On January 20th, 2025, the Nansen team released their Sybil detection report, identifying Sybil wallets in approximately 39.85% wallets. Initially Nansen flagged 50.45% addresses out of 1,297,203 unique eligible EVM addresses.
Initially, all these addresses had already undergone Proof of Humanity (PoH) verification conducted by Linea. After the Sybil detection analysis, 780,243 addresses remained eligible, while 516,960 were identified as Sybil wallets. Up to 20 Sybils wallets allowed.
Despite the Sybil detection efforts by Nansen, still we can see in X, private Discord/Telegram groups sharing. They have managed to bypass Nansen’s Sybil detection even they have 50, 70, 100+ addresses. Need Sybil Bounty Hunter Program
These wallets have typically low LXP balances (often below 2000) and used automated airdrop farming scripts. (That’s not mean less than 2000 LXP wallets are 100% Sybils but yes I can certainly say majority will be.) They seem to be aware how Sybil detection works and loopholes to manipulate the system.
Furthermore, they are openly displaying their undetected addresses and the LXP holdings of their numerous Sybil wallets on faces of Linea Team.
I urge the Linea Team to implement stricter filtering measures to identify and eliminate rest of the malicious actors. Reward distribution should be Tiered based and prioritize those who have made the greatest positive impact on the Linea ecosystem. Single wallet should get more rewards compare to multiple wallets.
Linea team can announce a Sybil Bounty Hunter Program to catch rest of the sybils.
It seems many sybil wallets weren’t affected as it’s shows on the chat, some cases partially affected. These wallets generally exhibit similar behavioral patterns. The Nansen team could expand the list and enhance the decentralization process for Linea.
Sorry, but that’s a misconception, the numbers tell a different story.
We need to acknowledge that most of these types of chats are filled with typical liars and chatterboxes who boast about their achievements and build fake reputations.
Don’t take this seriously. Linea has done and continues to do fundamental work in cleansing the ecosystem from Sybils, and the results are visible. Thanks to the team!
Most of them do it for angagement to attract more people to join their group, the same thing is often noticed on X with fake screenshots to gain followers … In summary most are fake
I agree with your assessment. Nansen has done an excellent job. While it is impossible to completely eliminate Sybils, the majority of remaining mega farmers or Sybils tend to operate within the range of 2,000 LXPs and below. The most effective approach, in my opinion, would be to implement a well-designed tokenomics structure that minimizes rewards for such accounts. This way, legitimate users are not adversely impacted, while Sybil accounts receive reduced incentives as I suggested in my proposal
Yes, Tier based or Hybrid model will solve this issue. People will get what they have given to ecosystem and multiple wallets users will gets minimal rewards.
