"High-level witch" reveals: How to avoid witch review and get 6.6 million ZK airdrop?

Original title: "Senior Witch's Autobiography: How I Got 6.6 Million ZK Airdrop"

Original author: Azuma, Odaily Planet Daily

It has been many days since ZKsync (ZK) started the airdrop, but the aftermath of the incident is still continuing.

On the evening of June 22, Beijing time, X user k1z4 posted a rather provocative message: "Hey, ZKsync, I want to tell you that I finally completed the airdrop application and transfer of 350 wallets, and each wallet received an average of 18,871 ZK tokens. Unfortunately, I still don’t have enough money to buy a Lamborghini or a Beverly Hills villa... I was looking forward to getting more tokens, you disappoint me so much!"

According to the screenshots of holdings suspected to be on the Binance exchange released by k1z4, the user finally obtained a total of 6,605,139 ZKs, which is still worth nearly 1.2 million US dollars even if the currency price is falling continuously at that time.

After k1z4 showed off publicly, the news quickly spread on CT.

In the early morning of June 23, k1z4 posted several more updates, roughly explaining his strategy of escaping ZKsync witch detection as a "senior witch".

First, k1z4 bluntly admitted that he was doing "airdrop farming", but emphasized that the infrastructure he used to farm 350 wallets was more complex than most Layer2s today, so much so that no one, including ZKsync, could tell the difference between his robot and real users from the address behavior - "My robot looks more real than most real people."

Specifically, k1z4 revealed that he used 350 IP addresses with independent caches, cookies, RPCs, VPNs, hosting services, and a series of AI tools, and then spent several days coding the program so that the robot could learn how to interact like a real person with reference to various "airdrop strategies" commonly seen on X.

As a result, these 350 addresses are not only difficult to find the connection themselves, but their respective interaction behaviors are also completely different. k1z4 later revealed that the airdrop amounts received by these addresses also varied, with the lowest being about 9,000 and the highest being 70,000.

However, k1z4 then mentioned that it is not enough to have technical capabilities alone, and such "airdrop farming" itself requires a lot of capital costs.

k1z4 revealed that in order to smoothly run these 350 robot addresses, he consumed 29.68 ETH in network gas fees alone; it cost an additional $21,000 to build the robot infrastructure, and paid 50,000 ZK to each of the two helpers (who helped to detect the operation of the robot); in addition, he also allocated 200 ETH of funds to allow the robot address to flexibly participate in the liquidity pools of major DeFi protocols on the chain.

k1z4 also mentioned that in order to ensure the normal execution of the strategy, he also invested a lot of time and energy in this, and these things that cannot be priced are actually costs.

When answering the community’s question about “Are you doing this for researching new technologies or for money?”, k1z4 showed off his values: “At first it was just for researching new technologies, but then I found out it could be monetized… and you already know the result.”

However, although k1z4 eventually received airdrop income far exceeding that of ordinary users, he was still not satisfied with the result.

When evaluating the benefits of this airdrop, k1z4 finally said "killingly": "I am not satisfied with this number, I expect much more than this, but for a blockchain that raised $400 million but still cannot operate normally, what can you expect?"

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