aPriori Airdrop Under Fire After One Entity Claims Over 60% of Supply

Airdrop manipulation fears are back on the table. According to onchain analytics platform Bubblemaps, more than 60% of aPriori’s APR airdrop on BNB Chain was claimed by a single entity using roughly 14,000 linked wallets.

The project, which previously raised $30 million, launched its APR token on October 23 and quickly surged to a $300 million market cap. But behind the hype, a complex web of wallets appears to have quietly drained the airdrop, leaving the community demanding answers.

aPriori positioned itself as one of the most anticipated projects building on the Monad ecosystem, a high-performance Layer 1 chain set to launch soon.

Ahead of Monad’s mainnet release, aPriori distributed 12% of its total APR supply via an airdrop on BNB Chain, a move meant to reward early supporters and boost community engagement.

The launch seemed like a success.

$APR trading went live on October 23, liquidity ramped up fast, and the market cap hit $300 million within days.

But then, Bubblemaps’ analysis dropped.

14,000 Wallets. One Entity.

Bubblemaps revealed a pattern that suggests one coordinated actor may have claimed a majority of the airdrop supply.

Their report showed around 14,000 wallets linked through transactional patterns and funding behavior. Each wallet received a small amount of 0.001 BNB, just enough to pay gas fees, all within extremely tight time windows.

Those wallets then went on to claim APR from the airdrop contract and transfer the tokens to new, freshly created addresses, forming what analysts describe as a clustered multi-layer network of wallets.

Bubblemaps shared a visualization showing thousands of these wallets connected in a spiderweb-like structure, with transactions flowing through a few key nodes, all suggesting centralized control.

“These wallets were newly funded from Binance, received identical amounts of BNB, and transferred $APR in synchronized patterns,” Bubblemaps reported.

One of the most striking findings was that all the wallets in question were funded directly from Binance.

Each address received a tiny amount of BNB, 0.001, from Binance hot wallets, often within seconds of each other. This funding pattern, combined with uniform activity, makes it statistically unlikely that they belong to separate individuals.

Instead, it points toward automated activity, possibly executed by scripts or bots that were able to bypass aPriori’s Sybil resistance mechanisms.

The fact that these wallets were created so close together, funded from the same source, and performed identical transactions adds weight to suspicions of a coordinated exploit of the airdrop system.

Bubblemaps also noted that the suspicious activity hasn’t stopped.

Even after the initial report, the same entity appears to continue funding new wallets, claiming more APR, and transferring tokens to secondary addresses.

In short, the operation is still ongoing.

That ongoing movement raises major questions:

How were these wallets able to qualify for the airdrop in the first place?

Was it a loophole in the eligibility criteria, or did someone gain inside knowledge about how the filters worked?

At the time of writing, aPriori has not commented on the findings. Requests for comment from the project team went unanswered.

This project raised $30M from tier-1 VCs

But 60% of its airdrop was claimed by one entity via 14,000 addresses

What’s going on with @aPriori?