Arkham Airdrop Snapshot Taken on July 8th, the Referral Link Appears to Leak Users Information

Arkham said that due to Binance Launchpad, millions of people have participated in the platform and hundreds of thousands have signed up. Arkham announced that it will issue an airdrop to early users, which was snapshot on July 8th. The airdrop will go live on Tuesday, July 18th.

The way Arkham set up its weblink referral program sparked some controversy in the community. Users of Arkham’s wallet tracking dashboard can invite others onto the platform by sharing their unique referral URL. Those URLs appear to end with a meaningless jumble of characters. In reality, they’re an easy-to-decipher version of the user’s email address written in Base64, which is trivial to decode.

In response, Arkham CEO Miguel Morel tweeted, "This system was created at the beginning of the beta to be able to track referrals via email in order to reward users, and we won't be using them for any purpose other than to communicate with users and track referrals. Going forward all referral links will contain an encrypted version of the referrer's email so it is not possible to reverse engineer them, this change has taken effect".