My thoughts on Spark Airdrop:
> I know certain users didn't get an airdrop because their X accounts looked like sybils because of lots of giveaway posts & RTs
> Some never shared their accounts via submission forms that we opened twice.
> Our submission form also had many systems in the background to catch sybils, and multiaccounts to flag those clusters too (although some may have slipped, we caught a ton of them)
In the end, some real users who were just trying to hunt for airdrops were affected too, because the algorithm used for these couldn't differentiate them from a bot farm.
On the other side of the coin, some users who said they didn't get an airdrop were actually bot farms that got caught, too.
15k people got an airdrop. But definitely some got caught in the crossfire of not giving tokens to sybils and not being able to differentiate because of how accounts looked.
And some good accounts just commented but never filled out the forms, which we had to require because we couldn't fetch all comments due to what the API allowed.
The Sybil checkers, algos, systems, and everything that glued the systems were partly coded with Claude, partly with Codex, as well as X API, Etherscan API, Alchemy, and a few other tools.
I recognize that we should particularly bring some of these users back who, for one reason or another, missed the drop. I know that there were genuine users among them who spent their time and got disappointed, too.
It's impossible to make this perfectly, because while you try to block those botfarms and sybils, you do unfortunately block some others too, no algo is perfect when a user's account lacks original content.
Now i understand people are on the grind, but if your account doesn't create much value for a brand, because of the content in it, or lack of it, and the brand can then risk sending to farms with 1000s of accounts, they won't wanna risk that in most cases.
In a humble way, I must share that people who hunt for airdrops must care more about their accounts and ask whether their accounts actually lead to the value they are trying to get from an airdrop. Because when an exchange is one-sided, and then on top of that is risky, then the equilibrium breaks there.
Some users got their drops and insta-sold them all too, btw. Not talking about Seedify / Seedworld / Vibecoder drops here, but drops that were gotten without staking/holding/owning anything.
If you're instadumping a gift straight away, that means you don't wanna belong in that community.
We brought a ruleset that says if someone who got a free airdrop doesn't own at least half of it, they won't be eligible for future drops, since this was meant to create a community.
Their future vestings will be gone. We will use the remaining vesting to reward new community members through events, thereby curating a community with dynamics that are best for the rest of the community.
They can still get it back, btw, if they saw this ruleset right now.
We will make sure we can onboard thousands of new community members through the people who forfeited their rights this way, and that's only fair imo.
We are now organizing on Telegram step by step, so definitely join, hang out, and there will be opportunities for creators, builders, AI enthusiasts, and everyone who is chasing something better.
Now's the time to craft this community, forge it, organize it, so that what started small can become one of the leading ecosystems in the AI & agentic frontier.
Also, my apologies to anyone who actually took the time and still couldn't get an airdrop yet. I know there are cases like that, and if you hang around our community, hopefully, we can bring you opportunities that will make you forget about that.
I tried my best and did most of this work solo, but from here on, community participation and organization will be paramount for Spark's future.
Ahoy!