Stimulated by Arbitrum's "sprinkling of money", the industry's enthusiasm for airdrops has been ignited again, and the ZK Rollup series Layer 2 has become the focus of all wool parties.
As a general consensus on the expansion of Ethereum, Layer 2 adopting the Rollup solution has always been regarded as the highest priority choice by the airdrop circle due to their extremely high valuation and relatively certain currency issuance expectations, and with Optimistic Rollup The two representative players of the department, Optimism and Arbitrum, issued coins successively, and the wool party naturally shifted their attention to the relatively earlier ZK Rollup.
According to the data compiled by gm 365 on Dune Analytics, the amount of funds bridged to two representative ZK Rollups such as zkSync and StarkNet has surged in the past few days. In addition, ZigZag, the main exchange on zkSync Lite, also stated that its single-day transaction volume once increased to nearly 100,000, and the activity on the chain increased significantly.
While ZK Rollup has taken to new heights, rumors have surfaced several times that specific projects have been snapshotted. But given that ZK Rollup is still the most imaginative track for a long time, and Arbitrum's airdrop case (February snapshot) has once again proved thatIt's never too late to interact with each other before the official announcement, so we think it is still necessary to sort out the airdrop opportunities of ZK Rollup.
Next, we will sort out the development progress, coin issuance expectations, and interaction strategies of the three major ZK Rollup projects, including zkSync, StarkNet, and Scroll.secondary title
zkSync
zkSync is an Ethereum Layer 2 expansion solution started by the German development team Matter Labs in 2019. Its founding team has repeatedly confirmed that tokens will be issued in the future.
In November last year, Matter Labs announced the completion of a $200 million Series C round of financing, led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly, with participation from a16z, Variant, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. After the completion of this round of financing, Matter Labs' historical total financing amount has reached 458 million US dollars.
Currently, zkSync operates two networks, zkSync Lite, a 1.0 network that does not support zkEVM, and zkSync Era, a 2.0 network that supports zkEVM, which also means that zkSync will have two different interaction paths.
zkSync Lite has been online and running for many years. Users can activate the chain address through the "official web wallet"; then use "official bridge" or third-party bridging services such as "Orbiter" and "Layerswap" to deposit funds such as ETH into the network; Perform transactions on ZigZag; or try to mint some NFTs on the built-in NFT function interface of the wallet; if you catch up with the Gitcoin donation event, you can also try to use zkSync Lite to donate.
Official web wallet:https://lite.zksync.io/account/
Official Bridge:https://lite.zksync.io/transaction/deposit
Orbiter：https://www.orbiter.finance/
Layerswap：https://www.layerswap.io/
ZigZag：https://trade.zigzag.exchange/
Built-in NFT function interface:https://lite.zksync.io/account/nft
zkSync Era∎ Although the main network has also been launched, it is only open to developers for the time being (registration is required). Users can currently try some ecological Dapps on the zkSync 2.0 Testnet Goerli test network (as shown in the picture above). The ETH of this test network can be passed through the official bridge (https://goerli.portal.zksync.io/secondary title
SyncSwap：https://syncswap.xyz/
Nexon Finance：https://testnet.nexon.finance/
Mes Protocol：https://app.mesprotocol.com/
Mute：https://testnet.switch.mute.io/
OnChain.Trade：https://beta.onchain.trade/
StarkNet
StarkNet is a Layer 2 solution built by Israeli development team StarkWare.
In May last year, StarkWare completed a $100 million Series D financing at a valuation of $8 billion, which also brought its total disclosed financing to $273 million.
This week, the Starknet Foundation announced the appointment of five new committees, and mentioned that the Provisional Committee will be responsible for planning, overseeing and executing the supply and distribution of the StarkNet ecosystem token STRK. In addition to being used as a pledge token participating in the StarkNet consensus mechanism, STRK will also serve as a governance token for the network and a gas token for paying network transaction fees.
Currently, StarkNet has been launched on the main network, but its functions are not perfect for the time being, and the network performance is limited. Users can link to the network and create addresses through "Braavos" (more recommended) and "Argent" wallets; then deposit ETH and other funds through the official bridge "StarkGate" or third-party bridges such as "Orbiter" and "LayerSwap"; Then use more commonly used ecological Dapps such as "MySwap", "10 K Swap", "JediSwap", "MintSquare", "StarkNet.id".
In addition, qualified users can also apply to become a governance representative on StarkNet's "governance entrustment interface", and may get a certain scale of governance rights granted by the development team.
Braavos：https://braavos.app
Argent：https://www.argent.xyz/
StarkGate：https://starkgate.starknet.io/
Orbiter：https://www.orbiter.finance/
Layerswap：https://www.layerswap.io/
MySwap：https://www.myswap.xyz/
10 K Swap：https://10 kswap.com/
JediSwap：https://jediswap.xyz/
MintSquare：https://mintsquare.io/starknet
StarkNet.id：https://www.starknet.id/
Governance delegation page:https://delegate.starknet.io/
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Scroll
Scroll debuted at EthCC 2022 and is a Layer 2 solution that focuses on "fully equivalent EVM".
Earlier this month, Scroll just completed a new round of financing of US$50 million, Polychain Capital, Sequoia China (Sequoia China), Bain Capital Crypto, Moore Capital Management, Variant Fund, Newman Capital, IOSG Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners, OKX Ventures Participate in voting. The round brings Scroll's total funding to $83 million.
Currently, Scroll is in the Alpha testnet stage. Users can add the network with one click through the official "test network configuration interface"; then transfer funds such as ETH from the Ethereum Goerli test network to the Alpha test network through the "official bridge"; and then experience "Uniswap (forked version of the application) )”, “SyncSwap”, “Tictactoe” and other ecological Dapps.
It is worth mentioning that the new task released on Guild through Scroll can also unlock a new identity "Mystery Role" in the official Discord, which may play some mysterious role in the future.
Testnet configuration interface:https://scroll.io/alpha
Official Bridge:https://scroll.io/alpha/bridge
Scroll Uniswap：https://uniswap-v3.scroll.io/#/swap
SyncSwap：https://staging.syncswap.xyz/
Tictactoe：https://onchain-tictactoe.vercel.app/
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At the end of the article, I still want to remind my friends that although everyone wants to make profits through airdrops, they must bear in mindAirdrops are still inherently a non-deterministic event。
Especially as "Wool" has gradually become a studio as an industry, more and more projects have begun to think about how to compete with the wool party. From the interaction time, to the amount of funds, to the balance of the wallet, and even the financial relationship between different wallets, the interested airdrop project parties have been exploring how to avoid the wool party and distribute tokens to real users; on the other hand, the wool The party tried to "jump the devil" and predict the evasion measures of the project party in advance; in turn, the project party wanted to predict the prediction of the wool party...
From the perspective of users, all we can do is to experience various new networks and applications as much as possible, so as to continuously enrich our own interaction strategies, but at the same time, we may also need to maintain some "lucky for me, life for me" rationality. After all, the blockchain is a transparent world, and the project party can clearly see the interaction records of its user groups on the chain, and can also use this to formulate corresponding airdrop plans. The user's interaction strategy will inevitably completely or partially mismatch with the project's airdrop plan, so there is no need to be too persistent. Just aim at the next opportunity after a miss. After ZK, there will be modularization, Move, social, re- Potential hotspots such as staking, there are still many opportunities waiting for you in this industry.
