Comment by @punkess • Hey
Agree it’s a challenging process but I’m pretty convinced that the approach projects take towards decentralisation are essential for their success.
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- As long as there’s a financial upside it’s an impossible task to accomplish, imo. And, in defense of exactness, I’m not convinced that having a centralized group decide the criteria for who will receive tokens and who won’t doesn’t is actually all that decentralized (I know, nitpicky…but still).
One possible approach (I’m sure there are faults) is soul bound tokens that expire over time. This would allow a fixed supply of gov tokens that change hands based on code rather than speculation. Only currently engaged people in the ecosystem hold votes, no sales, no financial upside, fewer farmers.
Another option, provide a buy/sell mechanism for gov tokens that ensures the project sets the price and always gives people an out…effectively eliminating speculation. Yea, im sure this will make it a regulated security.
Airdrops seem to be a path to hype TVL and negate the scrutiny of securities regulation. But I question whether those are qualities that truly define long term projects with long term goals.
It’s new, it’s complicated. Just my thoughts, could be wrong :)
- I didn't realize this before but airdrops also inject some liquidity (if they are L2 or similar ones) into the ecosystem. as with $STRK you already see that dapps like Avnu will trade it.
regarding the $STRK criteria: yes, the ETH 0.005 is nonsense. I think it's in the best interest of protocols, L2s,... if people are engaged longterm. so if you withdraw everything on one day (which happens to be the snapshot date) and had many transactions, LPing,... before and maybe even come back later again, you definitely supported the ecosystem.
the other day I have discovered https://rubyscore.io/. it tracks people's interactions with Base, zkSync, Scroll, Manta, Polygon zkEVM, and Linea and provides some data like balance (not just ETH), gas spent, transaction volume, active days, number of smart contracts people interacted with,... I don't know how reliable the data is but it seems to be a good approach.