ZKsync airdrop sparks controversy
Matter Labs, the developer of Layer2 blockchain ZKsync, officially announced its long-awaited airdrop distribution criteria for the $ZK token on June 11. According to the plan, 17.5% of the total supply of 21 billion $ZK tokens will be airdropped to users, totaling approximately 3.7 billion $ZK tokens.
According to data from the Aevo exchange, the pre-market price of $ZK tokens was once as high as $0.66. However, the opening price after going online was as low as $0.25-0.3 a piece, almost halved.
For this situation, the community believes that the ZKsync project party must bear great responsibility. First, the airdrop rules and anti-witch regulations are unclear, which has led to many people complaining that they are real users but are excluded from the short position.
Then, the developer Matter Labs tried to register the trademark "ZK", which caused anger among community project communities that use ZK technology, including Polygon, Starkware, etc. Many people believe that "ZK technology" is used by many Ethereum Layer2 ecosystems and belongs to "Public property", Matter Labs' attempt to monopolize it has undoubtedly caused public outrage.
Justin Sun threatens to boycott
Interestingly, during the entire controversy, Justin Sun, a global consultant of Huobi who is good at operating traffic, issued an article expressing resistance and even held a "Your honest opinion, should HTX list zkSync?" on social platform X. , that is, asking everyone to vote on whether Huobin should list the ZKsync token.
At that time, only 29.6% of the people voted in favor and 70.4% voted against, equivalent to more than half of the people boycotting the launch of the ZKsync project. When Justin Sun held the vote, many people praised "Sun "Brother's pattern", "If Brother Sun resists, he will follow Huo Bi in this life."
However, things took a turn for the worse. Just as the community was vigorously praising Justin Sun for taking the lead in resisting, Huobei quietly released the $ZK currency listing announcement on the morning of June 17.
Image source: HTX
The community laughed: Brother Sun is a deceiver.
After seeing this announcement, many people began to shout "I was cheated!", but Sun just posted an X tweet to explain, saying that he personally did not completely agree.
Sun Yuchen said that he has seen the feedback from the community. The voice of the community is of course very important, and Huobi also cherishes the voice of the community. However, the quality of the project, the overall scale, the online status of friendly merchants, etc. need to be considered when the exchange goes online. Taking all factors into account, he will continue to conduct actual investigations and explore the voices of the community in the future.
This statement obviously cannot convince the community, but the old players said calmly: "This is not the first time such a thing has happened" and "Sun Gao understands traffic. It is normal for the currency to be listed after the traffic is deceived. ”, “Sun Ge is such a deceitful person, would he still believe it on the first day he entered the industry? ”
