X platform user @Easy17182589 revealed an internal cheating scandal about the ZKSync project. According to the user, as early as September last year, he discovered the problems within ZKSync and continued to track and investigate. After in-depth data collection and analysis, the user published the evidence on GitHub and Mirror, which attracted widespread attention.
It is reported that the data covers the on-chain hash value, related addresses, ZKSync team members and their use of privileges to make illegal profits. Shockingly, these insiders obtained nearly 50 million ZK tokens through privileged access and interaction. This behavior seriously damaged the credibility of the project and the interests of users.
In the public document, user soEasy detailed how the conditions for obtaining the official ZKSync NFT (LIBERTAS OMNIBUS) were manipulated by insiders. Originally, the conditions for obtaining these NFTs were people who interacted with at least one of the more than 100 ZKSync NFT collections before the Mainnet launch on July 12 last year. However, insiders used contract permissions to mint NFTs directly to their own addresses, which did not meet the official published rules.
The user further pointed out that a group of addresses used the contract permissions to add themselves to the whitelist, allowing them to directly perform mint operations even if they did not meet the minting conditions. After successfully minting NFTs, 270 addresses sold them on the Element platform, making a lot of money from it.
In addition, there is another group of addresses that use the contract permissions to batch-cast (batchMint) and safely-cast (safeMint) by the contract founder address, generating a large number of NFTs and assigning them to their own multiple addresses. After these addresses minted NFTs, 65 of them were sold on the Element platform. Even more shocking is that 22 of these addresses received an airdrop of up to 412,738 ZKs.
According to statistics, the creator of the NFT contract used the contract permissions to mint a large number of LIBERTAS OMNIBUS NFTs to 9,871 addresses through batchMint, of which 4,685 addresses received airdrops, totaling 43 million ZK. Among the upper limit of 100,000 ZK addresses, 109 addresses were involved in such illegal operations. This internal illegal method of obtaining tokens allows the team to arbitrage in advance without waiting for the unlocking of shares.
When exposing the scandal, user soEasy said: "Based on the above evidence, it can be seen that there is corruption among the internal team members of the ZKSync project. The core reason why this airdrop caused such a big fuss is the opacity of the airdrop rules, and in order to cover up the internal cheating addresses, a lot of user interests have been sacrificed." He also mentioned that in December 2023, he had disclosed the scandal between his former employee seb (head of the defi ecosystem) and the ecosystem project Syncus DAO, which involved seb's improper behavior of promising a large number of ecological airdrops to the ecosystem but demanding the return of part of the tokens to him personally.
The exposure of this series of scandals has undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to the reputation of the ZKSync project. The corruption and abuse of privilege by internal personnel not only harmed the interests of users, but also undermined the credibility of the entire blockchain industry.#币安合约锦标赛 #币安上线ZK #AirdropGuide #LayerZero #美联储何时降息？ $BTC
