Recently we have seen in several airdrops some eligibility criteria that some projects have to eliminate sybils (accounts created and managed by an entity for a benefit) or at least try to put a high fence in order to reduce the number of these accounts. That is why the eligibility criteria change, so sometimes it works well and other times it doesn't. Under this context, could the "sybils" be reduced in the recent Starknet airdrop? Let's explore.
Yesterday, February 21, the Starknet #airdrop claim began, where users who were chosen under the 3 announced criteria could claim an airdrop based on their activity on the Starknet network. As he points out, it was only qualifying in main activities on the network by making transactions to generate volume. There was no anti-sybil criteria or filter.
In the Starknet network, for example, they have a system created by starknet ID, where in addition to getting a domain, it asks you for a personal link from each network such as discord, github and twitter. I think that would have been an important criterion to consider.
I focus on this criterion because perhaps it would have served to eliminate some sybils accounts. Another example is that in current networks like Línea they are currently using these systems to be able to launch their campaign, a fact that seems very particular to me, given that they do not yet have an official #token but it is already anticipated that they could Consider this criterion when launching them. They call it "proof of humanity."
Why might it be important to consider this anti-sybil criterion?
In this case I will put a very specific case to be able to explain its importance. This case was detected by chain data in the claim that occurred yesterday.
As on-chain data shows, there is one account that has received an airdrop of 1,432,800 STRK (almost $3 million dollars) in total across 1,431 wallets. This is known as the individual transactions made in each wallet that have a common link with a main wallet. As you can see, he has claimed the airdrop and immediately afterwards transferred it to the main #billetera .
And this same process has continued with the 1,431 wallets found online.
After this he accumulated an amount of 1,136,650 STRK to finally transfer them elsewhere.
This work of making transactions and generating activity on the Starknet network was carried out meticulously for a period of almost 6 to 7 months, coincidentally with the announced eligibility criteria, this according to the movements that I observed in some wallets.
Maybe it was an "airdrop hunter" or a hacker, we don't know clearly, but the data remains in the chain.
This is one of the cases exposed by the "Lookonchain" chain movement researcher in the last few hours, and perhaps there are more movements like this from some others.
With this he did not try to say that the eligibility criteria were a bad move or to throw unnecessary #FUD into the Starknet network, but rather to imply that some criteria should have been stricter to avoid this type of act. Furthermore, it is not the first time that this has happened in the distribution of airdrops, since as I mentioned it is very common to observe more and more sybils chasing airdrops everywhere, even with X and discord accounts for each wallet. The other side of the coin is how willing users would be to provide their information to obtain an airdrop, or pass different humanity tests to have an approval, such as that of Gitcoin and its anti-sybil score. That is why in the next airdrops to come, I think that the eligibility criteria will be even stricter.
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