The word witch comes from a movie "The Witch" in which the heroine has more than a dozen personalities. It refers to those people who control multiple addresses on the chain with one "body" and pretend to be different users to interact with the project. This process is also known as It's called a "sybil attack".
The project party believes that the witch has destroyed the process of decentralization; the user believes that the witch took away the tokens belonging to the community through improper means; the witch believes that under the same rules, his contribution to the project is the same as that of the user, or even much greater than that of the user.
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1. The reason for being a witch
Users who normally use an account but are blocked, most of the reasons are that they do not interact deeply with the application or are not active on the chain.
Most of the witches traced by the government are users with strong connections on the chain, and some obvious robot addresses.
Hop report proposal:
https://github.com/hop-protocol/hop-airdrop/issues
Safe report proposal:
https://github.com/safe-global/safe-user-allocation-reports/issues
From these effective proposals, we can see several obvious points:
1. Sub-addresses distribute/collect funds from the same parent address
2. Exactly the same interaction process, time and items
3. The same GAS settings, transaction amount and time
4. There are frequent transfers between addresses, and there are exchanges.
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2. How to become a user?
According to the previous airdrop rules, most projects impose restrictions on the number of times, amount and time span on top of some fixed rules, which can be roughly summarized as follows:
1. Experience the basic functions of the product (exchange, cross-chain, lending, etc.)
2. Follow the official account and join DC (obtain identity group, small probability)
3. Use the product again in different time periods (weeks, months)
4. Collect official user credentials (POAP, OAT, NFT)
5. Rich on-chain records (TX, donation, casting, governance)
6. Users who have used leading products of the same track (Opensea, Uniswap...)
The vast majority of projects have distributed airdrop tokens according to their weight, and there will be great differences in airdrop shares among users.
Such as COW, OP, and SAFE, the lowest number is several hundred, and the highest number is tens of thousands.
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3. How to become a user with high authority?
According to the above basic rules to get rid of others, you can combine Dune's data to stand out in terms of amount and times. The time span is especially important. Almost every project will have a relatively long construction period, and users who use it in different time periods tend to get more airdrop weights.
Dune：https://dune.com/
Second, enrich your on-chain identity, just as Rabbithole advocates "your on-chain record is the best on-chain resume". By using track leaders, infrastructure, foundation donations, chain governance and other products, let yourself become an OG user involved in DeFi, DAO, and NFT on the chain.
Snapshot：https://snapshot.org/#/
On-chain governance, join the space and vote on proposals. Hold old DeFi tokens such as UNI, AAVE, COMP and join their respective spaces to vote on proposals. In view of the current large number of spaces, in order to prevent the project party from excluding the space governance records of the mainstream currency, it is recommended to hold the mainstream currency to vote on the proposal, and just buy some.
Secondly, you can create your own space and set tokens to issue proposals for voting. It can be to create a space for experiencing interactive Snapshots, and it is more recommended to use Snapshots for on-chain governance to establish a DAO.
Safe：https://gnosis-safe.io/app/
Manage funds, create safes, add members for signatures. Its mechanism is that when a transaction needs to reach the set number of signatures, it will be executed. Therefore, add a few more members and set the number of signatures to 1 or more when creating, the more the better.
No matter who initiates a transaction, others can sign and execute it (transaction). Therefore, you need to generate signature records and transaction records (payment of GAS) to actually use this product, and of course the bigger the number of times and the amount, the better. Referring to OP's airdrop rules, at least ten signature records are required.
Gitcoin：https://gitcoin.co/
Contribute to Ethereum development, improve reliability and make donations. Reliability can be improved by binding social accounts and DID. The higher the reliability, the better it means that you are not a "witch". As for donations, this time the OP only took a snapshot of the mainnet donors, and the users who previously saved money and interacted with zkyns did not get rewarded. So donate at least once on the mainnet.
Rabbithold：https://app.rabbithole.gg/
On-chain tokens, collect tokens and complete tasks. As the initial on-chain certificate application, the selection of projects is also very vicious. At present, a total of three vouchers NFT, DAO, and DeFi have been launched. After completing the tasks of different tracks, you can forge the vouchers. After completing the BID verification (which will be changed in the near future), you can participate in the tasks and get rewards after completion.
Domain name leader, registration and reverse analysis. At present, the largest on-chain domain name system is also relatively recognized. Before Twitter, many DAO projects have airdropped to users who leave messages with ENS addresses, and the airdrops are of relatively high value. Therefore, it is recommended to register for one and experience it.
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DID (Decentralized Identity)
In the real world, you need identity information such as certificates, passports, certificates, student status, etc. issued by the government and institutions to prove that "you" is "you" in scenarios such as banks, hotels, travel, schools, etc., so as to obtain your identity information. Service as it should be.
And on the chain is a Desoc (decentralized society), obviously no one will issue you identity information, which leads to DID.
The address you created with Metamask, the POAP you received for participating in the meeting on the chain, the OAT you minted for completing tasks in Galxe, or the NFT rewards you received after interacting with the application, these are all DIDs, which can prove that you participated in the meeting, completed Tasks and interactive applications are all DIDs obtained through on-chain behavior.
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SBT (Soul-Bound Token)
SBT is a token that is strongly bound to an address and cannot be transferred. Vitalik believes that SBT will give each account "humanity", it is a proof of relationship rather than proof of authority. The previous Rabbithole grade NFT was a type of SBT, as were BABT and GALXE passports.
I feel like SBT is like an enhanced version of DID, because of its non-transferable nature, it has more authenticity.
Most of the officially issued POAP, OAT, and NFT in the past were to prove that the holders participated in the construction of the project, but due to their transferable and tradable nature, they attracted a large number of speculators and witches to obtain short-term benefits, causing them to be used as proof of relationship Lack of authenticity.
The non-transferable feature of SBT prevents it from being used for short-term hype, and at the same time greatly enhances the authenticity of the relationship proof.
In general, through on-chain behaviors, transaction records, DID, SBT...and constantly improve your on-chain portrait, when you become a user of the project, you will not be regarded as a witch and miss the project's airdrop.
The above are purely personal opinions, not authoritative opinions.
Author: @0xtaoist, @0xCryptoUni
