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As we get closer and closer to the highlight of the LayerZero airdrop, with rewards in the form of the ZRO crypto expected to arrive in June, we share this nice story featuring a Web3 user with the nickname “Ruslan” Ruslan is a farmers who uses hundreds of wallet in his hunting activities to increase the potential allocation on projects that are about to release an airdrop, just like LayerZero. Despite on paper seeming like a prepared and highly skilled user, he made a serious mistake that could really cost him dearly. What is it about? Let’s find out together in this article. Oh Ruslan… 🤣🤣🤣 — Bryan Pellegrino (臭企鹅) (@PrimordialAA) May 28, 2024 LayerZero and the hunt for sybil before the airdrop: caught the user “Ruslan” The story of “Ruslan” begins when the anonymous user, in order to farm the best LayerZero airdrop and obtain the largest possible allocation of ZRO tokens, decides to use hundreds of different addresses to execute various types of on-chain transactions. It starts in 2023 to farm the airdrop with each of these addresses using the bridge of Stargate and other dapps that are based on the omnichain technology of LayerZero. Despite the high number of entities connected to each other (having exchanged funds with each other to finance the interactions), Ruslan still finds an idea to manage to evade the anti-sybil checks and make each address appear as standalone. Maybe under some advice from another user X, decides to associate an ENS domain with every address he had interacted with to position himself for the LayerZero airdrop, convinced that the on-chain analysis systems would identify his wallets as authentic. In fact, sybil addresses are usually characterized by a low quality in the history of tx, with few low-value transactions, often advanced by bots…

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