If we spread a 2% fixed allocation across this drop the 2024 portion should be linear to combat this. Early sybils are already going to eat an unfair portion…
There should be a separate drop/multiplicator for those who have been creating pools with volumes. The rest of the proposal is quite fair
2% tier + 13% linear is fair. Why should Cibils with 100-500 accs with 100-1000$ fees have more then anyone with high, but 1 acc? They start telling something about comminuty but it is not fair at all. Please keep system which was announced. Dont make full Tier please!
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If you see proposal of previous LP
By ben
It’s 1 percent for 1 month
After communication with community it was decided
stop comparing just with amount of fees generated
Product need long-term users not people who are active when volume is back
And coins that you said it’s mostly insider coins controlled by market maker
5 percent is very high for just 3 months
It should be reduced to 3 percent and add 2 percent to long term users
I want team not to support insider coins and people farming points using those coins
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I think the team is overcomplicating things and fragmenting the community.
The demand for 2024 is OG rewards, while 2025’s demand is equal distribution. The core issue is determining how much 2025 fee equals 1 fee from 2024.
For example, someone mentioned:
- Total 2024 fee pool: 300 million
- Total 2025 fee pool: 600 million
If the team believes 2024 fee should hold greater value than 2025 fee
By applying a multiplier to 2024:
2024 fee × 2 = 2025 fee
2024 fee × 3 = 2025 fee
We can then design this multiplier accordingly. I’ve roughly sketched out a diagram to illustrate this concept.
Of course, the actual multiplier can be adjusted by the team. However, this approach at least avoids the fragmented perception of splitting the airdrop into two parts while preserving the weighting for rewarding OG contributors. Subsequently, similar to the previous M3 airdrop, we could filter out small-fee transactions and reduce allocations to whale accounts.
I appreciate the transparency and willingness to engage with the community regarding the $MET distribution. I’d like to share my perspective on why the linear points-based distribution remains fair and should not be significantly altered.
The points system allowed different types of users to farm rewards fairly. While whales could accumulate points passively with large capital, non-whale users could outperform them by taking on higher risks, particularly by engaging with memes and volatile assets. This created a level playing field where effort, strategy, and risk tolerance mattered just as much as capital size.
Additionally, many users sybilled the project by tailoring their activity to match Jupiter’s airdrop tiers, artificially inflating metrics to maximize rewards. I strongly believe that such behavior should be discouraged, and those users should not be over-rewarded. They will still receive their linear allocation, but they should not gain additional advantages. **Sybils harm the integrity of the ecosystem, and Meteora is a strong project that does not need inflated metrics to thrive.
The original distribution mechanism is already fair, and the adjustments should focus on preventing abuse rather than overly diluting rewards for legitimate users who contributed meaningfully.
I really can’t understand. As a user who joined Meteora in 2025, I have earned 1.6mu in fees so far. However, new users are being treated differently. I can understand that users from 2024 receive preferential treatment, but the gap is just too large. Their argument that 2025 refers to the airdrop farmers from the studio is even more absurd. We paid a 5% protocol fee, while new users came here for better products. They entered early to obtain tokens due to the airdrop farmer mentality. This makes users who joined Meteora in 2025 feel disheartened. We have provided a significant amount of TVL and fees, which has increased Meteora’s valuation. But there are even voices claiming that 2025 is out of pity for TVL providers like us. I hope the team can take my words seriously and not let new users lose heart.
I think the fixed portion should be increased. Early adopters took a lot of risk providing liquidity especially during the LFG and meme cycle when we wanted to grab market share from raydium. The dead LP’ers are very large.
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i like the idea of expanding the time window of the 2% allocation, sounds fair.
but it shouldn’t come at the cost of the already promised 10% that were allocated for early users until end of 2024. so it should be:
10% until end of 2024
5% 2025
2% fixed for consistency
in general i believe it would be highly beneficial to increase all allocations similar to the HYPE distribution.
so around 30% for initial airdrop.
this still leaves plenty of supply for future rewards, initiatives, team etc but we wouldnt have a problem of low float and high dilution. which would just negatively impact price action and with that also further initiatives.
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the fees were active since end of 2024, we paid as much as those who just came in january 2025. (A month and so of fees). OG been providing since 2023, and Trump team chose Meteora because these og users made Meteora standout. If TVL was lower, they never would have launched on Meteora.
And these OG users were on Meteora when it was a bear market. New users from 2025 just joined at the peak of the bullrun when Trump team was there to push the product.
Overall this should be it (based on tvl I’m guessing it makes sense) with a linear approach to avoid the sybils farmers. As seen and discussed on Discord, there are many sybil farmers with lot of wallets of 1k-5k fees/wallet.
Tier=> sybil farmers get too much
Linear=>each get what he deserves (degenplayers through 1000pts /fees, safeplayers 1pt/$)
I don’t think we should overcomplicate it.
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People in RU community are running 100+ accounts to farm Meteora.
With tiered distribution, a single wallet with 2M in fees might receive less than someone with 100 wallets each having 5K in fees.
We want Linear airdrop
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Hello all members,
In order to prevent Sybil farming abuses, we recommend setting a minimum fee threshold of $20,000.
Accounts not meeting this condition will not be eligible.
Best regards,
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The team’s thorough consideration of the airdrop distribution is understood. Frankly, no airdrop can satisfy everyone. Many new users who joined in 2025 are complaining about the small allocation. Let’s revisit the basics:
- The 10% allocation for 2024 was announced over a year ago, with a specific rate of 1% per month for a total of 10 months.
- Due to the TGE delay, 5% had to be allocated to 2025 users and 3% to launch projects like Trump.
- Meteora’s user base requires a certain level of expertise, which sets it apart from other projects. Let’s be honest, if you enjoy and excel at LP farming, there’s no reason you wouldn’t have known and participated in 2024, unless you’re just looking to gamble on the 2025 Trump launch for airdrop gains.
- Early users took on more risk in the project’s initial stages. Any airdrop will prioritize early users. Many even complain that the 2025 allocation (5%+3%) is too high, diluting the benefits for early users.
In summary, maintaining the original airdrop plan was crucial to preserving the trust of early users(core users).Despite the potential dissatisfaction of some new users (whose logic I find flawed) and the resulting short-term pressure, we should prioritize the project’s long-term stability and reputation by protecting our core users. The new team’s efficient work and responsiveness to user feedback are commendable, and we should continue on this path.
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You are completely wrong, its much riskier to DLMM this days then it was few months ago.
My opinion is that this Meteora airdrop should channel exactly how Jupiter would conduct an airdrop. Rather than concocting elaborate multipliers to distinguish old volume versus new volume, the team should simply create some flat OG bonuses.
There are a lot of moving pieces that make it important that the team do the airdrop as soon as possible. The introduction of fees while at the same time a reduction in frothy volumes coming from pumpdotfun will create rifts in the community.
Making money as an LP is really fucking hard, the learning curve to profitability is real.
I would also propose a small extra bonus for anyone who has attempted to LP after the introduction of fees but is down money and not everything they did was a DLMM on Swastikoin or Stinkypanties. Announce the snapshot, announce that anything going forward is season 2. No need to release all the tokens at once. The community is getting exhausted, this will clear the deck of people farming so they can focus on being a profitable LP. Call the additional allocation season 2!
As per sybils and Meteora traders in general. I think you should make each wallet tie to a discord and some other social checks, perhaps require wallet association. Now is a critical moment to NOT let the ethos of trustless decentralized protocols ruin this airdrop. Lets not be Ben.
Meteora has been a step behind fraud and manipulation of its platform for a long time. If you don’t make everyone identify to a social and link all wallets… Meteora could potentially be dealt one last death blow by bad actors that don’t have any of Meteora or Jupiters best intentions. This is very important. For this airdrop to be successful the tokens should only be given to identified members of “the community”!!
If someone has 100 wallets let them link their top 50. This airdrop will require a human touch or else it won’t go well. Meteora draws in some of the most savvy and successful traders and bot operators. If there aren’t some extremely intentional curbs put into place its a guarantee that Meteora will once again be “behind the curve”.
edit: every day that takes place before the word “snapshot” will only further complicate this discussion and its resolution.
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“lets not be Ben” is harsh.
Ben is good. He just ended up with the wrong people at the wrong time.
The sybil farmers, they each has discord account, KYC, twitter, phone number. On the discord a guy said he has 50 wallet with POH for Linea. I let you imagine how sybil farmors are ready to go around that check easily.
Making it linear would literally solve the problem. I don’t mind the whales taking a good share, as long as the sybils don’t get it, I’m happy at the end of the day. Whales earned it, sybils didnt’.
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It is unfair that 8% of the rewards will go to the 121,000 participants who were in the project until the end of 2024, especially since many of them didn’t take on significant risks or make substantial contributions. Meanwhile, the 5% of rewards will be distributed among new users, including those who are using sybil attacks to manipulate the system. This creates an imbalance, as later participants who actively invested in the project and took on risks receive less compared to those who were in the project earlier but didn’t contribute as much.
I found statistics showing that by the end of 2024, there were only 121,000 farmers in Meteora, but by March 2025, that number had already grown to 343,000. This highlights how quickly the community expanded, and how the rewards distribution system needs to fairly account for all participants, rather than favoring early users or those who manipulate the system.
The token distribution system has several key flaws:
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Unfair allocation: 8% is given to early users who may not have contributed much, while later, more active participants receive less. Additionally, these early users are far fewer in number compared to the significantly larger group of users who joined after January 1, 2025.
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Sybil exploitation: The new system enables sybil attacks, where users can create multiple wallets to unfairly increase their share of rewards.
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Disproportionate rewards: Those who joined later and took more financial risks are at a disadvantage compared to those who joined early with minimal risk.
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Market manipulation: The current allocation structure creates room for manipulation by a small group, undermining fairness and trust in the system.
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LP Army influence: Those in LP Army (not LP Army Private) farmed tokens before January 1, 2025, and will now receive an earlier token allocation, giving them greater influence over the liquidity pool. This early advantage increases their ability to manipulate the market and gain more rewards, despite not taking significant risks.
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Contributions from later users: Users who joined after January 1, 2025, contributed 5% of the protocol fees, which significantly supported the Meteora project. However, these users are being unfairly deprived of their due rewards, despite their substantial contributions to the project’s growth and liquidity.
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2% token allocation: The 2% of tokens to be distributed to all participants is, in practice, likely to disproportionately benefit those who farmed between December 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025. This is because the time frame between these dates, up to the potential token launch, is significantly longer compared to the period after January 1, 2025. As a result, while the 8% rewards go to the early users, the bulk of the 2% allocation will likely go to those who farmed in this earlier period, further skewing the distribution. These users will essentially receive a larger portion of the total allocation, further depriving newer participants of their fair share.
Conclusion:
The current token distribution system in Meteora has several key flaws that create an unfair advantage for early participants, sybil attackers, and small groups with market influence. The allocation of 8% to those who joined before January 1, 2025, despite their limited contributions, and the disproportionate rewards given to later, risk-taking participants, is a serious issue. Additionally, sybil exploitation and manipulation of the liquidity pool undermine the integrity of the project. A more balanced, transparent distribution system is necessary to ensure that all users, regardless of when they joined, are fairly rewarded for their efforts and contributions to Meteora’s growth.
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@Soju Agree. Make it 10% for both 2024 and 2025.
Or
If you use for 6 months, you will get 10% for those months before 2025 if you use for 8 months you get more if you use for 10 you get even more
disagree. I oppose giving more allocation to airdrop hunters who joined late. The 10% allocation for 2024 was clearly announced over a year ago, and it was meant to reward early supporters. Changing the terms now, or adding more allocation for 2025 just to satisfy those who missed out, is unfair and damages the trust of genuine early backers. These airdrop hunters are only here for short-term gains, and constantly giving in to their demands hurts the long-term community. I stand against this direction.
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