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layerzero

Breaking down the /layerzero $ZRO airdrop criteria announcement and the legitimate genius of it! 
1. Seemingly overly strict criteria: When the below medium dropped with little clarification they caused uproar on CT, with everyone assuming they were going to be sybil flagged.
Genius tick no. 1- Create online chaos...

farmers

2. Allowing "sybils" to self report for 15% of their alleged airdrop... How many mid-tier /farmers will panic and take the safe 15% allocation? Thus safely reducing $ZRO allocation dilution, if you're a mid-tier or top-tier Farmoooor, go touch some grass you have 13 days left to make a decision.

Degen, BananaConf Tallinn organising team, general shitposter

degens

3. Bountys! Incentivising on-chain autists to manually dox sybils will increase Layerzero usage metrics as /degens desperately try to PVP allocations.There will be false-positives here, unsure how this will be handled, but expect more outrage (free-publicity) on CT. Genius Tick: reduced dilution/increased usage metrics

4. Name-checking Merkly was a dirty but effective maneouvre sending threadoors like @layerzeromaxi (who is a team advisor) into a frenzy of posts highlighting how this was an unfair slight on a team who's protocol was interacted with by nearly 25% of all wallets utilising L0.

Genius Tick: Threadoor Post Frenzy on X.  https://x.com/CC2Ventures/status/1786687593473589729

5. Bait & Switch. My oppinion here is that this is a classic manoeuvre. They can walk all this back reducing backlash by "listening to the community" They were dead right to post the most controversial criteria possible, nothing is permanent yet. They can easily pivot to make users happy.

Case in point Bryan Pellegrino is already issuing loads of clarifying posts on X. He has already improved community sentiment. If they did this flawlessly there would be no easy opportunity to do this. 
Genius tick: "Community engagement"

Case in point Bryan Pellegrino is already issuing loads of clarifying posts on X. He has already improved community sentiment. If they did this flawlessly there would be no easy opportunity to do this. 
Genius tick: "Community engagement"
https://x.com/PrimordialAA/status/1786445773552439644

Conclusion this is marketing & /airdrop meta genius. Opaque announcements, evoquing intense emotions and providing huge engagement for Layerzero labs, while also reducing diluiton. The only mistake I can see is having a TGE during the doldrums of Summer. Now please don't exclude me!