Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson reported on the technical inconveniences that hindered the owners of some of the participating tokens in an X post on August 5th. Airdrop “Glacier Drop.
This process was designed by the Midnight Network and began on August 5th. Distribute night tokens to users from eight different ecosystems: In addition to Cardano, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Brave. In other words, users who hold native tokens for these networks will receive the night.
Glacier drops are their distribution mechanisms Allocate 100% of the night token (Midnight native cryptocurrencies focus on privacy through intelligent zero knowledge agreements) People demonstrating prior ownership on these networks. According to Hoskinson 37 million user accounts create night owners.
However, according to the CEO of Cardano, the initiative faces obstacles for these ADA owners due to compatibility with ledger hardware wallets.
This issue arises from suggestions for improvements to Cardano 8 (CIP-8). Allows the distributed wallets and applications (DAPPS), the standard for this network, to sign messages. Check the property at your address without transferring fundsessential for airdrops.
The ledger wallet limits messaging companies to 31 bytes, and 251 bytes are required for the Glacier Drop Payload. This difference prevented the ADA user in the ledger from completing the verification.
Hoskinson said the Cardano team detected the failure in July and warned about the ledger, but the company has not provided a revised schedule.
To address the inconvenience, Cardano collaborators, along with Charles Hoskinson, proposed a temporary solution consisting of 251 Biites payloads and null transactions (operations that do not move account balance or change account balance) integrated with metadata.
This metadata acts as an additional information container containing the data needed to validate Airdropallows transactions to meet the glacier drop requirements No need to directly modify ledger software.
The idea is to simulate a valid action in Cardano that the wallet can handle despite the company’s 31-byte limit. This technique enables ledger users Sign and request your token securely.
Null transactions using metadata are frequently used in the field of inappropriate tokens (NFTs) Record informationsuch as assets of digital assets without moving funds.
In the context of AirdropThis approach adapts the methodology to allow ledger devices to generate valid enterprises and link 251-buy payloads to the claims process.
Hoskinson said the Glacier Drop Portal will be automatically updated to integrate this alternative and maintain eligibility for those affected. From him Airdrop There is a two-month window and users can try billing at the end of August Without losing your place.
Finally, Cardan ecosystem leaders contextualized the problem. As a challenge specific to the scale of AirdropCovers 8 networks and multiple types of wallets. He then demanded patience and noted that these “boundary cases” reflect the evolution of technology in distributed environments.