Has anyone done a community airdrop with a lockup? If not, why is that?

Seems like it would solve a lot of problems. Even professional long term investors can’t keep their finger off the trigger w/o a lockup mechanism. Can’t expect airdrop recipients. 

Can combine immediately liquidity with a linear vest (eg every block to avoid cliffs impacting market price)

Variable lockup based on size might be over complicating it, but need more teams experimenting to validate. Haven’t ever seen it tried.

Think it’s def worth trying if you haven’t done much to mitigate farmers. Friendtech was in an ideal position to try this but didn’t.

Most teams opt for manufacturing a similar outcome by doing a bunch of airdrops over time. Doesn’t seem like it’s working well enough to not try something different.

Also can explore lockups on the top X% of recipients, moreso targeting farmers who will insta-dump in size

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“Well” as in holders were happy they got the airdrop and were able to take profit?

Read that 20% of the airdrop was liquid at TGE and the other 80% this upcoming April. The chart looks awful, though maybe that’s not what they were optimizing for. Will be interesting to see if things reverse after April (like moxie saw after their initial rewards stopped)

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Wormhole allocated tokens to Mad Lads holders that vested monthly over a year. Worked well I think.

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Was the lockup communicated in advance? Guessing it was not, and I think it needs to be, since the standard (and thus user expectation) is no lockup 

Hard to overstate the importance of expectation management

I've seen two airdrops with mandatory lockups, and the response was negative. I believe offering an option to lock up for extra incentives is much better than making it compulsory.

I believe $RDAC will be an interesting one to watch with many use cases ready and token locks for airdrops etc.

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Pretty interesting how @superfluid is doing their airdrop 

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Interesting, thanks for sharing!

Appears to be more about token accrual, and I appreciate it being straightforward in tokens instead of via points etc

Transferability will need to be voted on the DAO though and they don’t mention lockups. Asked to see if they can share more

If you’re actually giving out the tokens and just limiting who can transfer, I wonder if that complicates implementing a lockup later. I think you’d have to get the users to deposit the tokens into a contract, and they’d need to be unlocked to do that… only option might be to fork the tokens you’ve given out and put those into an escrow contract (unless you can encode time locks into token contracts which I think goes beyond commonly used standards)

Pretty interesting how @superfluid is doing their airdrop 

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Nice thank you. N = 1. @betashop.eth would love to hear how this went for you guys, ie if you felt the lockup solved problems and was better than not doing it

moxie had a airdrop that was locked https://moxie.community/airdrops-grants

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Seasons make sense but I also think you can accomplish a similar outcome making some of the airdrop liquid immediately but leaving most of it on a lockup. Aligns users with the project in a long term way, and you’re not making your users continuously dance for unknown amounts of financial incentive

if you only want community contributors to have the token, locking up isn't a solution imo. as you want them to use your token, they're the early holders/users. see degen/higher 

massive airdrops doesn't make sense and a lockup wouldn't solve much. it's a short-term attention mechanism. but airdropping by seasons based on participation in the platfrom/protocol makes more sense to me

if you only rely in an airdrop to get attention, you already know pmf is out of scope. have a product, distribute to a few ones, create pmf, and others will buy in

Uni had that kind of as it was during the early staking years for liquidity

If you provide LP on uni-X pools, you got more uni. It was actually good for its price