The Perfect Airdrop: Learning from Past Mistakes to Ensure Future Success

Hello, first I’d like to thank the team for allowing the community to share their suggestions. shows their commitment to their supporters. Previous airdrop launches like ZkSync, Scroll, and Starknet failed due to lack of transparency and setting standards that served the interests of the team and their families. This led to their communities turning against them – but in Linea I saw transparency and effort to educate the community through launching educational campaigns. I’ve benefited a lot from them, and it’s been an enjoyable journey.

The idea of collecting LXP was brilliant; it’s a clear indicator for both the network and the user. That’s why the tier system here will not be criticized – collecting LXPs was announced from the start. So, if someone collected LXPs and was in the top 500 or even top 10000 out of over a million wallets, they truly deserve recognition from both the community and the team. The issue with other failed airdrops was that the criteria for who got the allocations were unclear and not transparent, which ended up in a failed airdrop. Therefore, taking 500K wallets, for example, and rewarding them well would be a successful launch. If the user is not in this level, they’re either an institution looking to hunting airdrops at the lowest cost or a farmer with multiple wallets. Their voice shouldn’t matter or be heard by the real community.

So, as I mentioned earlier, the number of wallets should be reduced, and they should be rewarded well instead of expanding the circle and rewarding a huge number with small amounts (quality over quantity). If that happened harsh criticism will come your way, and no one who got the airdrop or didn’t, will be happy LOL. This is based on my experience studying community behavior from previous airdrops.

and I forgot to add that the top users should have a specific cap , as it’s not ideal for their allocations to exceed amounts like $20K. If I were in charge, I would allocate between $12K and $15K for them this way, their efforts will be recognized in a logical manner with well-balanced tiers.

And a very important thing is before the community receives the allocations, there should be an article from the team explaining why they took this step, the reasons behind it, and why these criteria were set, with complete transparency and honesty. This will help absorb any wave of anger and will earn the team sympathy and appreciation from the community, as honesty is always the best policy.

At the end, what made Arbitrum stand out in the eyes of the community as the best? while ZkSync was viewed as the worst? is that Arbitrum set the minimum allocation at 625, which was worth approximately $750 at the time with transparent and logical criteria. On the other hand, the situation with ZkSync was completely different. Most of the airdrop went to around 20,000 wallets only, based on questionable criteria, leaving the remaining wallets with dust and what made matters worse is that they didn’t filter the Sybil wallets this created a significant issue. As I mentioned earlier, Linea team established a solid foundation with LXP and POH which is a clear and transparent criterion that everyone can agree on!

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I really enjoyed what you wrote especially the point about the team issuing an announcement to explain the reasons. Releasing an announcement two days before receiving the airdrop for example would really be great!