Recently, two major airdrops, Celestia and Starknet, have changed the usual rules of airdrops by allocating airdrop quotas to code contributors on GitHub. It is reported that someone from their recent international community obtained 1,800 STRK tokens as an airdrop simply by correcting a typo in the Starknet code on GitHub. Based on the current pre-market price, this is worth approximately $3,200.
These examples of “free money” have opened up a new battlefield for “wool party” members, who have shifted their focus towards the GitHub repositories of major projects. They act as patrols for the projects, “correcting typos” or even submitting meaningless corrections in order to potentially receive airdrops. However, these activities are not beneficial for the projects themselves and only increase the workload for the engineers.
A Scroll project code contributor named Toghrul Maharramov criticized the airdrop rules of Celestia and Starknet on X platform, stating that they have disrupted the entire cryptocurrency industry’s open-source software. Toghrul Maharramov expressed that while it is a good idea to allocate airdrops to open-source code contributors, in the cryptocurrency industry, all good ideas eventually get destroyed.
In addition, another Scroll researcher named Pseudo stated that the Scroll GitHub repository received over 1,000 comments over the weekend, with the majority coming from “wool party” members.
However, these comments are not entirely valueless. Mudit Gupta, Polygon’s security lead, stated that even if it’s just fixing typos, it should not be considered as “spam” because they are still fixing errors in the repository. Millie X, a member of the Synthetix Spartan Council, jokingly added:
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