Towns Airdrop Sparks Controversy: Enthusiastic community users received "Little Mao", while exchange users received generous rewards.

Recently, the highly anticipated Web3 project Towns completed its token issuance and opened up the Airdrop claims. However, this Airdrop did not spark the expected cheers from the community; instead, it provoked widespread skepticism. Many users expressed dissatisfaction with the Airdrop mechanism, believing that it has many unreasonable aspects.

The main points of contention include: the number of points and Airdrop is not proportional, and the activity level seems unrelated to the Airdrop; long-term sign-in users receive fewer Airdrops than some participants in exchange platform activities; some Airdrops require staking for 30 days to obtain an additional 50% tokens; some loyal users are mistakenly classified as "witch" addresses, etc.

An analysis of the airdrop situation for the top ten users on the Towns leaderboard reveals shocking results. Users ranked 5th to 9th, despite having millions of points, did not qualify for any airdrop. Even more puzzling is that the user with the highest points, possessing over 15 million points, ultimately received less than 15,000 TOWNS tokens, which is worth only about 600 dollars at the current market price.

Among the top ten, the users who received the most Airdrop only shared 150,000 tokens, worth about 6,000 USD. Considering that these users may have invested a significant amount in participating in the paid town, such returns are obviously difficult to be satisfactory.

What is even more puzzling is that among the 9.8% Airdrop share officially announced by Towns, only about 3% is allocated to community points users. An additional 3% is given to the token holders of a certain exchange, 1-2% is allocated to participants of a specific program on that platform, and the remaining portion may be distributed to participants in activities of other centralized exchanges.

Many users who have deeply participated in the construction of the Towns community reported that after spending months creating towns, producing content, inviting newcomers, and insisting on daily check-ins, they ultimately received less than 1000 tokens in Airdrop. This amount is even less than the 1359 tokens obtained by some users who only met the conditions of a certain exchange and had never been involved with Towns before.

This distribution method has raised doubts about the project's team's level of commitment: why do real users who have long supported and participated in the project's development receive less in return, while users from exchange platforms who may sell off their tokens immediately after listing receive more rewards? Does this mean that the project team is willing to sacrifice the true interests of the community in order to list on more exchanges?

If the core community cannot benefit from the project, where will the "decentralization" concept that Web3 projects pride themselves on go? The recent controversy over the Towns Airdrop is not only about one project, but also provokes deep reflection on the direction of development for the entire industry.