks, 400,000 wallets from 26 different ecosystems were eligible for the airdrop. Since Wormhole has been running for more than 3 years, there is a lot of data to process, which took about 4 months. So far, the team has processed 265,476 airdrop claims.
Burkey concluded: “I think the best airdrops are the ones that users don’t expect. However, I think we can’t go back to that simpler time and have to go into points campaigns and witch wars. Points campaigns are like a tacit agreement between the protocol and ‘new users’ that airdrop farming is acceptable.
The question becomes whether the protocol is well-equipped to be farmered. I personally support point schemes because they reduce the workload on protocol teams (i.e., reduce the time associated with anti-sybil work).”