At first I assumed the airdrop was just a thank you, a way to hand ownership back to the people who showed up early. But the more allocations I traced, the more it looked like a filter, not a gift. Wallets that farmed testnets in bursts, then vanished after claiming, behaved differently from wallets that stayed active through the dull months when there was nothing to farm. The protocol wasn't rewarding time in the ecosystem. It was rewarding a specific shape of behavior, one that could be gamed by anyone willing to simulate loyalty for a few weeks. Real retention showed up elsewhere, in the smaller wallets that never qualified for the biggest tiers but kept transacting anyway. That's the part incentive design struggles to price. You can reward presence. You can't easily reward the reason someone stayed. So the question isn't who got the airdrop. It's who's still here now that the reward is gone.
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