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ZKsync never invited people to farm. It always strived to build a community of people who deeply care about the mission of ZK Credo and the incredible potential of the ZK tech. Almost every blog post, twitter message, public statement of ZKsync focuses on the long-term mission, values and technology. Users were invited to join ZKsync to engage in organic activity, leveraging onchain opportunities and having fun. No rewards were ever promised for those activities. We never called farmers "bots". We know that there many real people who feel hurt and disappointed. We understand why, and while this is not our fault, it makes us extremely unhappy. But this was bound to happen, because industrial farmers made it impossible to meet the expectations of everyone. At the same time, it's also true that there is a massive misinformation campaign orchestrated by industrial sybils and their bots.

The high variability of the airdrop with 100x difference between the highest and lowest allocations is a deliberate choice. Simple math: 3.675 billion ZK airdrop. Let's say we increase the number of eligible accounts to 1.5 million. Most of them will be smart industrial sybils, but let's ignore for now. If we divide 3.675b equally between 1.5m, every organic user with just one account would have gotten 2450 ZK. Most people would dump, forget, and move on to the next thing. No one would care. Now, instead, tens of thousands of organic users received a very substantial allocation. For many of them it's creating life-chainging opportunities. Many will really, really, really care about the ZKsync. ZK is their new home now. This is how a Nation is born. A community of ZK Maxis. The ZK Diehards. The ZK Marines. ZK is the endgame!

The FAQ is updated: docs.zknation.io/zk-token/zk… If you have more questions or issues: ➔ Check comments below. Like to upvote. ➔ Add missing questions or isssues. Questions already answered in the FAQ: 1. How could someone qualify for this airdrop? 2. When you say this is a usage-based airdrop, what does that mean? 3. I met some of the eligibility criteria, but did not get an allocation, why not? 4. I met four eligibility criteria and got less than someone I saw on X who only met two eligibility criteria. Why? 5. How does “value scaling” work? 6. What if I only used ZKsync Lite? Why was I excluded? 7. Why are there addresses with 0 transactions that still got an allocation? 8. Why are external groups like Degen and Bonsai rewarded instead of ZKsync users? 9. Why did some people get more than 100K tokens? 10. How did you decide which ecosystem projects were eligible for the airdrop? 11. Why did TVL spike in November 2023? 12. Why did you allocate tokens to CEXs? 13. I participated in ZK Quest, why didn’t I get as many tokens as other participants? 14. Why was I not eligible despite performing well in the various airdrop checkers? 15. Did you use sybil detection? P.S. We are committed to do our best in answering all questions and processing community feedback. It will take time, but we're here for you. We will focus on questions on the top of the list first. Use likes to prioritize them. For the sake of keeping the discussion productive and structured for everyone, we will remove distracting posts without questions or actionable feedback. Claiming opens on Monday, June 17th at 7:00am UTC.

Thank you for all the feedback and discussions over the past few days. In 2024, airdrops are extremely challenging. Sophisticated industrial farms operate millions of bots indistinguishable from real people in behavioral patterns. This renders traditional activity-based airdrops completely useless for building resilient and sustainable communities. Our airdrop design is unconventional and has its imperfections. But we are proud of the path we’ve chosen and believe we made reasonable tradeoffs. We are rewarding hundreds of thousands of people, creating life-changing opportunities for many of them. We also recognize that many people are upset, having received less than they expected. We don’t take this lightly. We spent several days and nights looking into reports and double-checking data, to understand the full picture and eliminate any possible mistakes. We did not identify major issues, but we also recognize that our communication about the nuances of the airdrop design was not clear enough. To address this, we’ve crafted an initial set of FAQs to address your most burning questions. docs.zknation.io/zk-token/zk… We are preparing a more systematic way for the community to collect and prioritize feedback, and will do our best to answer the remaining questions in full transparency. This is just the start of an exciting new phase. Dozens of ecosystem projects have committed to distributing their token allocations to the community (see 🧵 below), and nearly 50% of the total token supply is still reserved for the community overall. Claiming starts June 17th. Stay tuned for more updates.

Meanwhile, something important you need to know. There is is a massive, coordinated, Sybil misinformation campaign against ZKsync on X. Run by thousands of bots. ⬇️🧵