ETH L2 network Optimism takes this route to remove ‘sybil attackers’

ambcrypto.com:

The Ethereum Layer 2 network Optimism launched a token and new governance model in April. The team is supposed to distribute the token via an entire season of airdrops. In fact, the team also saw it as a larger move toward a decentralized governance structure known as the (OP) Optimism Collective.

Last year, the platform even got rid of the ‘whitelist’ to bring Optimism one step closer to truly open, optimistic  Ethereum. But by doing so, it might have opened some cracks, which the team acknowledged and acted upon.

Ethereum L2 protocol Optimism announced that they’ve removed an additional 17k sybil addresses and recovered over 14 million OP. The team, in a 24 May tweet added,

“We’ve been carefully analyzing OP Airdrop #1 for sybil attackers that slipped through the cracks. We’re happy to announce that we’ve removed an additional 17k sybil addresses and recovered over 14 million OP.

Bye bye sybils!”

All of the OP recovered would get redistributed proportionally to other recipients of Airdrop #1. Or, as the team puts it, “It’s like an extra mini airdrop.”

Notably, a Sybil attack is a type of attack on a computer network service in which an attacker subverts the service’s reputation system by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence.

Further, the team thanked the community for their support.

— Optimism (✨