{"id":20498,"date":"2025-01-21T13:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/linea-eliminates-over-half-a-million-sybil-addresses-ahead-of-airdrop\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:45:55","slug":"linea-eliminates-over-half-a-million-sybil-addresses-ahead-of-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/linea-eliminates-over-half-a-million-sybil-addresses-ahead-of-airdrop\/","title":{"rendered":"Linea Eliminates Over Half a Million Sybil Addresses Ahead of Airdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Linea Association, established by ConsenSys to advance the eponymous Layer 2 network, has excluded 516,960 addresses from a total list of 1.29 million intended for the upcoming airdrop.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Important update for the Linea community! We&#8217;ve partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nansen_ai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nansen_ai<\/a> to conduct an additional sybil analysis on LXP holders. Here&#8217;s what you need to know:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aaivZIN2oy\">https:\/\/t.co\/aaivZIN2oy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Linea (@LineaBuild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LineaBuild\/status\/1881371157347303874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The reason cited is the use of specialised software for coordinated actions in related wallets (farms).<\/p>\n<p>With support from Nansen, the team identified 39.85% of the addresses as sybils.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the distribution of Linea XP (LXP) will occur among 780,243 &#8220;legitimate and targeted&#8221; wallet holders.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1397.webp\" alt=\"1-1397\" class=\"wp-image-249996\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Linea, Nansen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the developers, during the &#8220;thorough analysis,&#8221; they aimed to reduce the risk of unfairly excluding &#8220;genuine&#8221; users by applying extensive labels, coverage, and AI models to cluster addresses with similar on-chain activity.<\/p>\n<p>The team has launched a website for verification. Community members can appeal if they disagree with the sybil status designation. Each case will be reviewed &#8220;with maximum effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In October, Linea <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/linea-unveils-roadmap-for-decentralization\">introduced<\/a> a protocol improvement proposal with decentralisation solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-proposes-solution-to-airdrop-challenges\">described<\/a> identification tools as a solution to the shortcomings of airdrops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linea Association, established by ConsenSys to advance the eponymous Layer 2 network, has excluded 516,960 addresses from a total list of 1.29 million intended for the upcoming airdrop. Important update for the Linea community! We&#8217;ve partnered with @nansen_ai to conduct an additional sybil analysis on LXP holders. Here&#8217;s what you need to know:https:\/\/t.co\/aaivZIN2oy \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1158,1574,1648,1268],"class_list":["post-20498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-airdrops","tag-linea","tag-nansen","tag-on-chain-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"58","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}