Vitalik: Airdrops Ideal Use Case for Testing Blockchain Identity and Credentials Framework

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethernet, posted that airdrops are an interesting initial use case for validating Zero Knowledge Proof (ZK), the blockchain identity, credentials, and proof framework. He noted that the goals of airdrops include: distributing to community members rather than random users who immediately sell off, rewarding project contributors, maintaining relative fairness (allowing for some degree of variance), and fending off malicious extractive arbitrage.According to Buterin, these are precisely the characteristics that identity, credential, and attestation frameworks are designed to achieve, and thus the use of token issuance as an initial use case for these frameworks is tested and optimized. especially in adversarial environments, makes perfect sense.