According to Foresight News, LayerZero’s official Discord released an announcement saying, “Using Merkly does not mean that the airdrop will automatically be zero. If you only use Merkly, then you are likely a puppet. If you are a real user doing real things, then there is no problem.”

Foresight News notes that the NFT cross-chain service Merkly is one of the ecosystem projects included in LayerZero's official website, but LayerZero's self-report regards Merkly, L2Pass, L2Marathon, etc. as "sybil mining" applications; then Merkly consultant and KOL CC2 tweeted that he felt the (LayerZero) airdrop was a scam.