Any airdrop hunters here need some leads

[tokeweed]

^  Depends on the airdrop...  There are those ones that you don't mind doing because you really want to do it.  I felt that way with Arbitrum.  I enjoyed using the different DeFi stuff they had on their like Dopex, Umami, GMX and participated in Plutus DAO and a couple others.  I didn't even know about airdrops until I got my first one from Arbitrum.  It was 5000 ARB which was quite decent.

The next airdrop that didn't really feel like a grind was Hyperliquid as I like to trade and Hyperliquid exchange is just so good of a product to use.  It's not as clunky as most exchanges i've used.

[Webetcoins]

From my observation: I have been participating in airdrops for a long time; in 2022-2023 I was very focused on retrodrops, on 2024 I did only few, but during last 3 years, I have earned about only $300 with them. More profitable was spending time playing Pixels game during its beta, pre-launch or whatever it is called. The time I have spent on airdrop, I would better spend analyzing which old altcoin I should buy for holding, or do scalping. 

It's usually the case with the drops, unfortunately.
It's nice to be rewarded, but then you consider the time you spent and if the reward is not that big.. You either mourn it or smile and keep pushing.

It's expected that we are not going to get what we are owed, and thinking about how much these hunters spend per year, like in hours, and how much they make, even if they it big on a single or two of them, the return per hour rate is so low that it would be smarter to be a cleaner at some fast food shop, I can guarantee you that there is nobody who is unqualified enough that this much money is enough. You can do the least paying jobs of any nation, and it would still pay better than these airdrops without a doubt. I can see that it is not that clear and it is not that profitable but it's true.

Spending 500+ hours a year, and getting maybe 1000 dollars is a good ratio that you would dream about, most of them spend more time per year and make even less. This is why staying away from airdrops is great, not because it won't pay, but because it would pay very little. I have seen people spend 200-300 and even more hours on just Hamster Kombat, and make 20 dollars in return.

[Mahanton]

From my observation: I have been participating in airdrops for a long time; in 2022-2023 I was very focused on retrodrops, on 2024 I did only few, but during last 3 years, I have earned about only $300 with them. More profitable was spending time playing Pixels game during its beta, pre-launch or whatever it is called. The time I have spent on airdrop, I would better spend analyzing which old altcoin I should buy for holding, or do scalping. 

It's usually the case with the drops, unfortunately.
It's nice to be rewarded, but then you consider the time you spent and if the reward is not that big.. You either mourn it or smile and keep pushing.

It's expected that we are not going to get what we are owed, and thinking about how much these hunters spend per year, like in hours, and how much they make, even if they it big on a single or two of them, the return per hour rate is so low that it would be smarter to be a cleaner at some fast food shop, I can guarantee you that there is nobody who is unqualified enough that this much money is enough. You can do the least paying jobs of any nation, and it would still pay better than these airdrops without a doubt. I can see that it is not that clear and it is not that profitable but it's true.

Spending 500+ hours a year, and getting maybe 1000 dollars is a good ratio that you would dream about, most of them spend more time per year and make even less. This is why staying away from airdrops is great, not because it won't pay, but because it would pay very little. I have seen people spend 200-300 and even more hours on just Hamster Kombat, and make 20 dollars in return.

Taking airdrops to be some sort of job then its never been ideal but making it to be some sort of side hustle or extra income then you can make it possible but of course just like we do all know that there's no assurance that you will really be able to make money in the end of the line on which if we do consider out on how many shit projects that we do have on this market then we can really be able to tell that success rate will be less but somehow its not impossible to make some considerable amounts. One of the main reasons on why people are really that interested into this aspect on which they are really that making up some possible big money out of free or simply rather just that putting up some effort on doing tasks for them to be eligible for the drop on which this is really he advantage, but come to think that time and effort isnt something that you cannot be able to ignore because we do know that time is valuable and you should really be that wise on dealing up with something on which you do know that this will give out at least that kind of progress and gains with money that you could simply benefit out. Well, each person does have their own perspectives on things and if it turned out that they've been that too positive about airdrops and go full time, as long they are really that sustaining then so be it but in overall it is really just that too risky to rely yourself on this one.

[tokeweed]

Taking airdrops to be some sort of job then its never been ideal but making it to be some sort of side hustle or extra income then you can make it possible but of course just like we do all know that there's no assurance that you will really be able to make money in the end

And the important, if not the most important thing...  Just do it if you like it because if not then you'll just be wasting time and money paid in fees.  Most of these things will pay peanuts most of the time and you'll just be burining yourself out.

I say this because none of us could afford to be burnt out at 2025 as we'll be seeing the biggest up moves in crypto in a while since 2021.  So save your ammo and your energy.  It's time to be picky about which airdrops we should start committing out time into.

[tokeweed]

Here's a lead...  Monad testnet is coming out today.  And knowing Monad and how community centric they are, this testnet should be an incentivized testnet.  Not really sure how big it will be tho as testnets don't really airdrop that much.

But for guys like us who don't have the nad role and are looking into getting some Monad tokens, this testnet is one of the ways to get it...  Aside from staking some PYTH, W and holding some NFT's that are aligned with Monad.

Have fun with the testnet you guys...

[tokeweed]

Here's another lead...  Since HyperEVM was launched a couple of days ago, you guys could now start do some liquid staking through Hyperswap which is doing it via a protocol called Thunder.  So you prolly start getting some points doing that.  Don't forget the JITO airdrop in Solana.  That was a good airdrop.

Another one is making a BTC deposit in Hyperliquid.  BTC deposits are enabled by a protocol called Hyperunit.  So you prolly get some points if you do that as well.

So why not combine the two...  Deposit BTC in Hyperliquid, buy HYPE with the BTC, send HYPE to HyperEVM then stake them via Hyperswap liquid staking option via Thunder to receive stHYPE.

[tokeweed]

Here's another lead.  Staking your KAITO airdrop could possibly bring you more rewards and prolly could get you into more airdrops in other projects as staking now will give you an 'OG' badge in the yapper site.    Check out the projects that have a leaderboard in the yapper site...  It's growing every week as they're voted by the yap holders which projects will get to have one.

It's an interesting concept and one that could make CT something like having a sig campaign with good tweets possibly will earn some yaps from Kaito. 

[Dunamisx]

Most of those running after airdrops are newbies, majority of them never had the better understanding of what airdrops is, they don't know it's far below what a coin or token could sum up in value, that is possibly even part of the reasons some of them are not promising or rewarding, because their amount in which they offer in return is too small in most cases, while the participants expectations would have been raised towards earning something big from it.

[tokeweed]

^  Most airdrops farm their users to get good metrics and advertise these numbers as if those using their protocols and projects are real users.  Lol.  It's all reversed now.  The farmers have become the farmees.    And when the airdrop comes and it's worth peanuts, the 'community' leaves and it's all an empty ghost town that's left.  The 'community' was fake to begin with. 

But some devs do get it right tho and do a lot of good for their community.  And as of late Hyperliquid has done very well for itself.  Jeff Yan made the users of his perps DEX rich and therefore have become loyal followers.  It kinda feels like it's gonna be something like ETH during 2016.

[tokeweed]

There are words swirling around that besides staking, the Hyperliquid devs might be copying Arbitrum's style of airdropping their tokens for HL's 'Season 3'.  So no more points campaign for this one. 

And for you guys who don't know, Hyperliquid will have a new tier system for staking.  Go read it in the docs.  Too lazy to find rn.  Lol.

Stay safe guys.  It's a bad market out there.

[tokeweed]

It's funny that people are looking for leads but when given a lead, there are no reactions or not even one of you is curious about the said lead.  Lol.

Hyperliquid airdropped 30% of their supply and gave people enough money that have changed their lives.  The funny thing is both the points system for the perps season and the spot season were mostly ignored by almost everybody, thinking that it would pay peanuts.   

I feel like people are once again fading and ignoring it.  Just remember guys, there's another 30% to be airdropped by the HL devs.

[tokeweed]

Here's another lead...  Hypio.  It's an NFT in Hyperliquid eco which seems to be all the rage right now.  I bought one around 700 bucks months ago.  I got a couple of memecoin airdrops which are over 2k USD each.  I wish I bought more at that price which turned out to be very cheap for that particular selection.

Now...  The floor price is over 4k USD and the word on the street is leading tokenless HL protocols like Hyperswap, Hyperlend, Kinetiq, etc are gonna airdrop to Hypio holders.  NFA tho as it's already very expensive.  But if you already made a decent bankroll from airdrop farming and are still looking for these opportunities, then holding a Hypio could give a decent return.

[hyudien]

Now...  The floor price is over 4k USD and the word on the street is leading tokenless HL protocols like Hyperswap, Hyperlend, Kinetiq, etc are gonna airdrop to Hypio holders.  NFA tho as it's already very expensive.  But if you already made a decent bankroll from airdrop farming and are still looking for these opportunities, then holding a Hypio could give a decent return.

The price is already expensive and most airdrop hunters consider it no longer a viable option to start in HL, I mean it's not early anymore, because airdrop hunters always want to start from the beginning, HL has finished the initial Airdrop and like it or not Airdrop part II, III and so on will not be the same as the first one where everyone, even small users, get their fair share of rewards, but now part II, III and so on depends on how thick your pockets are.
Congratulations to those of you who have become early users at HL, and for those who are not lucky, there are still other projects waiting, you just have to surf.

[tokeweed]

^  Here's the difference tho, Hyperliquid doesn't have any VC's that have a large holdings of tokens under their control to dump on you.  Most of the supply is for the community and there's around 30% more of the total supply available to airdrop to the users of HyperCORE and the HyperEVM...  Not sure what the exact amount is but that's prolly over 8 billion USD to airdrop.

And the excuses you make could cost you.  Just saying.  You don't even need to buy an expensive Hypio to be eligible.  You just need to have some activity in Hyperliquid.

But yeah, NFA and I guess for some people it's better to avoid risk so I can't really blame you for staying away.

[tokeweed]

Here's another lead.  But before that, if you're not into Hyperliquid, it's time to get in now as this lead I'm about to share is in that eco.  So here goes...

As HL precompiles release is just around the corner, you better get ready to farm a protocol called Kinetiq.  It's an LST protocol but more.    It has been waiting for precompiles release as there's something in the protocol that needs to read data from HyperCore and prolly also write?  But yeah, be on the look out for that.

As for how to get into the airdrop, stake HYPE in Kinetiq to get kHYPE which you can use in HyperEVM.  Buy a Hypio NFT.  It's kinda pricey now tho so skip that if you're priced out.

[hyudien]

Here's another lead.  But before that, if you're not into Hyperliquid, it's time to get in now as this lead I'm about to share is in that eco.  So here goes...

As HL precompiles release is just around the corner, you better get ready to farm a protocol called Kinetiq.  It's an LST protocol but more.    It has been waiting for precompiles release as there's something in the protocol that needs to read data from HyperCore and prolly also write?  But yeah, be on the look out for that.

As for how to get into the airdrop, stake HYPE in Kinetiq to get kHYPE which you can use in HyperEVM.  Buy a Hypio NFT.  It's kinda pricey now tho so skip that if you're priced out.

Btw maybe you can give details to do this step starting from the capital that must be prepared. Because if I'm not mistaken you are quite lucky in Hyperliquid, you could say early user, because I've seen you get big profits. Back to my question that wants to know the minimum capital to stake HYPE in Kinetiq and other steps you can share tips. Since airdrop always has a snapshot system, so is there still a chance to start it now? As far as I know Hyperliquid still has a large amount of funding that has not been fully disbursed, and I strongly believe that the overflow of funds will go into its ecosystem.

[tokeweed]

^  As for how large of a stack that should be 'prepared', dunno.  Just like airdrop farming the rest of these protocols in other L1s the answer is the same...  As much as your bankroll can afford, the bigger the better.  And the beauty of farming an LST protocol is your tokens aren't really locked.  You'll have an LST that you can trade or lend for the same value as if you still have your HYPE.

And yeah I've been very lucky in Hyperliquid.  But you know what, I was in the same situation as you right now back then.  I just dived right in and did the best I can.

[Akbarkoe]

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And yeah I've been very lucky in Hyperliquid.  But you know what.

Hyperliquid is getting more interesting because its development today is much better, and the infrastructure they are building, most likely the same method for their ecosystem, so for some people I think there is no need to hesitate to try in the hyperliquid ecosystem, because they have very good confidence in doing the previous airdrop method, and the fact that they have managed to grow a solid and strong community.

Do you also think that the ecosystem will do the same way? like HyperEVM or others for airdropper rewards?

[Marykeller]

If your focus is more on airdrops to participate in, to get free tokens, you will leave yourself disappointed about their payment structure and gas fees for claiming of it.

It will be best for you, to focus on investing in Bitcoin since the bull run is around the corner. So that when others talk about how they make profits from Bitcoin investment, you will join to say the same thing. Not for you to waiting for free tokens you are not sure what the worth will be in the future

[tokeweed]

[......]

And yeah I've been very lucky in Hyperliquid.  But you know what.

Do you also think that the ecosystem will do the same way? like HyperEVM or others for airdropper rewards?

I have no idea.  But what I'm doing now is just use the protocols that I need for what I do onchain like swaps and stake LIQD at LiquidSwap, goof around memes at LiquidLaunch, made a HYPE deposit at Hyperbeat, trade both spot, perps and stake some HYPE at HyperCore.

That's it.  I'm not really into lending but I think I should be doing that tho instead of selling my HYPE for stables to use for spot and perps trading at HyperCore.  But yeah, just use it.

Anyway, for you guys who are into Monad testnet, I think it would be good to goof around the Monad version of Fantasytop.    Just saying.