Wormhole

The official explainer says the airdrop was revised to 6.75% of supply, 674.8 million W, across more than 400,000 wallets, with anti-Sybil measures applied. Earlier coverage cited 617 million W across about 397,704 wallets, and the team's 11 March deep-dive lists 678.8 million W (6.78%). The Defiant described a 1.1 billion W airdrop with 600 million W unlocking four months later, which contradicts the other sources, so we treat it as the outlier.

According to the deep-dive, about 81% (roughly 549 million W) went to on-chain users of Wormhole-based apps and bridges, and about 19% (roughly 129 million W) to community groups. The eligibility snapshot was taken on 6 February 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Claims opened on 3 April, and Binance and OKX were among the exchanges that listed W.

Scammers targeted the airdrop, and Forklog reported the token fell about 20% around launch. The Defiant later reported a market capitalisation of $2.5 billion after the airdrop.

Publishing the Sybil detection method was a transparency step few projects take. Showing how fake accounts were filtered lets recipients check whether they were treated fairly, and lets critics test the rules. We did not retrieve the specific techniques, so the deep-dive is the place to read them.

The scale of the cross-chain bridge market also explains why a published Sybil method matters. Bridges attract users who move small amounts across many addresses to farm rewards, and a project that explains how it detects them gives recipients a chance to understand an exclusion. Anyone who believes they were wrongly excluded should look for the project's appeal process, which is a better route than a third-party service claiming to fix it.

Reading the deep-dive also shows what behaviour the team counted as real use, which is useful for judging any similar programme.