Airdrop Guide Series: How to avoid wallet addresses being marked as Sybil Witches?

When it comes to air investment qualifications, the topic of Sybil cannot be separated. So, how can you avoid your wallet being marked as Sybil? Next, let’s sort it out together.
First, we need to understand what Sybil is?
In the previous article of Hua Li Huawai, we introduced the concept of Sybil Attack. In fact, the Sybil mentioned above can be understood as a witch, which is a term for a wallet that violates the project rules. Sybil wallets are generally removed from the airdrop list by project parties, and there are actually many criteria for identifying Sybil.
So next, let’s sort it out and see how to avoid being labeled a Sybil.
1. Questions about wallet connection
For example, if you use your own wallet that participated in the airdrop to send funds to your friends or other wallets that meet the airdrop standards, in this case, your wallet will likely be marked as Sybil.
How to solve this wallet connection problem?
First, do not send funds from your personal wallet to other wallets that frequently participate in airdrop interactions. Secondly, to send assets to or transfer assets from the wallet, it is recommended to do it through DEX (exchange). Although doing so will cause you to operate several times, it is the most convenient way to avoid the above problems and also It can also protect the privacy of your wallet transactions (others cannot directly see your specific transaction operations on the exchange through on-chain tools).
DEXs recommended here include:
https://www.binance.com/zh-CN/activity/referral-entry/CPA/incremental?ref=CPA_00WTVLYR4F
2. Regarding the balance of the wallet
This is also the most common problem. For example, in the previous airdrop rules of Arbitrum, many wallets with no or low balances were deleted, and many of the deleted wallets had balances of less than $5. In fact, these wallets had participated in the interaction before and could have received airdrops. Therefore, you need to leave a small amount of funds in the corresponding network where you are trying to obtain airdrops, and do not empty your wallet assets by participating in interactions.
3. Questions about wallet operation
The advice here is that you try to avoid performing the same operations on all wallets. If you decide to create 10 wallets in LayerZero and perform the same operation, or worse, you perform the same operation within the same time period, there is a 99% chance that your wallet will be deleted by the project. , and cannot get the opportunity to airdrop.
4. Questions about wallet activities on different networks
What this mainly refers to is that your wallet activity is relatively single. For example, if you only participate in airdrops on a certain chain, but there are basically no transaction or activity records on other chains, then your wallet may also be deleted by the project party. Of course, this is not absolute and depends on the nature of the project party. The advice here is that if possible you need to have some trading activity on the major popular networks, such as Ethereum, BSC and Polygon. In this way, if you participate in airdrops of other projects, such as zkSync, your chances of winning airdrops will be greater than others.
Especially for those airdrops of Layer 2 projects, whether there are relevant activity records in the corresponding Layer 1 network is an important judgment criterion for the project side. For example, if you interacted or traded in zkSync but had no activity on the Ethereum main network or other Ethereum L2 networks, there is a good chance your wallet is marked as Sybil.
5. Questions about wallet interaction (transaction) quality
Transaction quality is also a criterion for project parties to judge. For example, if you are participating in the interaction of LayerZero, but only increasing transaction volume through simple bridge interactions, then such a single interaction may also be judged as Sybil by the project party. What you need to do here is to try to participate in as many types of interactions as possible, such as remittances to other chains, exchanges, participation in NFT minting or any other operations.
6. Questions about the age of the wallet (how long it has been used)
Although judging from some projects that have been airdropped so far, the length of wallet usage has not been used by many project parties as a criterion for airdrops. However, with the increasing number of airdrop hunters, this standard is likely to become used by project parties in the future. use. Therefore, if you like airdrops, you should pay attention in advance to start "raising" your wallet.
As for the specific age of the wallet, you can directly check it through the Debank tool introduced in Hua Li Huawai's article. As shown below.
7. Questions about wallet transaction volume
Transaction volume is generally an important reference standard for project parties. For example, if you make 100 transactions while participating in LayerZero interaction, but the value of these transactions is only 1 US dollar, then even if you have a large number of transactions, your wallet may be deleted by the project party. The suggestion here is to try to control the actual value of each transaction asset at 100-5,000 US dollars. Of course, if you are a wealthy person and conditions permit, you can conduct higher trading volume operations.
8. Questions about wallet identity
Identity identification seems to be becoming more and more popular. For example, many people's wallet addresses are bound to the .eth ENS domain name service. For example, you can also spend $96 in Debank to get Mint's own Web3 ID, and so on. As the number of airdrops increases, Web3 identity authentication should be adopted by more and more new airdrop projects in the future.
For example, some airdrop project parties have adopted Gitcoin or Galxe’s identity recognition service as one of the method standards for airdrops.
Gitcoin：
https://passport.gitcoin.co
Galxe:
https://galxe.com/passport
It is said that the current airdrops of Taiko and Linea will use Gitcoin’s services as one of the judging criteria. zkSync currently has no definite information about using Gitcoin, but there have been many rumors recently that they will also use this method. And if you have a certain amount of Gitcoin points, you can largely avoid these projects from marking your wallet as Sybil in the future.
Therefore, it is necessary for us to spend some time here to learn more about this Gitcoin Passport and its method of increasing points. Let you know, how to get 20+ Gitcoin Passport points at the lowest cost? Here's a step-by-step guide:
- Enter the Gitcoin platform official website:
https://passport.gitcoin.co
- Connect your MetaMask wallet
- Bind your own Twitter (you need to have posted at least 10 tweets and have 100 following fans), as shown in the picture below.
- Bind your own Discord, Google and Linkedin accounts: These three are relatively simple, just bind them, there are no other requirements. As shown below.
- Bind your own Github and Facebook accounts: These two tasks also have certain requirements. For example, the Github binding requirement is that you need an account that has been registered for at least 90 days, while the Facebook requirement is that you need to attach a PFP (name and avatar) ). As shown below.
- Bind ENS domain name: If you have registered an .ETH wallet domain name, you can receive points directly in Gitcoin. Of course, you can also register a domain name now and collect it later, but registration requires a certain fee (about $20 for a year). As shown below.
ENS domain name address:
https://app.ens.domains/
- Receive ETH distribution rewards: If your transaction time (time with transaction records) exceeds 30 days, you can obtain corresponding points. Of course, if your wallet is new and there is no transaction record yet, just wait 30 days before picking it up. As shown below.
- Domain snapshot distribution rewards: You can go to the snapshot website to find some votes that do not require investment, then participate in their votes, and return to Gitcoin to receive the corresponding points. As shown below.
snapshot address:
https://snapshot.org
- Receive NFT distribution rewards: If you hold any NFT on the Ethereum network, you can directly receive the corresponding points. As shown below.
- Receive zkSync distribution rewards: This task is actually very simple. As long as you have transaction records in zkSync Era or zkSync Lite using any network bridge, you can directly receive the corresponding points. As shown below.
- Receive Guild distribution rewards: You can go to the Guild website to add more than 5 guilds (because we need at least 15 characters), and return to Gitcoin to receive the corresponding points. As shown below.
Guild address:
https://guild.xyz
Above, we have mainly introduced 11 ways to increase Gitcoin Passport points. If you complete these tasks, you only need to pay about 10 US dollars or about 30 US dollars (if you purchase an ENS domain name), and you can get 20+ points. .
Okay, the above is all the content shared through "Hua Li Huawai" today. Let’s summarize and review together at the end. This article mainly introduces 8 methods to avoid the wallet being marked as Sybil, and also briefly sorts out and introduces the specific methods of obtaining Gitcoin Passport. I hope today’s sharing can be helpful to everyone.
Special thanks for this article: cryppinfluence, 0xTHades
Disclaimer: The above content is only a personal perspective and analysis. It is only for science learning and communication among enthusiasts and does not constitute any investment advice. Investment is risky, please treat it rationally, increase risk awareness, and abide by the relevant laws and regulations of the country and region where you are located!