Retrospective airdrop experiences

[libert19]

Mine:

— Testnets are waste of time
— Zealy/Taskon/Galx and such platforms are waste of time
— Using platforms for sake of being interested can be rewarding while using them for sake of airdrop leads to burning
 out and disappointment
— Retrospective airdrop trend is too saturated, good amount of money is no longer found here
— Already announced airdrops are waste of time
— Projects/'X' influencers are milking the hype
— Minting NFTs to qualify is waste.

Share yours?

[@sriyan]

— Testnets are a waste of time

Please go through only the layer 1 projects(Don't do the dapps testnets.). That will give good results.
Eg.: Aptos, Sui

Future :  Venom, Quai Network, Zetachain, Subspace Network

— Zealy/Taskon/Galx and such platforms are waste of time

Normally Zearly tasks will be in the dapps. Not in the chain drops

— Using platforms for sake of being interested can be rewarding while using them for sake of airdrop leads to burning
 out and disappointment

Just be a real user.

The retrospective airdrop trend is too saturated, a good amount of money is no longer found here

Because of the too many users or bots.

— Already announced airdrops are a waste of time

If already announced means it will be a shit airdrop.

— Projects/'X' influencers are milking the hype

Most of the influencers are part of the team or they are participating in that airdrop.

— Minting NFTs to qualify is a waste.

I can only remember about Aptos only.

[asriloni]

Mine:

— Testnets are waste of time
— Zealy/Taskon/Galx and such platforms are waste of time
— Using platforms for sake of being interested can be rewarding while using them for sake of airdrop leads to burning
 out and disappointment
— Retrospective airdrop trend is too saturated, good amount of money is no longer found here
— Already announced airdrops are waste of time
— Projects/'X' influencers are milking the hype
— Minting NFTs to qualify is waste.

Share yours?

you have been mentioning correct things related to the airdrop.

I remember my friend who has been working on sei testnet for almost a year but he got paid 3 dollars from what he has done for almost a year. It looks so stupid to see how people keep being delusional in getting rich quickly from airdrop.
Many scumbags are using this opportunities to increase their engagement in x to get as many followers as possible.

I have marked any task related to the zealy or something like this as a useless thing. Many of stupid scammers were increasing their followers through this bullshit platform.
Since x implemented new ads mechanism and many scammers are trying to use the stupidity from airdrop participants to build their account to participate in the ads revenua sharing program.

[blockman]

I didn't join a lot of it but I think BCH is the airdrop that the last one I've received. That's why I've missed a lot of them but I am not regretting that I've never joined a single of them since the last one that I've got for free. I'm just happy to see those people that have been sharing their wins with airdrops especially the last ones for this year which there have been tons of it in social platforms and even on the forum.

— Minting NFTs to qualify is waste.

Well on this one, I didn't mint but I've wasted a lot of money buying some NFT/P2E games and that's one of the regrets that I have because I have actually spent money on it.

[@sriyan]

I remember my friend who has been working on sei testnet for almost a year but he got paid 3 dollars from what he has done for almost a year. It looks so stupid to see how people keep being delusional in getting rich quickly from airdrop.
Many scumbags are using this opportunities to increase their engagement in x to get as many followers as possible.

I participated in the sei testnet as well. I have an officer role and only received 100 Sei(Around 20$). Also, they do not distribute all the airdrop allocation(Which is 300M). Most of the users do not receive any allocation. So all the sei Dapps are moved to other networks like BASE to handle the situation. Otherwise, their sei dapps will be rekt. These days most of the projects exit rug pulls.

[bluebit25]

Mine:

— Testnets are waste of time
— Zealy/Taskon/Galx and such platforms are waste of time
— Using platforms for sake of being interested can be rewarding while using them for sake of airdrop leads to burning
 out and disappointment
— Retrospective airdrop trend is too saturated, good amount of money is no longer found here
— Already announced airdrops are waste of time
— Projects/'X' influencers are milking the hype
— Minting NFTs to qualify is waste.

Share yours?

Yep, the truth that many people do not like to accept and waste time, money, health,... I would like to add that developers are wasting their time with users in this market. So What would be reasonable here?

Repeating everything the OP and what I mentioned, waste is wasting time, effort, and money on things we don't understand. The reverse story of the few projects that resonate in this space only brings happiness to a few, just think if we are willing to research those things in the hope of having a chance. 

So if you don't want to waste money, go through those things first to see the mistakes later. If you're lucky, you can also receive some budget. And the work of finding opportunities in this market will really be promoted when they find its many traps. I quite like to say "the beginning of success will be failures".

[poodle63]

Its truly waste of time with platform like zealy and galxe, most of the coin that have tasks there are either absolute shit coin or just simply don't have money for marketing which indirectly says that their airdrops gonna be shit too.
moreover the task is overly complicated and take so much time and yet 99% of the time you're gonna be given some NFT that absolutely have zero value, i think this platform is just simply useless and absolute waste of time I wonder why so many people still doing tasks there.
at this highly saturated retroactive airdrops, you just don't expect too much, you just use their blockchain just for the sake of interacting with smart contract and thats it. just don't do useless tasks.

[AmoreJaz]

Its truly waste of time with platform like zealy and galxe, most of the coin that have tasks there are either absolute shit coin or just simply don't have money for marketing which indirectly says that their airdrops gonna be shit too.
moreover the task is overly complicated and take so much time and yet 99% of the time you're gonna be given some NFT that absolutely have zero value, i think this platform is just simply useless and absolute waste of time I wonder why so many people still doing tasks there.
at this highly saturated retroactive airdrops, you just don't expect too much, you just use their blockchain just for the sake of interacting with smart contract and thats it. just don't do useless tasks.

actually, those projects who are still doing these airdrop activities are still lucky as there are still some users who are willing to complete such tasks in exchange of their tokens or coins. which mostly won't hit in the trading market. i already stopped joining from these activities a long long time ago. it is hard to find a valuable airdrop these days, unless it is handled by known sites like binance.

[adaseb]

All these defi air drops are getting harder and harder to get and even if you qualify the amount you get won’t be that much.

Best was 2 years ago when all you had to do was use the service once and you would qualify. But all these account farmers made it more difficult and why we have these Sybil detection in place to combat that. Hence why it’s more work and you get less rewards if there is an actual airdrop.

[Oneandpure]

After testnet airdrop have been over with hype have new kinds or model rule from airdrop called retrospective airdrop, we have spent fees for swapping coins, bridge and add liquidity for eligible with airdrop when announcing in the future. Not all all retrospective airdrop is promising for their participants get airdrop and they not guarantee for airdrop retroactive allocation, its looks gambling when spending fees for joining with retrospective airdrop. I have quit with testnet airdrop after SUI and SEI coins are giving us how bad their management with many hunter expected will get reward from testnet airdrop but they are not allocated yet.

For next time, which one worth airdrop for participating will testnet become popular again or have to spent fees for joining with retrospective airdrop.

[tvplus006]

...at this highly saturated retroactive airdrops, you just don't expect too much, you just use their blockchain just for the sake of interacting with smart contract and thats it. just don't do useless tasks.

After the generous airdrops that were distributed by the Arbitrum and Optimism teams, users hope that the next airdrops will be just as generous. Therefore, if any project does not distribute the expected remuneration among early participants, this may entail ignoring participation in subsequent ones.

[shinratensei_]

All these defi air drops are getting harder and harder to get and even if you qualify the amount you get won’t be that much.

Best was 2 years ago when all you had to do was use the service once and you would qualify. But all these account farmers made it more difficult and why we have these Sybil detection in place to combat that. Hence why it’s more work and you get less rewards if there is an actual airdrop.

thats true, too much saturated airdrop participants quite literally destroy the airdrop itself, back then it was smooth and easy, the rewards is also bountiful but right now, even getting $50 out of doing some complicated retroactive task is already good enough which seemed silly to me.
i would argue that airdrop right now is just simply waste of money and energy, there's just no good rewards anymore coming out of these airdrops, heck, even the binance launchpad that supposedly staking with money are giving some absymal rewards nowadays. I don't think airdrop could be worse than this in term of rewards.

[Text]

I agree, that airdrop hunting can be very time-consuming and unrewarding. I've spent countless hours tracking down potential airdrops, signing up for platforms, and completing tasks, but I've only received a few small or no airdrops at all in return. And Many airdrop platforms are scams. Some platforms promise large rewards for completing simple tasks, but they never actually deliver. Others collect users' personal information and then sell it to third parties.

[Silberman]

I agree, that airdrop hunting can be very time-consuming and unrewarding. I've spent countless hours tracking down potential airdrops, signing up for platforms, and completing tasks, but I've only received a few small or no airdrops at all in return. And Many airdrop platforms are scams. Some platforms promise large rewards for completing simple tasks, but they never actually deliver. Others collect users' personal information and then sell it to third parties.

And that is the main cause the popularity of airdrops is dropping like a rock, even if the rewards were small there are many people which will be wiling to do those tasks, but when the people behind the airdrops refuse to pay for months and then they just disappear and this keeps happening all the time, then it is natural many bounty hunters are simply giving up as they are wasting an enormous amount of time, while getting no benefits at all in return.

[dansus021]

To be honest, airdrop is sometimes is waste of time is like gambling without evolving in real money, From the early of 2020 I joined multiple airdrop from telegram drop join the giveaway like gleam and now galxe and other stuff but it can be count that who really gives worth money the only big think that I receive from airdrop is from Seedify Fund that give me around 200$ at the time but i can manage save it to 500$.

There is a bunch of dropped less valuable token and NFT here and there. and most of the other airdrop has the fake team or the token really useless. 

From there I'm rarely touch airdrop again but Im still on couple of telegram airdrop group and in some cases see people had a JackPot from airdrop but for somehow I always missed the train and at end of the day I can only see people get Jackpot from airdrop.

[JeffBrad12]

I agree, that airdrop hunting can be very time-consuming and unrewarding. I've spent countless hours tracking down potential airdrops, signing up for platforms, and completing tasks, but I've only received a few small or no airdrops at all in return. And Many airdrop platforms are scams. Some platforms promise large rewards for completing simple tasks, but they never actually deliver. Others collect users' personal information and then sell it to third parties.

its either the team are unfulfilling the promises of distributing the rewards or just simply giving away shitcoins, the scenario is the same, but we as a participants could also distinguish which projects are worth
our time spent to, definitely don't just complete all airdrop tasks since 95% are just gonna be waste of energy.
its better to instead pick one thats really good and trustworthy and focus on that, like the ones having partnership with exchange that they got listed day 1 their token went public. its as simple as that but some people
are so eager to do all the tasks available to them hoping they have luck and get random rewards.

[Wiwo]

Mine:

— Testnets are waste of time
— Zealy/Taskon/Galx and such platforms are waste of time
— Using platforms for sake of being interested can be rewarding while using them for sake of airdrop leads to burning
 out and disappointment
— Retrospective airdrop trend is too saturated, good amount of money is no longer found here
— Already announced airdrops are waste of time
— Projects/'X' influencers are milking the hype
— Minting NFTs to qualify is waste.

Share yours?

Paying transaction fees to get an airdrop rewar= scam.

Subscripbing to telegram,  face or twitter accounts of a project to get a test et coin is a waste of time,  waiting for bounty/airdrop coins to get listed on the exchange os a waste of time.

Joining any project group for followup,  with out an ANN thread in the forum is a waste of time.

[libert19]

^ Your experiences are differing with mine and in a way that I disagree with yours.

Paying transaction fees to get an airdrop rewar= scam.

I got op, arb, hop, uni and some that I don't remember by paying transaction fees.

waiting for bounty/airdrop coins to get listed on the exchange os a waste of time.

Who waits these days in era of dexes? You can sell instantly as far as tokens are unlocked, yes there should be liquidity but any decent coin takes care of it well.

Joining any project group for followup,  with out an ANN thread in the forum is a waste of time.

That's so untrue.

[doomloop]

I didn't join a lot of it but I think BCH is the airdrop that the last one I've received. That's why I've missed a lot of them but I am not regretting that I've never joined a single of them since the last one that I've got for free. I'm just happy to see those people that have been sharing their wins with airdrops especially the last ones for this year which there have been tons of it in social platforms and even on the forum.

He is talkin about retro airdrops here and the one that you get on BCH seems different. BCH is a fork of BTC and as long as you have a BTC, you can get an equivalent amount of BCH (AFAIK). That happened long time ago. Unfortunately, I only a get a few of it because I only have a small amount of BTC that time.

Yes, you shouldn't regret of the airdrops because many of them are just a scam. I'm sure what you are doing by the time they are coming out are more worth it. NFT and P2E games on the other hand are popular last time but again, many of them are just a flop. But if only you don't hold them longer maybe you can also earn something out your capital.

[o48o]

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Share yours?

If there would be a legit and sure way to get big airdrops, everyone would be using it and after a while that technique would be rendered ineffective as value is based on scarcity and you can't just gift everyone something and expect it to have value.

I have minted NFTs and traded them that has given me ton of money via airdrops later on. But that doesn't mean Minting NFTs is the key. I was just lucky with my timing. Same thing goes with everything. Be one of the first one doing something that no one seems to yet understand or be interested in, and if that is going to be next big thing, then you have hit gold. But it's all luck. There's no one way you could say it would work next time.