Mudit Gupta from zkSync rival Polygon, criticized ZK token for lacking in the measures of anti-bots, and assumed it to be the most farmed airdrop ever.
The Ethereum layer-2 scaler zkSync has been criticized by the crypto community for allegedly lacking anti-Sybil measures and unfairly distributing its zkSync (ZK) token airdrop.
“zkSync airdrop is out. Most farmable and farmed airdrop ever probably,” the information security chief of rival layer-2 Mudit Gupta posed on X on June 11.
“Almost no Sybil filtering as far as I can see,” Gupta stated “Anyone who knew the criteria could’ve easily farmed the shit out of it.”
Recently, zkSync announced that 695,232 wallets were eligible to claim its ZK token airdrop. They also listed seven criteria designed to prevent Sybil attacks, where someone uses multiple wallets to exploit crypto airdrops.
“That was not a well-planned airdrop from a Sybil perspective,” Adam Cochran said, sharing zkSync’s eligibility criteria. “Those criteria are easy to not hit as a real user, and easy to hit as a farmer, and had no anti-Sybil program.”
Crypto analytics firm Nansen clarified by stating that it did not conduct anti-Sybil checks or advise on allocations for the ZK token drop but “provided data on some specific wallet segments,” including for “whales and known scammers.”
A crypto researcher, gnas, spotted that zkSync intentionally did not take strict measures on anti-sybil, and in a press release, it claimed “Sybil detection often cuts out real users with arbitrary filters.”
An account named “Sybil Horror 6,” which tracks Sybil activity, posted an initial estimate based on data from LayerZero Labs. It is estimated that 135 million ZK tokens might be allocated to Sybil wallets identified by LayerZero.
The pre-market sale of these tokens on Pancakeswap and Aevo is estimated at a value of $52.3 million.
After the release of the details of Airdrop, the token lost its price by 43% in the last 24 hours on both exchanges.
