🚨 Linea Witch Screening Upgrade: Ensuring Fairness, Accurate Allocation! 🚨

With the rapid development of the blockchain industry, airdrops and incentive mechanisms have become important means to attract users. However, how to ensure that genuine contributors can receive their deserved rewards, while preventing malicious actors from exploiting the rules for arbitrage? This has always been a challenge faced by the Layer2 ecosystem.

Linea, as an Ethereum Layer2 solution, has always been committed to fair and transparent ecosystem development. Recently, Linea has once again launched the Sybil Screening and optimized the distribution rules to ensure that rewards truly support users who contribute to the network's development. This update focuses specifically on two core elements: wallet age and cross-chain activities, meaning that users with a longer history on the chain and active across multiple chains will have an advantage over those who only interact briefly on Linea.

So, what are the specific changes in this screening? What impact will it have on the final token distribution to users? What are the community's views on this adjustment? Today, let's delve into this hot topic!

🔍 Linea witch screening rules updated, what factors will affect your airdrop?
1️⃣ Wallet Age: Long-term activity is more advantageous than new wallets
In previous blockchain airdrop events, we can easily find a large number of newly created wallets engaging in a large number of interactions in a short period of time to deceive airdrop rewards. This update of Linea means that users with wallets created for a longer time and with real transaction records will have a greater advantage. If your wallet was created recently and only used for interacting with Linea, it may be classified as a "witch account," thereby affecting the final token distribution.

2️⃣ Multi-chain interaction: Single-chain activity vs. Multi-chain real usage
Compared to accounts that only interact on Linea, wallets that are active on multiple chains can better prove their true utility value. If your wallet interacts on multiple blockchains (such as Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, etc.) for a long time, your XLP (transaction score) will be higher, and the probability of receiving airdrops will also be higher.

💡 Why do this round of optimization?
The fairness of the community has always been one of Linea's core concerns. In the previous round of screening, despite the cleaning up of a large number of malicious accounts, there were still some rule loopholes that allowed some "pseudo-contributors" to receive rewards. Therefore, Linea has decided to conduct more rigorous screening to ensure that users who truly support the network receive the rewards they deserve.

In addition, in the increasingly fierce competition of the Layer2 ecosystem, a fair and transparent incentive mechanism can attract long-term users and form a healthy ecosystem. If the proportion of witch accounts is too high, it will lead to a reduction in rewards for actual contributors, and even affect the user growth of the entire network. This is also why Linea has decided to optimize the screening mechanism again before the TGE.

❓ Community hot discussion: XLP below 2000 may be considered a witch?
With the release of the new regulations, the discussion in the community about XLP (Trading Activity Score) has become more intense. Rumor has it that accounts with XLP below 2000 may be deemed as 'witch accounts' and therefore ineligible for token distribution. But does this mean that users previously screened could also be disqualified?

Currently, the official has not yet given a final answer, but from past experience, the rules may be more inclined to reward long-term genuine users rather than short-term arbitrageurs.

🎯 Which allocation scheme do you prefer?
Currently, Linea officials are soliciting community feedback, hoping everyone can decide on the final distribution plan together. The two main options are as follows:

🔹 Option 1: 🚀 First release token distribution, then announce screening criteria & inspection tools (distribution details visible within a few weeks)
🔹 Option 2: 🧐 All information will be disclosed at once (to be released closer to TGE, requiring more time)

Each solution has its own advantages and disadvantages: Solution 1 allows users to know their allocation status more quickly, but may lead to some dissatisfaction with the rules; while Solution 2 requires a longer wait, but can provide more transparent selection criteria.