Dashboard Templates
Separate real users from airdrop farmers with this sybil detection dashboard template for protocols and onchain teams.
Sybil detection is the practice of identifying wallets that belong to farmers running many addresses to game an airdrop, quest, or incentive program. For the protocol running the campaign, separating genuine users from farmed wallets is what keeps rewards, metrics, and token distribution honest.
There is no single farmer flag, so this dashboard combines the signals that reliably separate real users from farmed ones: proof-of-humanity scores, exchange verification, net worth, sudden connection spikes, and sanctions screening. Read together, these make farmed cohorts stand out, which bunch at zero net worth, carry no humanity proof, and arrive in bursts. It complements bot filtering by grading wallet quality rather than traffic.
What’s included
Wallets Without Humanity Proof: a KPI number of active wallets carrying no Passport humanity score at or above 20.
Passport Humanity Score Distribution: a bar chart of how your active wallets score on proof-of-humanity.
Humanity Verification Coverage: a pie chart of verified-human wallets versus unverified.
Coinbase-Verified Wallets: a KPI number of wallets carrying a Coinbase verified-account attestation.
Wallet Net Worth Distribution: a bar chart of profiled wallets by net worth band, where farmed wallets cluster near zero.
First-Time Wallet Connections by Day: a bar chart that surfaces sudden connection spikes typical of farming.
Sanctioned Wallets: a KPI number of OFAC or Chainalysis designated addresses seen in your app.
Use this dashboard to gauge how much of your activity is genuine before you weight rewards, report numbers, or size an airdrop.
How to build this dashboard
Install the Formo SDK — wallets are enriched with Passport scores, exchange verification, net worth, and sanctions labels automatically.
Create a board and add the Sybil & Farmer Detection template from the gallery.
Review the signals before weighting rewards or sizing a distribution; dig into individual wallets with wallet profiles.
Related dashboards
Active Wallets Dashboard — the raw activity these signals help you trust
Wallet Churn & Dormancy Dashboard — whether farmed wallets churn after the incentive
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is a sybil attack in crypto?
A sybil attack is when one actor creates many wallet addresses to appear as many separate users, usually to farm a larger share of an airdrop, quest reward, or incentive. Sybil detection is the process of finding and discounting those wallets.
2. What is an airdrop farmer?
An airdrop farmer is someone who runs many wallets through the minimum actions needed to qualify for a token distribution, without being a genuine user. Their wallets typically hold near-zero value, lack humanity proof, and behave in uniform, automated ways.
3. How do you detect sybil wallets and farmers?
No single signal is definitive, so detection combines several: proof-of-humanity scores, exchange verification, on-chain net worth, funding patterns, and connection timing. Wallets that score low on humanity, hold nothing, and arrive in coordinated bursts are the strongest farming candidates.
4. What is a Passport humanity score?
It is a proof-of-humanity score from Human Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport) that aggregates verifiable credentials, such as social and identity attestations, into a single number. Higher scores indicate a wallet is more likely to belong to a unique real person.
5. What charts are included in the Sybil & Farmer Detection Dashboard?
A Wallets Without Humanity Proof KPI, a Passport Humanity Score Distribution, a Humanity Verification Coverage pie, a Coinbase-Verified Wallets KPI, a Wallet Net Worth Distribution, a First-Time Wallet Connections by Day chart, and a Sanctioned Wallets KPI.
6. Why does net worth help identify farmers?
Genuine users tend to hold a spread of assets across net worth bands, while farmed wallets are cheap to create and usually hold close to nothing. A distribution heavily concentrated at zero net worth is a strong sign of farming activity.
7. Does this dashboard require custom setup?
No. It runs on wallet profiles and labels Formo enriches automatically, including Passport scores, exchange verification, net worth, and sanctions status, scoped to the wallets active in your app. No custom events are required.
8. Can Formo detect farmers with wallet clustering?
Formo does group linked wallets into identity clusters on the Users page, which is a powerful sybil signal. This template is built from wallet-level signals that render as charts; clustering is best explored on the Users page today.
9. How should I read a sudden spike in new wallet connections?
A sharp spike in first-time connections that coincides with an incentive, and skews toward low humanity scores and zero net worth, often indicates farming rather than organic growth. Compare the spike against verification coverage to judge how genuine it is.
10. Who should use the Sybil & Farmer Detection Dashboard?
Protocol, growth, and token teams running airdrops, quests, or incentive campaigns who need to gauge how much of their activity is genuine before weighting rewards or sizing a distribution.