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Rhys Hillier

Hosting LayerZero's TGE Prep

Designed and executed LayerZero’s Sybil Bounty and Protocol RFP programs to protect TGE integrity and coordinate ecosystem-driven token distribution inputs.

Project Description

During my time at Common, we supported LayerZero’s Sybil Bounty Program and Protocol RFP Program ahead of TGE. The goal was to let community and developers contribute to distribution quality while reducing manipulation risk.

The Sybil Bounty Program empowered bounty hunters to identify potential malicious actors before airdrop distribution. The RFP Program enabled ecosystem developers to submit and justify user reward frameworks while receiving allocation to distribute.

Challenge

LayerZero needed to address high Sybil activity across the industry while creating a credible, scalable process for pre-TGE community input and developer participation.

This required a secure platform and incentive design that could:

  • Collect high-volume reports and proposals
  • Filter low-quality or malicious submissions
  • Support transparent review workflows for the team

Solution

Using Common, we designed and executed two connected initiatives:

1) Sybil Bounty Program

To deter spam and increase report quality, the program used bonding mechanics.

Process

  • Bounty hunters posted a bond to submit reports
  • They received an ERC-1155 token granting submission access on Common
  • Valid reports earned bond refunds
  • Fraudulent reports forfeited bonds

This structure discouraged low-quality submissions and improved review efficiency. The program also incentivized self-reporting: Sybil attackers who self-reported could receive a percentage of their allocated airdrop.

Key Results

  • 3,000+ bounty reports submitted
  • 30,000+ appeals processed
  • 1.3 million Sybil clusters identified

2) Protocol Request for Proposal (RFP)

LayerZero’s RFP initiative empowered ecosystem developers to define how user behavior should be rewarded before a set time period.

Using Common’s gating functionality:

  • Only selected projects could submit RFP proposals
  • NFTs gated each topic, reducing spam and streamlining review
  • LayerZero team feedback was centralized in-forum

This became the largest RFP initiative of its kind, with:

  • 3,832 threads created on Common
  • 9,878 members engaged on Common

Outcome

Together, these programs created a structured ecosystem process for risk mitigation and distribution input before TGE—combining security incentives, contributor filtering, and scalable collaboration in one operating model.