{"id":14228,"date":"2024-06-11T10:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/zksync-to-distribute-3-6-billion-zk-tokens-in-airdrop\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:58:26","slug":"zksync-to-distribute-3-6-billion-zk-tokens-in-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/zksync-to-distribute-3-6-billion-zk-tokens-in-airdrop\/","title":{"rendered":"ZKsync to Distribute 3.6 Billion ZK Tokens in Airdrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ZKsync Association is set to conduct a one-time distribution of 3.6 billion ZK tokens among early network users next week. This was revealed by Matter Labs founder and CEO Alex Gluchowski in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/299404\/zksync-airdrop-zk-tokens\">The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? Zksync airdrop checker live now.<\/p>\n<p>Link:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EmAKFkbtvj\">https:\/\/t.co\/EmAKFkbtvj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>695232 wallets eligible for 17.5% <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ZK&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ZK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snapshot of zksync lite and era on March 24, 2024 (0 UTC) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9fptXzdO08\">https:\/\/t.co\/9fptXzdO08<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n3MyjDHjiy\">pic.twitter.com\/n3MyjDHjiy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Airdrop Official ?? (@its_airdrop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/its_airdrop\/status\/1800425441695801477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The tokens allocated for the airdrop represent 17.5% of the total issuance of 21 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Users will be able to claim their tokens starting next week until January 3, 2025. The claim will be available from June 24.<\/p>\n<p>89% of the tokens will go to users who have transacted through ZKsync. The remaining 11% will be distributed among developers and other community members who have contributed to the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 695,232 wallets have been shortlisted for the airdrop. A snapshot was taken on March 24 to mark the anniversary of the ZKsync Era mainnet launch.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXejqFwYrgPuFn5lOc-2YlT0mfvLDKBqH0Jd9BgpluN3lUiBeGWJghgTSk8ZJaY4YujcoP38DjMsXWjdT7aqu-T37WK7GTIeXIdjuBeP75f7cO5Yakn6sJPSWSqA8fQglg0Vv7HA4Sv5GVT-HoRciba3alJL?key=rPYrJYceFiuRZUOP5YcPwA\" alt=\"ZKsync to distribute 3.6 billion ZK tokens in airdrop\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Distribution of tokens via airdrop. Source: ZKsync.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The remaining ZK tokens will be distributed over time through ZKsync Foundation&#8217;s ecosystem initiatives and the ZK Nation governance model. Specifically, investors will receive 17.2%, and the Matter Labs development team will receive 16.1%. Their tokens will be locked for a year and then gradually unlocked over three years from June 2025 to June 2028.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-eu.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXejOitFmeiHydqvFMAhit1rtiqu8KvgO60csv0d5ucxQdyhjdCmYzsNQEEhXHERt2CtYaO8gKqPER6tAl0l7vw6ZW2EWjXUxh2qiVBT6TgWMJ9MOLkztYgjkkfRkLoxu-fPSIqA3G-I338IGIItdUI7-uiS?key=rPYrJYceFiuRZUOP5YcPwA\" alt=\"ZKsync to distribute 3.6 billion ZK tokens in airdrop\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Distribution of ZK tokens. Source: ZKsync.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The airdrop is based on a points system. Users earned points for interacting with smart contracts in ZKsync Era, providing liquidity in DeFi protocols, trading ERC-20 tokens, and being active in ZKsync Lite.<\/p>\n<p>The distributed tokens will not have any lock-up periods and will be &#8220;fully liquid from day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We hope that most recipients will participate in governance, delegate their tokens, and become active community members. If some choose not to [and sell them], it&#8217;s better for the tokens to end up with people who truly care about the protocol,&#8221; said Alex Gluchowski.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One address can receive no more than 100,000 ZK tokens. This is because &#8220;the team is focused on the community as a whole, not on creating individual whales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The developers also made efforts to filter out bot addresses from the airdrop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">June 11, 2024 | 12:30<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/1800455654580392437?t=o1HbvLiDhMl6V9xS6k0Tnw&#038;s=19\">Colin Wu<\/a>, the largest recipients of ZK tokens will be Holdstation wallet clients. 441,000 users make up 63% of the total airdrop recipients.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">June 11, 2024 | 13:39<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Currently, ZK is trading at a pre-market price of $0.34. The Fully Diluted Valuation is approximately $7.1 billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ZK&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ZK<\/a> is currently trading at a pre-market price of $0.34<\/p>\n<p>That gives it a Fully Diluted Valuation of approx $7.1B<\/p>\n<p>? The current FDV of competitor Layer 2s:<br \/>\u2023 Starknet&#8217;s $10.8B<br \/>\u2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ARB&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ARB<\/a>&#8216;s $9.3B<br \/>\u2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24OP&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$OP<\/a>&#8216;s $8.7B<br \/>\u2023 Polygon&#8217;s $6.4B<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your zkSync price prediction on launch? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hm98ycCgIm\">pic.twitter.com\/hm98ycCgIm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Airdrop Official ?? (@its_airdrop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/its_airdrop\/status\/1800466176772133182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\"><time class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\">June 11, 2024 | 15:57<\/time><span class=\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to researchers&#8217; calculations, 155 users will receive over 100,000 ZK. The largest expected allocation is to the address bobjiang.eth \u2014 160,495 ZK.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All details about the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ZK&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ZK<\/a> token distribution ?<\/p>\n<p>Eligible addresses: 690,715<\/p>\n<p>0-1k: 90937 users<br \/>1k-5k: 477996 users<br \/>5k-10k: 63582 users<br \/>10k-20k: 26871 users<br \/>20k-50k: 18517 users<br \/>50k-100k: 12657 users<br \/>> 100k: 155 users<\/p>\n<p>The highest token amount in the dataset is\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7qw9o9MS1\">pic.twitter.com\/V7qw9o9MS1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 eekeyguy.eth (@eekeyguy_eth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eekeyguy_eth\/status\/1800461976969035910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier, the Matter Labs team announced a new ecosystem governance model called ZK Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ZKsync Association is set to conduct a one-time distribution of 3.6 billion ZK tokens among early network users next week. This was revealed by Matter Labs founder and CEO Alex Gluchowski in an interview with The Block. ? Zksync airdrop checker live now. Link:https:\/\/t.co\/EmAKFkbtvj 695232 wallets eligible for 17.5% $ZK Snapshot of zksync lite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1158,1518],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-airdrops","tag-zksync"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}