Are all the studios going to close down? Airdrops are no longer lucrative

Recently, the studios that have received airdrops are complaining and want to defend their rights!

The pattern of this wave of project parties is getting smaller and smaller, as if it was premeditated. Recently, zkSync is so lazy that it is too lazy to fake it!

Avail is a scammer

On April 19 this year, Avail announced the airdrop rules, which was regarded as the first wave of this wave of project parties' scams.

Avail is actually a very popular project. As an important part of the modular blockchain trend, it is a leading project in the DA layer.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, just look at their financing records: Dragonfly led the seed round and the A round, and raised a total of 70 million US dollars in two rounds!

This is a very exciting project, of course everyone is looking forward to it!

However, the subsequent airdrop claiming website disappointed many people - many testnet participants and L2 heavy active users who were sure they would gain something before got the result of "Not Eligible" in the qualification query. For a while, there were constant complaints online, complaining about the rules and standards, and even questioning the fairness. Many users even called the project "rat warehouse".

As a modular settlement layer, Dymension is objectively a client of Avail DA. All these connections caused many users to buy DYM and pledge it for the expectation of Avail's airdrop.

But in the end, the airdrop was not given to DYM pledgers.

The users who participated in the nodes were also fooled. It was claimed that 5% of the nodes would be randomly selected to receive airdrops, but in fact, I asked the big users who built thousands of nodes around me, and they did not receive any airdrops.

If it was really a random draw, 50 out of 1,000 nodes should be selected. If none of them are selected, it is basically a rat warehouse.

Community users have defended their rights. Under pressure, Avail still launched a second phase of airdrops, which can be regarded as appeasing some community users.

Taiko refuses to respond to airdrop rules

Another star project, Taiko, simply does not announce the airdrop rules. If there is, there is, and if there is not, there is not.

This fraud is so self-assured.

Wang Dong, the co-founder of the project, first posted on X, "In order to avoid unnecessary arguments, we will not disclose the detailed TKO Genesis airdrop rules. Our goal is fairness, but we cannot satisfy everyone. Congratulations to those who received TKO, and apologize to those who did not."

Soon after, as more and more doubts and even insults were raised on the X platform, Wang Dong seemed to be angered and spoke again on Discord:

IO is a PUA master

As an AI computing power platform, it is stated that there will be 32 million tokens airdropped to computing power miners

From March to May, a large number of users flocked to IO computing power mining to get airdrops, which once raised the price of Mac. How popular is it:

However, IO does not display points, which makes miners panic and have to hang on honestly. Whether it is renting computing power or buying equipment for mining, there is a cost.

Some miners said, "It's PUA, you have to hang for a long time, and it doesn't tell you the actual points, so everyone has to put in a lot of energy, and the rebound will be so big afterwards."

IO only allocated 32 million tokens to miners, but the computing power of each miner's machine is unlimited, and the maintenance is very complicated. There is also real money investment, which led to many studio teams in this project being reversed in the end. According to the current currency price, half of the cost of the machine has not been recovered.

zkSync's underwear is gone

If the previous projects still have some face, at most they are stingy and small.

The zkSync project is an open racketeering, and it has started to cheat directly.

zkSync was raised in the last round of bull market, with a staggering amount of 258 million US dollars! No project with a larger financing scale has appeared in this round.

The leading investment institutions are also well-known Dragonfly and a16z.

I didn't expect that such a thick-browed and big-eyed guy would betray the revolution.

For example, NFT market Element tweeted that as the largest NFT market on ZKsync, they did not receive any airdrops and questioned whether this was a joke.

The addresses that received the airdrops were all strange addresses, and 12,000 addresses had no interaction records. Those who received relatively large ecological airdrops were all their own relatives.

Airdrops are essentially marketing expenses

As early as ten years ago, the scene of Internet companies sending red envelopes to attract new users was still vivid, and many studios relied on wool to support their families.

Today, Pinduoduo, which started out by sending red envelopes, is so stingy that it is unwilling to give even a penny.

This is actually the normal process of project development. The project party always compares the budget. There is only so much money, so it is better to spend it there.

The early crypto projects had a high threshold for interaction, and it was better to give money to users than to advertisers.

But after the studio has faked users in batches, it still expects the project party to settle the accounts for you stupidly?

Now, due to the development of technology, the interaction threshold of many projects has also been lowered a lot. In the end, the airdrops of crypto projects will be the same as the red envelopes of today's Internet products. Only a small number of users will have such a pitiful little bit. The days of making money to support the family are gone forever.

Those who run studios should change their careers as soon as possible. I also advise those who are interested in wool parties to try to get as little as possible if they must get it.