The token airdrop activity of Zksync has sparked widespread criticism in the community, even leading to the #zkscam movement, strongly condemning the project. Many believe that the official rules of Zksync’s airdrop are not transparent, as many tokens were airdropped to whales and related projects, while actual users received very little.
However, some in the community believe that these negative voices mainly come from airdrop farming studios, which invested a lot of costs but were rejected by the project team, thus attempting to pressure them through public opinion to relax the airdrop conditions.
Nevertheless, the official attitude has not changed so far, still maintaining the original airdrop plan without any intention of making changes. ZK Nation stated in an announcement:
Additionally, whether mainstream exchanges will list the ZK token is currently a focus of community opinion. Typically, projects of the caliber of Zksync would be listed on major exchanges at the earliest opportunity. However, faced with strong criticism from the community, many exchanges have not yet announced listings.
Up to now, Bybit and Gate.io have announced the listing of the ZK token, but these exchanges have been labeled as “letting platform users take over for whales,” prompting many to launch boycott activities and urging investors not to use these exchanges. OKX CEO Xu Mingxing raised questions on X:
Meanwhile, Binance co-founder He Yi commented in Space when addressing this issue:
In addition, Justin Sun also inquired on X whether the community should boycott ZKsync and not allow ZKsync to be listed on Huobi, with the voting results showing that seventy percent of people do not support the listing.
Currently, Binance, Huobi, and OKX are still uncertain about whether they will list the token.