The community correctly identified a mismatch with aura-based rewards. The community’s work triggered an internal investigation which led the team to identify a sybil cluster containing 250,000 accounts attacking system quests. This cluster’s eligibility has been removed from the current initial retrodrop.

Please note: If you have already added your address to the wallet’s claim widget, your current claim will be processed as soon as TGE begins.

The foundation’s goal is stewarding $COMMON and ensuring it is held by users who contribute to the protocol. Basing a portion of rewards based on platform Aura was part of this initial strategy. As the foundation guides future rewards and drops — one of the prioritized criteria will be reallocating Aura from this cluster towards Season 1 and 2 contributors.

System Quests

The majority of Aura was issued through System Quests, which are recorded in the database with a negative index. In the UI, these appear as “system quests,” primarily related to sign-up and site-level actions.
We identified that many accounts attempted to exploit these quests through automated sign-ups and coordinated Sybil patterns.
Each System Quest was designed with a reward cap, similar to standard quests.

* While these caps displayed correctly in the UI, a backend indexing issue prevented them caps from being recognized — issuing millions of aura that were not visible in each system.

Unfortunately, this means sybil accounts received Aura allocations that exceeded the intended cap for these specific quests. We are now rectifying this

Next Steps

The team has identified the root cause and is implementing a fix to ensure System Quest rewards properly enforce their caps in future distributions. Team members are focused on claim open, and the 30 day claims experience. After this claims experience gets resolved and the impending platform and protocol upgrades are implemented, future and retro rewards are scheduled.  Common is truly appreciative of the community contributions.

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