The recent fall of the Optimism project token forced members of the community to consider excluding from the next free distribution of tokens addresses that sold assets immediately after the first airdrop.
Tier 2 solution provider Optimism delivered to the community vote on the issue of exclusion from subsequent airdrops of users who are involved in the fall of the OR project token. Optimism community member “0xJohn” put forward this proposal after OP holders started selling it immediately after the first free distribution of tokens among 249,000 addresses.
“Users who sold OP tokens after the airdrop should be disqualified from all future free token distributions. I have seen enough wallets collecting OPs and exchanging them for Uniswap that these accounts do not play a constructive role in Optimism’s governance,” 0xJohn stated.
He acknowledged that there is nothing wrong with maximizing profits, but added that the activities of these addresses are “counter-productive” for the project’s stated goals. A member of the community listed four addresses that dropped the entire airdrop, with one of them converting 32,421 OPs into $45,894. This deal was described by 0xJohn as “purely self-serving at a loss to Optimism.”
He proposed to exclude such accounts from future airdrops and make a list of wallets that behave in this way publicly available. Over 300 members of the Optimism community have already voted for 0xJohn’s proposal. The project was going to conduct another free distribution of tokens after the first airdrop, but against the backdrop of recent events, its implementation is now in doubt.
The sale of crypto assets that were distributed among community addresses for free is an unpleasant incident for the project, which can lead to a token drop. But this is not so serious in comparison with scammers who, having received information about the airdrop, create wallets in the community, hoping to collect the maximum number of tokens (Sybil attack).
Projects use special programs to detect such patterns. For example, before the free distribution of tokens, Optimism conducted an operation to identify the addresses involved in the Sibyl attack and removed them from the distribution list. However, he did not foresee that the members of the community themselves could harm the protocol.
Source: Bits
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