ZORA: A Carefully Designed Scam with Six Major Crimes Exposed at Once ZORA has become popular, after all, in the history of Web3, it is rare to see a project that can directly cause a community average loss of 90% through an "insulting airdrop". Behind these emotions is not only economic losses, but also endless anger towards the project party's direct and blatant trampling on community trust. In another sense, perhaps what they sent was not an airdrop, but a death notice sent to themselves. _________ Evidence 1: Exaggerating airdrop expectations, enticing users to participate, and actually harvesting unilaterally Starting from 2023, ZORA has been continuously suggesting to users that there may be token rewards in the future, inducing them to spend real money to participate in NFT mints, with gas fees exceeding $2, and some users investing heavily. result? When airdrops are distributed, most real users only receive 1-10 ZORAs, which is a humiliating level airdrop? I don't know if the project team still has the face, but as a normal person, you wouldn't be able to come up with such a plan. This is not an airdrop, it's clear that the project team is sending beggars and trying to take a bite out of their bowl. _________ Evidence 2: Manipulating data and concealing self enrichment facts Before the airdrop was launched, ZORA had repeatedly leaked query APIs, causing data to bounce back and forth. The information obtained by early searchers was constantly corrected or deleted. What does this mean? It is highly likely that the project team has arranged exit channels for some internal personnel in advance. After being exposed for holding a large number of tokens, the founder of Base actually requested the author to delete the tweet! If you don't have a ghost, why delete it? If you are honest, why hide? However, the truth is that the founder's wallet distributed over 2.1 million tokens. Verify address: @Js_rorne ZORA founder associated wallet 0x73FA9Df99faaa8D110c5AFd917355ebA0f993362 ：268468.91814794345 ZORA Founder's Wallet: 0x849151d7D0bF1F34b70d5caD5149D28CC2308bf1：2107021.525960028 ZORA _________ Evidence 3: The airdrop was not sent yet, the team smashed the plate first, and the community suffered a bloody massacre As questioned earlier, why did the airdrop link repeatedly jump horizontally? Because the team wanted to ship first, this further confirms that all of this is indeed a premeditated scam. The airdrop link has not yet been opened, and the team has already completed the transfer and deployed multiple sub warehouse addresses to ship first. At this point, real community users are still eagerly waiting for the query link, not even knowing how many coins they can receive. _________ Evidence 4: The team has a high proportion of unlocked tokens and is ready to harvest the market at any time On chain data shows that the ZORA team controls: Nearly 20% of the unlocked tokens have been transferred to the team wallet as early as one month before the airdrop; There are still 9% of team tokens in the white paper, which will be unlocked linearly after 6 months. This means that after 6 months, the team holds nearly 40% of the tradable chips. Is this a fair distribution? No, this project is preparing to head straight towards the direction of collapse, despite the raging floods behind it. The specific address is as follows: 0x74b5832803d39551dca514085263bd46658d13f2 4.1% 0x35d5fBef45b1F2167796A2fdbA00D80C44B9529D 3.7% 0x15f43F8897f7D2cfA41aa00132706DbDb11acc2f 2.65% 0x3c2560D097a3d7797171ab99F4099A90d2aA61ab 2.65% 0x985Ee1cCb0F2Ac6091ee54Ea30D73D6c8072Bff1 1.1% 0x1e1Fe6F5E3359C1284774994AEA1763e190Abe34 0.59% 0xB0E2E4ba9BD4Fc9420CD121b4E3921f9CAFefB97 0.34% 0x6E35C3113bF4bd885b4D77aCCAdC77Cb44461a16 0.28% 0xBE6045F1d3414cE08E8defd843aAd80006236C24 0.25% 0x7dD66F1A2517aCa9988c292CCDE4B7eE5eA31063 0.19% 0x421AB8b6d7D6451E1f2EeC6D5530C03Cd849fac2 0.18% 0x081769E30B17452b8B13d2fc0F6adf5c50D56d5D 0.17% _________ Evidence 5: Closing community communication channels, evading questioning, and accelerating the harvesting of scams ZORA closed the Discord community as early as March, completely cutting off its connection with real users' public opinion. The community is angry, and the project team is silent. It's not that they don't respond, but rather that the project team openly criticizes the community and no longer engages in dialogue. After all, the airdrop hasn't been sent yet, and I'm hanging you up. This is almost clearly saying to the community: what you say doesn't matter; How we make money is what matters. _________ Evidence 6: Abandoning community users, sliding to Binance, and completing profit cashing out The most absurd thing is that after years of community interaction and countless contributions, they were arranged to receive a 'humiliating airdrop'; However, Binance Alpha users received tokens in advance and directly started smashing the market. The project team told the community to 'build the future' and Binance to 'kneel down right away'. Real user combustion expectations; The privileged account enjoys smashing the market. Binance and Zora, together, wield huge sickles to harvest community users, shamelessly shocking. From motivating creators, building communities, to closing channels, backstabbing users, and kneeling down to lick Binance, every step of ZORA precisely embodies four words: eliminate trust, destroy the industry. Unfortunately, the ideals of Web3 were not killed by North Korean hackers, but were buried by these garbage projects that claim to be "Build" but actually have a rotten kernel. They have no intention of building a community and never respect users. They just want you to pay for gas, mint NFTs, help them boost on chain activity, and then exchange the airdrop for a "Binance Green Channel" to achieve a decent cash out escape. The essence of ZORA is a "elite arbitrage project" disguised as a community. ZORA shows us that the real industry risk is not solely these hackers, but these "project parties" who wear the Web3 halo but have already deviated from the bottom line. For this type of project, I sincerely call on everyone to fight back together, not for compensation, but to leave some hope for Web3, and also hope that all project parties in the industry understand: you can fail, but you cannot be shameless; You can try and make mistakes, but you can't be evasive; You can harvest, but you cannot backstab. Be a person. Finally, to Zora, if you are here to destroy industry trust, then you deserve to die, and immediately.