Author: Frank, PANews
At 12:00 on February 20th (UTC time), the Layer2 project Starknet officially opened its airdrop distribution plan. A total of 1.3 million addresses are eligible for the airdrop. As of 11:00 on February 22nd (Beijing time), over 427 million tokens have been claimed. The largest single address, which consolidated tokens from 1358 addresses, received 1,532,750 STRK tokens, worth approximately 3 million USD.
According to PANews' analysis, the distribution rules of Starknet this time may prioritize the time of entry over the number of interactions.
From the data analysis of this Starknet airdrop, although the initial official allocation table allocated 50.89% of the token share to Starknet users and 8.98% to the Early Community Members Plan (ECMP), in the actual distribution process, the early community members (ECMP) and users were classified under the same category, accounting for a total of 59.87%. This approach makes it difficult to directly distinguish whether the largest address in the same category is an address of an interacting user or an ECMP member.
According to tokenflow.live data, the largest address in the Starknet user category can claim 180,650 STRK.
As reported by BlockBeats, as part of the Early Community Members Plan (ECMP), over 2,000 people can receive Provisions. Those ranked highest in the allocation criteria will receive a large distribution of 180,000 tokens. This means that the number of tokens that the Early Community Members Plan may receive could far exceed those received by normal interacting early users.
In fact, PANews' analysis of the addresses with the largest token holdings found that these addresses had relatively few on-chain interactions.
For example, taking the address 0x0161a9bca8dcc5975a03b12f5f7bf9610e1541635eb40eb3a89baeedc168e636, according to the Starknet query website, this address can claim 180,650 tokens, the highest among individual addresses. However, the number of on-chain interactions and the amount of transactions for this address are not significant (although this address had already started interacting on the Starknet chain 2 years ago). Therefore, the holder of this address should be a member of the Early Community Members Plan (ECMP).
According to the Early Community Members Plan published by the Starknet Foundation, the following members can receive rewards as early members: in the first phase, the plan will involve the following categories:
- Individuals who have made significant contributions to technical discussions in the community
- Individual contributors listed by key projects in the ecosystem
- Individuals who organize events globally (gatherings, conferences, seminars)
- Individuals who regularly publish Starknet branded content
The criteria for evaluating contribution value are as follows:
Coverage/Influence: The extent to which the contributor's work is disseminated in the community. This may include the number of people using or relying on their code, the number of people interacting with their content, or the number of people following their thought leadership.
Importance: Evaluating the importance of the contributor's work in the community or specific projects. This may mean the attention to the importance of a person's work for the success of the project, or the attention to their influence in shaping the direction and development of the ecosystem.
Effort: Evaluating the time and effort the contributor puts into their contribution. This may include not only coding, but also community support, guidance, and interaction with others to share knowledge.
Originality: Assessing how unique or innovative the contributor's work is. This may include creating new algorithms, methods, or tools that have not been seen before, or solving existing problems in novel ways.
However, as of now, Starknet has not disclosed which individuals have been selected for this plan, nor has it disclosed specific criteria for measuring contribution.
"Airdrop Masters" Rake in 3 Million USD
Even if the earnings of individual addresses did not maximize through interactions, it seems that the "Airdrop Studios" did not lose out in this round of airdrop battles.
According to Lookonchain monitoring, one airdrop hunter consolidated tokens from 1358 addresses to receive 1.53 million STRK tokens, worth approximately 3 million USD. Another address consolidated tokens from 1800 addresses, receiving 1.22 million STRK tokens, with profits of about 2.4 million USD.
PANews analyzed the interaction status of some of these addresses, and the number of tokens received by these individual addresses ranged from 600 to 1200, with interactions starting about 7 months ago. After receiving the tokens, both addresses transferred all the tokens to a single address that appears to be a suspected exchange address:
0x0213c67ed78bc280887234fe5ed5e77272465317978ae86c25a71531d9332a2d
Whether these two airdrop hunters are part of the same team is unknown. But based on the current results, it seems that Starknet's anti-whale measures have not had much effect.
Community Continues to Question
Generally, after airdrops worth billions of dollars, there would be a large number of users sharing their successful claims on social media. However, this phenomenon did not seem to occur after the Starknet airdrop. Instead, a large number of users raised questions on the official and KOL social media accounts.
Some users expressed skepticism about the requirement for accounts to hold at least 0.005 ETH before the snapshot for the airdrop. One user stated, "I am disappointed that the project decided to distribute to all minimal participants and bypass those who may not have funds in their current wallet due to circumstances and/or needs. Just like my situation. It's a pity to see this."
Other users expressed confusion about airdropping tokens to GitHub developers who have not made any interactions. In fact, as of now, the distribution ratio for Starknet users is 91.85%, while the distribution ratio for open-source developers is only 3.27%. According to the official introduction, unclaimed airdrop tokens will be reclaimed into the pool after 4 months and distributed in future rounds and/or plans.
"After months of trading and tasks, I have gained nothing. Perhaps airdrops should be subject to regulation, as these tasks are used to attract capital (such as initial coin offerings ICO), and then lack transparency or fairness in their implementation," a user disappointedly commented on the Starknet Foundation's Twitter.
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