THELOGICALINDIAN - A day afterwards its aboriginal airdrop the Optimism association is still aggravating to acquisition its footing
An Optimism association affiliate has proposed to exclude airdrop badge sellers from approaching agreement airdrops on the base that they were alone absorbed in accumulation and not governance. The abstraction has been met with resistance.
Excluding Token Sellers From Future Benefits
An Optimism association affiliate by the name of 0xJohn has sparked altercation by suggesting on the Optimism Governance Forum on May 31 that users who awash their antecedent airdrop should not be acceptable for any approaching agreement airdrops.
0xJohn argued in his column that sellers were allotment accumulation over accidental to the babyminding of the agreement and should accordingly be afar from any approaching administration of Optimism tokens. He articular four wallets that had awash their airdropped OP tokens for prices alignment amid $38,000 and $48,000 but claimed to accept begin “many more” application Dune Analytics.
Optimism is a layer-2 ascent band-aid that aims to accredit bargain and near-instantaneous Ethereum transactions. It has captured over $800 actor on-chain amount and claims to accept adored Ethereum users over $1 billion in gas fees.
0xJohn’s angle prompted a response from crypto personality Cobie, who sarcastically appropriate activity added by (among added things) extending the abuse to anyone accepting awash any badge in the aftermost six months, abandoning the babyminding ability of awash tokens, and unleashing concrete abandon adjoin airdrop sellers.
The Optimism Governance Forum unlisted the abusive post, adequate it, flagged it as inappropriate, again adequate it one added time. The Optimism Forum’s cryptic attitude over the abandon of announcement of its association associates drew criticism from the broader crypto association on Twitter.
It additionally motivated Cobie to action a added austere acknowledgment to 0xJohn’s proposal, in which he provided examples of accepted instances in which airdrop sellers may still be absorbed in accommodating in Optimism babyminding added bottomward the line. Cases cited included tax obligations, portfolio rebalancing, accident management, or aloofness issues.
The altercation comes a day afterwards Optimism launched its OP badge by airdrop. Aboriginal adopters of the Layer 2 belvedere were awarded a assertive cardinal of tokens for either bridging to Optimism in the aboriginal stages of the mainnet, again application Optimism applications, accommodating in governance, or for actuality priced out of the Ethereum network. Each OP bread is currently trading for about $1.23.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic ETH and several added cryptocurrencies.
