Alright, the topic title hopefully got your attention, and was in part tongue-in-cheek. I’ve been in the blockchain space for almost a decade now, mostly in the EVM side, then begrudgingly a short stint in the IBC/Cosmos ecosystem. I’ve worked on many projects, onboarded many projects to various protocols, have been heavily involved in DAOs, and had direct interactions + minor integration work with the WCT team some years ago.
Every week I’ve been getting sent WCT, which I am definitely not complaining about, but admittedly, it felt a bit odd because I wasn’t sure if I was deserving of it, as its been quite a long time since I’ve been actively indirectly or directly worked with the WC protocol. I tried many, many times to see if there was some list or criterion available for me to view so that I am at least aware of why hundreds of WCT magically appear in my wallet every week.
Depending on the week, I’d bridge to OP to stake, I’d join the Aerodrome liquidity pool, and yes, when needed I did sell. Point is, I tried to be as responsible with the tokens that were being dropped, and I assumed that it had something to do with an old integration work I helped between WC and (at the time) a new EVM network. Considerable TX volume, after all, did pass through that particular WC… key? Account? It’s been so long I’m not exactly sure what it was called, but it was during the transition stage of WC 2.0, where some sort of API key or dev account was now required.
About a month ago, a friend/colleague of mine revealed to me that he was in the exact same boat. We shrugged it off, as we’ve been in this space long enough to have witness the birth of Ethereum from that child-genius Vitalik (random note: he was 18 or 19 when he wrote the Ethereum whitepaper.. crazy).
Getting to the point of this topic, my colleague DM’d me that the WCT drops seemed to have ended for him. He wasn’t upset or bitter, he actually sounded more relieved since he isn’t focused on WC governance or WC dev/integrations/intros, it was a bit uncomfortable receiving what are essentially, governance tokens.
We still have no idea who or why these tokens go to certain addresses. Maybe we missed a memo, or missed a secret pact of old Ethereum heads’ retroactive airdrop TG group, or literally anything. But before I go crazy trying to figure out which part of my career or which partner integration I helped with has led to me being on this weekly airdrop list, I think I may just go crazy.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for even compensating early adopters and builders. But I cannot consciencely continue to accept governance tokens in which I am no longer a community of without knowing the why and what - why am I still somehow qualified on this magical list, and what are the criterion that lands addresses on this list?
I apologize if this is posted somewhere in plain sight, but as much as I think my google-fu is top-tier, I couldn’t find anything discussing this. For reference to those that have no idea what I am talking about, every week, like clockwork WCT is sent to these addresses, whom I assume are/were involved in building the protocol in one way or another. And I’m sure they are all deserving, but personally I feel uncomfortable without knowing the why.
And apologies for the ambiguity in the scope of work done in the past, we are under constant attack from all angles from those trying to social engineer their way into our private keys, so privacy and anonymity is something we take seriously on a public forum.
P.S. from an OG to an OG protocol, sending huge respect for taking care of your own. The industry has turned into a airdrop farming and minds-for-hire shit-show for a small change of tokens and is utterly destroying the meaning of airdrops and retroactive funding.
P.P.S. yes, I’ve read the whitepaper several times. It’s left me with more questions than I began with… `Initially, the reward calculation and distribution process will be executed off-chain, with results posted on-chain for transparency and verification.` is the closest thing I’ve found to a possible answer, but correct me if I am wrong, it’s referring to certified wallets and high performing wallets. Perhaps an updated whitepaper is due? Anyways, <3 you guys and thank you for all the improvements in UX all these years in the space. I still get nightmares about MEW.