The Zora airdrop is coming, and it will be logged in Binance Alpha! However, it is positioned as a Meme coin to detonate community criticism

Zora, an Ethereum L2 network that extends from the NFT marketplace protocol, is finally about to officially enter the token era. Although the community has been waiting for its issuance for a long time, the official positioning of the meme coin emphasizing "pure entertainment" has caused controversy in the community.

ZORA announced the completion of the snapshot of the coin issuance, and the API quota check was slapped in the face by Lianchuang

Zora announced yesterday (21st) that its native token $ZORA will be officially launched (TGE) on April 23, 2025, and has completed two rounds of airdrop snapshots at the following times:

• Snapshot 1: 01/01/2020 to 03/03/2025

• Snapshot 2: 03/03/2025 to 04/20/2025

As soon as the news came out, the community immediately flocked to try to query the airdrop distribution through the API, but was poured cold water on @js_horne Zora co-founder.

He reminded on X: "At present, the API quota data that everyone has found is fake, it is only for testing, and the real allocation will not be announced until the snapshot data is processed."

He added a slightly sarcastic remark, "But I respect your hard work."

  Binance Alpha announced the listing of ZORA

After the announcement of Zora's issuance, Binance also announced on the same day that it would list $ZORA in its Alpha zone, with trading open at 9 pm (UTC+8) tomorrow.

At the same time, the details of the airdrop will be announced: as long as users have used their Binance account (spot or funding account) to trade more than $50 in Alpha between March 22 and April 20, they will be eligible to automatically receive 4,276 $ZORA airdrops before 21:10 on the listing day.

In addition, Binance Alpha also added support for tokens such as $SPX, $MOG, $POPCAT, and $CULT yesterday, demonstrating its continued layout in the meme market.

 The positioning of the ZORA token is controversial

However, when Zora announced its token launch plan in March, it sparked controversy due to its positioning as a "meme coin". The statement reads: To commemorate the continued support of the Zora ecosystem, $ZORA is expected to be issued on the Base chain with a total supply of 10 billion. $ZORA is for entertainment purposes only and the holder does not have any governance rights and does not have any equity relationship with Zora or its products.

This sparked a crypto KOL@basedkarbon lash: "If it's just for fun, why do teams keep 65%? Why do contributors take 26%? If it's useless, why set up a treasury?"

ZachXBT, a well-known on-chain investigator, also joined the skeptical camp, bluntly saying: "If this coin is completely non-functional, it shouldn't exist at all. This is a shame for a project valued at $600 million and raising more than $60 million."

In further confrontation, @basedkarbon suggested that Zora's so-called "entertainment use" statement may be a hybrid strategy for legal CYA and lowering community expectations, but this sends the wrong signal that "this coin is worthless". He criticized that at a time when the market is desperately in need of real projects that can provide revenue sharing and equity equity, Zora chose to join the meme coin mefight and is disappointing.

ZachXBT added that if you really want to make a meme coin for pure entertainment, it should adopt a "100% fair issuance (fairlaunch)" model, otherwise the so-called meme coin positioning will lose its rationality.

Zora has been playing the banner of "decentralized creation tool" for many years, but now the launch of $ZORA is positioned as an entertainment meme coin, forming a huge narrative gap between its years of technology construction and high fundraising. In the future, it will be the focus of observation whether Zora can tear off the "meme" label and move to more substantive and effective development.

Zora has been advocating for a "decentralized creative tool" for many years, but now launching $ZORA is positioned as an entertainment meme coin, creating a huge narrative gap between its years of technological construction and high fundraising. In the future, whether Zora can tear off the "meme" label and shift towards more practical development will be the focus of observation.