Thank you for all the feedback and discussions over the past few days.
In 2024, airdrops are extremely challenging. Sophisticated industrial farms operate millions of bots indistinguishable from real people in behavioral patterns. This renders traditional activity-based airdrops completely useless for building resilient and sustainable communities.
Our airdrop design is unconventional and has its imperfections. But we are proud of the path we’ve chosen and believe we made reasonable tradeoffs. We are rewarding hundreds of thousands of people, creating life-changing opportunities for many of them.
We also recognize that many people are upset, having received less than they expected. We don’t take this lightly. We spent several days and nights looking into reports and double-checking data, to understand the full picture and eliminate any possible mistakes.
We did not identify major issues, but we also recognize that our communication about the nuances of the airdrop design was not clear enough. To address this, we’ve crafted an initial set of FAQs to address your most burning questions.
https://t.co/WmwBPtwGkT
We are preparing a more systematic way for the community to collect and prioritize feedback, and will do our best to answer the remaining questions in full transparency.
This is just the start of an exciting new phase. Dozens of ecosystem projects have committed to distributing their token allocations to the community (see 🧵 below), and nearly 50% of the total token supply is still reserved for the community overall.
Claiming starts June 17th. Stay tuned for more updates.
The Matter Labs ZK Pledge
We are grateful to @VitalikButerin, @ilblackdragon, @hasufl, @MicahZoltu, @stonecoldpat0, @StaniKulechov, @lex_node, @hosseeb, @pcaversaccio, and others for their comments and suggestions on how to ensure critical terms like “ZK” remain freely available to everyone and protected against squatters.
Here is a community proposal we fully support:
1. Setting up an ownerless legal entity with the sole purpose of holding trademarks for “ZK” and similar, critical names. This effort must be led by a trusted, credibly neutral organization or community members.
2. The entity grants free licenses of the trademarks to everyone.
3. Many prominent community figures and credibly neutral organizations are invited to join as guarantors.
The Matter Labs Pledge:
1. Matter Labs will not file any new trademark applications for ZK. Matter Labs will not appeal any applications if they are rejected. Matter Labs will never enforce any of the ZK trademarks it owns now or in the future except for defensive purposes (i.e. preventing others from suing us).
2. We commit to financially support the creation of a community-led, TM-holder entity.
3. Matter Labs will immediately transfer to this entity all the filed ZK trademarks.
We are asking for your help to create this new model and to put together the most effective structure for all. Everyone in the Ethereum and ZK communities is invited to join and contribute to this effort. You can reach us at [email protected]
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