Airdrop Anomaly: Coordinated Cluster Captures 80% of Distribution as aPriori Denies Insider Involvement
Whale-sized wallets dominate token distribution in suspicious pattern
The Airdrop Anomaly
Eighty percent of the entire token allocation vanished into coordinated wallets within minutes of launch. The precision timing and identical transaction patterns scream orchestrated campaign—not organic community participation.Suspicious Patterns Emerge
Cluster analysis reveals identical wallet behaviors across hundreds of addresses. Same transaction sequences, same timing, same gas optimization strategies. Either we've discovered the world's most synchronized crypto enthusiasts, or someone's running a sophisticated capture operation.aPriori's Corporate Denial
The protocol team maintains zero insider knowledge while investors question how such coordination could occur without internal signals. Classic decentralized theater—where everyone's supposedly equal, but some wallets are clearly more equal than others.Market Impact
Legitimate participants received crumbs while the coordinated cluster feasted. Now the remaining 20% circulates among retail, creating artificial scarcity while whales prepare their exit strategies. Because nothing says 'decentralized finance' like a well-timed wealth transfer from many to few.Crypto Twitter unconvinced aPriori was not part of the Sybil attack
According to data reviewed on BSCScan, cited in Cryptopolitan’s November 4 report, roughly 5,800 wallet addresses with matching transactional patterns had collected about four-fifths of the total APR distributed on the chain.
Bubblemaps later posted on X that the tally had grown to 14,000 wallets, which took 60% of the allocation between October 19 and 20. Each of the thousands of wallets involved received small amounts of BNB, just enough to cover gas fees for the impending claim transactions.
This project raised $30M from tier-1 VCs
But 60% of its airdrop was claimed by one entity via 14,000 addresses
What’s going on with @aPriori? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/QIaLSUgHY5
— Bubblemaps (@bubblemaps) November 11, 2025
ZachXBT, alongside other investigators, said the uniformity of the transactions came from a single operator or a small group, which created and managed the entire network of claim addresses to extract outsized rewards, a known FORM of exploitation known as a Sybil attack.
In response to the accusations of completing a “rug pull” on its investors, aPriori introduced new guidelines to “reward genuine users” for its upcoming Monad Mainnet airdrop, which goes live on November 24.
Under the updated framework, users will be able to unlock 15% of their allocation immediately upon the mainnet’s launch, up from the previous 12% threshold, and claimants will access a slightly larger share of their tokens on day one.
Participants can also unlock an additional 45% by depositing assets equal to five times the value of their initial allocation for a 14-day period. The remaining 85% of tokens of the airdrop allocation will become claimable six months after the network goes live, according to aPriori’s new technical documentation.
Community did not receive aPriori’s Sybil attack ‘findings’ well
Despite the reassurance from aPriori that its team was not involved in the airdrop mishap, several users accused the project of withholding information and failing to address concerns sufficiently.
gmonad https://t.co/Rl8FbBu4jB pic.twitter.com/d26Y7Laepl
— cozy (@cozymaximalist) November 21, 2025
One X user said the team’s “innocent” statement was a predictable attempt to deflect blame, alleging that the project was trying to “milk” its user base again after the community showed its dissatisfaction.
“The second phase of rug is coming. They’re literally paying botters to HYPE them up rn,” user IbrahimXBT reckoned.
Another member of crypto Twitter claimed the presale had struggled to sell out despite support from Coinbase, as he asked investors to block promoters who continue to endorse the project.
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