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These days lot of users farming airdrops using multiple wallets. So the criteria will be difficult for this year.

2020 - Airdrops for all. No criteria
2021 - $10K-30K per account. It has some criteria. (Eg: DYDX, Paraswap, Uniswap, 1Inch)
2022 - less complicated criteria(Eg: Aptos, Optimism)
2023 - some complicated criteria(Eg: Arbitrum). But this is like 2021. (Starknet coming soon)
2024 - We will waiting for the very complicated criteria due to a lot of users. Otherwise, the allocation will be small. (Eg: Zksync, Layerzero)

Seems you still update with current airdrop information, did you participated in Blueshark airdrop have been distribution but depend on your level account or mission completed. Some participants I saw get reward above 1k of SUI coin because they are on the top rank position and the same with your criteria about airdrop not for all user.

Right now almost airdrop reward not all participants, they are limiting participant depend with how completed quest and some time an airdrop rule depend with how many referral do you have. I believe in 2024 will get difficult rule for participating in airdrop exactly after many airdrop launching as retro and need spent fees for qualifying as airdrop reward participants.

Looks like a complete airdropper here ?

have full details of your airdropped ? have you earned and joined all of those who mentioned?

sorry Am not a Airdrop fan so i am waiting to what will come in in 2024, because also I am not a social media active so i can not perform to what required by the airdrop.

The number of users who expect to receive airdrop from these projects has already reached 4 million and it will be very difficult to distribute coins to everyone, the number of which would be satisfied with the hunters. Accordingly, the selection criteria will be the strictest and those who have completed several transactions certainly will not receive anything.

Airdrop this year are more complicated but still many hunters are doing it since its a free money and they already get used to it.

It’s actually good to see that every year there’s a big aidrops that will shock the market and I’m sure next year will be more exciting as many expects bull market next year.

thats just how it is, the more people are participating into the airdrops, surely the devs trying to filter only few of them so that the rewards remain worthy while also making the participants contributes more through the complicated qualification, moreover the fact that many of these project doesn't even bother to disclose their qualifications beforehand meaning its part of their marketing strategy so that the users that trying to participate into their project will try to finish every task like minting and interacting with smart contract as much as they can since its all still unrevealed criteria so they definitely want to increase their chances.
thats what bother me most, moreover if the criteria is so complex yet the reward allocated is so small, its like such a waste of time, that why this kind of strategy of making people left confused by the fact that they intentionally by intentionally not showing it just feels like they are taking advantage of the people.

The metrics used by the project developer to determine which users are eligible for the airdrop will always be changed, as they have their own matrics. It's still quite impossible to predict it accurately but the only thing that i know since a long time ago if user who used the platform or blockchain developed by the developers will always be eligible for the airdrop. That is becoming even more complicated caused by there might be a points mechanism to be implemented in the future of airdrop.

I saw that some dexes were airdropping its users through use similiar metrics like what arbitrum did but it's still remain unpredictable. Just always actively using the platform and we will always be eligible for the airdrop.
The only key to receiving an airdrop from the developers is always actively using their platforms. that's it.

I remember the early days of this airdrop, where you can receive a lot of airdrops it does not matter if it is shitcoin or not because some of them are worthy and can make you quite good money.
Over time, airdrop has improved especially these days, where sometimes you can't cheat anymore. They already have strong way to identify if someone is cheating, like this sybil address thing.

actually not just this year but since 2020 when airdrop stars to be more complicated and when the team is asking too  much requirements specially in their social media terms.
comparing to the years before that when air drop hunters are just doing almost nothing but gaining their shares , and also there are so much cheating happening.
but at least now becoming more realistic and legit not like in the past that most are just easy to join but scamming is what we can get.

Q Blockchain has an incentive program launching this month. It's likely to be as profitable as the Uniswap drop. They have a waitlist on their twitter page. I already signed up but it's cool if you don't, more APR for me.

Having lots of users is fine.  Bottom line there should be as much users as possible in using and testing these different projects and protocols.  But the problem is there are users who want to cheat the airdrop by making multiple accounts and some even hire the services of click farms to game a lot of volume.  :/  And what dev team wants their network to have a lot cheaters who don't use or won't really care about the project?

Anyway, Layer Zero is working with Nomis to filter their network from bots and cheats.

You could check your eligibility with Nomis if you're grinding for a Layer Zero airdrop.

https://nomis.cc/layerzero

thats true the sybil method of identifying cheaters are quite great ways to keep the reward allocated for real participants from being sliced away like that.
moreover more and more airdrops nowadays are enforcing stricter qualification in which gonna force many of their participants to do all the task available the only thing that they did wrong is that they rarely
reveal the real allocated token for airdrops and early participants that has finished the task, imagine doing all these complicated task for a whole year and get rewarded a dollar.
this is why allocated token for airdrop should be revealed early.

You are missing ICO era 2017-'18 where there were lot of airdrops, literally shitcoins, still they would fetch you few hundred to thousands dollars.

it was not 'no criteria', it was very simple requirement like even one trade on dex would make you qualify. Uniswap was the one starter of retrospective airdrop trend and you only had to trade/lp there once to be eligible.

That's a good summarization of the airdrops that has happened for all of these years. Soon, I think that these projects will be wiser around.

As you've mentioned about having some balance and criteria, I think that many of them will have that for the next trend so it's not actually a new trend.

It will become a repetitive trend wherein only those actual risk takers will be rewarded with the amounts they put on their projects.

thats true i feel like in 2017-2018 its golden era of airdrops, even though year after that there are indeed so many airdrops thats coming from really good project and as a result there are many massive rewards from these project but it cant be denied that in 2017 following airdrop is so dead simple, added with the fact that there are so many forked coins that just giving away their coins making people rich for no reason at all and to be eligible just need to hold some coins and thats it you can get instant thousand of dollars from these forked coins.
right now most airdrops are just for the purpose of getting free marketing by the devs even more so the shitcoin devs, they quite literally taking advantage of creating airdrop so that they don't even need to pay for marketing and call it a day.
really different compared to back then.

Very rarely do we hear statements from the team that the work of early users will be rewarded, and as a rule, only weak projects that have a very small budget do this. As for major projects, here we see that the team denies the upcoming airdrop until the last day. So there is no guarantee that there will be an airdrop, not a sale, in which you will be given the right to buy a certain number of coins, as it was with SUI.

I am not sure what "No criteria" airdrops you are referring to, but all the airdrops i've seen had some criteria. At minimum it was wallet activity, where you hold some coins, or used some platform with your wallet. Playing with NFTs payed lot for me in airdrops later on. Especially with platforms that are already having users like eth can be rewarded just by holding some erc20 or er721 tokens by dropping some other tokens to them. But even them you often had to know how to retrieve them, as they wouldn't drop those for doing nothing.

To put it more simply, through airdrops we can see that people's interest in crypto is increasing, and that people know about the opportunities that can bring rewards, causing competition to increase. Overall assessment of previous and future airdrop programs, the amount of money that projects are willing to pay to supporters is really not much different, and it is up to users to avoid and try to perfect themselves. Skills are used to get priority from projects, and the criteria given are just to eliminate unqualified people or sybils.

I still have a stance on the airdrop environment, it does more harm than good, and the hype about it causes many people to blindly follow tasks that they think can meet their own criteria project's will.

The requirements to get airdrops will keep changing, and this is because if the requirements stayed the same then cheaters will find a way to simulate those requirements, get a bunch of accounts like it and then get a huge number of coins by doing nothing.

So those behind the airdrops have no option but to keep changing the requirements so what is described above does not happen, however this has the massive disadvantage that people do not know at all if their efforts will pay off and they may eventually stop trying to get those airdrops.

I think the criteria will be similar to what arb did for its airdrop. Another factor can be they check other chains such as Ethereum if the address has been active or if it’s a new address. So if someone is farming they usually won’t do anything on the Ethereum network. And what happens is they might be disqualified or their score reduced as a result.

However many users might not use Ethereum for many reasons. One being it’s expensive to perform transactions on ETH. So they might check other chains like ARB or Poly and check for activity. If there is no activity then there is a high chance it’s a farmer.

RWA?
How it will be if these real-world companies will have their own tokens and they're going to do some airdrops for distribution? That's interesting to know that there's real-world use case for these tokens and there's a legitimate business that's backing these tokens.
Allocation might be small but it's going to have real value and it's a real free money if it ever happens. I am not positive nor negative on it but since the next bull run is about to come, there should be another trend that will make the market go wild again whether it's with these airdrops or new listings.

For those who seek to get an airdrop from LayerZero, there will be no such problems, since they have to perform transactions in various networks. And if, in addition to L0, you have a desire to get a few more airdrops in other blockchains, then this will add even more activity to you in various networks.

Remembering those years where airdrops do only require your address and then you are already that eligible for the drop and on that 2017-18 bull run which tons of airdropped coins did also fly
and it is really that a great time on involving with those years which its been flooded out by tons of bots which it isnt surprising. As years passing by then airdrops had become that strict on which it is already applying out some tasks and even some testnet for you to be able to spend up some money for you to be considered to be eligible. We wont really be knowing on what would really be the next set of instructions to make yourself that eligible and the fact that not all known projects that launched airdrops would really be ending up on having value.

This is why it would really be still a risks whether you would make money or just wasting up your precious time on dealing with tasks just to make yourself that eligible.Well its not really that bad on dealing
though as long you do have that vacant time and money then you could freely choose to engage but of course you shouldnt really be making yourself that dumb on what are the things that
you are sacrificing.

thanks for sharing this mate, I guess I will not  missed any of Layerzero airdrops.

Airdrops are a game of chance. It is an unconventional way of marketing, which is that a good service spreads rumors that there is an airdrop. If the market moves, it does that airdrop according to certain conditions. Otherwise, these rumors will remain rumors. Many advertise airdrops are services looking for free promotion. You may be one of the lucky ones who received this free money, but the more people know about airdrops, the more complex the conditions are or the smaller the amount received. there are fewer profits from this method every year, and it is almost impossible to repeat the profits of 2018-2020.

Those days we are not used to bots. Nowadays we are using bots to farm the airdrops. Some of them use multiple machines as well. so they can earn more than a single person earned amount. But the risk is if they do not give any airdrop to the users or if you are caught as a Sybil, you will not get anything. So it is better to be a real user.

You could also hire this guy.  Pretty sure he's an expert in anti bot detection.  :D

https://i.postimg.cc/HLHSpCqh/9-C8-C50-D0-E65-A-4-DC5-A234-407627726-CA7.png

^  That's him right now working on the Venom testnets to try and be eligible for the airdrop.  I heard it's pretty easy to do and you could make many accounts, finish the tasks and mint the NFT's in one hour.

Seriously tho, there's nothing stopping people from trying to cheat their way in getting more than their fair share.  It's up to the project's devs to put up some sort of measure to make everything as fair as possible.  It's prolly why Layer Zero partnered with Nomis.

I think 2021 airdrops was so good but not easy for everyone to do as it had required fund to use dex. I missed all because that time I was thinking that airdrop are free and no need to invest any money. Some of ny friends used uniswap amd recieved very good airdrop but unfortunately i missed all. I used paraswap but i used in one days while criteria was to use multiple times.

Arbitrum airdrop have not much complicated criteria because the users who used arbitrum for one weeks and made at least five transaction was able to claim airdrop. I think the best airdrop ever I seen is arbitrum which was so easy. Sei airdrop was something complicated because Its needed 25+ transaction and also sending gift nft to different users and at the end users recieved very low amount of token.

airdrops aim is to reward loyal community and support early users and I don't think that complicate criteria will bring any happiness to the community and community will stop support new projects. The best things is to prevent multiple accounts and sybil /bright Id is best method for this

Paraswap airdrop was shit, had complicated criteria. I used it multiple times with good volume yet I wasn't qualified. People were mad at Paraswap team back in the day just like it happened to SEI.

there is no real effective way of distinguishing these people that uses some kind of programs like bots to farm the airdrop and real human which have organic activity.
the thing is, despite the presence of sybil to detect those that farming the airdrops, its just to detect address that are linked to each other and happened to have the same pattern.
different pattern and sybil already useless.
i'd expect this layerzero airdrop to be full of those that farm the airdrops, after all, who don't want to get free money, and surely people will try to find a way to increase their share.

qualification got more difficult and difficult as the time goes because quite literally everyone is participating in airdrops, if the rewards is so small when the task is so complicated the project
will definitely gets ridiculed thats why they impose stricter requirements.
i remember sei with its complicated task, and reward so small, many member furious and mock the projects, despite the fact the already imposed rules to qualify.

If we take for example the criteria by which the Arkham airdrop was paid, then they were the simplest. To get the minimum airdrop, it was enough just to register on the site. But no one can assume the exact criteria by which the next airdrop will be distributed, which forces participants to perform sometimes unnecessary interactions on the network.

Honestly it is not really a smart way to try to abuse this with that much time spent on it. If you could spend that much time on doing this, you could spend time on building a skillset as well. Working just 3 hours a day on coding skills? You would be able to charge thousands to build a new blockchain for someone, working 3 hours a day on graphics?

You would be dealing with social media stuff of projects hundreds of dollars each and you can multitask multiple projects as well. So, make sure that you spend your time on good things that would profit you, not things that are not even certain. The downfall of people is thinking they can't make that money, but if they do work on their skills, they can make it and they just need to trust themselves.

i was following task of zksync and layerzero, i think they will be the next arbitrum, but the question is the criteria of airdrop, because it wasn't even disclosed by the devs, many are speculating.
but many also said that minimum to qualify airdrop to spent for bridging would be $1000 which I don't think gonna be worth it if the participants are so massive.