Vitalik: Airdrops are an ideal use case for testing blockchain identity and credential frameworks

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on X that airdrops are an interesting initial use case for validating zero-knowledge proofs (ZK), blockchain identity, credentials, and proof frameworks.

He pointed out that the goals of airdrops include: distributing to community members rather than random users who sell immediately, rewarding project contributors, maintaining relative fairness (allowing for a certain degree of variance), and resisting malicious extractive arbitrage behavior. Vitalik believes that these are precisely the characteristics that identity, credential, and proof frameworks aim to achieve, so using token issuance as an initial use case for testing and optimizing these frameworks, especially in adversarial environments, is a very reasonable approach.