Matter Labs stated that its employees were not eligible for the ZK airdrop and did not hand out NFTs to friends or other insiders.
Matter Labs, developer of Ethereum layer 2 network zkSync, denied claims of “insider minting” on June 26, claiming that all minters of the Libertas Omnibus non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were eligible to do so according to official criteria.
The statement follows a June 17 X post by blockchain researcher soEasy that accused the team of handing out Libertas Omnibus NFTs to friends of the team who were not eligible to receive them. SoEasy also claimed that these “insider mints” allowed the insiders to mint ZK tokens without fulfilling the airdrop criterion.
In a June 26 statement to Cointelegraph, a Matter Labs representative claimed that “there were no invalid mints.”