Retrospective airdrop experiences

[tvplus006]

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.

I think you are confusing airdrops that are distributed for completing tasks on social networks with retrospective airdrops. And if you do not need to spend your money to get the first one, then retrospective airdrops is distributed as a rule behind the interaction in the main network, which accordingly entails spending your own money.

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[libert19]

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.

This is precisely what has happened. In start, retrospective airdrops were rewarding substantial amounts, as this trend got saturated and people started farming for potential ones, qualification requirements have gone high while reward got severely less.

This is also the reason I don't expect much from layerzero, zksync but I'm curious how they gonna turn out.

[shinratensei_]

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.

This is precisely what has happened. In start, retrospective airdrops were rewarding substantial amounts, as this trend got saturated and people started farming for potential ones, qualification requirements have gone high while reward got severely less.

This is also the reason I don't expect much from layerzero, zksync but I'm curious how they gonna turn out.

probably gonna be turning out the same like any other retroactive airdrop that got too saturated, in 19 may 2023 alone zksync have reached more than 1.5 million unique address.
if all those are qualified and are active retroactive participants then you could roughly guess whats gonna be the reward, definitely not a lot could be allocated to each addresses due to the overflow of the
participants themselves.
therefore don't have high expectation for these retroactive, because too many people are trying to be rich out of it meanwhile I don't think it will have any substantial amount of rewards seeking from the statistics themselves.

[makishart]

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.

This is precisely what has happened. In start, retrospective airdrops were rewarding substantial amounts, as this trend got saturated and people started farming for potential ones, qualification requirements have gone high while reward got severely less.

This is also the reason I don't expect much from layerzero, zksync but I'm curious how they gonna turn out.

As an ordinary people who are expecting to get airdrop and what i can do is just doing transactions in regular basis. I meant i don't even wanna to rush it caused by it's the same like gambling. I don't wanna burn my money for something that is still remain unclear at this moment. I saw that many stupid influencers were always luring us to burn our money for the retrodrop like this https://twitter.com/nobrainflip/status/1704445264965038341

The current rumor if layer zero node already deployed ZRO token it's weird to see ZRO already there since a long time ago.
I just take if i will be lucky enough to be eligible for airdrop and im not having problem if i will also be ineligible for airdrop.

Airdrop is also based on how lucky we are.

[asriloni]

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.

True, it's very disappointed to see how SEI developer was indirectly scamming the testnet participants. SEI has lost its community. All the people have been moving to the new blockchain like base and OPbnb. The activity on SEI blockchain is declining a lot.
There are only fewer dapps still active at this moment. SEI will rekt soon. I must admit even though SUI was doing sale, but it was giving better reward than SEI.

[libert19]

I don't wanna burn my money for something that is still remain unclear at this moment. I saw that many stupid influencers were always luring us to burn our money for the retrodrop like this https://twitter.com/nobrainflip/status/1704445264965038341

Yeah, I do same, I stopped chasing airdrops sometime ago, also less the effort and money involved, less the attachment, whatever comes of it's own accord I enjoy it.

Regarding Twitter influencers, it's because of revenue share to creators program, many people are milking it via creating retrospective airdrop threads.

[RussianEnglishTranslation]

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?

QUAI is supposed to be giving rewards out for retweeting their content on X. Q Blockchain had several zealy campaigns that they paid out. They gave free tokens to discord community members before and will probably do it again soon. They are releasing a faucet where you can collect .1 Q per day. They have a bridge incentive where if you bridge from Ethereum you get 5 Q plus a bridging bonus of up to 1500 Q and they are running a Saving and Borrowing campaign where they are giving away 333k+ Q to the community. Those are the two best ones I have found so far. I did the shardeum one, lamina1 etc. and got nothing so far.

[libert19]

QUAI is supposed to be giving rewards out for retweeting their content on X. Q Blockchain had several zealy campaigns that they paid out. They gave free tokens to discord community members before and will probably do it again soon. They are releasing a faucet where you can collect .1 Q per day. They have a bridge incentive where if you bridge from Ethereum you get 5 Q plus a bridging bonus of up to 1500 Q and they are running a Saving and Borrowing campaign where they are giving away 333k+ Q to the community. Those are the two best ones I have found so far.

Good luck with Quai, they have incentivized testnet as well aside from what you mentioned [1].

I did the shardeum one, lamina1 etc. and got nothing so far.

I'm active on Lamina1, their platform is good, discord support is good, I have feeling it will reward good. Let's see.


[1] https://twitter.com/QuaiNetwork/status/1704160510030008472

[AnonBitCoiner]

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?

=99% Testnet are waste of time and only 1% percent will give you low reward.
=Zealy/taskon/Galx are 100% waste of time. I have collected Many Galxe oats but all in vain.
=Already announced airdrop are something profitable like blur and round 2 airdrops of some big projects.
= Minting NFT for airdrop is totally waste of time if this is only criteria but if doing all task like transaction, liquidity then I think minting nft could  increase chances of more tokens

This all data is according to my previous experience.

[Quidat]

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?

- Not only a waste of time but also a waste of money even those the amount of fee in bridging those coins/tokens are just a waste
- Totally saturated and some tasks are hard to be done
- Disappointment indeed
- People would be jumping out on airdrop again once some projects did give out huge amount of money on airdrops. Remember Arkham?
- Once hype kicks in then expect for saturation or been flooded out by lots of hunters.
- Influencers would really be always loving on hyping on everything
- No assurance about your spending on minting

This is one of the reasons on why i do leave airdrop now.If you do have the funds and could risks out and have the time
then why not? As long you do find yourself that understanding out the risks.

[libert19]

^ on first point, you wouldn't be spending any real funds, cause well it's testnet.

[makishart]

I don't wanna burn my money for something that is still remain unclear at this moment. I saw that many stupid influencers were always luring us to burn our money for the retrodrop like this https://twitter.com/nobrainflip/status/1704445264965038341

Yeah, I do same, I stopped chasing airdrops sometime ago, also less the effort and money involved, less the attachment, whatever comes of it's own accord I enjoy it.

I have been doing many zealy campaigns since last year but got nothing. It's a useless platform. Many of legit airdrop rarely involved zealy task in their process. IDK why airdrop hunters are still using zealy.

Regarding Twitter influencers, it's because of revenue share to creators program, many people are milking it via creating retrospective airdrop threads.

True. I saw some fake testnet campaigns on x and zealy ran by scammers. Scammers are tricking people who search for airdrops and testnets to boost their own x accounts.
It can be quite challenging to discern whether the testnet is legitimate or not. Even SEI developers which have been trusted by so many venture capital already deceived the whole of its testnet hunters.

[$crypto$]

Testnet airdrops now waste a lot of time and are more tedious.
Results are not worth it and always disappointing what has been worked on for months or years.
The good airdrops have passed and now the new project is just capitalizing on the hype trend on twitter.
That in a bear market no testnet airdrop is profitable.
And the crazy thing is that yeast costs a lot of money, to bridge to other chains, minted NFTs, not to mention other claims.

[JeffBrad12]

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.

thats really too bad, i've seen the fact that sei network currently aren't really that populated with dapps, most of the dapps also escaped, they knew that this sei blockchain is doomed from the start
and its because the devs themselves and its really silly considering the fact that this blockchain could be big had the devs are fair.
but nah, the devs seemed only care about the money they good from funding by investors and just doesn't wanna distribute reward fairly because they are concerned of spending money to contain the dumping
in short they want to keep their money from being used for the coin itself.

[shinratensei_]

Testnet airdrops now waste a lot of time and are more tedious.
Results are not worth it and always disappointing what has been worked on for months or years.
The good airdrops have passed and now the new project is just capitalizing on the hype trend on twitter.
That in a bear market no testnet airdrop is profitable.
And the crazy thing is that yeast costs a lot of money, to bridge to other chains, minted NFTs, not to mention other claims.

so many testnet airdrops are indeed just waste of time, even the upcoming venom blockchain I assume would just reward a dime.
but even then many are still doing the tasks knowing the future hasn't been really good with these but I don't think that these testnet tasks usually costs money because as you know they are testnet and
its just that sometime the task are really complicated task.

people should just stop doing all these testnet they quite literally get taken advantage of by the devs that want free tester.

[el kaka22]

It is completely true, majority of it is just waste of your time, you may not be spending any money on them, but you are spending your time and time is something we can't get back. I would even rather spend money on them unless it is a huge amount instead of waste my time, because I can lose money and then keep working and earn that money back, money can be earned anytime, but I can't get back the time I wasted on these stuff.

This is why when you are joining an airdrop, do not consider your time cheap, doesn't matter where you live or how poor you are, you should instead spend your time learning new stuff which would be profitable for you on the long term. I agree that it is not that easy but it is definitely not worth it.

[tvplus006]

Testnet airdrops now waste a lot of time and are more tedious.
Results are not worth it and always disappointing what has been worked on for months or years...

Even if there are no awards for working in the test network, it will still be useful for a beginner, as it will allow to learn and consolidate in practice various interactions with various contracts. In addition, the execution of tasks in the test network can serve as an additional multiplier, which can affect the size of the airdrop.

[poodle63]

It is completely true, majority of it is just waste of your time, you may not be spending any money on them, but you are spending your time and time is something we can't get back. I would even rather spend money on them unless it is a huge amount instead of waste my time, because I can lose money and then keep working and earn that money back, money can be earned anytime, but I can't get back the time I wasted on these stuff.

This is why when you are joining an airdrop, do not consider your time cheap, doesn't matter where you live or how poor you are, you should instead spend your time learning new stuff which would be profitable for you on the long term. I agree that it is not that easy but it is definitely not worth it.

but then again these project never promise that they will have an airdrop, even allocation isn't even disclosed properly into the public so I don't think its really problem coming from their sides.
also added with the fact that sometimes most of the devs outright refuse to have plan of airdrops though sometime the ending is different but it seems they just don't want to take responsibility of giving airdrop.

therefore I think if anyone really wanna get the airdrop then just do the task, but never expect anything from it, airdrop was never sure way to make money in the past and its the same nowadays.
if someone want to make money for sure why they are not investing instead? though i know the result of airdrop sometime massive but its just 1 out of 100 projects out there even less.

[libert19]

It is completely true, majority of it is just waste of your time, you may not be spending any money on them, but you are spending your time and time is something we can't get back. I would even rather spend money on them unless it is a huge amount instead of waste my time, because I can lose money and then keep working and earn that money back, money can be earned anytime, but I can't get back the time I wasted on these stuff.

This is why when you are joining an airdrop, do not consider your time cheap, doesn't matter where you live or how poor you are, you should instead spend your time learning new stuff which would be profitable for you on the long term. I agree that it is not that easy but it is definitely not worth it.

but then again these project never promise that they will have an airdrop, even allocation isn't even disclosed properly into the public so I don't think its really problem coming from their sides.
also added with the fact that sometimes most of the devs outright refuse to have plan of airdrops though sometime the ending is different but it seems they just don't want to take responsibility of giving airdrop.

therefore I think if anyone really wanna get the airdrop then just do the task, but never expect anything from it, airdrop was never sure way to make money in the past and its the same nowadays.
if someone want to make money for sure why they are not investing instead? though i know the result of airdrop sometime massive but its just 1 out of 100 projects out there even less.

No expectation is always a good idea, significant airdrops I got were all organic. Meanwhile, some that I farmed consciously turned out worth peanuts or they didn't do an airdrop. It's just less headache when you are genuine.

[libert19]

I was surfing Twitter, came across this statement, sounds pretty accurate.

"If project announces airdrop beforehand, you are their airdrop"