ChainCatcher news, ether.fi founder Mike Silagadze posted on X that, after team screening, they successfully reclaimed over 1.5 million ETHFI from the witch address, aimed at more than 10,000 eligible users.

ChainCatcher news, Sanctum founder FP Lee posted on social media that a total of 314,367 addresses registered to participate in the Wonderland event, accumulating a total of approximately 2.5 trillion points.Through the anti-witch investigation, 61,181 addresses have been marked and blacklisted, accounting for about 20% of the total registered addresses. The CLOUD reclaimed from the witch addresses will be used to provide additional rewards for honest users.

ChainCatcher message, the ether.fi foundation announced on the X platform that Season 2 claims will open next week. The team is working hard to implement the feedback provided by the claim checker to ensure accurate allocations for users. Once it is confirmed that accurate allocations have been provided (including the removal of witch addresses), it will go live. Further updates will continue after a confirmed date, and users are reminded to pay attention to the official link.

ChainCatcher message, Holograph posted on X that the HLG bonus rewards (from the unclaimed tokens of HLG Reward Round 1) have been distributed to ByBit ByStarter whitelist wallets, excluding any addresses that appear on the LayerZero witch list.The HLG bonus rewards marked as witches (totaling 28,313,740 HLG) will be destroyed as part of the HLG burn plan.

ChainCatcher news, LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino posted on X that the Witch Hunters will be included in the airdrop eligibility query portal next week, ensuring that everyone receives their allocation.Pellegrino added that nearly 10 million tokens have returned from the witch addresses to users, with 1.28 million addresses qualifying for the airdrop.

ChainCatcher message, in response to the list of real users mistakenly reported as witch addresses proposed by crypto researcher Cryptophile, LayerZero Labs CEO Bryan Pellegrino is responding one by one on the X platform, stating that the corresponding addresses have been removed from the witch address list.

ChainCatcher message, Nansen posted on platform X that it is handling the appeal related to the temporary witch list #2 for LayerZero updates. Users can email to appeal incorrectly marked LayerZero witch addresses and attach supporting evidence. Nansen also reminds users not to publicly share their addresses.

ChainCatcher news, LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino responded on the X platform to the question "When will the witch check end and the final list be released?" stating that it is expected to conclude before the first half of 2024.

ChainCatcher news, LayerZero co-founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino tweeted that Nansen has confirmed 60,995 addresses as witch addresses.

ChainCatcher news, LayerZero co-founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino stated on the X platform that addresses mistakenly reported as witches can appeal by filling out a form.Previously, LayerZero Labs announced on the X platform that the self-reporting phase for witches has ended. Each eligible address will receive 15% of its expected token allocation, while the remaining 85% will be returned to qualified users. A total of 803,093 addresses have been identified as potential witch addresses. The team will continue to refine and improve the methods during the bounty hunting process over the next two weeks. The initial list will not be updated during this period and will not affect bounty hunters. The final witch list will be published after the bounty hunting ends on May 31.In addition, the relevant page shows that LayerZero witch reports have collected 2,312 reports, of which 608 have been reviewed and 1,704 are still under review.It is reported that the witch bounty event started at 10:00 AM Beijing time on May 18. Bounty reports will close at 07:59 AM Beijing time on June 1 and must include at least 20 addresses. Bounty hunters who successfully report witches will receive 10% of the expected token allocation for witches, while the witches will receive 0 allocation.

ChainCatcher news, LayerZero co-founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino stated, "If you can ensure that the witch addresses are not shared with other projects, I believe many people will voluntarily prove themselves as witches. The witch address self-reporting list will not be published, and all addresses will be included in our own filtered witch list (i.e., not eligible for rewards), but will not be listed as self-reported."Previously, LayerZero Labs stated that nearly 6 million unique wallet addresses have interacted with LayerZero, and it indicated that distributing tokens to long-term users (rather than witch users) is in the best interest of the protocol.

According to ChainCatcher news, the official announcement states that the Celestia airdrop eligibility addresses have filtered out the witch addresses identified during the previous Hop and OP airdrops.In addition, a witch detection framework provided by the Web3 security infrastructure Trusta Labs has been added, which identifies Ethereum and rollup addresses based on its methods for recognizing on-chain clustering behavior and asset transfer graphs. These addresses are considered to have a high likelihood of being witch accounts.

ChainCatcher news, according to X platform user @lingland09, a professional airdrop hunter has 21,877 witch (sybil) wallets on zkSync. His witch strategy is to fund all his wallets with a minimal amount of ETH, then deploy a non-open-source Gemstone (GEM) token. He then whitelisted all other 21,877 wallets and claimed all the self-deployed tokens himself. He essentially built a non-open-source DEX just to indirectly index application transactions between his witch addresses.This person added over 80 ETH of liquidity to the GEM token using his own DEX contract, giving the GEM token value and testing it through trading. He then exchanged the GEM tokens he claimed from the 21,877 wallets in the GEM/ETH trading pair, gaining a profit of 0.6-0.7 ETH in value. Immediately after, he repeated the above steps (all these transactions were automated through a bot he wrote, rather than done manually).Since all the liquidity was added by this person, he was not affected by slippage, and he accumulated 10 transactions on the zkSync Era network in the cheapest way. His bot brought this pattern algorithm to the next 21,000 wallets without any slippage, as this person adjusted the liquidity as needed. He completed all 10 transactions with a trading volume of $10 by spending 1.5 - 2 ETH fees per wallet, trading in different months, weeks, and days, just to appear similar to the qualifications of other L2 projects.

ChainCatcher news, Layer2 interoperability protocol Connext stated on its social platform that after careful review of user feedback, the team confirmed that some transactions were not included in the previous airdrop plan. The team has now corrected the airdrop distribution and correspondingly increased the total scale of the airdrop to ensure that the current distribution will not decrease.In addition, Connext also invites the community to help the team filter witch addresses. If a witch hunter's report successfully identifies a witch attacker/address, the reporter will receive 25% of the recovered NEXT as a reward.

ChainCatcher news, according to an analysis by the on-chain data platform X-explore, since the Binance Launchpad project SPACE ID announced the airdrop event on June 9, witch addresses have accounted for more than 30% of the total, and in the past week, the proportion of witch addresses exceeded 60%; from June 15 to 16, 2023, a witch controlled more than 2,000 addresses and registered them in bulk at SPACE ID. (source link)

According to ChainCatcher news, research from the data analysis platform X-explore indicates that the anti-Sybil rules in this Arbitrum airdrop have created a "significant loophole," resulting in approximately 150,000 Sybil addresses and at least 4,000 Sybil communities profiting over 253 million tokens, accounting for 21.8% of the total airdrop amount.X-explore speculates that Arbitrum's rules are as follows: exclude cross-chain bridges, centralized exchanges, and smart contracts when detecting Sybils; apply relatively lenient detection for small-scale, same-person addresses; only use data prior to the snapshot (February 6, 2023) for Sybil detection; and only data from Arbitrum and Ethereum is used for Sybil detection, ignoring data from other Ethereum Layer 2s, such as Optimism and Polygon. These Sybil detection rules create significant loopholes, and based on the above rules, X-explore detected Sybil address data through an internal same-person address/Sybil address identification model. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, ZK Rollup order book DEX ZigZag founder Kedar tweeted that 12,000 witch addresses have been confirmed. The standard for witches is having more than 10 accounts with identical L1 + zksync activity, while users with only 3-4 regular addresses are currently not marked. Marked witch addresses will not receive airdrops, and this portion of tokens will be returned to regular users in the form of a "loyal user airdrop," with an announcement to be released as soon as possible.Previously reported, on February 24, ZigZag announced airdrop information, with a total of 7 rounds of airdrops (the first round has been completed), distributing airdrops to approximately 110,000 addresses, with a total airdrop amount of 35 million ZZ. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the one-stop DeFi wallet DeBank stated on its official social platform that due to the negative impact of witch bots on the crypto ecosystem during the token airdrop, DeBank has officially launched a witch address marking feature, allowing all users to check whether an address has been marked as a "witch address" on the corresponding address page.In addition, users marked as witch addresses will not be able to use the "DeBank Hi" and "Live chat" features. DeBank welcomes users to appeal against incorrectly marked addresses. (source link)