Topic: How to farm airdrops on crypto? (Read 553 times)

Well back then crypto wasn’t as well known as it is right now. So projects really had to go the extra mile just to get some people to look their way let alone be interested to hold their token or coin. Now on the other hand the desparation for the lack of a better word is on the investors.

After seeing the success of other projects they are hoping to recreate that so they will do anything especially if it doesn’t really cost much such as an airdrop to acquire as much of a coin they can acquire.

This is why it is still important to do your own research instead of just blindly accepting everything. Not all airdrops will actually have any value.

Gone are the days the those projects will really be sending out those coins/tokens and they would really be spending up for the gas fee. Usually the airdrops as of todays on where those bounty hunters or airdroppers are the ones who would really be needing up to claim. The only issue i do see this kind of set up is on the time that you are dealing with erc20 based airdrops on which we know that gas fees are insane.
This is something that puts you up on being skeptical on claiming it out since you dont know whether it would really be worth or really just that an expense additional for you.
Farming airdrops now is really that hassle nowadays compared into those previous cycles or old years where you do just simply make some sign up on google form then you are eligible on getting one
but now then you would really be doing tons of tasks for you to be getting eligible on which i could say that it do really sucks.

Not really. There are a lot of airdrops done through Galxe or Zealy or both. And a lot of airdrops that are connected with early testnet participation.

Myself I am currently taking part in Prom Testnet Campaign. Prom Network already has its token and it is listed on various exchanges, but no staking is required whatsoever. You just need to do basic testnet tasks: claiming test tokens from the faucet, minting and buying NFTs, sending and receiving transactions, etc.

The more often you do it (preferably to stay consistent and to it daily) the higher chance of your success to be granted a Delegate role. Delegates will receive an airdrop of tokens. Important part: these tokens will not be for external use. Which means they can't be transferred or sold. But they can be used for governance purposes and will allow to partake in a share of the resulting income

The thing i like most - with stacking you are always competing against wallets larger than yours. But the way Prom is doing it, only the active people will get the prize. And when they do, they will not be able to dump it on the market crashing the price, but will have to use it as leverage to earn their future income. I like the idea a lot, that's why I'm trying my best.

So as you can see airdrops really come in different types and methods.

Maybe needed some little fund for gas fee or claiming. There are some airdrops that literally gives users free rokens for their task or joining the project. Its quite unusual to see that even tokens are drop to registered address though but still some do it. But majority needed claiming on which you need to spend but this is probably a little money only especially if its on L1 network that utilize small gas fee.

staking on bitcoin certainly has its ++ most investors often do this staking.
because behind the staking there is a surprise in the form of a prize that they get and that is very pleasant in my opinion

That's not completely true. There are airdrops where minting the project's NFTs is a prerequisite to booking a place for the airdrop. Some projects can give you a testnet token to pay for the minting while there are some that will demand you send your own hard earned money to get a native token to mint it. Minting of NFTs is gradually becoming a buzz this day just like mining and earning apps are gaining ground too. This crypto industry is filled with uncertainties. Whoever believed there would come a time that projects would utilize the Bitcoin Blockchain to run their own projects – BRC20 projects.

these days only very few select project give rewards to testnet though recently the one that give massive airdrop is dymension it gives testnet user and node runner massive airdrop but overall the newer trend right now is that staking ethereum and get rewarded accordingly based on the point gathered this has happened to swell, eigenlayer, blast, manta and so on and they have good airdrops reward for those that participate into the airdrop staking and they also stated that the points gathered are for airdrop for real.
so if OP can shell out some money he can follow the staking program offered by the projects but be sure to see the legitimacy first because sometime scam can slip in, make sure that the project truly backed by reliable venture capitals.
otherwise it might pose risk of turning out to be rug pull.

Which airdrop are you referring to here? No all airdrop require money to participate in them. Some only need you to perform some tasks on their platform. Running paid airdrops doesn't guarantee you that you will surely receive it. One just needs to keep trying until you make it to your dream in this space.

good, but to do this requires capital and the amount of capital required varies. Apart from that, participating in this kind of airdrop is usually a little complicated and I don't think this airdrop is suitable for beginners. but in the end participating in this kind of airdrop will give you satisfying results.

but rumors can also be used as fomo by influencers, when I opened Twitter I accidentally read someone's thread that said a project was going to hold an airdrop so he revealed everything that had to be done.
The next day when I opened my Twitter again, I saw almost all the news for me about influencers saying similar but different projects and maybe there are several different ways, is what they said true, or are they just looking for engagement?

Huh are you really suggesting to study potential airdrop methods? Well I can disregard your advice based on my judgement plus its works for me. Also whats the problem if thats taking part everywhere. I like it if there are more ways to expand my potential earn and gain from those. Yes dubious projects can earn big profits questions are why and where those resides. But thanks for dropping by though.

The airdrop I received turned into money, even though it was small, I got it for free. Don't underestimate the crypto world, there are many unexpected things. For example, if you get an airdrop that has a small value, it could increase by up to 100x the next day. There are many coin projects that can be significant only for certain things. many miracles beyond your expectations

some pretty interesting giveaways from fairspin, as i think the bottom has too simple terms. If you compare with other projects, then of course there is a difference

It is very surprising how some of you have been in crypto for some time now and yet still very blind to what is happening around you. You seem to be speaking like a newbie in crypto even though your account suggests otherwise. It will be much better if people like you don't make comments about airdrops when clearly you have zero knowledge about them.
I will suggest you go do a little research about airdrops and how it has been giving 7 figures to participants, more than what you will earn in 7 years of signature campaign.

New projects conduct airdrops during the process of token sales, which is a fairly common guideline. But there they benefit more because they want to engage in a lot of promotion activities and many people who come from airdrop are then encouraged to invest in their project. They power their market by promising to give away just a few tokens to everyone. Besides some bad projects who distribute million tokens only to airdrop participants but most of those tokens are worthless.

I advise you not to study anything, as you will spend a lot of time on it. There are websites and telegram channels that track all airdrops, if possible, you need to take part everywhere, because sometimes the most dubious project can make a big profit.

Its quite hard to compile but since I am doing different activity from free to some of the active retroactive, I indeed compiling it to my telegram gc and sharing some alpha there. Alright I can dm you my gc username on telegram, just say so if youre that interested. Oh Ive checked your profile Kabayan.

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Anyone interested can dm me and will share my telegram gc of airdrops you can just follow that if you like to do some task for airdrops. Mostly are free and I also posted there some early bird alpha or OG role for some new projects.

There are so many amazing Crypto projects we can mine and end result everyday waiting for when they would be finally launched so that we can get our own shared of the mined coins. This time around we don't need to bothered about not having the funds to invest in Bitcoin or whatsoever. What we need to do is to be relaxed and work on how we can benefits from mining and doing airdrops.

When placing coins on staking, the amount of profit that we will receive from airdrop will depend on the price at which we purchased these coins. After all, everyone understands that the API will be different for those who received, for example, TIA coins as airdrop, from those who bought them on the market at a price of $2.2 or $20. So it may happen that buying coins for staking at the current price will not bring profit, but loss.

This may not be easy for skeptics and newcomers as most of these NFTs come with a price for minting them. Those who haven't made money from airdrops aren't likely to commit because of the charge. They will see it as a scam. We won't blame them as such. There's enough scam and fraud going on in this industry at this time to last everyone three meals a day, so to say.

Yes, staking is ok. It provides passive earning. However, it depends on what's staked and on what platform it's staked. Those who are interested in staking should do that on veritable platforms they know are close to being perfectly secured. For instance, staking BNB on Binance launchpool for me seems a better option against impermanent loss than staking a relatively unknown token on the same Binance. Again, since the new guy got on the saddle at Binance after CZ stepped down; launchpads have become almost a weekly thing there. Investors are cashing out from it. That's a good one.

Staking with Atom coin, Injective or INJ coin, Tia, PYTH coin have large potential to earn airdrop in the future, beside with retroactive airdrop like swap on the new dapp launching  I think very worth staking with above coins list and has opportunity to earn airdrop later. Some time mint NFT get chance to earn coins airdrop but need patience when airdrop launching not in the short time, but staking coins worth than spend fund for swapping coins on new dapp or mint NFT without any potential nft worth in the future or not.
Can unlock with staking coins later with price increasing up we can earn much profit, but have minimum amount for eligible airdrop reward if want get staking coins way.

@cryptoaddicthie if this request will not bothered you, can you compile all your active airdrops or potential airdrops in one thread or even on a telegram channel to be easy notified. I’ve been following some of your thread but it’s hard to catch up when I have other errands to do.

I’m really interested on the current airdrop trend especially on the Aptos, Sui and other big airdrop that I miss just because I’m late to notice. I have a chance to get Celestia airdrop before by holding Atom but I prematurely sold my holdings before the snapshot just because I’m not aware of this airdrop. 

Yes Ive seen the trend also on doing mobile mining and its happening again. Before its a hype too and become dead and now they return. The only one I am doing now is notcoin and I think thats gotta be a good one if ever they launch a token. For someone who did a good due diligence isnt gonna be hard to know if the project will launch a token or not.

There are lots of cryptocurrency apps we can mine and finally went from them when they are finally launched.
This is one of the ways we can earn rom airdrops. There are so many ways we can earn from airdrops by mining, staking, and participating in activities that would guarantee us a chance to qualify for the airdrop sharing. All these are ways we can earn without fullinh investing in airdrop projects that are not yet launched in the market.

Well I didnt say its easy but I cant tell you that its also hard. There are different ways on how to search a good project, slip on some github, social media and some probably insider on your folks who knee something. Digging into nrw projects is the best stsrt everyone can do and you analyze whether they will be a good one in the future.

And you think that is an easy thing to do ? Well, to read the docs, doing the research for each project individually is a full time job, and even then you can only do it 1 project in a day or may be a couple of days, and still then the ambiguity remains. Crypto world is full of wonders but still to grab a good opportunity, you have to be lucky along with doing research.

By doing something in domain buying, staking and NFT holding, you may get airdrop. If you see many big airdrops in the past year, if you meet some criteria, those who missed it, don't regret it. Airdrop may come in the future.  If we work we can get Airdrops but my suggestion is to do some work keeping an eye on project Gular which has not launched the token yet.

Due to hype on cosmos many are staking INJ, ATOM, OSMO and TIA. Typically airdrop from staking are all goods especially if the project is a high foundation and even some middle tier projects. I think Ive seen new lurking drop for atom aether will drop 40% for atom stakers and the recent alt layer airdrop from staking tia. I think this year will be year of modular and cosmos drops.

That is because any free-to-do tasks are doable by everyone and gets saturated really fast, and then there are airdrop farmers who further dilute the reward pool with multi-accounting, taking more than their fair share.

I'm not saying there are no farmers involved where there are real dollar interactions counted, it's just that requiring real money excludes free farmers, and obviously there are more free farmers than paid because free farmers have only to make effort, and if you have lots of free time there is nothing to lose from your side.

So it's good idea from project's perspective to reward only users who used real money, it doesn't solve farmer's problem completely but solves to some extent.

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I think 'potentially' word should be there in bolded statement, i.e $10 to $20 fee for exchange for a potentially a bigger reward.

Requirements to be eligible for airdrop are getting complex, projects will rarely reward you for mere couple interactions or for interactions with low amounts, retrodrop's are all luck, you spend for interactions on 10 projects then may be one of them will reward you. If you don't have extra money lying around, it's better to stick with free projects, and try to get starting funds from there.

Or to stick with projects having probability of retrodrop, but your funds stay safe, for example, staking protocols. $JITO is prime example of this and other is EigenLayer but to stake there gas fees were expensive since it's on Ethereum. Though, Eigenlayer stakers gonna recoup easily, because other projects are accounting Eigenlayer stakers for their airdrop's criteria.

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There have been plenty already on Cosmos.

I also see that the Cosmos network is now widely rumored to be getting an airdrop because of the many new projects joining and becoming a trend such as INJ and ATOM.
Hopefully there will be an airdrop for this chain.

If you carefully study the project and the investors, then you can with a high degree of probability choose a legitimate project that will not be afraid to entrust your money to. And if we see Sequoia, Binance Labs, Andreessen Horowitz, a16z and other top funds among the investors, then you can safely trust the team of professionals who invested in this project.

there are still plenty of airdrop that can be done for free basically the testnet testing and so on, you just need to interact with the blockchain within testnet and you will be awarded some NFT or something at the end of the stage in the main blockchain which you can sell when main blockchain is up but don't expect anything big for something free like that most of the juicy reward are usually right now require money as you said and sometime it isn't measly, the staking program usually erquire as low as 0.25 ETH like what happened with manta, for other platform it might be higher.
but its honestly kinda logical considering that the devs just try to filter out as much sybil as they can since they are the reason why sometime giving out many free reward to the public out of free task could cause the coin to be hoarded by some individual that farms.
also, yes it is a concern that scam dev might take advantage the "paid" retroactive to steal people money but usually people aren't gonna put any money to the devs that aren't known or aren't backed by some big investment company anyway.

Most of the "decent" airdrops require you to do X thing in order to be eligible for their airdrops and nowadays you need to spend some to actually interact with their platforms. Some of the free one is already dead and most of them are just a scam for free promotion so it's just not really a wise thing to do anymore.

I'm just afraid that the scam airdrops would use this kind of airdrops to actually make them look "legit" but at the end they will steal your money. Just like other successful thing in crypto.

Mmm. Then I am talking about retrodrop. I know it very much as airdrop and that has been the name. When Uniswap gave UNI tokens worth over hundreds of dollars, they called it an airdrop. I guess it should have been defined as a retrodrop since it’s for early adapters. But looking at the Binance article, nothing there mentions money. You simple do the task and get the token. Staking and all of that shouldn’t be seen as airdrop because you’ll put in money and STAKE the money.

I agree with you, your point highlights the importance of thorough research before participating in any project in the crypto space. Analyzing tokenomics, community incentive programs, key features on the platform, and support from major projects can help investors and participants evaluate the potential and credibility of a proposed project.

   Then I just noticed that the form or style of the airdrops today is different, because of the ones that can be said to be legit now. You can guess which tokens we think will conduct airdrops in the future.

   Just like with SUI, many people thought that there would be airdrops, so many crypto investors tried to put their money into Sui, and in the few months that they have been working and using the platform, so far no airdrops have been made. So it's a waste of time and effort because they didn't get what they expected here. So that's the risk now in hunting legit airdrops right now. But for farming or stakes, that's fine for me.

That's a fair point and I agree. It's always best to stick to what works and Metamask does work and it hasn't have any critical vulnerability affecting its wallet directly. I still use it along with Rabby wallet especially for EVM development activities and I have no issues with it. I only like Rabby due to how streamlined it makes interacting with DeFi protocols.

In the end, as long as it works, all good.

Well there are really some for free. What is $10 to $20 dollar fee for transaction in exchange for a bigger reward? I think you are aiming for literally full airdrop but spending on gas fee for claiming or what is such responsibility of the users. You already given a free tokens called airdrop you wont expect the project to give it all even the process or cost to received it.

Thank you for elaborated response, there are definitely perks of using Rabby, and appears ledger hack helped them get some limelight for good.

I don't sign transaction on MM that show unreadable content, so it keeps me away from most scams, also I use HW for significant funds and spare funds on MM to interact with airdrops and stuff like that,

For now, I'll stick with MM, until something horrible happens to them and I'm forced migrate. I have no worry for funds since there are meager funds there.

As a rule, many participants are confused in terms and do not see the difference between a classic airdrop and a retrodrop. I bring to your attention an article from Binance, which clearly describes the differences between these airdrops - https://www.binance.com/en/feed/post/838305

Firstly, Rabby has some of the best security out of the box. When you want to interact with a function/method on chain, there's no way to know the function you're interacting with if you're using metamask just based on the calldata.  What I mean is that, when you're interacting with a function in a contract, metamask only shows you the entire bytes in hexadecimal format which includes the function 4-byte function selector and the calldata input. Only EVM-savvy users can use a tool like Foundry to decode the bytes in order to get the 4-byte selector of preferred function. In Rabby, they decode the calldata for you and you can immediately see the function you're interacting with is indeed correct and then they run a simulation on that transaction for you so you can see an example result before you even sign the transaction. For instance, if you're doing a swap, it immediately does a simulation and show you what could happen if you actually sign the transaction.



TLDR: Rabby decodes calldata bytes and show you what you're signing so you can make a well informed decision. Metamask doesn't. It's called "blind signing" — you don't know what you're signing until transaction has been executed and there are repercussions, if any.

Secondly, Rabby has the best UX. You can seamlessly interact with dapps on different networks especially if you're dealing with an interoperability protocol or bridge and requires you to switch networks. Rabby does the switch in the background. For Metamask, you have to explicitly open the extension and switch the network.

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Also, the hack you're talking about is their smart contract swap feature, not the wallet itself.

A couple of weeks ago, I shared the the Ledger vulnerability for web3 dapp connectors. Rabby showed users a notice about connecting plus before signing, it warned users that the transaction was to allow maximum allowance of tokens for spending.

It has got lengthy so I'll do here. You can keep using Metamask, it's still a good choice, you can try using Foundry with it to decode the 4-byte selector to verifying if you're interacting with correct functions prior to signing.

May be now Airdrop definition is changes, whatever i think now there are no Airdrop will be free, of course you have to spend some money as like 10$-20$ in their platform as like some transaction in their mainnet it's required mostly new platform then you can be eligible that's is okay but it’s unacceptable to stake big amount and personally i am ignoring such projects Airdrops.

I have been using Metamask since I started using Ethereum and it works for my needs so I stick with it, I have heard about Rabby albeit for wrong reasons cause they were hacked (you can read about it here). What is your reasoning behind suggesting Rabby over MM anyway?

Thanks for the appreciation but I am also indeed sharing these to know others thought too. I dont know all of things related to airdrop and sharing is rhe best way to learn and cope with other people who are probably expert on such activity. You need to learn more things as you progress in this journey and avoid such scammers along the way. Be mindful of potential scam especially on onchain trasanctions.

staking is somewhat the new requirement now. a few years ago, those airdrops were unannounced, they are just surprising people and making people regret why they didn't make a transaction on UNISWAP but now they are trying to make people invest first and you have to claim as well which iff you miss claiming then its lost.

$DUST token will be doing airdrop but seems too long that i've never heard of any update but they are going to distribute to users who are staking ADA.

Yeah, I remember the two and there's more. That's why people are now getting crazier with the airdrops nowadays and it doesn't matter whether they're no longer free because that's with in hopes of a higher return when the tokens are distributed and they become tradable. That's the cycle nowadays and that's why it's more than airdrops these days and it's like more of rewarding tasks with some capital that's need to get involved too.

I will say about airdrop farming in crypto is that yes, there are a lot of airdrops out there right now that have staking, that have volume, that have to use their platform. some of them take a lot of investment, some of them take a little investment, but the chances are very high that they pay and when someone gives an airdrop on the bases of different criteria they give a very large amount of profit to their users. Besides, there are also free , but the free is not very useful, anyone who have fund they easily join in investment Airdrop.

Yeah if its stablecoin but Im not supplying stabelcoin thats why. Maybe if I had stablecoin staked then theres no problem at all but the volatility might really hit you bad if you borrowed so much of % of your funds. Anyway, hope we could grab some good juicy airdrops from this one I am thinking their launch could be at the end month of quarter 1 so technically we still have time to collect some points. Probably by that time the tvl would be nearing 500 to 700m.

Yes, I have already collected quite a lot of points and I hope that each point will be equal to $1)) You need to reconsider your attitude to the Looping method, using stablecoins for staking, you practically cannot lose your money, but at the same time you can increase the amount of staking by 3 times and, accordingly, get 3 times more points. Since Kinza Finance allows you to borrow in the same stablecoin that you are staking, you will have no problems. However, you should keep a close eye on the Health Factor.

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Posting referral codes will be considered a violation of the rules of the forum and, accordingly, such a message will be deleted, besides, you can get a ban for 7 days.

Some project developers encourage airdrop participants to stake their tokens in order to earn more. That is why they manipulate people and the question is if they are really on aid to fulfill their promise or just to prevent the sudden collapse of the project knowing most scenarios before that when airdrop coins have been released, the drops came next.

And this is not wonder why many people just ignore them because the results are absolutely the same, they'll turn into scams in the end. Because even if the project looks promising but if there is no use case, it still fails.

In my opinion, airdrops are a matter of luck, and even though we take part in an event held by a project, we don't necessarily do an airdrop, but indeed project events that don't announce airdrops are highly doubtful, but sometimes if we are active we can get an airdrop and we can get a good return. worthy.

But usually those that have decent returns are active retro airdrops, and indeed in this airdrop there are certain conditions that you have to spend money to get points in order to have proper qualifications to get a large amount of airdrop. As OP described the events that must be participated in, projects that make announcements usually have more competitors.

But you need to remember that each project has its own method, or is varied and many are scams, so you have to be smarter in looking at the projects you participate in, especially those that require spending money.

Oh so long already. So how much TVL when you enter or supplied for kinza? Right now its sitting arounf $130m probably you already gained a lot of points for this right? Im not using the borrow funds as I often forgot it Im afraid I would be liquidated haha if I didnt see that.

Btw can we post codes here for their ongoing referral since its a code not a referral link? Might as well be used by others here who would want to enter and join.

Kinza Finance is indeed one of the best projects incubated by Binance Labs and, accordingly, we can expect that we will see this project in the Binance exchange launchpad, which will necessarily entail a rapid increase in the price of the token. I have been using this service regularly for 3 months, placing all my free coins on staking using the Looping method, which consists in placing newly borrowed funds back on staking.

Honestly doesn’t sound like airdrop to me anymore. Haha. Airdrops are meant to be free and not something you have to stake any money for. If you stake, it then becomes rewards and not airdrop. So even if it requires a tiny amount, it’s not an airdrop anymore. I think the definition of airdrop is beginning to change because it wasn’t always so.

Why don’t I just use the money to invest in the project at once, maybe buy their presale?

In last few days I was looking for the help in airdrops, so I find this thread helpful as now I can do something for my journey into crypto and airdrops from here easily, hopefully I will try to post few things after having involved into this which will help me and also helpful for the other members.

OP doing good job as he is updating his experience and other things related to investment and airdrops, hopefully many others will also join this and make things better for themselves and others as well which are looking for having some extra income after doing tasks like these.

Yes like in the case of some Binance backed project defis.

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Btw I participated on Kinza Finance, a project supportef by Binance, have a referral code for 10% boost on your alloc if you bind the code. If anyone wanted to invest or supply some asset like stablecoin or bnb. I appreciate if you would use my ref code. Kindly dm me if interested.

You need to buy all those coin to stake and be careful on that because sometimes market volatility can trap you in a project for the long term. Just look at the current TIA price, don't you think its overpriced right now? The current price is driven by airdrop hype and there is a high chance that at some points there will be a massive dump in the price, and recent investors will be trapped in TIA for a long term. I think you can do task to increase your interaction with different smart contracts within the network so you don't need to hold those coin for a long time.

This type of early participation in the project seems to be the most preferable for those who do not have a lot of free time. But at the same time, he is the highest paid in the distribution of airdrop. Therefore, even if you do not have a large amount of money, you need to allocate at least a minimum amount for staking.

The most important thing to note about airdrops these days is you need liquidity to effectively farm and earn a reasonable amount (5-6 figures most likely  ).
From the task listed by the @op, mainnet activities are key to farm airdrop, if you are not ready to spend funds to bridge, swap, stake, lend/borrow, and provide liquidity, you can hardly qualify for most of these airdrops.
It is about spending more to get more.

Yes thats one thing to do but there are still other platform that prefers task and activity to issue airdrop and not just by staking. Galxe task proven that aside from staking eligibility.

But this is one of my favorite airdrop style since you dont get to do a stuff to get it just by holding and staking it.

Every team behind a new project would do anything to promote their projects and hire a strong community to help them develop. We're not here to jeopardized the chances we have seen in the system, we exist everyday to try out new projects in the system, I'm never underestimating any project because the slightest possibility of a solid project can happen. You want to make coop cash from the market? It's simple, actively anticipate in new airdrops projects and ensure you complete the tasks involved, and most importantly, the project must have a solid roadmap which is the evidence of good promising future.

I prefer to stake on several chains that are trending, such as atom, osmo, tia for now.
and I also feel that some ways of getting airdrops have changed from a few years ago.

Yes this one belongs to the part of airdrop where staking is invovled. A lots of good projects will likely to have airdrops with atom stakers.

If you knew Galxe Campaign there are plenty of newly launch projects there. Maybe needed some gas fee to convey some task or to even get your reward via claiming but thats only that.

Some drops require supplying funds or contributing to TVL well I guess its not that of a hassle for someone who have funds.

Oh yes. For airdrop hunters if token is the priority then make a strong conviction on which one youll do cause some might end up nothing have tokens.

thats true, its possible that we are just doing free work for the devs, sometime some devs are trying to take advantage because its free marketing and free testing by the community with no guarantee of rewards at all.
thats why some devs refuse to say whether they are planning for an airdrop or not. i remember back then if im not mistaken some L2 if not L1 devs are refusing that they gonna have airdrop but eventually they make an airdrop.
i guess the appeal of creating our own token with having some share of token on our wallet is appealing but overall for any disciplined airdrop hunter out there that are so eager to get airdrop, don't be surprised if some of them are just don't have plan to create one.

Airdrop distribution is not a prerequisite for a project, even if it does not have its own token. It is necessary to study the roadmap, it is possible that there is no provision for airdrop distribution at all. But even if airdrop is provided there, in most cases you will have to wait a very long time, for example, the Arbitrum blockchain was launched in 2021, and airdrop was distributed only 2 years later.

airdrops nowadays also require staking, but indeed there are some retroactive airdrop that only requires us to interact with smart contract but overall trend has shifted and staking is becoming more and more prominent, latest meme airdrop requiers staking, blast, manta, eigenlayer, and so on they all require staking certain amount of ETH and sometime the requirement is 1 ETH, might be difficult for those with lack of capital also there are concern that the whales are getting most of it, but I personally find it to be easier to follow just stake and thats it, no need to waste time doing some random thing that doesn't even guaranteed to be bountiful later.
but its still worth to do some retroactive by using the blockchain if certain blockchain hasn't released their token because there's always chance that they gonna release it later and some share of the token are gonna be distributed for airdrop for the sake of increasing the holders.

Perhaps some events from projects like OP, ARB,... have attracted a lot of attention and directed users to search for opportunities through similar criteria. I can feel that the projects behind it like L0, zksync, starknet, Linea, BASE, Blast,... are having a lot of active people. And it is also important to understand that competition, as well as more difficult criteria. But it's easy to speculate the big reward is the reason for the extra attention.

Although I don't pay much attention to free airdrops, I have to admit that during the bull cycle there are a lot of these, most of which come from social interaction tasks. But it must also be said that this type of airdrop space is quite garbage, and is often sh*tcoins, which may be a quality project that also exists but only encourages small rewards to users. Most recently I've been following $MEME farming, and when it comes to harvest, verification by spending still takes place to apply, but nonetheless airdropping everything is both easy and competitive.

Most of altcoins do not really get past the initial pump however there really would be no loss to still get some airdrops especially if its just for free

Probably a lot of these airdrops won’t really get value but if it does then consider yourself lucky doing a few tasks wouldn’t hurt but if a project requires you to deposit a specific amount of money then better check the project again because it might be a scam

Well, it's a good thing DeFiLlama has an airdrop section where we can see tokenless projects that can be farmed: https://defillama.com/airdrops

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While we are up and about trying to find the next bewt project to farm in order to qualify for an allocation, don't forget to take the security of your wallet account very seriously — if you're not using Rabby wallet already, get it in place of Metamask.

Finally, don't forget to only approve tokens you're spending. Do not give max approvals ro contracts to spend your tokens so that if those contracts get controlled by a malicious attacker, they won't be able to transfer more than you set.

One of the platforms I am using to check some potential projects that will do some airdrops is DefiLlama: https://defillama.com/
They have a page which they will list some potential projects to do airdrops and also the most I am using is I am checking some chains, specific chain and it will list projects with their TVL and there you will also see if they have already tokens or not, then that's the time I am starting to participate in the project.

But be careful because not all listed or you can see in this platform are legit, so be careful also and double check everything.

What of some airdrop that come in form of donation to assist their project? In this case, they make form and ask you to send a particular token to an address and also summit your address as you fill the form. Although they may be more risky but I have a friend that did one not long and receive good drop from it. Can we classify this as a very bad method to get airdrop? Some airdrop also ask you to do some daily task for points. Then token in form of airdrop are given base on point gathered.

That's true, most of the airdrops before are for free but this time, I guess that change is truly constant because these projects are also requiring the airdroppers to do some tasks and that's become a common thing nowadays. That's the reason why I am actually looking for airdrops that are for free without these much tasks but that's also the basis on how much you'll get if you contribute to their bridge, liquidity, etc. Well, it became a standard now.

Tokenless project? How easy is that to come by? For me I think that it doesn’t matter whether the project has a token already or not. Just find a newly launched project. One thing I know about them is that they are always looking to promote theirselves, so airdrops, giveaways, and such, are common to them. Some of them even reward community members for engagement on their socials. Idk how effective buying domain names are but I’ve seen a couple of people do that so maybe it works?

I want to be more clear about some forms of spending money and some forms being free.

But in general, most of the projects that are considered potential airdrops for the community now have criteria that most of us only speculate about, and indeed, in your opinion, they are quite enough for everyone to meet many criteria.

I also quite like staking ATOM, because it brings quite clear airdrop benefits, along with the dynamism of L2, there are also many choices to be made and hopefully receive airdrops in the near future.

This is only my opinion.

Find a tokenless project and research about their platform. Take note on the tokenomics on their docs. See if theres a community incentive rewards/airdrops of any allocation. This is one thing to note before doing anything.

Do these common task that probably present on their platform as they are still prelaunch their project.

-Bridging and swapping
- Adding liquidity
- Voting for proposals usually in cosmos eco or dao
- Minting NFTs releases
- Lending / Borrowing of funds
- buying domain names
- Staking some possible tokens like atom inj and tia.

And viola AIRDROP it is when the time they launch their project. How to spot if its good? Usually it is followed by big projects or dapps on Twitter and some OGs.