Topic: Airdrops Getting Tougher: Is the Effort Still Worth the Reward? (Read 610 times)

Trouble is, not everyone interested in participating in these contemporary airdrop projects could have the tasking time to regularly engage in the daily task in order to accumulate sufficient  points. I also learned that some of the airdrop projects do strip some points from participants account for each day they fail to login and perform some of the tasks. It's crazy though that the few points a participant has managed to gather would have to be deducted for a day or two absence for token that may not actually list with a substantive price that can  significantly benefit the participants.

And airdrops are more taxing now and you will have to putting in a lot of energy so that you will be able to gather more than enough so that when they lost you will be able to sell at a good price since the accumulation is much and you will not be able to do that if you don't do all the task asked of them their will be some kind of limitation and some of the games even look boring and the referrals to are another challenge, those are the things that will make you eligible.


And this year is a season of airdrop and at first people did not believe that you can get money from airdrop untill they saw what nutcoin did so that is one of the reasons that people have been taking airdrop very seriously and even hunting it very hard, like wise the scams their is still good once's, and a lot of them are dust like wise their is still the once you can make money from, so it's a two way thing.

People are tired of following these airdrops on Telegram with the spread of many failed mini-game projects that exploited their user base who paid high fees and sacrificed many months in exchange for receiving completely illogical returns or failing to receive their airdrops because the projects they participated in blacklisted users as "cheaters" without any proof of such accusations.

Indeed, any CEX platform cares about trending projects with large communities that align with their listing policies and the payment of fees, regardless of the quality of the project, the listed token, or the risks to investors, as they typically include a disclaimer. The goal of CEX is to increase its user base and exploit the hype. Like any meme coins, Telegram mini-coins are also a game of luck, and certainly not every project will get listed on Binance or yield returns like the players of early one or two projects did in this sector.

Honestly that was only because of one project and that was the part that didn't made sense to me at all. Only one that made people money and that is why I believe that we are going to see these things changing for the long term just based on one thing, that makes no sense.

I can see why that would make sense if it was multiple ones, like if there were 3-4 projects that made some money to airdrop farmers then I would say that makes sense because it would be profitable and then people would join like crazy. But there was only a single one called notcoin and then we ended up with nothing at all, nothing else made money and that is why I believe we are going to see people stopping now because they realized it's not making them any money.

Yes, that Telegram based airdrops had really made out some noise into bounty groups neither into this forum or usually can be found on facebook on where everynow and then on where it is really that something that entice you do deal up with these airdrops due to the hype and interest on what the market do really have. Its true that it do becomes tougher and tougher on where it will really be that up to you on how you do
deal up with things. There are those people who are really that wanting to deal up with airdrops and no matter how hard it would be then it will really be that up to you but dont expect something positive with it
or making money because not all airdrops will really be giving out that sure money. Just like into those things been mentioned above that it isnt really that just that simple to deal up with and thats why
never ever expect something positive with it or else you will really be that getting disappointed if you are expecting too much. Still worth the reward? Totally depends and i do agree that the ones who are making money with this are to those people who are really that having tons of referrals or followers on which having tons of network will really be that a huge advantage to them.

A month ago, the altcoin section was full of discussions about this airdrop and Telegram bot applications and questions about how they work. This was in conjunction with the wave of airdrops after the (relative) success of both the Not and Dogs projects, which were more popular and succeeded in attracting a large user base. Today, there are only a few discussions left and most are certainly tired of following them. As for the trading platforms that support some projects on Telegram, I can conclude that they list tokens for fees and marketing interest rates without requiring the project to be real and not just a silly and boring game. Everyone who participated in the airdrops is still waiting for the success of any of the tokens that Binance supported and listed.

it's not worth doing or participating in airdrops anymore, and I also think that the hype of airdrops is over, with so many airdroppers coming out, I noticed that there are not even 10 airdrops that have become this year was successful.

Well, while there are more than 1000 airdrops that have come out in this field of crypto space and most of them are just wasted and a lot of wasted time and fatigue of those who participated who only hope to get rewards that there is no certainty if it will happen of value or nothing.

Trying to figure out how to maximize your profits will not work, the return is unknown so you can't possibly know how to optimize it. The sad truth is that majority of these airdrops are shitty stuff and won't pay you much, hell there are so many that will fail at launch that you will get basically nothing, just dust, less than what the fee would be. So, trying to figure out some that will get attention is hard.

Even something as known as Hamster Kombat, ended up paying like 20-30 bucks, nothing more. That is why I believe that you are not going to really find that gem in airdrops. There is one in every 10 thousand that ends up being good, but that is very hard to find which one that will be, not worth it to go looking for it.

Don't get pissed if you have received less but of course this isn't something that could be known but I do agree that most projects that aren't hyped are the ones who do make out some good rewards in compared into those projects on which it is over hyped or overrated yet most of them do fail in the end or those bounty hunters are really just that receiving less. If we do talk about $GRASS specifically then no one had anticipated that this one really ended up on having its TGE and now currently listed at 2 bucks price on which is really great.

There are really just those people who are really that receiving more in compared with others on which this is something that people are jealous about. It is really normal to have these disappointments because theres no assurance in the first place that these projects will succeed. Also, talking about grass this isn't something a thing that consumes time on doing it on where you are just running it passively in comparison with those other airdrops on which you do need up some transaction count.Airdrops are indeed getting tougher as years passing by and its just right that you should be having this approach on dealing with it on which you are really that not expecting something positive all the time.Youll be ending up on disappointments and anger if you are really that making yourself that optimistic on getting something big on every airdrops that you are dealing into.

Depends on your living condition a bit doesn't it? I mean if you are in a poor nation and a poor person, and have no job, then what else are you going to do? Internet connection exists for everyone in most parts of the world, so if you have a phone, which almost everyone has these days as well, then you will go online and check airdrops and attend to every single one of them. If you apply to too many of them, just write them down on a piece of paper, some notebook, and keep following them every day.

That way, you may make some return, sure it would be very small, but poor people do not care, they want something, even if it's a small amount. I can see how that works, if I lost my job right now, I could become like them too.

That is basically how airdrops work these days. Devs make you work, make a lot of money off your efforts, and then give you some worthless token, while they rake in fiat. This is not really how airdrops should be, but they figured out a way to make some money and they are just abusing that because there are tons of people who would fall for that kind of stuff and they are happy to fool those people as well.

I believe we are not going to see this go on for too long, we will probably do better with time. We just need to make sure that we are dealing with some good results eventually, and for that to mean something we are going to see a ton of changes as well. This would make sense when the time comes, we just don't know when a new and better airdrop system will start and get hyped.

If you use the 2k earned from eignenlayer well you won't be mad about Grass failure for airdrop hunters, also how long do you people think that this will be ongoing? A time will come that airdrops won't even make sense anymore, why? Too many people are into crypto now and as we know it everything is allocation in crypto space, if millions of people are on a project it is possible you will all get pennies in the end, find something else to start learning aside before it is too late.

Ironically, most people who got to know crypto started with airdrops because they wanted quick means of earning money. Even, when someone is looking out to make funds on the internet, they are advised to check out airdrop. For instance, a friend had to discuss with a Bitcoin miner, but he knew nothing regarding Bitcoin, so the miner had nothing else relatable to tell him aside airdrops. When someone can't understand how the ecosystem works they'll simply be directed to try tasks or surveys for fresh projects.

I appreciate you teaching your friends, truly, at least there would be something in the end after all the effort, because experience is what is truly invaluable, in my opinion.
And the Tap2Earn - they may be worked around, but only with big enough farms to compensate for the future allocation.

A lot of those who participate in these fruitless telegram miniApp airdrop projects are just after fast money so they don't really care much about having to go a about learning to acquire the knowledge you suggesting even though it's really going to be of immense benefit to them on the long run.

Although some of these people that are so entangled with these airdrop projects are without any good background of crypto knowledge, through a referral link that's how many of them got involved for the first time ever and started the daily mining tasks in anticipation for rewards at a listing date. So they don't even have any form of idea about other valuable knowledge necessary to gain which is more beneficial than airdrop mining.

Airdrop in MiniApps is just a hype and now it is no longer worth working on. Reflecting on the airdrop project that has been launched, the income is likely to be very inappropriate for what we do. Therefore, instead of working on airdrop in MiniApps, I often advise some friends to focus on working on retro projects, testnet or running nodes. Because there the stage will provide added value for knowledge about the world of web3. While the results of the airdrop are certainly not guaranteed, at least there is experience that can be gained from how to build DApps, become a contributor and understand blockchain technology more deeply.

What else can you expect with these airdrops ? They are called airdrops for a reason. It's as good as free money.
While some might get you good returns, many of them will barely give you few dollars.
It depends on you whether you are capable to take such risks.

Those old good days are long gone, forthwith you will have to go through some daily  stressful  tasks, play games and also with an expected number of referrals to be gotten before you could starting seeing yourself to be eligible for the airdrop reward. 

It's as though the widespread acknowledgement of cryptocurrency led to a curse on airdrop hunting opening a gateway for scam projects to infiltrate the space. Perhaps, this mainly the logic to why old airdrop hunting feel less interested in partaking in airdrop projects of this time looking at the dust rewards that comes with many of them.

One of the cons on which a particular project been farmed out by tons of people and a long time duration then it is really that somewhat prone into that being farmed too much or being cheated which we have seen some airdropers who do end up on making thousands of dollars because they have been that making some multiple accounts. Somehow there are really those people who do make some serious profits specially to those influencers or youtubers who do have tons of followers. Is it still worth the effort? Totally depends if you do have the time and having that patience because not all people would be having time and having that effort that they could really be having into. There are some who are really that eager on dealing up with airdrops on which there are those people who do even make it as a source of income on which this is really that very wrong. It would really be always better that you engage out with airdrops on having that approach that you are really that prepared whether it do end up some shit or not.

I do remember those old years on which you could be able to earn or eligible for airdrop on just simply signing up on a google form on which unlike now on which you would really be doing up some hard tasks.
There are even some that do require some transaction counts on which this really spend up some gas fees on which this is really that something that being needing some expense
on which it is really that already that a part of risks on which you do need to deal on with.

If we're to compare how Dogs performed with their rewards to that of Hamster Kombat I think I do agree with your thoughts that the number of participants in an airdrop project also influences the value of the rewards to be given. Dogs had a few participants and not less than about two months or so, they airdropped their rewards to the small community and it was large. But HK the level of hype got a lot of involved which probably wasn't what the developers envisioned. In some cases, it leads to postponements and extension of snapshots and listing date just to accommodate the larger community.

Well we do know this the airdrops is not the same like it was a long time ago. We know there is some people that is not happy with the airdrop for Hamster Kombat.
I was a person that did think there was going to be some profit to be made from that airdrop. There was going to be a second season to launch end of October.
But now HMSTR token is down more than 77 percent from the all time high. I do think alot of airdrop tokens will not make us profit.

Absolutely not, many projects are using a fake or useless airdrop just to promote their shitty project. Shameless!
Value your time better and you will for sure find success elsewhere. 

While I have never been part of any proper airdrop for now, I have to say that it's also not the time for them to be profitable right now neither. I believe, they are very valuable and "worth it" when the bull run starts, so if you see bitcoin at 100k+ and ethereum at 5k+ then know that there will be airdrops that actually worth something.

There will still be plenty of terrible ones, majority will always be very bad, but the good ones go from less than 1% to reaching 5-10% range to "worth it" level. That is why we should wait, if you really want to participate in airdrops, this is not the time, there is no bull run, and it is not really profitable or worth it to just spend time on it, because you are just wasting your efforts.

airdrop has now become a game of wits, the people who can max out their odds come out with huge reward, the normal average joe won't earn that much, it's only worth it if you can create edge that puts you ahead of everyone else for example big community where you can earn commission from refferal, highly increases your odds of making it big.

so for average joe, it's not worth it.
but for people who have built community around airdrop, or at least have a method to put them ahead of anyone else, it's still worth it.

but it comes back again, if you have that much free time and have nothing else to do, I guess doing airdrop isn't so bad after all.

I share same sentiment but GRASS has been remarkable if you had hodled till this moment. I didn't get a decent allocation too but to a decent decision to buy on Bitget's premarket when the price was dropping few hours before listing at $0.79 and would likely take profit today if the price touches the projected $2.

Sometimes being lucky making the right decision and being patient is rewarding.

I think we've been running out of project developer that actually want to present some innovation to the crypto world, instead we're left with pseudo-dev who just exist to milk people.
the recent TGE has been consistently disappointing for me, can you imagine, staking ETH with LRT projects for extensive period, around 1 year, with the amount of staked around 2-3 ETH only to get rewarded 50 freaking dollar after one whole year, and the devs are eating good because they got massive APR from the staked ETH of their participants amounting to millions of dollars. but the people, who actually put something at risk, got rewarded minimum amount, just ridiculous smh.

feels like, the airdrop in crypto space is being dominated by scammers.

This is true, Airdrop which is not too discussed will have the possibility of getting a large reward, yes you can say hidden gems, the term hype will have more users and rewards will be distributed to many users so that they get a little allocation from the budget Prepared for Airdrop Hunter, Eigen is a tangible form, and the grass is the bad campaign , even though they are a pretty good project.

Indeed there is nothing free in this world if you see from that point of view, some things are exchanged for the time, business and internet that we use as capital to follow it.

Airdrops are rewarding if the market is sufficient with liquidity, that's when you see new projects raised money from different individuals and then will want to make awareness about their project by spread information and then reward people for doing such but if the market is not too good, most of the airdrops that will be coming wouldn't fulfill their promises and if they don't, they wouldn't he able to pay participants that help them perform some tasks.

Projects like Eigen rewarded the participants because they minted some NFTs and that was not recently, it was some months back and some people that staked ethereum which they bridge through their network. That means they risk and trusted the project to bridge their coins and provide TVL for the project so they can give lifea and support the project, that's more like retroactive airdrop in my opinion and it's dangerous to do but if you can risk it, the reward will be bigger than what you might imagine.

Airdrops nowadays are full of uncertainty; its like a box full of chocolate, you never know what's you're going to get, There were airdrops that people have worked day and night and even paid for upgrade only to get dusts after the distribution, so they're more disappointed now, its far different from the airdrops of old but in the old days there were only hundreds of participants, now we have millions, that's because Cryptocurrency is so popular now

On the moment that you are already spending up some funds to make some onchain transactions or simply buying out something like upgrades into those games then its not considered free anymore.
Airdrops nowadays turned out to be like this on which it is really that something risky on which you dont even know if these tokens will really be that having some value or even have that airdrop in the end or not.
This is why it would really be just that depending on you whether you would be engaging with these things or not. I have tons of experience on dealing with those projects that have some incentivized tasks on which
it do really involves those onchain transactions or having those kind of tasks on which you would really be needing up to spend some gas or even needing to mint something.

Same as mentioned above that these things are also being abused with those scam devs on trying out to make money into those hopeful people or bounty hunters and falling out into their trap.
This is why you should really be that careful on choosing up on what projects you would really be trying out to deal on and dont let yourself get dragged with some hype because usually
projects which does have that tons of users are the ones who do end up on failed projects or ending up on receiving less rewards.

Free in a way that you did not spend money and there are actually airdrops (especially before) in which you will only need to send your crypto address for payment and that was it. You only need to wait for their payment dates after. With these kind of setup I wouldn't wonder anymore or complain on why some are not paying. Even the airdrops that requires us a capital can also scam us. Airdrops have evolved in the long run and project owners are now getting wiser. They think it's a good idea if people can promote their project.

This is not wrong but as long as of course they will also pay us for our efforts that we are making. We need to be wise about this and we shouldn't let that one party can only benefit at all times.

It is good that you made such a big amount from airdrop. Airdrops still pay though but you can’t be so sure of the one that will give you lots of money by contributing your little quota to the project. When a project is not hyped and no many people on them, the reward is always high and I think that was why you got really big reward for the effort you put into the project.


I have been hearing about grass but not until when they’re about to lunch. I hope they pay well for the efforts many people have put into them. Even if you don’t make a lot from grass, the one gotten from Eigen should have covered for that effort you put into farming grass. In airdrops, we shouldn’t expect much, so anything that comes from it will be appreciated and not saddened.

I believe $GRASS has some potential regardless of the fact that you got a little amount worth of it during the airdrop. I say this because I just looked it up on Bitget's pre-market trade counter and it's already climbed to $1 and I've come to understand that most of the time, these tokens that gets pre-traded before official listings usually gets listed above the pre-trade price. That's an opportunity right there mate.

everything's depends on supply and demand, there is too much hype created about airdrops. millions of people participate, if they give 1 usdt each, they needs million dollar budgets so its obvious they cant give big amounts.

Yeah, without the needed resources allocated to it, you won't be able to get good rewards, usually. That's the nature of the drops currently in the crypto space for you and these people Nobody says you can't try your luck and analysis, though.

In recent time, we are having too much hype specially social media channels are creating troubles because scam developers only need few peoples for having good intention about their project then we have the huge number of community members jumps in which bring good mess up and at the end mostly are crying about have nothing from this airdrop but sadly no one learning from mistakes with many are doing same job for nothing and giving their time and effort.

Hamster is the biggest example as how developers use this community and then have changes into their airdrops which was completely unfair, but we can't do anything about this, but we need to understand about these ground realities and not jump in these time-wasting things because as members are giving their time and effort for these useless and scam airdrops they can do better things or can learn about skills which will help them.

the hardest part of following airdrop always predicting the legit ones, EIGEN is rare occurrence, because they decided to go with tiered system and added bonus at the end of the TGE.

compare it with puffer finance for example, tiered system but really low rewards . I've seen plenty of people staking few ETH, not selling despite reaching ATH for the sake of puffer and then holding until ETH go back to $2500 only to get rewarded with fixed tiered reward of 70 puffer which only equal to less than $35. crazy I know but it happens.

this is why I only consider airdrop just as a side hustle that might be waste of time and most of the time just hit or miss.

The main issue is that airdrops are not reliable. You can get a reasonable amount of money from a project you never expected, and you can get out with dust from a project you hyped. That's just the truth about airdrops, and you will never be certain of one if you get paid.
I missed on some airdrops that paid really well, like EIGEN, I also don't want to miss out on anyone again, but I will also not rely on them because they can disappoint. But if I get a reliable airdrop, I will participate because I am fed up with the dust rewards gotten from telegram tap to earn airdrops.

Talking about airdrops that are currently considered not too commensurate with the results that occur due to the increase or hype that exists so that in the end more and more people know about an airdrop, it is certain that the results obtained will also not be too large and may not even be commensurate which is certain that this will also be utilized by developers to make levels at least more difficult than before because indeed a large increase certainly provides a situation that will certainly make them realize that they will feel above the wind.

For now, airdrops that come suddenly and in a vulnerable duration that is not too long and of course there are not as many enthusiasts as for some airdrops that have excessive hype, it will be much more profitable in my opinion because we can take the example of some telegram airdrops such as hamsters which have excessive hype, it becomes overloaded and not too worth it to do.

Yeah, i do remember those years on which airdrops arent that hard. To qualify yourself into such airdrop then you would really be just that needing to sign up with some google form then viola, you are already that
accepted on getting some drops and wait up for its value to be shown and get those nice amount of tokens with ease, which is really that totally different as of this moment on where you would really be needing up
to do various tasks and theworst on which you would really be making use of some amount for gas or taking up transactions on which it would really be adding up on the expense and this one really sucks.
You are spending on something on which you arent that even know if it would really be worth it or not. Airdrop nowadays are shit and something that you cant be sure on ending up some value.
The worst is that they do really end up on a couple of months or even years on which the most disappointing thing at all is that you've been grinding for so long but you do only get 10 bucks. 

It's no longer 2017 to early 2018 era, airdrops are no longer worth the try. During the time that I mentioned, we have seen a lot of airdrops that really gave something to the investors or the bounty hunters. Although it try to make a resurgence with the latest craze of tap to earn and some early or prime mover of this project really game a good airdrop. However, the recent Hamster was a disappointment, and that's what I read and heard from people. Months and months of farming and tapping and everyone was with this project expecting a huge returns for their hard work and yet during the airdrop, majority of them didn't get what they expecting and so it was really disheartening for them. And with that, I would say that airdrop is not as what it used to be and the reward is not going to be worth in the end.

The more referrals you spread the greater your chances of getting the tokens, now airdrops have a referral system if you don't rely on this then you will miss out on airdrops with only a few tokens received.

Grass Premarket on Lbank $10 but this exchange is not clear... different from other premarkets.
https://www.lbank.com/trade/grass_usdt

That airdrop is still difficult to guess, even I got a worthy reward from Eigen while only a little money was bet on Puffer but got the benefits.

I don't expect too much from airdrops so this is like gambling it is still difficult to predict how much we will get so it's better to think about it than to think about it.

You are frustrated because you are expecting something or maybe worse, you are expecting too much because you already received a high amount in one of the airdrops that you participated in. Do remember, these are airdrops which means they are free and you don't really have to expect something from them because most of them end up with dust value.

Many will join, that's a normal thing to happen, it also happens during the ICO time and it's not actually different from what is happening now. They will join any bounty that they can and if there's nothing to do buy just join a channel of a Telegram group then it's a bonus to them. Look, you didn't even make some huge effort to receive such an amount, just be thankful if you do.

Even though by choosing an airdrop that seems popular to enter, there is no guarantee that the airdrop will be good for the future, but it is necessary not to think about that, because now it is difficult to determine all that at the beginning, from the development side only thinking about so that more people follow it.

Thats why it would really be that important that on the moment or time you do consider out on dealing up with airdrops is that you shouldnt really be expecting too much into it. So that you wont really be ending up on getting disappointed on the moment of distribution of rewards. One of the risks involved dealing up with these things that you might be ending up on getting some peanuts or getting nothing at all. This is something that you should have that accepted since from the start or into the moment that you do deal up with these things. It will really be that recommended that you shouldnt really be putting up all of your time on dealing up
with airdrops because you wouldnt really be knowing whether it would really be worth or not for your time. Always expect the unexpected and this is something that could happen.

Its true that rewards nowadays arent that worth for your time because you would be needing up to have those tons of tasks but ending up on getting something which is really just that too small or something not really that worth for the thing you've done and this is something you must be anticipating on the time you do deal up with these things. So it will really be that just that depending whether you do have that sufficient time on dealing up with these things and go full time or simply doing up some side tasks on your free time.

First, these airdrops are just like some giveaway to the community of the projects that have used or liked them. Doing some stuff, tasks, doing transaction on their network and the rewards are on their own native token. Lucky you are that you've got $2k for Eigen when many did missed that or they've probably seen and heard of it but did nothing.

Those that have a lot of participants like millions, expect that you'll get peanuts from them. That's why those that are into airdrops are hunting those that have tasks regards to the network and testnets. That's more rewarding because it requires some fund too and the more you transact and spend on their networks, the bigger potential rewards that the participants will get. But don't get me wrong, there's no guaranteed with that and just remember that airdrops are like hit or miss.

That's the thing about making money on airdrops; it should be good, only a few people participate, and the allocation is good. So many airdrops are referral based; they do not limit their participants, so participants ended up with dust because of the huge number of participants.

Some developers brag they have a huge community or participants, but the fact is that huge numbers will suffer from wasted effort because of the allocation. Again,  the developers only think of their number, not what the community will get in exchange for their effort.

Yeah, usually, the line can be drawn after the allocation, beforehand, it's all a fuzz n' buzz

Airdrop is more of a number game like the bounty, with many people participating and the developers not limiting the participants, and the allocation is a small percentage of the supply; there's going to be fewer shares of each participant. You are lucky to have participated in a project with fewer participants and with good allocation, but of course the project should have potential.

Airdrops are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get. some are good and some are bad. Even if you did your research, there's still no guaranty that you're effort will be rewarded, I will not be surprised after the big hype; many participants will slow down and only pick airdrops that they think will have potential

Congratulations on the good money earned from the Eigen airdrop, this is rare these days. You must know that the more people participating in an airdrop the lower the money, don't let them deceive you about the community size, the community size only works when the community are actually investing, not when they are depending on the projects money.

So, when a good project is not hyped, you can be sure of higher returns.

No, I am not bullish on the project, neither am I bullish on any hyped projects as no one knows the fate of any of them until after listed and market force acted as usual.

I always say airdrops are not free money mostly in recent times the number of tasks you participate in is enough work, and recently their pay isn’t enough for the efforts exacted. Most airdrops right now mostly those on TG are just using people to enrich themselves (they’re farming yous not you farming the drops).

Is the effort still worth the reward? It depends on individual. If some people see $5 to $10, they will be happy, but while some can be very disappointing. If I see such amount, it will be a total waste of time for me.

Your device is working 24/7 for it. That is not an airdrop but money paid for the work you did through your device. About the airdrop coins, the coin may increase in price or the coin may decrease in price. If I receive any, I will convert it and spend it immediately than to be disappointed will its price falling.

When airdrops becomes more popular the smaller it would go round the community but if airdrops aren't that promoted in various media there would be probability of you earning something  reasonable from the airdrops, but if you think most of the airdrops you anticipates aren't worth the reward then you can stop doing airdrop and focused on something more much productive to you. For long I never involved myself with airdrop because i know too well that it would definitely ends with regrets as worthless rewards couples with my time wasted while doing it.

yes so the need to increase caution in choosing an airdrop is a natural thing, with the thoroughness and insight that we have about the airdrop, it will be more decisive in choosing it, so that no time is wasted when working on it, it is very important to study it in depth so as to avoid disappointment.

I would pick Blum out of all fo them, as far as I know, at least it has (or should have) some use cases as to being a future exchange and the storage for your crypto. I hope to see it up and running.

You have actually said they key point here, the more the participants the smaller the rewards, the lower the participants the higher the rewards, and this is a typical example of what happens in the Just concluded hamster Kombat token, they have the largest population in participants, and at a point, I was asking one of my guy that can this people pay? Because the numbers of people involve in that telegram tap to earn game was too much and we all knew the final outcome of how the airdrop activity played out, so in essence is that when it comes to airdrop, nothing is certain, but one thing I have observed lately about most of this airdrop is that, any of this project that will pay good money wouldn't be that stressful, but you see those dust of a project, they will certainly over work and over stress you if you are a participant of it.

Then lastly, and according to your question if their is any genuine airdrop, yes they are, but it's not written on their forehead, Blum, major, tomarket, seed, memefi and the rest, all this project I made mentioned, majority of them might be a complete waste of time, but I believe that one or two of them might comes in handy.

Yeah, with how much T2E and drops are now engraved into some chains, it's a wonder that some are still excited about getting a life change or something out of them You can get some money doing drops even today, but it requires lots of proxies / accounts / being an influencer, etc. Otherwise, it may end up just a small prize for the big effort.

If you are doing some work before you receive the token then it can no longer be called an airdrop. It becomes your salary because it is the payment you received in return for your work. A true airdrop is like this one: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/get-5-free-bitcoins-from-freebitcoinsappspotcom-183 you just entered your address and received 5 bitcoins without fuss which is worth more than $300k per claim at today's prices.

The other problem with these so called airdrops isn't that they are getting tougher or the reward is smaller because more people know about it. The problem is that what you receive is useless so the only reason why it could gain any value is by hype and based on luck on what price it can gain when it is found on an exchange or token swap platform. If you get lucky you can get a better deal and if not, it is all for naught.

Airdrop right now are hit or miss, you can't really know which one gonna hit the jackpot and which the other that's not worth the time.
so you may increase your odd of making it big by doing all the airdrop, of course it could be a big waste of time as well and may yields nothing.

personally I still think airdrop are still worth it, but I'm talking about the retroactive ones, the tvl based airdrop? not so much, because let's be real here, whales are getting all the rewards and the project don't give two damn about the average people so we might as well just ignore them.

retroactive like layerzero, and so on, that incentivizes interaction with smart contract, I think is the only one that's worth your time, even then some are also waste of time.

on the other hand, if you value your time more, I guess airdrop isn't worth it anymore.

I think you already have an answer in your post. Airdrops that come as a surprise are usually much rewarding that those that are over publicized and have a lot of users participating. I have experience this before, so it shouldn't come in as a surprise.

It's been a very, very long time since I last willingly wasted my time with airdrops. Getting a well rewarding airdrop these days is more like a lottery, and hey, do not ever be deceived in to believing that an airdrop is free. It isn't. The time you waste and sometimes the private data you give away is worth much more than the tokens you are receiving

Honestly, airdrops are becoming more difficult to farm, especially the popular ones. I’m starting to get concerned. The Eigen airdrop was great, I ended up with over $2K just for using the network, without even knowing about the airdrop in advance. It wasn’t as hyped, so not many people were prepared for it.

The more people that prepare for these airdrops, the smaller the rewards. Take Get Grass, for example, they used my internet 24/7 for months, and in return, I got 6 cents... I’m frustrated. I saw it trading in pre-market at $0.96, and if it lists at $1, my 6 Grass would be worth $6. Sure, it’s free, but it hardly feels worth the effort.

I’ve been involved since epoch 3 and honestly expected a bit more. Does anyone share similar thoughts with me or you are all bullish?