The long-awaited airdrop of Arbitrum’s ARB native governance token took place on March 23, creating quite a buzz around the Layer 2 protocol as hundreds of thousands of eligible users and DAOs attempted to claim the token. Overwhelming user demand caused the airdrop complaints page to crash shortly after launch, displaying 404 and 429 errors for over an hour.Cointelegraph reported.
Since Arbitrum was one of the largest blockchain projects without a token, the buzz around its launch was to be expected. Yet it is an example of how community-driven projects can thrive despite competitors, technical challenges, market downturns, and regulatory uncertainty.
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— Arbitrum (,) (@arbitrum) March 16, 2023
Arbitrum has not been the first project, and surely it will not be the last, to mobilize massive audiences. In February, the Core DAO layer 1 protocol token distribution followed a similar participation recipe, with 1.2 million tokens distributed to individual users. Even before its release on the mainnet, the project created in 2021 had more than 1.6 million followers on Twitter and more than 215,000 members on Discord.
“From the beginning, community ownership and inclusion was an important goal,” Brendon Sedo, a Core DAO contributor, told Cointelegraph. “Transparency is another key to our community. Too many projects keep the curtain closed on their progress and development. We have made distributing information across a variety of platforms a priority.”
The Core blockchain is powered by a combined proof of work and delegated proof of stake consensus mechanism known as Satoshi Plus. His airdrop was carried out in collaboration with the Satoshi App, an application that allows users to “mine” in-app rewards without the need for a payment or exclusive invitation. According to Core, the App was crucial in helping to get the tokens into the hands of real users of the network, with 25% of the token supply dedicated to the association.
Community engagement is also key for Web3 games and metaverse platforms. The Aftermath Islands Metaverse virtual world is about to reach 4 million NFT resource packs generated in just 140 days after launching its first play-to-earn game, adding the last million users in a period of just 15 days, claims the company.
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—Core DAO (@Coredao_Org) February 21, 2023
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“We don’t focus on the number of users, as our users are verified anonymously using our Proof of Humanity solutions, where they can only have one account, with no duplicate accounts, fakes, or bots. This effectively eliminates metering”a eye” and false results, so we focus on what users do”, explained David Lucatch, CEO of Aftermath Islands.
The NFT Resource Pack represents actual ownership of items that can be traded or used in different ways within the platform just like a personal item. The daily generation of real Pack users amounts to 60,000, the company claims.
Decentralization and community participation have always been key aspects of cryptocurrencies.. Core DAO’s Sedo argues that project insiders and lack of community ownership pose threats to blockchain’s potential. “[…] chains have had to make trade-offs between security, scalability, and decentralization,” he explains, adding that “the classic blockchain trilemma gets a lot of limelight with very few solutions. Many chains and projects simply admit that to be scalable they must sacrifice decentralization.”
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