The LayerZero witch hunt, which has lasted for nearly a month, is coming to an end. At 8:00 on May 30th, Beijing time, the second round of the “Bounty Hunt 2” will close its reporting window. Considering that LayerZero has already determined May 31st as the final date for the witch hunt, it is unlikely that another round of “Bounty Hunt” will be opened in the last two days. This also means that if your address (provided you did not “confess” or get “arrested” in the previous two stages) is not included in the “Bounty” list before 8:00 tomorrow morning, it is highly likely that you will have successfully evaded the witch hunt and will be able to receive the airdrop.
Progress of the witch hunt
For users who are not familiar with LayerZero’s witch hunt plan, it is recommended to read the article “LayerZero Coin Launches the Largest Witch Cleansing Activity in History” before reading this one.
In summary, LayerZero’s witch hunt is divided into three stages.
The first stage is the “confession” stage, which lasted from May 3rd to May 17th. Users who suspect themselves of being witches can “confess” through the window provided by LayerZero during this stage in order to retain 15% of the airdrop allocation.
The second stage is the “trial” stage, during which LayerZero will conduct the witch hunt according to specific rules. The results of the hunt will be announced on May 18th. Addresses discovered during this stage will not receive any airdrop allocation.
The third stage is the “reporting” stage, which will last from May 18th to May 31st. LayerZero encourages community users to report witch behavior to each other. Reported witches will be stripped of all their shares, and “hunters” can claim 10% of the shares, while the remaining portion will be distributed to all other eligible users.
Currently, the witch hunt has entered the third stage, and the lists of addresses from the first two stages have already been published (you can check them using this link: https://github.com/LayerZero-Labs/sybil-report/blob/main/initialList.txt).
There have been some minor incidents during the execution of the third stage. Initially, the “Bounty Hunt” activity in this stage was based on Github, but LayerZero clearly underestimated the enthusiasm of users to report witches. Many people even submitted reports just to try their luck, resulting in Github banning many accounts on the grounds of spam attacks.
As a result, LayerZero had to suspend the “Bounty Hunt” activity and restart it on Commonwealth. All “hunters” must pay a deposit of 0.5 ETH when making a report, which will be refunded after the TGE if the report is valid, but will be confiscated for false reports.
Reports that have already been submitted through the first round of “Bounty Hunt” on Github will be prioritized for review in the second round, but “hunters” must use the bounty address marked in their previous Github report to pay the deposit. This is essentially to prevent others from copying the report and claiming the rewards.
The second round of the “Bounty Hunt” opened on May 28th at 8:00 and is scheduled to close on May 30th at 8:00. The reporting window will be open for a total of 48 hours.
How to check if you have been “arrested”?
Since the new “Bounty Hunt” activity is now running on Commonwealth, we can now use the relevant homepage to check in real-time if our address has been included in the witch list. (Homepage link: https://commonwealth.im/layerzero/discussions)
After opening the link above, you can directly enter your address in the “Search Common” line.
If it shows “No results found”, it means that your address is currently “safe” and has not been reported by any “hunters”.
If relevant information is found, it means that your address has been included in a report and there is a risk of being considered a witch.
Being reported, does it mean you are a witch?
Although being included in the report list will obviously increase the risk of being considered a witch, it does not necessarily mean that the address will be judged as a witch.
According to the screening process, LayerZero will conduct a second check on all reported information. Any reports that are suspected of stealing others’ achievements, fraud, lack of “methodology” (i.e., illogical reasoning), or containing spam information will be discarded, and the deposit will not be returned to the “hunters”.
Based on the current situation, even with the risk of losing the deposit, there are still a large number of absurd reports being continuously submitted. For example, yesterday there was a report that covered nearly 480,000 addresses. LayerZero co-founder Bryan Pellegrino has responded to this by saying, “Anyone can write anything they want in the report, but not every report is valid.”
It is worth noting that Pellegrino has revealed that this round of “Bounty Hunt” will not have the same “procedure” as the initial witch list (first and second stages) to deal with mistakenly reported addresses. However, the scrutiny in this round will be very strict to prevent “hunters” from making false reports and accidentally harming genuine users.
In short, being included in the report list means that your address will undergo a second check by LayerZero along with the entire report, but it does not necessarily mean that the address is a witch.
As for the final result, we can only wait for the official conclusion after May 31st.
