On Wednesday after work, I took a detour of three kilometers to that barbecue stall in the alley that has been open for nearly ten years, to eat skewers with Lao Li, who I have been playing with for four years. As soon as he sat down, he slapped the table and cursed himself for being careless. The early community contribution form he casually filled out at the end of last year, @Fabric Foundation , he then sold his old phone that stored his private keys to the recycling store, watching helplessly as he missed out on the fully unlocked airdrop, his thighs red from slapping.
At the time, I laughed at him for getting what he deserved; who told him to fill out project forms randomly every day and then forget. To be honest, I had already lost interest in the “community airdrop benefits” that the project team talked about. The pitfalls I encountered in the past two years could circle this barbecue stall three times: either they claimed to give benefits to the community, but the airdrop tokens were locked for four years, and by the time they were unlocked, the token price had already gone to zero; or they threw the leftover scraps to retail investors, purely deceiving them into taking over.
I didn't think much of it until I went home and looked through the Fabric white paper and TGE rules, only to find that this airdrop was not the usual gimmick to attract new users. A total supply allocation of 5% is given entirely to the community, with 100% unlocked at TGE, without any locking restrictions, genuinely providing early contributors with real monetary benefits, without any hint of empty promises.
More importantly, they designed the token with the goal of “making the public the masters of the robots” from the ground up. Not only are there airdrop benefits, but also the veROBO governance mechanism, where locking tokens grants voting rights for protocol proposals, and the longer you lock, the higher the weight, genuinely giving voice to long-term holders; there’s also the crowdsourced robot genesis, where ordinary people can participate in robot hardware activation and network initialization with #ROBO , not just capital giants getting a piece of the pie.
I just checked on-chain, and more than 60% of the airdrop addresses haven’t transferred their tokens to exchanges to dump, but instead, many directly locked them into the governance contract.
I don’t regret missing out on this airdrop; at least I’ve seen clearly that in this circle where everyone talks about decentralization but all the actual tokens are held by institutions, projects that can truly implement “public co-construction, public ownership” from mere slogans are really rare. $ROBO
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