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Matter Labs news: ZkSync, the scaling platform for Ethereum, has recently rejected the accusations of “internal minting” of NFTs.  In response to circulating rumors, Matter Labs, the company behind ZkSync, clarified that its employees were not eligible to participate in the ZK airdrop and denied any distribution of NFTs to friends or insiders.  Furthermore, they confirmed that some minters participated in the minting events, but without any favoritism or internal involvement. Let’s see all the details below.  Matter Labs clarifies the position on the minting events of NFTs: the position of ZkSync  As anticipated, on June 26, Matter Labs, developer of the Ethereum layer 2 network zkSync, denied the accusations of “insider minting” of NFTs.  The company stated that all the minters of the non-fungible tokens (NFT) Libertas Omnibus were eligible according to the official criteria. The statement from Matter Labs comes in response to a post on June 17 by blockchain researcher soEasy. He accused the team of distributing the NFT Libertas Omnibus to ineligible people, including friends of the team. SoEasy also claimed that these “insider mint” allowed some to mint ZK tokens without meeting the airdrop criteria. In a statement, a representative of Matter Labs reiterated that there had been no invalid mints. He explained that there were several ways to mint the NFT Libertas Omnibus.  Some of these users were eligible for having interacted with the first 100 zkSync NFTs, while others participated in events where they scanned a one-time QR code to mint the NFT.  Matter Labs has denied that owning a Libertas Omnibus NFT could make a user eligible for the ZK airdrop.  In particular, emphasizing that the allocations were based on eligibility criteria, funds held on zkSync Era and bonus multipliers. Additionally, the development team employees were not eligible for the airdrop. The…

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