Airdrop farmers are now spamming GitHub in light of Starknet, Celestia distributions.

Airdrop-focused users are flooding the GitHub repositories of tokenless crypto projects with low‑quality issues, comments, and trivial pull requests after seeing that recent airdrops by Starknet and Celestia rewarded open‑source code contributors. This behavior is attempting to game new airdrop eligibility criteria that go beyond on‑chain activity and now include GitHub contribution history. Traditionally, airdrop farming revolved around interacting with protocols on‑chain — making transactions, providing liquidity, or using dApps in hopes of qualifying for future token distributions. In late 2023 and early 2024, Celestia and Starknet introduced a different model: Celestia allocated 6% of its token supply to an airdrop, with roughly one‑third earmarked for contributors, mainly via GitHub, while the Starknet Foundation reserved about 7% of its airdrop for developers and open‑source contributors. One widely discussed case involved a contributor receiving around 1,800 STRK for an unmerged pull request fixing a typo, reinforcing the perception that even minimal GitHub activity might be rewarded in future distributions. Seeing these outcomes, “airdrop hunters” have moved en masse to GitHub repos of high‑profile, tokenless projects such as Scroll and zkSync, posting hundreds to over a thousand issues and comments in a short time, often consisting of trivial suggestions or low‑effort changes intended only to register an on‑chain‑like footprint in the repo’s history. Developers report that this creates a moderation and productivity burden, forcing teams to filter spam and consider new anti‑spam measures such as stricter activity limits or clearer contribution guidelines. The episode underscores a broader tension in Web3 token distribution design: attempts to reward genuine open‑source work can unintentionally incentivize sybil‑like spam behavior, complicating future efforts to use contribution‑based criteria for fair airdrops.

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