{"id":240695,"date":"2022-06-01T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=240695"},"modified":"2023-04-15T23:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T22:09:36","slug":"optimism-airdrops-token-amidst-high-demand-and-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/optimism-airdrops-token-amidst-high-demand-and-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism airdrops token amid high demand and drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">Ethereum<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> layer-2 solution, <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/optimism\/\">Optimism<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has airdropped its <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/ethereum-l2-solution-optimism-to-launch-new-governance-model-token-via-airdrop\/\">OP governance token<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to around 249,000 wallets in the early hours of June 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sup sleuths\u2014as you might have guessed, OP Drop #1 launches today. We have NOT officially announced yet, but we\u2019re already experiencing an all-time high demand. We knew everyone would be excited, but holy cow\u2014y\u2019all just couldn\u2019t wait for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OPSummer?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OPSummer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Optimism (\u2728\ud83d\udd34_\ud83d\udd34\u2728) (@optimismPBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/optimismPBC\/status\/1531714854901391360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Optimism's airdrop <a href=\"https:\/\/community.optimism.io\/docs\/governance\/airdrop-1\/#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white paper<\/span><\/a>, its first tranche of airdrops will be for users who have been &#8220;instrumental as early adopters and active users of projects in the Optimism ecosystem.&#8221; The white paper identified 248,699 addresses that are eligible for the airdrop in this category.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(4\/28): We\u2019ve updated the eligibility table in this thread for clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Full eligibility criteria are available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S7BXfgTdKr\">https:\/\/t.co\/S7BXfgTdKr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best way to see you if you qualify for Airdrop #1 is to use the address checker:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LOyiLEqnVz\">https:\/\/t.co\/LOyiLEqnVz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1BE3tpmNKW\">pic.twitter.com\/1BE3tpmNKW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Optimism (\u2728\ud83d\udd34_\ud83d\udd34\u2728) (@optimismPBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/optimismPBC\/status\/1519768463564316678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optimism will be distributing 5% of its tokens in this first airdrop, while 14% will be left for future airdrops. The rest of the tokens will be used for ecosystem funds, private investors, public goods funding, and core contributors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optimism is a layer-2 scaling solution on Ethereum that aims to improve transaction speeds and reduce costs by combining several transactions into one bundle. It then sends this through Ethereum as a single transaction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/will-ethereum-layer-2-chains-survive-after-the-merge\/\">Layer-2 solutions<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like Optimism have become quite common on Ethereum as they allow developers to enjoy the security of Ethereum and avoid the constant issues of network congestion and high transaction fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Optimism removed 17k wallets<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 23, Optimism revealed its decision to remove airdrop farmers from its list. It removed 17,000 Sybil addresses and recovered over 14 million OP tokens that it intends to redistribute among the userbase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Optimism is for the people, not the sybils.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been carefully analyzing OP Airdrop #1 for sybil attackers that slipped through the cracks. We\u2019re happy to announce that we\u2019ve removed an additional 17k sybil addresses and recovered over 14 million OP. Bye bye sybils! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XfWTcOFXEa\">pic.twitter.com\/XfWTcOFXEa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Optimism (\u2728\ud83d\udd34_\ud83d\udd34\u2728) (@optimismPBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/optimismPBC\/status\/1528830231322165249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airdrop farming, or Sybil attack, is a process where a user tries to get airdrops on multiple wallets. Sybil attacks are pretty common in the industry, although they are frowned upon by many.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the airdrop became available, some users had claimed they had been directly interacting with the smart contract. The moderator in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/discord-gateway.optimism.io\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Optimism Discord Server<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said the team was testing the airdrop functionality.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">optimism team just testing in prod and some lucky people selling their tokens ahead of us being able to sell?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sisyphus (@0xSisyphus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xSisyphus\/status\/1531658048388968448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the airdrop went live, some Optimism users said they had lost their eligibility status even though they were initially eligible.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was eligible for airdrop trying to claim and suddenly its showing now i am not eligible<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; john lewis (@johnlewis381987) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnlewis381987\/status\/1531717325707046912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The OP token is currently trading for $1.78 on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/optimism\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CoinGecko<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After launching at $1.49, its price went as high as $2.10 before dropping to its current value.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum layer-2 solution, Optimism, has airdropped its OP governance token to around 249,000 wallets in the early hours of June 1. Sup sleuths\u2014as you might have guessed, OP Drop #1 launches today. We have NOT officially announced yet, but we\u2019re already experiencing an all-time high demand. 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