Wormhole Foundation Co-Founder: Supporting the Points Program, which can reduce the workload of the team's anti-witch

On June 27th, Robinson Burkey, co-founder of the Wormhole Foundation, shared some progress made in the past three months since the launch of the W airdrop. It was mentioned that success was achieved through more than 5 months of anti-witch work using Allium. After sorting through the addresses to prevent witch attacks, 400,000 wallets from 26 different ecosystems met the airdrop conditions. Since Wormhole has been running for over 3 years, there was a lot of data to process, which took about 4 months. So far, the team has processed 265,476 airdrop claims.

Burkey concluded that the best airdrops are those that are unexpected by users. However, we cannot go back to that simple era and have to enter into points activities and witch wars. Point activities are like an unspoken agreement between protocols and "new users," meaning airdrop farming is acceptable. The question becomes whether the protocol can provide good support for farmers to farm. Personally, I support point programs because they can reduce the workload of protocol teams (i.e. reduce time spent on anti-witch work).