Numerous Evidences Accuse Scroll of Fraudulent Marks to Receive Large Airdrop

Many on-chain tracking experts are providing a series of evidences showing that the Scroll project team has fraudulent Marks to receive a large amount of airdrop tokens.

As reported, the Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum Scroll on October 19 will officially take a snapshot to count the amount of "Scroll Marks" reward points in preparation for the first airdrop to take place immediately after, with the expected token receiving time starting from October 22, 2024.

However, one day before the snapshot, the project is facing questions about the fairness of the upcoming airdrop, when recently many on-chain analysts have provided a series of evidences showing that some wallet addresses associated with the development team have a "huge" amount of Marks.

According to research by @Andrey_10gwei, dozens of wallet addresses associated with the Scroll founding team have received tens of thousands to millions of Marks.

This person said his statement was based on on-chain tracing results originating from Scroll founder Haichen Shen's wallet address with the domain name haichen.eth. The reason this wallet was identified as Mr. Haichen's is because this wallet is one of the signatories of Gnosis Safe "Scroll: Fundraise", although it was not used to "mine" Marks, it was the starting point for the research.

Wallet addresses with transactions linked to the Scroll development team listed by users include:

·      Wallet 1 - 0x4721cf824b6750B58d781fD1336D92a082704C7A - holds 43,500 Marks: Believed to be the Scroll team wallet, due to its history of receiving initial funding from the founder's wallet on various networks.

·      Wallet 2 - 0x1e4c8489F9d876293C36b730107E89e0F2a0CB04 - holds 1 million Marks: Has the first transaction receiving funding from wallet 1, then has two transactions on Scroll with this wallet - "Approve" and "Supply" 500k USDC on AAVE on February 12.

·      Wallet 3 - 0x4852FFA873c471Abd92696DB3041D298e2710c4E - 13,000 Marks: Received funding from the founder's wallet and wallet 1.

·      Wallet 4 - 0xbdA143d49da40C2cDA27c40edfBbe8A0D4AE0cBc -63,900 Marks: This is a smart contract wallet with multisig (Deployer is scrup.eth), belonging to Scroll. There is a transaction from wallet 1 with about 100 ETH.

·      Wallet #5 - 0xDf61edCc0659565F1B4A11A20397be99006a3d85 - 35,000 Marks: This is another multisig wallet, linked to wallet #4, receiving funds from wallet #1. Also has transactions with Scrup.eth (contract deployer of wallet #4).

·      Wallet 6 - 0xc65C94019F4c5a386ecd6e984753742aBe228aFd - 50,000 Marks: This wallet is linked via transactions to wallet address 1.

·      Wallet 7 - 0x7440e1407f95F33206Fb72464A63cd54B2eE6282 - 96,800 Marks: This wallet has the domain name "carlboi.eth", linked via multiple transactions to founder Sandy's wallet.

·      Wallet 8 and wallet 9 each have 4,000 Marks: Of which, wallet address 0xdEF5610eC04DEc77D52E6F2caBff18635477aaCF is linked to the founder's wallet, while 0x0a246FE10294E0E9cA1DD4AA1433fa64b0B42bAD has a transaction with wallet 1.

Roughly calculated, a total of 9 wallet addresses linked to the Scroll team and founder own about 1.3 million Marks.

In addition, the Dune Analytics platform also compiled a ranking of the top 200 wallet addresses with the most Marks, including the wallet addresses of DeFi projects launched on Scroll, with a total of about 40 million Marks.

Among them, the wallet holding the top 1 position in this list with 4.4 million Marks belongs to Rhino.fi. About more than 200,000 Marks belong to the wallet address operating the bridge contract of projects L0, Orbiter, Rhino, Owlto Finance, Relay... because it owns tens to hundreds of thousands of bridge transactions.

It is worth mentioning that the above evidence was not only discovered by @Andrey_10gwei, but many other accounts with expertise in on-chain research also provided a series of similar data.

For example, the account @Cryptophileee not only cited a series of on-chain data but also bluntly declared that the development team and founder of Scroll own more than 1.5 million Marks!

Currently, although there are still about 4 days left (October 22) before users can receive the Scroll airdrop and it is still unknown whether the suspected internal addresses of Scroll are eligible to receive the airdrop or not, but the fact that most wallets related to the development team own a large amount of Marks - meaning holding a huge amount of SCR tokens - can cause fear of selling pressure in the community when the TGE event takes place.

On the X platform, the user community is also gradually calling Scroll "ZKscam 2.0", implying that the project's upcoming airdrop is showing signs of similarity to the airdrop of its predecessor ZKsync in June 2024, because the majority believe that ZKsync is biased towards its family members and projects on the ecosystem, instead of caring about real users.

The above storms have "deeply sunk" the activities on the ZKsync network to date, causing the FDV token ZK to drop more than 40% since its listing, the total value locked (TVL) of the protocol also "plummeted" from the peak of nearly 200 million USD to around 70 million USD, forcing the development organization Matter Labs to cut nearly 1/4 of its staff.