If you want to receive the $ZRO airdrop, pay first.
LayerZero is up to something new. With just 5 minutes left before the airdrop is officially open, LayerZero announced an unprecedented rule: to claim ZRO, users must donate $0.10 USDC, USDT, or native ETH for each ZRO.
Use real money to exchange for ZRO of unknown price.
LayerZero has been repeatedly criticized by the community for its "abnormal" anti-sybil strategy. Many users thought that anti-sybil would allow them to get more $ZRO, but it did not. This operation is probably unique in the history of the entire crypto industry.
What exactly happened?
Just 5 minutes before the opening of the collection at 7 pm today $ZRO, LayerZero released a new announcement:
“Today, LayerZero launched a new claiming mechanism called “Proof of Donation” that will result in ~$18.5M being donated to the @ProtocolGuild, a collective funding mechanism for Ethereum developers.
The Protocol Guild and Ethereum’s core developers have been critical to the development of LayerZero, driving adoption of the EVM, Ethereum’s L2-centric roadmap, and the broader crypto ecosystem. By donating to the Protocol Guild, eligible airdrop recipients demonstrate long-term support for the LayerZero protocol and a commitment to the future of cryptocurrency.
To claim ZRO, users must donate $0.10 USDC, USDT, or native ETH for each ZRO. This small donation will go directly to the Protocol Guild. The LayerZero Foundation will match all donations up to $10 million.
What does the community say?
“You’re a joke.”
“Good idea, but why did you announce it 5 minutes before the airdrop was available?”
“This is not an airdrop, it’s more like a token sale”
“They raised $400 million, collected more than $120 million in fees, and then asked users to pay to receive airdrops…”
"What the hell, Play-to-Claim?"
“Sometimes you can’t be sure whether you are petting the fur or the fur is petting you.”
What will happen to the $ZRO price?
After this wave of operations, I don’t know how many U $ZRO will reach when the market opens at 8 o’clock tonight. According to some pre-market trading market data, the pre-market transaction price of ZRO on multiple platforms is about 4.1 to 4.4 US dollars.
In addition, the list of $ZRO market makers seems to have surfaced. According to the monitoring of on-chain data analyst @Noah_nftn, there are six LayerZero market makers, namely:
@GSR_io received 11 million ZRO;
@wintermute_t , received 6.5 million ZRO;
@ambergroup_io, received 5.69 million ZRO;
@Auros_global received 360,000 ZRO;
@animocabrands, received 800,000 ZRO;
The sixth is an unknown organization, which received 500,000 ZROs.
