"We believe it is in the protocol's best interest to distribute tokens to durable users, not sybil farmers," the developer posted to X on Friday.

In the hopes of curbing the ills of sybil activity, LayerZero Labs also offered an incentive. "We are giving all sybil users an opportunity to self-report within the next 14 days in return for 15% of their intended allocation, no questions asked," it added.

LayerZero Labs is the developer of a cross-chain communication protocol. On Thursday, it completed the first snapshot apparently related to a potential airdrop distribution to community members. The snapshot — the final point at which …