Written by: Kyle
While ordinary users are still anxious about the error page stating "too many users claiming," some "scientists" using automated tools may have already pocketed part of the airdrop profits. Following the appearance of large airdrops worth hundreds of dollars on the Binance Alpha platform in September, some studios rushed in, using automated scripts for bulk operations, violating rules by participating in point manipulation and airdrop snatching, infringing on the rights of the platform and genuine trading users.
On October 19, Binance launched a comprehensive crackdown, announcing the ban of over 600 violating accounts and considering the recovery of the profits from these accounts. They also introduced a community reporting reward mechanism, targeting studios and "scientists" with a full-scale counterattack from technical risk control to community governance.
In the past few months, the platform has repeatedly optimized airdrop claiming rules, increased the cost of cheating, and iterated risk control mechanisms to continuously identify and ban related violating accounts. With the Alpha risk control level and punishment intensity upgraded again, the platform will further maintain fairness and direct benefits to genuine individual users.
Binance's Strong Measures Against Violating Accounts
On October 18, a user on social media shared a recording of frequent error messages while claiming the Binance Alpha airdrop. The video showed that after clicking the "claim" button, the user encountered the error page "too many users claiming, please try again later" multiple times, ultimately causing them to miss the airdrop.
The user reflected that this is the current reality for Binance Alpha users, stating, "I don't know if it's because there are too many people, or if it's really the scientists taking over? Do the rules need to be redefined?" Shortly after, a familiar figure appeared in the comments section, Binance co-founder He Yi, humorously referred to as the "Chief Customer Service." She succinctly responded with three words: "Okay, we'll solve it."
He Yi responds to users in the comments
He Yi's promise was fulfilled within 24 hours. On the 19th, Binance announced the ban of over 600 accounts using violating third-party tools, stating that Binance is committed to protecting the rights of genuine users and providing a fair and just Alpha platform. Effective immediately, if any account is found to be using violating third-party tools or engaging in other behaviors that violate Binance trading platform, Binance wallet, and Binance Alpha related terms, the platform reserves the right to permanently revoke their eligibility to participate in any Binance activities.
Binance announces crackdown on violating accounts
Since the launch of Binance Alpha, it has served as a "selection pool" for projects before entering the main Binance site, providing generous project token airdrop rewards to users who meet the point requirements through airdrops. This original intention was to reward the welfare activities of genuine trading users, which inevitably attracted many "scientists" and "script parties" to join. Their common characteristic is that they do not participate in genuine trading, using scripts and other automated tools to manipulate points to gain Alpha points, often operating in bulk, and using automated scripts to claim airdrops, severely infringing on the interests of "fast-fingered" genuine users.
In fact, before this large-scale ban of violating accounts by Binance, the platform had already conducted multiple rounds of rectification actions against violations. In early June, certain teams using bots to participate in Alpha activities were detected by Binance, which made it clear that any use of bots (including but not limited to scripts, automated tools, or other non-manual methods) would be considered "violating." The risk control system was upgraded to enhance the detection and handling capabilities of violating behaviors, and accounts triggering risk control would have their eligibility for Alpha points revoked.
This time, Binance's punishment intensity has clearly escalated. According to the announcement, it not only prohibits violating accounts from participating in Alpha activities but is also likely to permanently revoke their eligibility to participate in any Binance activities. Moreover, the platform will also reclaim all profits from violating accounts in Alpha activities.
In addition to increasing punishment intensity, Binance has also launched a "Bounty Hunter" program, mobilizing community power to combat "scientists" and "script parties." The announcement encourages users to supervise together and report suspected fraudulent and violating behaviors. The first user to successfully report and have their report verified by the platform can receive a portion of the reclaimed profits from that account (up to 50%) as a reward.
This strong rectification action has received widespread support from the community. Binance user "Little Liver" stated on social media that the reporting mechanism "makes a lot of sense," as script authors hold a bunch of studio account UIDs, and a moment of hesitation to report could lead to "getting rich," with "studio little brothers" also potentially becoming potential reporters. He expressed that Binance's severe crackdown on violations will restore Alpha to a healthy state, stating, "The original intention of Alpha is to benefit the vast number of retail investors, and it cannot be ruined by script studios."
The Dynamic Game Between the Platform and "Scientists"
Whether in Web3 or traditional internet fields, wherever there is profit, there are "scientists" and "script parties." Especially in September, Binance Alpha distributed several large airdrops, such as STBL providing over 500U in airdrop profits, and projects like BLESS, OPEN, and XPL also showing single-account profits exceeding 200U. The frequent large airdrops allowed genuine Binance users to gain considerable profits, naturally attracting more studios and "scientists" to join.
At that time, some studios on social media claimed they would "add accounts," and on a second-hand trading website, multiple merchants openly sold scripts and tools for automated volume manipulation and airdrop claiming. Indeed, as October arrived, Alpha users felt unprecedented competition.
User "Chasing Wind" noted that compared to the hundreds of U profits from multiple Alpha airdrops in September, the airdrop projects in October generally saw profits reduced to around 50U. Moreover, the difficulty of claiming increased significantly, with frequent error messages stating, "Airdrop claiming has ended." Another notable change was that the threshold for claiming Alpha airdrops rose from around 200-220 points in September to the 220-240 points range, with several projects in late October requiring over 240 Alpha points to claim, reflecting a situation where "too many monks and too little porridge," indicating a surge in Alpha participants and severe point competition.
The large-scale entry of "scientists" and "script parties" infringed on the rights of genuine users, and Binance, as the platform, also faced public scrutiny regarding fairness, which evidently prompted Binance to intensify its rectification efforts.
The ban of over 600 violating accounts by Binance is a clear manifestation of its determination to combat violating accounts. The higher punishment intensity and reporting mechanism also signify that Binance's cleanup actions against "script parties" and "scientists" have entered a new phase.
In fact, over the past few months, Binance has employed various means to limit violating activities to maximize the protection of genuine users' rights.
In terms of rule design, Binance has added a "staged claiming" mechanism based on the initial "first-come, first-served" airdrop claiming mechanism, allowing high-point users to claim first, distinguishing user loyalty and activity, and prioritizing rewards for core users. On October 22, Binance also updated the Alpha points rules, stating that when an account's balance points are 0 for the day, trading volume points and task points will also be counted as 0, effective immediately. This seemingly simple change is actually a precise and powerful risk control upgrade aimed at script studios that create accounts in bulk.
Before the rule update, the strategy of script studios was often to "minimize costs," allowing them to transfer a minimal amount of funds on the day they needed to manipulate trading volume and complete tasks to gain points, and once the tasks were completed, they would immediately withdraw the funds. This allowed their accounts to have a balance of 0 for most of the time while still accumulating points to participate in airdrops. The new rules mean that cheaters must keep funds deposited in the platform for a long time, significantly increasing their capital and opportunity costs. They can no longer "get something for nothing" but must, like genuine users, have real asset deposits on the platform. Accurately identifying and eliminating "shell accounts" greatly reduces the survival space for cheaters.
In terms of technical means, Binance continuously upgrades its risk control system, persistently identifying accounts participating in activities using bots, scripts, and automated tools, combating automated volume manipulation and airdrop snatching behaviors.
Moreover, in the critical stage of claiming airdrops, its verification mechanism for identifying "real humans" has also been iterated, evolving from initially allowing direct claims to introducing facial recognition and a 5-minute pre-check for risks, ensuring that airdrops are claimed by genuine users as much as possible, thereby increasing the cheating costs for studios. In the final verification stage, it has also upgraded from relatively simple slider verification to touch verification, maximizing the blockage of machine batch operations.
A technician familiar with "anti-scripting" revealed that the game between the platform and "script parties" is a dynamic and protracted battle. This technological and regulatory confrontation often presents an evolutionary trend of "the higher the road, the higher the devil." On one hand, script studios' cheating technologies are constantly evolving, using virtual environments, proxy IPs, and human-computer interaction simulations, making their behaviors increasingly resemble those of normal users, thus making identification extremely difficult; on the other hand, script parties often possess a large account library and highly decentralized operational nodes, making it difficult to eradicate them all at once. They also deliberately avoid triggering risk control thresholds, making their actions very covert.
For any platform, completely clearing out "scientists" and script studios is a daunting task. "The key lies in the continuous upgrading of the platform's technical monitoring means, gradual optimization of reward rules, and the determination and continuity of ongoing crackdowns on violations," the aforementioned technician stated.
From Binance's actions, it is evident that it is defending the platform's fairness by continuously upgrading risk control mechanisms and increasing punishment intensity. The direct involvement of "Chief Customer Service" He Yi undoubtedly raises the priority of the cleanup actions against "scientists" and "script parties" to a higher level. It can be anticipated that under the platform's strict rectification and gradually optimized reward mechanisms, the Alpha sector will increasingly direct benefits to genuine individual users, thereby ensuring the long-term healthy development of the Alpha platform as a project "selection pool" and its empowering role in the entire Binance ecosystem.
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