Proposal for Linea Airdrop Multiplier Criteria to Combat Remaining Sybils

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Dear Linea Team,

First of all, I appreciate the effort and thoughtfulness you are putting into ensuring a fair and effective airdrop distribution. However, as we all know, despite previous measures, some sybils still remain within the system, and most of them fall into the lower LXP tiers. To further refine the airdrop process and reward genuine, long-term contributors, I would like to propose an additional filter:

Suggestion:

Implement a minimum 4000 or 4500 LXP cap to qualify for any airdrop multipliers or boosters

Reasoning:

Sybils Tend to Have Low LXP:

Most sybils accumulated minimal LXP while genuine users who consistently supported the network over time naturally earned higher LXP. By setting a threshold, we can effectively remove the remaining sybils while ensuring that legitimate participants
benefit.

Encouraging Long-Term Engagement:

This approach would prioritize users who have actively contributed to Linea for an extended period rather than those who made last-minute efforts or engaged in minimal activity.

Preventing Manipulation:

Without a reasonable LXP cap, there is still room for exploitation. This filter would significantly reduce the impact of any remaining bad actors.

Fair Reward Distribution:

Those who have truly supported Linea from the beginning deserve a larger share of the airdrop. This would ensure a more equitable and merit-based allocation.

This suggestion is aimed at fostering fairness and strengthening the integrity of the airdrop distribution. I hope the team considers this as a viable solution to further refine the process.

Looking forward to your feedback and the best possible outcome for the Linea community.

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Absolutely irrational and unfair.

Not everyone has a high contribution and a large amount of LXP. This does not mean that people are disloyal, just as it does not mean that people with the maximum amount of LXP are loyal and are not sibils. There are enough sibils in any category.

As a result, this proposal is capable of cutting off people who have been with Linea from the early stages, but for some reason did not complete all the quests. It is quite obvious that depriving them of some bonuses is unfair.

Agree. This is obvious and has been voiced many times on the forum, including partly by the Linea team, in the discord and even in some AMAs. There is nothing to discuss here, the idea is not new.

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Suggestion:

**Implement a minimum 4000 or 4500 LXP cap to qualify for any airdrop multiplier

Absolutely irrational and unfair.

Not everyone has a high contribution and a large amount of LXP.

If someone doesn’t even have a normal amount of LXP, which wasn’t too difficult to earn with just a little effort, then it’s absolutely fair that they don’t get the same rewards as those who put in more work and supported Linea consistently.

This is how every fair system works—those who contribute more, get more.

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I think this is unnecessary move ideas from comments and other topics and re-post them.

I suggest discussing ideas in the specific places where they first appeared and not creating duplicate topics. It clutters the forum.

As for the topic: the first proposal is far from fair and will cut off a large number of regular users from the bonuses, which I see no need for and will worsen decentralization. The second proposal is obvious and doesn’t require further discussion.

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Alright, boss, I get it. You’ve already decided everything for everyone. Clearly, you don’t accept any other opinion. There’s no point in writing anything here. A circus.

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Sorry but if you’re going to draft a proposal using ChatGPT, at least you could have added more detail. You’ve set a range of 4000-4500, but there’s no explanation in the rest of the text for why you chose this level. The subheadings are just generic, broad statements that look like a book preface than something with real context.

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An attempt to introduce an obvious unfair idea under the veil of another obvious and unquestionable one.

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If you had actually read my proposal instead of rushing to criticize, you’d see the reasoning is clear sybils are concentrated in the lower LXP tiers, and setting a 4000-4500 LXP threshold for multipliers helps filter them out while rewarding real, long-term users.

As for the structure, it’s a forum post, not a corporate whitepaper. The key points are there, and anyone with basic comprehension can understand the logic behind it. If you have constructive feedback, feel free to share. But if your goal is just to nitpick and undermine, you’re wasting your time.

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Obviously, this will harm regular users, benefit those who are above the threshold set by the author (who is clearly not below it), and do nothing to solve the sybil problem. The stance on fighting sybils here is just a smokescreen.

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How do you suggest eliminating sybils?

It’s easy to dismiss an idea without offering a solution, but that just proves you’re more interested in shutting down discussions than actually addressing the problem. If you genuinely care about fairness, let’s hear your proposal. Otherwise, your argument holds no weight.

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No one’s asking you to prove a mathematical formula. I simply asked you to explain why you chose the 4000-4500 range. Yet instead of giving a clear answer, you’re still glossing over it with vague statements.

Sybil attacks on Linea happened in Linea Park in the final week after the Dencun upgrade, when all tasks were reopened. As seen in the chart, the concentration is mostly between 1000-1500 LXP.

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If we exclude LXP from the Voyage NFT, a wallet would have needed to participate in LXP campaigns before Dencun to reach 4000 LXP. The LXP earned from post-Dencun campaigns is around 2500.

You said, “sybils are concentrated in the lower LXP tiers.” What makes you think there’s a high concentration of sybils in the 3000-4500 LXP range? That’s what I asked you to explain, yet you haven’t attempted to justify it anywhere in your text.

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Did Linea even ask me about this? The team is already doing an amazing job without ideas like, “to clean white marbles from black ones, just throw everything in the trash.” Your idea is bad, and the fact that I’m not offering an alternative doesn’t make it any better - I never asked for your ideas.

I won’t even bother commenting on the rest of your manipulative ramblings. Disgusting.

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Fair is whatever benefits Lineamaxi.

Anything that rewards others significantly more than Lineamaxi? Totally unfair.

If the reward is just $1 more than his, he might tolerate it without throwing a tantrum.

Those who farmed less than him and did things he didn’t do are considered unworthy and undeserving of the drop.

But the drama will go on until Linea caves to his ultimatum and falls for his manipulative antics.

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You’ve already answered your own question.

People who had the Testnet Voyage NFT and even participated in post-Dencun LXP campaigns easily reached 4000 LXP. Beyond the main LXP campaigns, there were many partner campaigns where people could accumulate more.

The main objective of any airdrop is to reward loyalty and loyalty isn’t just a word, it means active participation and effort. Linea was absolutely clear about LXP from day one. They continuously reminded the community to accumulate as much LXP as possible.

I genuinely don’t understand why some of you are so angry at me. I never said that those with less than 4000 LXP shouldn’t be eligible for an airdrop. I only suggested that boosters should be reserved for those who put in above average effort. Is that really such an unfair idea?

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If you never asked for my ideas, then stay off my post instead of polluting it with your nonsense. No one forced you to be here, yet you’re obsessively replying. That says more about you than it does about me.

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What? ahahahahahah, cringe

The main objective is decentralization.

Because you’re manipulating and distorting facts to reduce allocations for innocent users in order to profit for yourself, under the guise of concepts like honesty and other nonsense you’re making up. People here are not idiots and don’t appreciate this attitude

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Not innocent users but Sybil’s.

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Yeah, man, you’re clearly crazy.

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The sybil concentration is clear in the author’s chair. Obviously, a healthy person would never try to undermine others and spend whole days just to gain $10 more. But when there’s more than one account, such behavior becomes more justified.

Clearly, sybils need to be cut out at all levels, but the author oddly proposes a specific threshold. Why, I wonder, haha.

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lol
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