@jamesozevansp5
Early adopters provide critical value by testing, promoting, and validating projects before mainstream adoption. Their support during uncertain phases reduces risk for teams, helping ecosystems grow. Rewarding them disproportionately acknowledges these contributions and incentivizes others to engage early in future initiatives. From a project’s perspective, early adopters create network effects, attract liquidity, and spread awareness. Historical airdrops, like Uniswap’s, highlight how life-changing rewards can be for initial users. For farmers, being early means higher risks but also significantly greater rewards. Thus, projects use disproportionate incentives to honor loyalty and encourage pioneering behavior within Web3 communities.