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We see more and more airdrops but ...
Has any of them been a real success story yet?
I mean listed on a major exchange, with a real product/service, a major technological innovation?

Alot of Airdrop coming up this days,more reason why we need regulators in the system,to cordinate the affairs of ICO,Airdrop and all other crytocurrency issues.

there are none of them and there will be noone,
because the real function of the airdrop is to collect the money for free.
what i mean is,they're distributing the token,coin but they kept some of it for them which is quite money.
let say you will be give it 95% from its total to people,
and 5% for the developer,
if you compare it 95% and 5%,indeed it's small.
but do your own math,how much total coin and how much it will be for the dev ?
with just all of his share,he can dump it to the ground.that is why all of them did not run well.
it's all about profit and easy money

It's too early to evaluate this.

I agree that most of the ERC20 clone airdrops (usually a one time thing) are scams.

But there are airdrops that have technical fundamentals in place and run over a long period of time (e.g. DeepOnion, ByteBall). Only time will tell how these projects develop after the distribution is completed.

This airdrop trend will go down soon. It is always after one succeed airdrop (eBTC) follows a huge amount of shit airdrops. And I hope it will be ends in near time.

Not very sure but back in time I heard that new economy movement (nem) dropped lot of free coins. And even those free coins worth good right now. Now some people expect same from DeepOnion.

Airdrop does not help for the financial growth of a coin, it will pull down the value,
Butnif the amount of airdrop is just 5%, I think it couldn't make the coin down,
That depends on the roadmap of a coin and dev behind also

as far as I know, there is no successful airdrop with their project. usually, do not survive for a long time period. Moreover, the end of lately many airdrops that I think just wants to make a profit because they thought trend airdrop is on the rise. but sometimes I wonder, how can airdrop coin more valuable than ico coin.
 

Hey guys!

Help me to understand this airdrop issue.
As I see, it's kind of a lottery?

Like if you have enough BTC for signing contract, you'll recieve some random amount of this coins through the airdrop, am I right?
And as I've seen on most newly came ICOs there is a wishlist for this airdrop thing. If you haven't put your name there you're not participating in this lottery?

Thanks in advance to all the community!

The heat will drop again at present. Because someone is involved in the rules of destruction.
Most of them are airdrop information released by individuals. There's really no real innovation.
Because a token is easy to make. Unless there are truly innovative token, there is no real value for future airdrop. Just as people cook.

Pos is having a huge success at the moment. Being the first of its kind, and being airdropped, in my opinion is having a huge success.
However, if you talk about becoming rich with airdrop, perhaps no. Still there could be some other coins.

I don't think there will be a success, a coin which is airdropping all of their coins? This is not just so there will be no success.

until now I have not been able to determine whether Airdrop was aka really successful, because I just tried to join in airdrop and have not got results. hopefully the airdrop that I participated successfully.

Could anybody showed some really success airdrop cases?

bitcoin also did it, airdrop. when the first time its come, right?

There are none and that will probably persist till the end. What do you expect from some coin that gives free token to 2000+ participants, surely they cannot possibly control the market

Airdrops are free coins which are distributed to those who registered to their form. It can be their strategy to get some investors or maybe those coins are trial coins. I cannot say that it will be a successful one but there is no wrong on trying. Also, the airdrop coins can be a good coin, no one knows.

Some you don't even need to sign up for.  They take snapshots of a blockchain and distribute to accounts based on certain criteria.  I think these will have more of an impact when I can actually use the coin on it's respective platform.  It's similar to getting coupons in the mail. 

Example: SALT sends 1 SALT to a bunch of random addresses and then they get 1 year free of the basic membership. 

There are two ongoing and very interesting airdrops I have been taking part. DeepOnion and PoSToken.

Deeponion is more established where dev team has shown tons of development, huge community and a great concept, big exchanges are still to come as they are part of the roadmap. Currently in the week round number 15 and still 25 more weeks to go.

PosToken is in its earlier stages and in the third airdrop round and as you can see by their very automatized airdrop platform they are very commited to the project and also roadmap and whitepaper looks great.

Both projects have more engaged teams and communities than many ICOs I have been part of.

I don't think there was a success story by just joining airdrop, this was just free coins and who do you think will be successful with that? I would still prefer the coin coming from hardworking because that would give you success story.

Well Stellar Lumens was an airdrop - and it proved to be a huge success (mainly because they made real world deals with companies like IBM:

https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/53290.wss

yes it's a lot of airdrop out there, i joined all the airdrop, i received the token and there was also no received, i got 1 eth from the airdrop ecash, a little but not bad

Yea ,my friend made money from ecash  and it was airdrop

The old Airdrop  projects became successful because there was sincerrity then and the focus was on building something good, but most of the recent airdrops are scam, they have no tech to back up their project, it is just a pump and dump project

Yeah there were few that turned out to be a success but that happened way back, right now I have a big feeling that deeponion will turn out big but who knows. I guess you can say that only 2% out of 100% airdrop coins turned out to be successful.

+! for this. There most certainly are great airdrop projects, the past has proven that. But lot's of the eth tokens look like copycat scams.

Airdrop means free money as I google it . Is there any chance that companies that give or have free airdrop is a scam ?  ???

Well said, exactly what I was going to say.  Though perhaps not enough time has passed yet to determine whether or not all these recent airdrops will amount to anything.  If you had to judge on first impressions I would say things aren't looking good though.

At first it`s about awareness, and that works. You can`t expect a major success within one or two months/years. Btw ETH-Tokens must be called "totally premined" - a year or so ago noone would have touched such "coins".

DeepOnion is a very successful airdrop. Dev team not only ensures it's really hard for the same person to have multiple accounts but also is very active in development and creating new community ideas that pushes the project forward. It's only a 3 month old project and still many things to come.

I think it's not fair to rule out the chances to succeed of a project that airdropped it's tokens just because they gave it all for free. The real difference between a good project and a get-rich-quick scheme stands in its fundamentals, and I believe it's quite easy to spot which ones are trying to make a fortune on people's naivety and which ones are going for the extra mile.

How many established coin/ token have really had real success story! I know of decred though. It was airdropped and it rise up to $50 ! It us arguabky one of the estblished altcoin! And there is a lots of reference to it from time to from crypto leaders!

Airdrops are a way for advertising new or existing coins, that alone can not make a success story for the developers .It entails more than that.There are a lot of questions to be answered before an airdrop is tagged successful. The rate the coin it is used or invested in the crpto network will say it all. 

Remember that NEM has been an airdrop initially... so there are for sure success stories. Also those who first got Byteball now are rejoycing. And BTX is another one. But you have to wait for years before seeing if it was worth it.

Yes- airdrops may require private keys or some other personal information in order to participate. Of course, the airdrop then carries out malicious acts with the information they have been given.

In response to OP- I've been involved in several successful airdrops. However, most in earlier days of crypto. I got 25 CUBE when it launched, which I was able to sell for .005 each some years ago. DeepOnion (which I participate in) is also very lucrative (although it's realistically more of a signature campaign than an airdrop).

Every airdrop has one thing in common they using mass hysteria! This free coin has in start very good distribution and many blinded supports who for free spreads news about. In most cases we forgetting one thing those are premine coins. Second im not sure does anyone checking those wallets for the malwares? This can be so powerful hacking tool, and in this case protections won't help you.
Disappointing with those free coins will start soon, reason will be various.
This is why i think we will be back to good old coins which are almost forgotten.

If they done have airdrop and some bounty, ico and something like that promotion :) How to make everyone recognize their project?... Beside a successfull of one Altcoin have many factors. Do you know XRB (Raiblocks)?? They make a airdrop via captcha :) and they maybe very success :3

lots of airdrop out there, and also some scam, not all airdrop success, but i can profit from free airdrop, like ebtc and ecash. if it's free why not

True, Airdrop is a free coin, but i don't think it will not be successful, Airdrop like deep onion, is a successful one i think, although some of the people says that it was a scam, Scam or not its still on the market and someone still using this kind of token.

Airdrops can make you a little money but I haven't seen any of those projects last very long.  I would get out as soon as the profits looks tempting to do so.  Many of these airdropped projects are dead or require a takeover after the developer sell off all their coins/tokens. 

many Airdrop ends up being shitcoin and there is also Airdrop which already has a Roadmap. Airdrop can make a person get enough money for free. We can see that EBTC is successful and now EXRNchain keeps rising (because EXRN has a product next year). So, Airdrop with professional developers will make their Coins more valuable.

Exactly a lot of successful airdrops always starts with an introduction about the coin, a detailed roadmap,a well presented website, an informative whitepaper and a group of hardworking and trustworthy devs backing up the project. All other airdrops that will probably turn out to be useless just starts with the details of the coin, not even explaining what the coin is about or what it is for.

There are very few, usually all ends with sales of coins and entering the stock exchange ... with one task to sell even more. Very few coins have behind them what technologies that implement the square of different spheres, the rest is wrappers ...

No, still no airdrop was not successful in this sense. This is not surprising, all airdrops Ponzi scheme.

Most airdrops are a waste of time. You need to look for coins with road maps and proper products and teams. Hopefully with ICOs not raising as much money as a few months ago we will see more allocated coins for airdrops.

Why you guys scream "Regulation" for almost anything baffles me.  You think if it were that easy your governments wouldn't have done it long ago?  As if we live in a communist society where both adult and kids expect "Mummy government'' to solve all their problems..

Take the Internet as an example ... it is mostly untouched by the government(in USA atleast) in the name of regulation and it is doing just fine. Many regulations that goes on happens within internet communities eg Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp etc. If govt had regulated the internet you & I would ppobably not have facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Airdrop means free money or tokens. Nowadays there is a lot of airdrops coming day by day. i try to join all the airdrop and received token but which was not on the market(token) .
Some airdrops are valueless totally waste of time. I don't think there was a success story by just joining airdrop, they just brand their products/company. And some airdrops do spam on email..which is embarrassing .

DeepOnion is doing very well, some people have gotten over 2btc with he airdrops, now they have opened up the airdrops to be more easily joined. The community is good and friendly and they have a clear path with new developments all the time

PosToken also good, first of its kind, great airdrop interface, best i have seen. Yet to stake though, waiting drop 3 to close.

As for me, only two projects have a really significant success and cost. This is Decred and Byteball. All of them made big innovations in the world of crypto-currency.

Many will be scams/worthless but the way I see it there's no risk in giving out your addresses and performing some social media tasks. I'm willing to take the time to sign up for a no risk/possible reward scenario.

Some such projects ask you to indicate your email address. Then you can be hacked. In the dark side of the Internet, email address are being sold for some kind of criminal activity.

I just sold my EXRN airdropped coins for $1,500 after completely forgetting about them.
Does this answer your question? I'd call this quite successful!

I heard one success case about airdrop, after one year people who had these coins were able to sell them for 8000 dollars...