The Worst Airdrop Ever: CEXP, BECEXY from CEX․IO & CEDEX

[albalxzd4]

The centralized exchange CEX.IO, now ranked ~80 in the world, back in May 2024 announced an airdrop of what would be their own token, CEXP; similar to what BNB is to Binance, ... with over 10 million concurrent users in their Telegram tap Airdrop app, within a month, and over 40 million total.

What began as a clickable, gamified promise of a native exchange token, CEXP, turned into a stretch of games, delays, side projects, broken promises, and a rebrand pivot toward something called BeCEXY, a solana meme coin, with no direct or clear relation to CEX.IO. The result: millions of hours of human time farmed...

CEX.IO: “The team behind Power Tap is moving it to BeCEXY, ... From this moment, Power Tap is not owned, managed, or connected to CEX.IO in any way.”

Source: https://postadio.com/crypto/788932877111/airdrop-cexio-CEXP-BeCEXY

[OpaNauts]

The pivot from a promised native exchange token (CEKX) to an unrelated Solana meme coin (BeCEIXY) shows a complete shift from building verifiable value to chasing hype and short-term speculation. It’s a huge loss of trust and a significant disappointment for everyone who invested time in 'farming' it.

[passwordnow]

Cex was once became a top exchange before the emergence of Binance. And with the airdrops in general, never hope that they're going to be as big and successful as the first ones that have taken theirs. Because if you're hopeful with that, you're going to be dismayed before it even become a reality. It's a way to market the exchange still and to get more users back to them. Not all airdrops are going to be profitable as what people might have think of.

[coin-investor]

So I made the right decision to stop participating in the Cedex airdrop, which is actually a Telegram tapping airdrop. There were too many delays.
I feel that it will take years before they actually announce their TGE.
There were airdrops I participated in that came and went, yet they kept delaying the allocation.
Airdrops can exhaust your patience, so you must know when to stop participating and hoping, or you feel sorry for holding on too long.

[JeromeTash]

Worst Airdrop?
I think you are still a newcomer 

First of all the era of airdrops ended a long time ago. Airdrops could actually get you a decent amount of money for very less effort as just signing up. To be disappointed in a failed airdrop in 2025 is a shock to be honest. These fails now happen left, right and center, unlike back then.

You just have to suck it up, accept the loss and move on and maybe a lesson learned to waste your precious time on some of these airdrops.