AURA contributes to the token engineering discipline by aiming to demonstrate that "airdrops are not created equal." This means that there can be more and less effective ways of designing airdrop events. Since airdrops are closely tied to the tokenomics of a protocol and its token design, we believe that our study will help shed light on the sustainable design of protocol airdrops and potentially inform future design decisions, resulting in improved effectiveness.

We will initially focus on L2 protocols, as many projects have launched airdrops in this space, and attempting to capture all of this data would distract us from our main objectives. Once we have covered the L2 protocol space, the next milestone in our roadmap will be to expand to the broader DeFi space.

AURA is considered a public good because it is freely accessible and built openly. This means we will share the analysis behind the creation of the dashboard, allowing projects working on airdrops to find AURA as a valuable resource for consultation. We are committed to keeping the project free and open, which is why we have applied to GR18 to secure a budget that can support our engineering and research efforts in developing AURA.