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Catizen Sparks Outrage with Rule Change in Airdrop Campaign; Official Explanation Cites Anti-Cheating Measures

Catizen Alters Airdrop Rules, Upsets Community; Official Explanation Cites Bot Prevention

Catizen’s recent adjustments to its airdrop allocation rules and ratios have sparked widespread player attention and discontent. In response, the official statement clarifies that the revised airdrop weight index aims to reflect real player activities and curb bot cheating.

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Last Saturday (the 14th), Catizen officially opened user inquiries into how much $CATI tokens they could receive through the airdrop. However, many players were dissatisfied with the lower-than-expected distribution amounts and the unexpected changes made by the official platform. The following details unravel this controversy.

According to the official announcement, the initial $CATI tokenomics indicated a total token supply of 1 billion, with an airdrop ratio of 43%. Nevertheless, the latest information released by Catizen on September 15 revealed a revised airdrop ratio of 34%. The token generation event (TGE) initially only allocated 15% rewards to Season 1 players, with the remaining 19% of the airdrop slated for quarterly airdrop activities, expected to be completed over the 12 quarters following the TGE.

Twitter user @Gautamguptagg commented: “The token allocation for early contributors is not fair—over 80% of real users invested their valuable time. If 45% of the supply is allocated to the community instead of 15%, each user will receive a more reasonable token distribution.”

In response, the official team clarified that 43% of the supply will be allocated to airdrops and the ecosystem, including 90 million tokens providing rewards through the Binance Launchpool (43% = 34% + 9%). According to the Binance announcement, users can participate in a 4-day new token mining event by depositing BNB and FDUSD into the Catizen mining pool starting at 6:00 PM on September 16, 2024 (Taiwan time).

On the other hand, the official team had announced early on that the key to token distribution was the speed at which players earned the in-game tokens $vKitty (the higher the cat’s level, the faster the earning rate). However, it was later discovered that this was not the most significant distribution weight.

Twitter user @Cryptowithkhan lamented: “Ranked 6,000th among 36 million players, but only received 39 $CATI tokens.”

In light of some players using scripts and bot cheats to increase their income and acquire more CATI tokens, the team had to modify the airdrop design. The adjusted criteria reduced the weight of vKitty earnings rate in favor of indicators that better reflect real player activities, such as online interactions, task completion, and fish coin purchases and consumption.

Furthermore, Catizen had previously issued an anti-cheating notice on May 2, highlighting that any cheating behavior, whether using scripts, vulnerabilities, code, or inviting bots, would not be tolerated. There are no shortcuts here. The Catizen team is committed to preventing such abuses and ensuring that our governance tokens are distributed to genuine players.

In essence, if you invite more people, invest more funds in interactions, you will receive more token rewards; however, for players who do not invest, their token distribution may be squeezed. It must be said that the standards for token airdrops are indeed a very complex matter, and satisfying everyone in the ecosystem is truly no easy task.

Currently, based on the pre-market price on OKX, the CATI token price is approximately $0.725, having reached $0.843 earlier this morning. According to the official explanation, major exchanges are expected to officially list trading at 6:00 PM on September 20 (Taiwan time).

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