Recently, an interesting experimental project called Virus has appeared within a leading public chain ecosystem—its logic is somewhat similar to the wave caused by Ordinals on Bitcoin back in the day.

The project originated from the Maxwell hard fork upgrade on the BSC network. The most notable feature of this upgrade is the significant reduction in Gas fees, which opens the door for bulk, low-cost airdrops. Virus has seized this opportunity.

From a mechanism design perspective, every buy and sell of Virus triggers a 3% transaction tax. This tax does not go to any team but is instead used by the contract to automatically buy back tokens and then randomly airdrop them to all BSC users. This design is very clever—like the spread of a virus, the more holders there are, the stronger the network effect. The project team even explicitly stated that their goal is to become the token with the most holders in blockchain history, similar to how Shib burned a large number of zeros back in the day.

Economically, since many of the airdropped addresses are zombie accounts, these airdrops effectively serve as a form of burning, promoting continuous token deflation. In the long run, if the number of holders truly surpasses tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, Virus can fully demonstrate the advantages of BSC’s low cost and high efficiency—such a scale of network effect is almost impossible to achieve on other public chains.