Zksync’s token airdrop caused widespread criticism in the community, and even launched the#zkscammovement to strongly punish the project. Many people believe that Zksync’s official airdrop rules are opaque. Many tokens are airdropped to Mousecang and related project parties, but actual users do not receive much share.
However, some people in the community believe that these negative voices mainly come from studios that promote airdrops. These organizations invest a lot of money in interaction but are opposed by the project team. Therefore, they try to use the pressure of public opinion to force them to relax the conditions for airdrops.
Despite this, the official attitude has not changed so far. It still maintains the original airdrop plan and does not plan to make any changes. ZK Nation wrote in the announcement:
"Our airdrop design has its imperfections. But we believe we made reasonable trade-offs."
Thank you for all the feedback and discussions over the past few days.In 2024, airdrops are extremely challenging. Sophisticated industrial farms operate millions of bots indistinguishable from real people in behavioral patterns. This renders traditional activity-based airdrops…
— ZK Nation (@TheZKNation) June 13, 2024
In addition, whether mainstream exchanges will list ZK tokens is also the focus of public opinion at present. Generally speaking, for projects of this level like Zksync, major exchanges will be the first to open trading, but this time in the face of social Due to strong criticism from the group, many exchanges have not issued currency listing announcements yet.
So far, Bybit and Gate.io have announced the listing of ZK tokens. However, these exchanges have been labeled as "letting platform users take over orders for rat positions". Many people have also launched boycotts and called on investors not to Use these exchanges. OKX CEO Xu Mingxing asked a question on X to gauge the direction of the wind:
"Why do many influential people in the currency circle accuse ZKsync of being a scam? Is it because the airdrop did not meet the community's original expectations?"
When commenting on this issue, Binance co-founder He commented on Space:
"The fundamental reason is that many studios were kicked back and lost their money."
In addition, Justin Sun also asked the community on
Your honest opinion, should HTX list zkSync? Should Huobi list ZKSync?
— H.E. Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) June 15, 2024
Currently, Binance, Huobi and OKX are not sure whether they will list the token.
This article Zksync public opinion war heats up! The leading exchange faces the decision to list. First appeared in Zombit.