2026-01-15 19:42:00

The current inflationary airdrop model is fundamentally broken—platforms are extracting value while creators get squeezed. We need a reset.

The answer? Shift back to meritocratic distribution: reward actual protocol testers who stress-test networks and power onchain activity. These folks move real volume and build infrastructure.

But here's the gap: genuine content creators aren't being compensated fairly. Social contributors producing quality material should capture direct incentives, not get diluted in generic reward pools.

The fix requires tiered airdrop mechanics—lock rewards for testnet participation, active usage metrics, and legitimate content output. Make it measurable, make it transparent, make it count.

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MetadataExplorer

· 6h ago

Wake up, airdrops nowadays are just a money-grabbing gimmick, and creators have become unpaid laborers. The layered mechanism sounds nice, but who defines "genuine contribution"? It's all black box operations. Testnet farmers can still exploit the system for rewards, how transparent is that? Instead of reforming, why not just let the creators take the main share? No need to make it so complicated. Alright, alright, another utopian paper. Let's wait and see how it's implemented. In reality, no one cares about fairness. Big V eats the meat, small players drink the soup—that's the truth of Web3. I just want to know who will supervise this "locked rewards." Will it be insiders cutting the leeks again? Anyway, ordinary creators like us shouldn't expect to turn things around. Better to exit early and find other tracks.

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PumpDoctrine

· 6h ago

Airdrops really need to be improved. Right now, it's just people exploiting the system to make money, while very few actually do the work and earn coins... The tiered mechanism sounds good, but the key is proper execution.

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MysteryBoxBuster

· 6h ago

Airdrops should have been changed long ago. Now it's just a game for big players to harvest retail investors. I feel that layered airdrops are the way forward, but the key is to truly implement them and not become a new scheme to harvest retail investors again. It seems like everyone is right, but in practice, it's still a tangled mess... Testnet participants get more, I praise that, but those who truly contribute to the development are indeed overlooked.

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ChainBrain

· 6h ago

It's the same old airdrop routine, sounds nice but in the end it's just cutting leeks, with the platform making a fortune. Wait, the tiered mechanism sounds interesting, but who will define "real content creators"? I'm afraid there's someone behind the scenes benefiting again. Talking about meritocracy every day, but participants in the testnet already have advantages, so why lock in rewards... Isn't this just finding new ways to block people? But to be fair, creators are indeed being diluted too badly, this really hits the nail on the head.

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