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If you study recent airdrops, you'll quickly notice that projects become increasingly creative, restrictive and unpredictable with their criteria:
Starknet
- Minimum Balance of 0.005 ETH.
Lower than minimum balance? Had $100k tied up in LPs, but none in your wallet? Zero Tokens.
Polyhedra
- Galxe Participants and Pandra (Early) buyers made bank
Just using their infra organically without participating in Social Tasks? Minimum Allo.
Wormhole
- Favoring Solana
- Punished bridging wrapped tokens to non-liquid chains, despite it being an option on Portalbridge (negative multiplier)
Didn't bridge to/from Solana, and only between EVM Chains? Very small airdrop, or none at all.
In Wormhole's defense, 80% of their tweets are praising Solana + it was the first Solana connector, so can't blame them.
Manta
- Galxe Participants made bank
Didn't participate in Galxe and only used the chain organically? Only participated in Manta Paradigm? Smol airdrop.
Omni
- Selective NFT Collections
- Top 10K Eigenlayer Stakers
- Galxe, but requiring a certain amount of points
You don't own a Pudgy, Milady, Remilio, didn't have $10K deposited in Eigen for 6 months+ and only did 1 Galxe Quest? Zero.
Saga
- Airdrop to Celestia Stakers, but snapshot taken very early
- Cosmos Stakers, but only for those that claimed and RESTAKED some of their $ATOM
You have 10,000 $ATOM staked but always claim your rewards and use them for cash flow or to cover living expenses? Zero.
Foxy
- Said in advance that MM Swaps will count for the airdrop
Plot twist: The AMOUNT of swaps mattered, not the amount of VOLUME you pushed. Hence, someone that swapped $10k 5x received nothing, but someone that swapped $5 x 100x qualified (while paying less overall if you factor in 0.825% MM fees)
Avail
- Node-runners were randomly selected?
- Top 50k on 4 EVM Chains
- Favoring chains nobody uses: Starknet, Poly zkEVM
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This is precisely why I always emphasize on 'covering all bases', even if some tasks might seem ridiculous at first glance (or not used at all).
It holds especially true for projects that you're actively farming for MONTHS; imagine all efforts going to waste due to it.
It also highlights how points programs can be a double-edged sword and not just 'all bad':
With points, you're almost 100% guaranteed to get something for your efforts, but they can be very underwhelming in retrospect. Furthermore, points add a layer of transparency.
Meanwhile for entirely 'points-less' projects such as Wormhole, zkSync, LayerZero, the upside is almost uncapped, but so is the downside (zero).
You might be wondering why projects don't just copy the Arbitrum playbook anymore and 'keep things simple', and the answer to that is even less complicated:
A shift from airdrop farming being just a niche to hitting mainstream adoption.
Survival of the fittest
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