Do the new airdrop rules benefit retail investors?

The answer is of course it does!

The new rules are beneficial for those with high scores who couldn't get the airdrop, while the old rules favored those with low scores who could grab quickly with scripts. Do you all remember the airdrop rules from August? 140 points were first come, first served. Retail investors had high scores but couldn't grab anything at all, while studios with scripts made a lot of money.

The current rules are clearly fairer. If the amount farmed is similar and the total score is about the same, then the final earnings will also be about the same, and studios no longer have an advantage in this area.

Some say that with a score that high, one can only grab one or two times in a cycle, but I can only say that you are still too inexperienced. If the total amount issued by Binance is the same and the number of participants is the same, then the average earnings per person remain unchanged. The first time was simply because there were too many people with scores over 250+ who couldn't grab the airdrop, resulting in very high scores at first. The original score distribution resembled a peak, but later it will flatten out the capped scores, and the score distribution will become like a plain.

Ultimately, the score will return to around 200 points for first come, first served.

So the result is: under the old rules, studios could use software advantages to grab 6-7 times in a cycle with two or three grabs a day, while many retail investors could only grab one or two times, resulting in scores that go unused.

Under the current rules, regardless of who they are, everyone’s grab frequency in each cycle is very close.