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Today, @Optimism unveils Airdrop #5:

Onchain together, benefit together.

10M+ OP has been allocated to 54k+ unique addresses.

As of today, roughly 550M OP remains for future airdrops.

One surprising trend I’ve noticed with airdrops is the neglect to consider actual users with on-chain KYC-verified wallets and reward them for supporting the ecosystem.

For example, Gnosis Pay has 3,137 verified wallets, Optimism has over 300K wallets verified by Coinbase/OP Citizen, and Binance has more than 800K on-chain verified wallets.

Additionally, it's easy to filter wallets connected to a CEX on-chain. Moving forward, projects could also include subsets of users displaying human-like behavior, similar to how ZKSync incorporated Farcaster and Lens
https://dune.com/pfedan/gnosispay-stats
https://dune.com/robin_y/binance-soulbound-token

if the goal is to onboard next million users, should we give them a push by rewarding them rather than bots. Seems to a be an missing opportunity.

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aztec

That is my point. Even if a wallet is KYCed, it does not expose your details, though you need to trust the central entity doing the verification(hack, information leak). It's still self-custodial, and if we are to go fully unbacked, regulation is a good thing. 
Imagine /aztec everyone is allowed to participate but those with kyced wallet have higher limit. Privacy, not anonymity

KYC goes against the most important values in this space, so personally I'm grateful this hasn't been a thing.

Regardless, there's a chance we move in that direction sooner or later.

Dystopia: Worldcoin-verified accounts.

Utopia: universal attestations where you can share proof of KYC without revealing details.

KYC gating may onboard the next million users, butit certainly won't bank the unbanked. L2s make Ethereum affordable again, let's not lock everyone out now.