Topic: Are airdrops becoming more difficult? (Read 342 times)

Any airdrop or project team have the right to determine how and when they will distribute their tokens because they will do their best to protect the integrity of their investors and also to avoid the market price of their coin to dump drastically which is literally what all airdrop participants do once they recive their token allocation, and once they dump the coin, some of these coins find itr very hard to recover on time.

There is nothing bad with the team decision to delay distribution for one week after listing, it for their own benefit and for your own benefit as well; provided the team distributed to allocation they promised to give the community, then nothing is bad.

that is their hope after receiving the airdrop, which they sell because they want to know the nominal amount they get as soon as possible and that is a natural thing, with some things that need to be considered by taking advantage of the existing airdrop, the need to see the reputation of the airdrop is very important to know the journey in crypto commodities.

There are projects that I found that give their players a choice if they want their full allocation before TGE, they need to invest one of the game elements to do so, and after the TGE, they found that the value of what they paid was higher than the allocation they received.

If they are legitimate and will distribute fairly, I do not see any problem in their players waiting a week or having the payments distributed in stages. Imagine if all the airdrop owners, who could number in the millions and hold large amounts of tokens, sold on listing day. This extreme price volatility may threaten the continued survival of the coin on the CEX in which it was listed and cause investors who bought the coin at listing to lose their capital. But if you want the truth, today's projects have become challenging to profit from without investments and complex to list on exchanges. It is also difficult to find real projects with honest teams that do not want to exploit their communities and want to build a long-term project.

Either before listing or after listing people will still dump the coin and the amount of people that are intrested in holding are very few the rest are after what they will get from the airdrop and that is one the team to are sometimes looking for what will also favour them and another thing is that if their is no enough liquidity to go round, then their is no way that the price will not dump their is no way. And the issue of the price coming down is normal so that it will be able to blend with the market.

And another thing is that if you don't sell the price will eventually come down and the price might not rice again so people are always very conscious and make a quick decision wether to sell or not but the best advice I will give is for you to sell, and some might just list when they actually have enough liquidity so it's actually depends on what the team have at hand will determine the direction that they will go so it is very important to know airdrops thay you will participate in.

No need to consider airdrops to be even that much of a big part of crypto world. Back in the day new projects would just release their wallet, we would mine it a bit, and then big miners would come along, and that's how we started all the projects you see today, all those bitcoin, litecoin, eth, whatever were done that way. Before that, we had ICO times, stuff like BNB were sold, and we bought it, funded their project, and they got rich thanks to it, but we got it cheap, very cheap, compared to what it is today, for our trust and investment.

So long story short, "let me distribute some free worthless tokens for your retweet" isn't really what makes crypto world turn around, it's useless, and doesn't really cover anything at all, it will be gone soon.

Do we have members who are part of the Toonstation soon token platform? They just finished their snapshot, but many failed to complete the task in time because their Twitter task is not working. I have a friend who keeps trying the whole day until he stumbles on their form for people who cannot finish the task, but unfortunately, even though he submits all the information in the form several times, he ends up not getting the allocation, and to think that he even just got his allocation.
Toonstation is scamming its users by putting tasks that cannot be completed.

You have to keep in mind that these crypto projects running these Airdrop campaigns are also businesses backed by investors who naturally expect a return on investment not running a charity. Their budget are fixed regardless of if the users are 50,000 or 1,000,000. The problem with airdrops now is over saturation of farmers. Although it’s sad but we have to come to terms with the fact that 2020 and backwards airdrops is a thing of the past.

Honestly, I would feel the same in your situation. It’s worrying when projects don’t seem to prioritize their initial supporters, investors and community. I have been through something similar just recently with Telegram mini app Airdrops where I expected many of those airdrops to be claimable at listing only to have it delayed until later. By the time I could claim the price had dropped significantly and I missed the chance to make a decent profit even lost some money in few cases where I purchased things inside the Mini-App to upgrade my level in the game faster. It’s like the team doesn’t consider how timing affects us.
I’m sure your concern about the price after a week is true, it’s the same what happens inside my head each time they announce the listing date. The market can shift quickly especially with new tokens. Early buyers might sell off or the hype might fo away, leaving a lot of us stuck with lower prices.

This kind of thing makes me more cautious about getting involved in airdrops with the same way. If a team can’t organize something as simple as aligning the airdrop claim with the listing then it makes me question everything even their legitimacy.

What you should know about airdrop is that it's a reward given for performing some task, it could be retroactive airdrop where you will be ask to spend in doing task and in return you will be compensated back and it could be free task where nothing will be ask from you and reward you later. However, you are not in any position to bargain when and how they should pay you, they are the ones that are going to set the terms for you and it's either you accept the terms or you ignore.

They also have this habit of making distribution after listing, mostly it's for protection of the price and also to protect their investors. Normally, airdrop participants are very careless when it comes to selling coins, they dump their coins immediately on the market which usually kills the price of the coin, if the coin is bullish the price will run up again and if it's not, it will remain flat for long time and this is what teams fear about airdrop distribution, this is the main reason why airdrop distributions are delayed by the team.

I don't see anything to be disappointed about here because they may be a week late due to some technical problem or some work, so it's not like they left without giving you the token. You wait for a week, and hopefully, you will get the token and don't be disappointed with the market situation. Hopefully, you will be able to sell it at a good price. Wait patiently for a week, and then everyone will be officially given the token.

One thing about these airdrops now is that they are not only becoming more difficult but more unpredictable and unreliable. Plenty projects are launched with little or no solid plans on ground making them turn dust in the end. I wish we will have a way of filtering the reliable ones off the unreliable ones. Some people are already seeing these airdrops as scam projects even though they're necessarily not. This is because of some projects will collect some bucks from you by requesting that you make Ton transactions and will end up dusting after wasting your time and money in the project. This made alot of people conclude that these airdrops are not worth their time any longer.

Some airdrops have become difficult, that is, you need to spend time and also have some usd to burn.
The airdrop you receive may not be satisfactory or you may not get anything in return.
I have stopped chasing airdrops these days because I could not get the return I had in mind from the last airdrops I participated in.

Maybe you should quote the OP instead. I just explained the same thing on my post already. OP is the one with the complain here and not me.

Projects success could really be that basing up into the teams handling on which managing on how funds would flow and limiting out those dumping situation, but actually if we do really tend to look up about bounty
allocation specially on airdrops on which it is really that usually playing around 1-3% of overall supply then it is really that too hard to make the market dump to the floor. There are those dev's who do mind and give out importance into the community on which they do give out that whats belongs to them and also trying out to make everyone to end up on having that positive vibes and impressions towards the project. We do know that once that a certain coin or project will really be having that bad community impression or feedback then it will really be making up some huge impact in overall image on which it could lead up into dumped price.
Once the community would lose its trust then its most likely the project will fail.

In regarding about on becoming even more difficult then it is really that true or something which is really that requiring even more tasks for you to be able to be eligible. The most important thing that you do need up to consider is that on the time or moment that you do deal up with airdrops is that you do make involved with it with your extra time. Never ever make yourself dealing up with something
that will compromise your time and work.

There expectation to get sure profit from airdrop makes them get disappoint on the result they get. If they just accept the fact that there's no always happy ending with the airdrops they participate for sure they can accept those situations where there's instances that they get paid late or not getting any payments at all. Each project owners is different since there are scammers and those who reward the effort of their participants who contribute for certain success achieve by their project.

To many airdrop token didn't pay their participants and this is what these people need to consider. So instead of mocking up and feel bad about airdrops didn't pays them they should move on quickly and find another good project to participate since these scene is common thing happened in airdrops.

It's quite normal for the airdrop project to distribute coins/tokens after listing. The vast majority of users who receive airdrops dump the coin in the market. Projects that want to reduce this unnecessary sales pressure spread the distribution over time. As a result, if you received an airdrop it doesn't matter much when it's distributed. If there is an exchange listing where you can monetize it, that means you can get paid for your labor, whatever you did to get the airdrop. Many projects that promise airdrops either don't distribute, don't list on exchanges, or coins don't have any monetary value at all.

Many projects distribute tokens almost the same as listing, before 1 hour of listing airdrop participants can claim these tokens, many projects have such a mechanism.

So don't be surprised if it doesn't match what is expected because each project is different in its distribution, they have set rules so that tokens do not drop because usually airdrop participants will throw away their tokens when they claim them.

The logical argument would be just getting funding, because if they do get decent funding, and make a good amount of money, and lock the tokens for a while as well and only release part by part, they could use their funding to keep the price high enough.

Every time there is a new token, the price will go down a bit after release, most people will end up selling quickly, that's just how it is, but with pump coming, we could see most of them recover very quickly if it doesn't crash, and using funding to keep it afloat for a day would be enough. Some do this, and they end up making a great return, some fail of course because not everyone can succeed, but the idea itself isn't really a bad one. Keeping it at a decent level is a fine idea in the end.

back then, telegram's tap to earn was considered the best airdrop because it doesn't demand any money and in essence it's risk free.
people are trashing on retrodrop and protocol interaction requirement because it requires real money but now things has changed, protocol interaction yields more reward equal to effort and money spent while these telegram tap to earn are full of grifter devs that demands money, how table have turned and I agree. requiring to buy star or donate 0.2 ton is such a cheap move with zero guarantee whether the token will be worth the money it feels like a shady scheme.

They do but not for the airdrop folks.

You're not an investor and that's why they are more focused to the real ones and so if the reward is being delayed, don't be surprised because that's very usual in airdrops.

It's likely that the price will drop and the airdrop claimants will get little to nothing. Gladly, it didn't happened for me as far as I can remember.

I just want to ask you simple question over this whole thing;

Do you by any means invested in that project?

If No then i don't see any reason for you to keep panicking over the time, because i know that airdrop are free rewards from projects owners and they can rewards their airdroper's when they feels like doing that and not to easily pay out to avoid huge dump. One thing you must know is that project owners do not just pay hunters if their investors has never traded their coin to gain at least their profits and to what they had already promised to be while listing the coin, so every project owners most fulfill their promises to let their investors gain back their invested amount before they could release the airdrop reward and the price may like drop after distribution because lot of people would go dump it on the exchange so easily.

I think for this matter is a reasonable way for them developers because it is intended not to make them lose momentum and the price of the tokens they have does not fall in a short time and this is not a new thing because a system like this always happens for airdrops even though not as a whole.

Talking about the context of the title is difficult, actually something like this is not included in the problem of whether or not the airdrop is difficult, but in the end this is only a handle for developers to convince themselves that the project they created did not immediately collapse and for them as airdrop participants, this is actually a risk in the end, Seeing from something like this, it does seem unprofitable for participants, but when the project that is emphasized has capital (for airdrop) that is being worked on, then at least I think it is still quite worth it, as for free airdrops, you just have to wait because no matter how much the results are when the work does not require capital, then it can still be considered.

You have to deal and bare with it on which there would really be those projects and its devs whose really that too greedy or dont mind about their bounty hunters on which these are also one of the keys of projects success when it comes on spreading up some exposure on such project. I did have a couple of experiences too on having those projects that paid up or giving the rewards after a week of listing.
The thing i dont really like the most is on the moment that they will really be having those vesting schedule on which it do might last up for couple of months until several years on which you would really be liking to bang up the wall because of such disappointment specially if you have grinded up too much a particular project.

The moment that you do touch up airdrops then be getting prepared for such situation on which it will really be that very normal that you do really end up with various situations or conditions
then you would really be that getting pissed if it do end up on opposite on what you are expecting. So its better that you shouldnt really be expecting something positive
on every projects that you are really that grinding on.

Project teams most especially those that have long term market plans have drive this technique to prevent the value of their coins from dumping immediately after listing and for that, they will choose to distribute airdrop tokens sometimes after the coin has been listed on exchanges so as the volume of the coin to become stable a bit before allowing airdrop Hunter to get onboard the market.
Most times airdrop allocation are so much that project teams struggle to pay them when listed if distributed pre listing and this have killed many projects potential in the past, so project teams will even go as far as paying the rewards in percentage so as to protect the market volatilities, think nothing is wrong with this in as much as the aim is to protect real investors of the coin from losing on the long term Base.

But also we have some cryptocurrency projects that deliberately withhold airdrops tokens because of the scam tendencies in those projects looking for free publicity from airdrop hunters, I have seen a few airdrops and bounty that the project team just deliberately refusing to pay airdrop Hunters are even giving them unrealistic time for their token distributions.

What they’ve just done is for their token not to lose value after listing. They know the vast majority of people that will be airdropped the token will want to sell it immediately and therefore make the token becomes worthless as soon as possible after listing. If they’re able to hold up the price for some time, even at least within that one week, they may get good investors ready to invest with them, if not so, they’ll lose value some days immediately after listing. Airdrops team already know and have seen what has happened in the past for most airdrops given to users, so they’ll be more cautious in the future and that’s what we can now see them doing with this tactical approach of disseminating airdrops to their community.

If the project is good and has strong market support, the price will not fall too badly when it is first traded. If you follow many airdrops, you may see some airdrop tokens that also increase in value after a few months of trading.

If you say that you may be an early adopter or early investor. You should also believe and care about the long-term development of the project. Not selling your tokens after a while you get them from the airdrop.

the mechanism in airdrops is different, each developer has their own way of giving rewards to their participants in different ways, it is common knowledge that we know when talking about airdrops, regarding prices and so on such as luck in airdrops, there is nothing certain and nothing that can be used as a benchmark in becoming an airdropper unless you have access to people in the development of the project.

I think it's getting easier here, but free work is getting harder to get big rewards, most of these days you have to spend money to get a bigger reward allocation, with a point system that is quite difficult to convert, and that's what I complain about more about airdrops for today.

Airdrops these days are nothing but a waste of time. When the trend of TON-based mini-bots started, people thought it was going to bring excellent opportunities for people when it comes to airdrops because the first few projects, such as Bitcoin, were very successful, and people thought the trend would continue, but soon after that, the other projects started deceiving their participants.  

Participants on X (formerly Twitter) can be seen as frustrated when a project doesn't compensate them enough for their efforts. They comment on their tweets and posts, showing their anger and frustration, but what's the point? You don't get the time back that you have spent on promoting the project.

These mini-bots and airdrops are all a waste of time unless you spend money on them and I don't think a lot of people would be willing to spend money to get something because if you don't get enough, it's a loss.

But you are not an early investor in the project. You only participated in their airdrops and they are to decide when to distribute the reward and when not to. The reason why altcoin project do that is because they don't want airdrop participants to dump the price of the token after they are listed. They usually pay airdrops when the token has already been dumped. Only a few project will pay airdrops participants before they list the token.

What do you mean becoming difficult? It has been, and the last time that airdrops are worth something is around 2017 and first quarter of 2018. After that, the landscape has change. There are a lot of scam airdrops that will require you to pay them before getting your supposedly airdrop. So for sure majority of us here could not have been in the airdrops for years. However, because of the success of Notcoin, there are a lot of tap 2 earn or the whole farming of Ton network that really put airdrop again on the spotlight. However, it has been reported that the airdrop of Hamster and Tomarket is not that successful as well like it's predecessors. So I guess it's the fatigue that some of us have experience in the last 7 months and then getting nothing makes us really frustrated and abandoned airdrops again.

The developers know very well that many of their participants are here for a free money grab, and they are going to dump it the moment they receive their allocation.
This is not something new; during my time in the bounty campaign, it took a month or even longer before they distributed their hunters' allocation. This is to first stabilize the price; its a nightmare for developers to see their token being dumped in the first day of its listing; its an industry practice way back in 2017.

Even before, airdrops have been difficult. It's easy to get airdrop tokens but getting the value was a different thing. It's not like every project out there with an airdrop feature will give out money just like that. Most airdrop right now just ends up as dust or just a speck of dirt in your wallet and sometimes it's irritating to see them even if you can do nothing about it. (there's a way but it requires spending some tx fee by sending it to another wallet.)

Anyway, I've seen lots of airdrops in Telegram but do not expect something from them. Just take the coin/token and pray that it will have some value in the future. You might need to wait for months or years before you can see it's value.

Difficult in terms of what? because if participating in airdrops is easy, the problem is, will the time and effort we put in really be worth it?
Won't it be a waste of time grinding the tasks they ask us to do?

I would probably prefer to participate in airdrops that are not related to Telegram; I would prefer protocol schemes over tap mining app games.
At least there are no requirements that require a transaction minimum of 0.2 tons or need to buy stars for eligibility. then it's not sure if the coin will really have value in the future.

Each airdrop has its own mechanism for distributing to its community, some claim after listing, some are not only 10% then the rest is vested for several months in order to keep the token stable and not experience a decline that is expected by the developer.

We as airdrop hunters who receive tokens certainly don't want a situation like this, where we only receive a portion or cannot claim after listing.
There is nothing to do but wait,

You say airdrops are getting harder?

There is an easy one.
Some are free and some require capital.

It is a general technique applied by any project to stop its token price from falling soon after listing. There is nothing wrong with what they are doing they will allow the tokens to be claimed after a week. I have seen airdrops token being sent to users but listing never happened in the past. Do not be frustrated wait for a week and you can then either sell those tokens or hold them in this bullish market.

I personally feel like project teams don't take care of their initial investors or users anymore. If I sound angry, yes, I am.

I was supposed to get an airdrop or thought I was going to get an airdrop for this sender AI project, but because the listing is today but they said the claim will be open a whole week after listing lmaooo

Personally, I don't think this is good for us. The price after that one week might not be favorable. Has something like this ever happened to you?