[Open Source Scythe 21 - Why do pre-TGE communities often become abandoned? 】

Scroll's airdrop controversy actually fully illustrates

Any pre-TGE “community” is effectively meaningless until liquidity related to the main coin is generated.

This has been proven countless times in practice. If you don’t believe it, take a look:

Sui, the three rounds of testnet did not give any airdrops, only whitelisted users of exchanges and Discord activities, causing early users of the entire network to curse SuiScam. However, after the listing of the coin, Cetus IDO plus Bullperk user rewards increased usage and TVL, successfully reversing the trend

APT, testnet mint NFT gives minimum living allowance, but after the mainnet, a wave of mojito rug and follow-up projects are weak, and it once became a Korean meme coin. So far, the ecosystem has not improved except for sporadic Thala, Tugou GUI, and DOODOO.

Merlin, which had the strongest community consensus in BTC in the early stage, generously distributed community airdrops at the opening (even when some TVL big holders did not deliver the airdrops), did not maintain the price, and was still criticized by the whole network (because many of the pledged assets were reduced to zero)

Whether or not to issue airdrops to early users will be criticized; the reputation of the project in the later stage has nothing to do with whether or not to issue airdrops, but only with expectation management and the clustering of token interests in the later stage.

The purpose of building a community and data in the early stage of a project is to negotiate with the exchange as a bargaining chip. There is no doubt that the means serve the purpose, which has nothing to do with whether the project party is arrogant or not. Loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely not loyal. Only the community that generates liquidity with the project is a real community. This is mostly impossible before TGE.

Second, the project side is actually unable to deliver transparent and redeemable rules in advance. The purpose of being a user is to be listed on the exchange, and the exchange's listing strategy is different every quarter and every month. Whether your project is good or not is one thing, but what really determines whether you can be listed is your fit with the current listing strategy and the cost you are willing to pay for it (part of the strategy). This cost may not be known until a week or even a few days before TGE. So @jason_chen998's retelling of @yezhang1998's grievances is completely true.

You think you are working for the project, but you don’t know that the entire industry, including the Polychain Ethereum Foundation, is working for Binance.

Third, this problem is more troublesome for L2, because its gas is basically BTC and ETH, and the main trading pair quote tokens are also. That means that after the L2 main currency is launched, it is impossible to distribute it like APT or SUI, because at least it needs to split the plate and have a holding logic for new issuance. After the L2 main currency is launched, all secondary retail positions can be regarded as selling pressure

Then why do you think L2 will be so generous as to send you airdrops?

Therefore, if you are a "user" and you think the airdrop logic on the project side mentioned in Open Source Scythe 13 and 16 is too complicated, then remember:

1. Don’t try to get project coins that cannot be used for splitting, such as most Layer2

2. Do tasks that generate real money and real transactions, but don’t make each task large, but rather wide-ranging.

3. If possible, become a project owner, a KOL, and someone who can threaten the project owner’s coin listing process through public opinion

4. Keep a normal mind, Scroll is not the first, and it will definitely not be the last. Think about Pinduoduo's slashing, if you know it's a scam, will your mother stop sending you links?

IceFrog said it well: "Power is only accountable to the source of power." It will be good for you to understand this early.