What are the following steps after zkSync launches its airdrop query function

Original | Odaily Planet Daily
Author | Asher


The big news has finally arrived, ZK Nation announced this afternoon on the X platform that the zkSync airdrop query is now online (
click here to go to the query link
), and will airdrop 3.675 billion ZK tokens to early users and contributors next week, accounting for 17.5% of the total supply of 21 billion ZK tokens; at the same time, it stated that this will be a one-time airdrop, and users will be able to claim tokens starting next week until January 3, 2025.


zkSync Airdrop Query Now Online
As soon as this news came out, major “lumao” communities suddenly became lively, with users participating in interactions rushing to check the amount of tokens they received. Judging from the emotions on social media, the ZK airdrop this time is a mix of joy and worry for different users:
“The overall witch rate is very high, after all, less than 700,000 out of several million addresses were left. The hit rate for individual addresses is around 15%, all are low-income, and with the ZK price so low, it doesn’t really mean much.”
“In simple terms, the more assets you interact with, the more you receive. Individual wallets can receive a minimum of 450 ZK and a maximum of 100,000 ZK. Overall, it seems that individual premium wallets receive more, and it’s unclear how bulk wallets will fare. At least from the total of 6 million addresses, only 1/10 received the airdrop, the witch hunt is indeed quite fierce.”
“Just interacting with UniSat casually gets you $800 worth of PIZZA, interacting with Ordinals gets you $8000 worth of DOG, while zkSync just says ‘Unfortunately, address is not eligible for the airdrop.'”
“Only 4 accounts with NFTs have the qualification for zkSync, all others have none, what a loss.”
Overall, the witch rate is very high, and many “lumao” enthusiasts and studios have experienced a complete loss, so what are the specific rules for the ZK airdrop? Below, Odaily Planet Daily compiles the details of the zkSync airdrop based on official information.
ZK Token Economics
According to the information provided by ZK Nation, zkSync’s native token is ZK, with a total supply of 21,000,000,000 ZK. Community distribution accounts for 66.7%, while team and early investor distribution accounts for 33.3%. The specific distribution is as follows:
Token Assembly: 6,153,000,000 ZK, accounting for 29.30% of the total supply;
Ecosystem Rewards: 4,179,000,000 ZK, accounting for 19.90% of the total supply;
Airdrop: 3,675,000,000 ZK, accounting for 17.50% of the total supply;
Early Investors: 3,612,000,000 ZK, accounting for 17.20% of the total supply;
Team: 3,381,000,000 ZK, accounting for 16.10% of the total supply;


ZK Token Economics
Regarding the airdrop, a total of 695,232 wallets were eligible this time, and the eligibility and distribution of the airdrop were based on snapshots taken during the zkSync Era and zkSync Lite activities on March 24, 2024, at 0:00 UTC. This time marked the one-year anniversary of the zkSync Era mainnet launch, with 17.5% of ZK airdrop allocated to two community groups:
Early Users (89%): zkSync users who conducted transactions on zkSync and met the activity threshold;
Early Contributors (11%): Entities that contributed to the zkSync ecosystem and protocol through development, promotion, and education.


ZK Airdrop Distribution
Detailed Rules of ZK Airdrop
To distribute tokens to real users, the eligibility review and distribution for zkSync users have four consecutive steps:
Step One: Eligibility. Each address that has conducted transactions on zkSync Era and zkSync Lite is checked against eligibility criteria. Every address that has transacted on zkSync Era and zkSync Lite is checked against eligibility criteria to determine who has actively explored zkSync. Each address must have at least one score to be eligible for the airdrop (score rules as shown in the image below).


ZK Score Rules
Step Two: Distribution. A value scaling formula adjusts the distribution of an address based on the amount sent to zkSync Era and the duration these crypto assets stayed in the wallet. The distribution of eligible addresses is based on a value scaling formula. This formula adjusts the distribution of an address based on the amount sent to zkSync Era and the duration these crypto assets stayed in the wallet. In determining the distribution of an address, the crypto assets held on zkSync Lite are not taken into account.
Step Three: Multiplier. Addresses meeting specific criteria can receive a distribution multiplier. Each address can receive a multiplier based on activities that indicate human behavior or contributions to zkSync. These multipliers apply to eligibility and distribution on zkSync Era and Lite.
Step Four: Robot Detection. Standard spoofing filtering methods use a heuristic approach to detect robot behavior. The combination of eligibility criteria, value scaling, and multipliers eliminates most robot groups. However, the team’s witch detection method further filters out the remaining robots.
The first is the reuse of CEX deposit addresses. CEX creates deposit addresses for customers to process deposits. The second is studying the pattern of fund acquisition. Each time a new address is created, its owner needs to fund it with ETH to pay transaction fees. If a group of EOA has the same ultimate funder, they are likely to belong to the same entity.


The image above shows an example of robot groups detected through this method, with 1,029 EOA eventually receiving funds through CEX (i.e., red nodes).
Off-Exchange Market
With the opening of the ZK token airdrop query, ZK’s off-exchange trading price on the AEVO platform fell below 0.35 USDT in the short term, now trading at 0.3411 USDT, with a 24-hour decline of up to 47.88%.


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