Proposal for Token Allocation and Reward Criteria for Linea Blockchain

Hello Linea Community,

Merry Christmas and warm greetings to everyone!

First, I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to the Linea Development Team for their relentless efforts in building a remarkable blockchain and supporting the community since the testnet phase.

The central topic for both the community and the Linea team is proper allocation of tokens to ensure the success and growth of the Linea blockchain, surpassing competitors.

Below is my proposal for a fair and effective token reward system. Feedback—both agreement and constructive disagreement—is warmly welcomed!

  1. Token Allocation to the Community at TGE (Token Generation Event)

Proposal:
Allocate Minimum 30% of the total token supply to the community at TGE

  • LXP: 18%
  • LXP-L: 12%

Supporting Example:
HyperLiquid allocated 31% of its total token supply to the community at TGE. This strategy successfully fostered a strong and engaged community, resulting in increased token value and attracting a significant number of new users to the platform. This approach contrasts with projects that allocate “dust” rewards to the community, which often leads to mass token dumping at TGE and ultimately results in project failure. Proper token allocation is critical for ensuring long-term success, and without it, discussions on subsequent topics lose relevance.

  1. Criteria for Rewards from LXP

Proposal:
A. Multipliers
i. Collected LXP before Dencun (when transaction fees ranged between $10–$20 per transaction).
ii. Accumulated over 5,000 LXP in the pre-Dencun phase.

B. LXP Cutoff
Minimum eligibility: 1,500 LXP after pre-Dencun LXP multiplier calculation.

C. Tier-Based Reward System
i. To ensure fairness, introduce tiered rewards based on LXP ranges with increments of 500 LXP (instead of 1,000, as previously suggested by some community members).
ii. Rationale: Tasks other than Voyage campaign awarded between 100–150 LXP, and even total LXP which can be earned from the SZN Voyage was less than 1,000 LXP. Smaller ranges better reflect effort distribution.

Proposed Tier System

10,000
9,500 - 10,000
9,000 - 9,500
8,500 - 9,000
8,000 - 8,500
7,500 - 8,000
7,000 - 7,500
6,500 - 7,000
6,000 - 6,500
5,500 - 6,000
5,000 - 5,500
4,500 - 5,000
4,000 - 4,500
3,500 - 4,000
3,000 - 3,500
2,500 - 3,000
2,000 - 2,500
1,500 - 2,000

  1. Sybil Filter Suggestion

First of all, I don’t believe there are many industrial sybils which collected LXP, given the number of wallets which passed POH (KYC + two other metrics). **zkSync > 7M wallets

However, if the Linea team identifies abnormal activity related to LXP and decides to implement deeper Sybil filtration measures, I propose the following approach

Proposal:
i. If industrial sybil joined, it is certain that they joined after EIP-4844 as fee was too high to do sybil tasks before EIP-4844. Therefore, it would be proper to flag wallets that began collecting LXP after EIP-4844 as first flag
ii. Flag wallets that completed numerous tasks but avoided gaming tasks, as bots cannot complete those. This can be a good additional filter. There are several community members who are worried about high quality industrial sybils using randomization scripts so that they could cheat on the system as their on-chain data looks much healthier than on-chain data made by human.

  1. Criteria for Rewards from LXP-L

Proposal: Adopt a logarithmic reward model with a maximum reward cap per wallet to avoid top 0.1% users take all rewards.

Multiplier Considerations:
i. Wallets holding liquidity post-Surge indicate loyalty to the Linea chain.
ii. Such users should receive bonus points to recognize their continued support beyond LXP-L activities.

  1. Additional Consideration

Bonus Allocation based on following parameter to distinguish loyal users who utilize the Linea blockchain organically, beyond merely collecting LXP.
i. # of Month
ii. Trading Volume
iii. # of Smart Contract

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I don’t understand why you have such a large allocation for LXP-L.
Why 12% for people who do nothing, just add a large amount of liquidity and then withdraw all their money after 1 month?
If you recommend 18% for LXP, it should be maximum 5% for LXP-L. I really don’t understand you.

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LXP collectors incurred significant expenses in transaction fees, whereas LXP-L collectors earned profits by providing liquidity and receiving interest.

I agree with your perspective, but if the rewards for LXP-L are significantly smaller than those for LXP, it could lead to backlash from LXP-L collectors.
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Yes, it seems more reasonable to allocate a high share to them and destroy people who really actively use the network and have been doing this for a long time. You’ll never learn a lesson. And you’ll shoot yourself in the foot with these suggestions. good luck.

I agreed your proposal but your suggestion is not realistic.

  1. Airdrop Token to Community at TGE
    Many people mention HYPE is the good example and Linea team should learn from them. We all know HYPE is literally ideal model, but I think HYPE is sort of outlier. Linea is backed by Consensys (Probably many big VC as well). I expect most of allocation will be distributed to Founder/VC/Insiders like all other projects do. I expect total allocation to community during TGE will be much less than 30%.

  2. Sybil Filters. I agree with your opinion that bots were not able to do LXP tasks related to gaming mission. However, it doesn’t mean that users who didn’t do gaming tasks are sybils. Yes, if applying filter with completion of gaming LXP task will capture all bots, but many of false positive will be followed.

  3. As Loza mentioned, LXP reward should be much higher than LXP-L. As you pointed out, users had to spent a lot of ETH as fee and the loss became higher as ETH price pumped. In contrary, LXP-L users earned profit from liquidation. Moreover, their contribution is much smaller than LXP users. I am certain that LXP collectors at least have more than 200 transaction number if they participated at least 2 voyage campaign. it is no doubt that TVL is an important factor but still I believe LXP users should receive much more reward than LXP-L wallets.

Overall, we are going to see sybil report in a month and I hope TGE is no later than Mid Feb. End of March would be too late to get on the bus of Bull Run. Hope we all receive reasonable reward on resource that we spent for Linea chain.

Thank you for your opinion.

Thank you for your insight.

Let’s hope for the best, and prepare for the worst!

Because you collected LXP more than LXP-L?

You have to know that both LXP and LXP-L are important and both should be rewarded equally.

LOL. The team itself said LXP was worth a lot more.

If sybil filter is too strict and unreasonable, there will be many organic users to be filtered out.

Threshold LXP 2000 seems reasonable. As you described, professional bots use script and their on-chain activity shows no patterns, which means 3 - 5 users wallets will be filtered out as sybil while hundreds and thousands wallets will be passed filter.

Yes, that is what team strongly pointed out before Surge was started.

LXP cutoff is too low. It should be at least LXP 2000.

Reward cannot be distributed to all users, otherwise, the reward will be dust or nothing to loyal users who spent a lot of money and labor to collect high LXP.

Community already saw HYPE and has high expectation.

Most of high LXP ranked wallets are all Testnet NFT buyers. I completed almost all voyage quests to collect LXP but many whales already received huge and greater LXP than me even though they didn’t take much effort to get high LXP.

The biggest failure that I believe is Linea reward LXP not for minter but for anyone at snapshot. So much disapointed since most top ranked are not the ones who deserve that much LXP.

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I am hesitant to mentioned anything about sybil parts because it is most likely, “if you don’t agree with my proposal on sybil filter, YOU ARE SYBIL” reaction.

Has team ever shown any clear evidence of Sybil? In the beginning of October this year, Those suspicious sybil wallets (approximately 7k wallets) have been removed from POH verification.

I feel like decentralization on Linea is already failed if we still believe there are still major sybils.

I support your proposal in terms of 5. Additional Consideration. I think it would be good to give additional reward for organic users which use Linea not only for LXP reward but laso general user case. But this should be wallets which passes minimum LXP cutoff to avoid giving any reward to potential sybils.

This is first time that I see the proposal from users whose profile pic is Efrog does not propose huge reward for Efrog NFT holders. Really sick of Efrog community that they try to control community forum to fulfill their bag only.

I believe LXP cutoff 2k is proper as all bots will be filtered out as they joined after Dencun and sybil cannot receive more than 2k LXP after Dencun.

I think 30% of airdrop to communitty is fantasy. I know hyper liquid sucuessfully did it but simply Hyper liquid team did care about community. But we have to face realitiy. Almost all project, including starknet, scroll, layer zero, zksync, etc assgined most token to team and insiders.

You will be disappointed if you have high expectation from Linea airdrop. Linea is not hyper liquid.

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Your proposal is pretty similar idea that I have. One thing that I would propose is LXP for 20% and LXPL for 10%. The difference is that LXP can be collected by wasting fund (as fee) while LXPL can be collected by earning reward (liquidity APR) as well as ETH price increase.

About Sybils, Linea team doesn’t do sybil filter themselves. Other 3rd party company is doing it and it will be reported in a month.

Agreed. I am kind of sick of users whose profile is Efrog image. They all are spamming ridiculously high reward proposal for Efrog holders even if there is no single reason why Efrog is treated as super special comparing to other NFT project on Linea.

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Maybe you should buy one.

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Guys, stop spamming the same posts about Efrogs and LXP threshold values. It feels like efrogs have unleashed bots onto the forum.

Although I own Efrog NFT and profile includes Efrog image, I didn’t mention anything about Efrog on my post. Thanks,

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