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Dear Bankless Nation,
We published a guide to earning token airdrops all the way back in January 2021. At the time we said there was a good chance you could make serious bank by being an early user of these crypto protocols.
We were right.
One example: Darren Lau deposited $100 into dYdX and walked away with $50K. 🤯
We’re pretty confident the airdrops aren’t stopping either.
In this guide, we’re serving alpha: over 40 protocols with potential airdrops! This guide has been designed exclusively for Bankless premium members.
Obviously, we can’t promise anything. But spending 10 mins on each of these opportunities to learn and use them could land you a payday in the future.
As we say so often…crypto tends to pay you to learn crypto!
Best of luck.
- RSA
Bankless’s Best Airdrops Contenders
Last Update: February 2023
DeFi protocols are increasingly turning to token airdrops to decentralize governance and reward the engagement of early users. Projects often conduct these airdrops “retroactively,” meaning they award them based on how much you’ve interacted with their systems in the past.
Accordingly, this tactic will outline a handful of new protocols you can try out today to potentially line up for retro token rewards in the future!
- Goal: Identify untokenized protocols to potentially capitalize on future airdrops
- Skill: Beginner
- Effort: Medium
- ROI: Variable depending on protocol + your activity levels
It’s Raining Coins…
…If you know where to look!
Below you will find airdrop information for over 40 interesting projects from various corners of the crypto industry with key protocol information and airdrop farming instructions.
This guide is broken into three sections:
- New Airdrop Opportunities: Newly added protocols for the month that may airdrop tokens to users in the future.
- Ongoing Airdrop Opportunities: Protocols Bankless has included in past editions that may airdrop tokens to users in the future.
- A History of Success: Airdrops Bankless surfaced for users that have airdropped tokens to users in the past.
Without further ado, THE ALPHA!
Disclaimer: We have no idea if the projects listed below will have an airdrop or what the airdrop criteria might be. These are best guesses based on our experience as crypto users.
🎁 New Airdrop Opportunities for February 🎁
1. Bungee Exchange
Description: Bungee Exchange is a bridge aggregator supporting various EVM-compatible chains.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Bungee Exchange: The Protocol’s Discord under “jolts-and-contributions” notes that by collecting “Jolts,” community contributors can expect further rewards than simply the in-Discord token. This reward likely comes in the form of an airdrop.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Participate in the community Discord and collect your daily “Jolt” allowance and bridge using Bungee!
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2. LI.F
Description: LI.FI is a cross-chain bridge aggregation protocol that supports any-2-any swaps by aggregating bridges and connecting them to DEX aggregators.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why LI.FI: Community Discord conversations indicate that soulbound LZRD tokens have been airdropped to some community participants. Officially however, there is no project token, so future community airdrops are highly probable.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Mint an early access credential to get beta access to their updated interface (launching February 15) and use transferto.xyz for your cross-chain bridging and swapping activities!
Keep up with LI.FI credential opportunities in Gateway. They are announced in the Discord!
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3. ZKX
Description: ZKX is a perpetuals exchange built on StarkNet that will offer swaps on complex financial instruments and rewards for traders.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Why ZKX: By launching a gamified community incentives program, ZKX has signaled that they will be rewarding early participants in the quest with an airdrop. This follows a similar to SudoSwap and the XMON project.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Join the waitlist and participate in ZKX Yakuza saga!
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- 📃 Introducing ZKX: The first permissionless swap protocol on StarkNet
- 📃 Introducing ZKX Yakuza, A Gamified Community Incentives Program
4. Hunch Finance
Description: Hunch is a gamified DeFi protocol in which the players’ abilities to make calculated future assumptions will determine his or her success. Hunchville is the gamified DeFi universe of Hunch and will have contain multiple DeFi Games (DFGs), each with its own unique financial and/or DeFi community characteristics.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Hunch Finance: Currently, the Project does not have a token. While no docs confirm or deny the possibility of an airdrop, Hunch is in extremely nascent stages of development and with only one functioning game, it is likely shipping additional DFGs is a priority over establishing an airdrop roadmap.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Speculate on the date of the Flippening and mint your ticket in the Flippening Observatory (click on the observatory to play)!
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5. LlamaPay
Description: LlamaPay is a multi-chain protocol that allows you to automate transactions and stream them by the second. Payees begin getting paid the moment the stream is established and can withdraw accrued payments at any time.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why LlamaPay: DeFiLlama has LlamaPay listed on its Airdrop dashboard. LlamaPay is a product from the same folks who run DeFiLlama (the two projects even share a Discord!). By listing LlamaPay as a protocol that may airdrop, the founding team itself has hinted at a future airdrop.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Create a new stream to pay employees, vendors, or yourself and deposit token payments into LlamaPay!
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⬇️Ongoing Airdrop Opportunities⬇️
1. DeFi Saver
Description: DeFi Saver is a “one-stop dashboard for creating, managing, and tracking your DeFi positions.”
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why DeFi Saver: DeFi Saver has been mum on a native token so far. But a curation token, which holders could use to vote on and prioritize new protocol integrations, certainly seems conceivable.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Try out DeFi Saver’s Portfolio system or Recipe Creator.
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2. Charm
Description: Charm is a protocol that offers a suite of DeFi products, including Alpha Vaults, Cube Tokens, and more.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Charm: Since day one, the Charm team’s stated goal has been to make it so “anyone can research, build, and govern the protocols within Charm.” Reading between the lines here—mainly “govern the protocols”—it seems a token’s clearly on the way.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Make a deposit into one of Charm’s initial product offerings, e.g. the Alpha Vaults.
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3. Slingshot
Description: Slingshot is a Web3 trading platform currently live on Polygon, with Arbitrum support next up.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Why Slingshot: It seems likely Slingshot could go the way of other DEXs and opt to release its own token eventually.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Purchase wearable NFT GEN-BAGs on the Slingshot shop and trade MATIC on Slingshot swap.
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4. TokenSets
Description: TokenSets is a DeFi asset management platform built on top of Set Protocol.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why TokenSets: The project appears to be on course for full decentralized governance, which would presumably entail a native token launch.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Buy/Sell Set tokens (i.e. crypto structured products) or create your own Set token.
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5. Cozy Finance
Description: Cozy Finance is a protocol for creating trust-minimized protection markets for DeFi.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Cozy Finance: Most DeFi insurance projects to date have launched their own tokens, so we may eventually see the same from Cozy.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Borrow/supply assets on Cozy or, for more advanced users, create your own protection markets.
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6. Zapper
Description: Zapper is a Web3 wallet management dashboard for DeFi and NFT users.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Why Zapper: Zapper hasn’t “eliminated” the possibility of launching a token. That said, there’s at least a chance we see one in the future.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Try out Zapper’s native Exchange, Pool, and Save products, etc.
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7. Zerion
Description: Zerion is another popular Web3 wallet management dashboard for DeFi and NFT users.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Why Zerion: Like Zapper, we might see Zerion launch a native token to foster community governance at some point in the future.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Try out Zerion’s Invest, Exchange, and Pool products, etc.
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8. Mirror
Description: Mirror is a decentralized publishing platform and creators’ suite.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Why Mirror: While Mirror already has the WRITE token live, strictly providing access to the platform, the token’s release has been limited so far. Perhaps there’s a chance going forward that Mirror will airdrop more tokens to its early users.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Make use of Mirror’s various tools, e.g. publish a blog post or back a project on the platform.
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9. Arbitrum
Description: Like Optimism, Arbitrum is an optimistic rollup project that’s been on the rise lately.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Arbitrum: Again, as a rollup, it seems Arbitrum may eventually launch its own token to bootstrap liquidity and win users over.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Bridge funds over to Arbitrum and try out a dapp, e.g. Balancer.
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10. PartyBid
Description: PartyBid is a dapp for “collective bidding on NFTs.” The project makes it easy for groups of friends or even groups of strangers to bid on NFTs together.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Why PartyBid: PartyBid is built by PartyDAO, which is managed via the $PARTY token. If PartyDAO ever decides to expand further, it may do so by expanding $PARTY to the public.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Start a PartyBid on any NFT you want, or contribute ETH to an already active PartyBid (you can retrieve your ETH if the group bid ends up unsuccessful).
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11. Foundation
Description: Foundation is a NFT minting and marketplace platform for the creator economy.
Why Foundation: Foundation’s FAQ says the project “does not currently have a token.” To me, the operative word there is currently. That phrasing suggests Foundation may eventually launch its own governance token.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Bid on/collect NFTs on Foundation; just remember to bid on NFTs you sincerely enjoy. Putting money into NFTs for purely speculative reasons is a recipe for personal frustration.
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12. Zora
Description: Zora is an NFT minting and marketplace protocol.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Zora: Zora V3 has protocol “Fee Switch” NFTs, a.k.a. ZORFs, which are presently owned by Zora DAO. If Zora opts to open up ZORFs to wider community steering, it may use a governance token to do so.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Mint and collect NFTs on Zora.
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13. Tessera
Description: Previously known as Fractional, Tessera is a protocol for collectively owning and governing NFTs.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Why Tessera: At the heart of Tessera is the notion of collective ownership. Toward that idea, the project may eventually make the protocol itself collectively owned through a governance token.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Buy and sell NFTs on Tessera once the project’s new UI is launched!
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14. OpenSea
Description: OpenSea is currently the world’s leading NFT marketplace.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why OpenSea: As big new players continue to move into the NFT space, e.g. Coinbase and Reddit, OpenSea might launch its own token to incentivize users to stay on OpenSea.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Mint and collect NFTs through OpenSea.
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15. Sturdy
Description: Sturdy is the first DeFi lending primitive that offers users interest free borrowing and high yield lending. Yield is earned on the borrower’s collateral and paid out to the lender.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Sturdy: While the current iteration of the protocol is run by a centralized team on Fantom Opera, a V2 will be launched on Ethereum, and may include a governance token.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Lend for high yields and borrow stablecoins at zero interest!
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16. Thala Labs
Description: Thala Labs is building a decentralized, yield-bearing stablecoin (Move Dollar or $MOD) native to the Aptos Layer 1.
Why Thala Labs: While information about the protocol is extremely limited at this moment, it appears likely that the protocol will have a govdernance process, as vague roadmap plans indicate incentives and preferential fee treatment for treasuries diversifying into MOD.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Stay up to date with the protocol’s Twitter and use features as they launch.
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17. Rysk
Description: Rysk Finance allows users to earn yield on their dynamic hedging vaults (DHV), which aim to reduce directional price risks in the underlying asset. Additionally, the platform aims to offer fully on-chain and collateralized European style options.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Rysk: Rysk “believes in producing a product that people love first,” before launching a token. Given that the project remains in closed alpha, it is understandable that there would not be a token. However, this also implicated that Rysk, once successful, will consider an airdrop.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Follow Rysk’s Twitter and trade some options or fund a DHV!
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18. Opyn
Description: Opyn is a derivatives and options platform offering Squeeth (perpetual leverage exposure to ETH without liquidation risk) and automated Squeeth yield strategies.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Opyn: While the current iteration of Opyn only offers Squeeth and a crab market automated investment strategy, expansion of the protocol into further underlyings or yield strategies may provide a good opportunity for the team to launch a governance token.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Trade Squeeth and leverage Opyn’s Crab Strategy for yield.
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19. Sablier
Description: Sablier is a payments streaming protocol that allows for by-the-second payments.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Sablier: The current version of the protocol may not have a token, BUT the team is currently hard at work on a V2, which may have built-in governance processes.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Stream DAI between your accounts or as a form of payment.
20. Risk Harbor
Description: Risk Harbor is an algorithmic, transparent, and impartial protocol that provides a risk management marketplace for Web3.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter
Why Risk Harbor: Protocol whitepapers state that while a token launch date is yet to be determined, governance holders will carry out critical macro level decisions for the protocol, but will not be involved in micro level pricing and leverage decisions, which will be market based.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Buy and provide protection of the Risk Harbor Core app.
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21. dAMM Finance
Description: dAMM Finance currently offers users the ability to lend to uncollateralized institutional borrowers, with future plans to put the AMM in dAMM (add on a DEX for the uninitiated).
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why dAMM Finance: The protocol’s whitepaper states that dAMM will be launched with governance capabilities, but may be staked for a portion of protocol revenue and can vote on allocations of liquidity incentives on a pool-by-pool basis.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Lend your tokens to institutions.
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22. Yield Protocol
Description: Yield Protocol allows users to split yield-bearing collateral into principal and yield tokens. This affords the opportunity to fix yields or lever up on variable yields (for an in-depth explanation on a variety of DeFi yield derivatives and their applications, click here).
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter
Why Yield Protocol: Currently, Yield Protocol governance is performed via a centralized governor and operations team. Like many DeFi protocols, it is possible that this power will be transitioned to the community via token airdrop.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Fix yields on your yield-bearing collateral.
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23. Sense Finance
Description: Sense Finance, like Yield Protocol, allows users to split yield-bearing collateral into principal and yield tokens.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Sense Finance: Sense Finance’s docs state that later versions of the Protocol will be governed by the SenseDAO, consisting of Sense token holders and on/off chain governance structures. It is possible the Sense token will be airdropped to early users.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Fix yields on your yield-bearing collateral.
24. Aztec
Description: Aztec is focused on providing a programmable privacy layer for Web3, giving users a private DeFi experience. It strives to enable affordable, private crypto payments via zero-knowledge proofs.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Aztec: Like Optimism and Arbitrum, Aztec may choose to launch a token to bootstrap liquidity and attract inflows to the project..
👉 Airdrop strategy: Use DeFi apps, but be ~private~ about it.
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25. zkSync
Update - Oct 21, 2022: We made a mistake! No token date has been confirmed. zkSync mainnet set to launch in October/November 2022.
Description: zkSync is an L2 scaling solution powered by zk rollups technology.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why zkSync: Matter Labs Chief Product Officer Steve Newcomb told CoinDesk that “Matter Labs will likely be ‘the last [zk Rollup] project’ to launch a token,” but stated that “two-thirds [of tokens distributed] would apparently go to the zkSync ‘ecosystem,’ though it's unclear exactly how or to whom those funds would be disbursed.” Newcomb declined to comment on any potential token airdrop farming strategies.
Airdrop strategy: Open up a zkSync wallet and test out the L2.
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26. Sui
Description: “Sui is a boundless platform to build rich and dynamic on-chain assets from gaming to finance.” The Sui platform is built on using the Move programming language and is uses a POS for the consensus mechanism.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Sui: Sui will be a L1 blockchain. The protocol’s whitepaper states that SUI will be the native asset and used to pay for gas. Additionally, it notes that SUI will be used to validate the chain and will receive rewards for doing so.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Download the Sui Wallet extension. Use the token faucet to get SUI for gas and interact with all of the apps listed in the “Apps” tab on the bottom ribbon.
Keep in mind, however, that the team has Tweeted that, “there are no plans for an airdrop, and interacting with Testnet will not win you any prizes.”
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27. Sei
Description: Sei claims to be the world’s first sector-specific L1 blockchain, specialized for trading. The Project integrates a native order matching engine and aims to have the fastest time to finality of any chain- within 600ms.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Sei: Sei has alluded that users may want to make over 10 transactions on the network to be eligible for their “Dawn” NFT (see below). Past projects have used testnet NFTs to establish eligibility for token airdrops.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Mint a “Dawn” NFT!
The first ever Sei NFT is here ♒️
— Sei (IN DENVER) (@SeiNetwork) November 16, 2022
Wallet addresses that have made 10+ transactions on Seinami testnet after Nov. 8th are now eligible to mint a "Dawn" Sei NFT.
You might want to get your hands on one 👀
Details below. Happy minting Seilors 🫡https://t.co/90ts96PVD7 pic.twitter.com/MWOg5UYvLm
To start off, download both the Keplr and Leap Wallets.
Next join the Sei Discord. Go to the channel “atlantic-1-faucet” and type “!faucet [one of your Sui wallet address]” to receive tokens for the Sui Testnet.
Then, send 0.05 SEI from the wallet you received the Testnet tokens to to the other wallet that you have set up. Do this 10 times. Repeat the process, sending 0.02 SEI back to the original wallet.
Finally, claim your Dawn NFTs here! By interacting with the chain 10 times using both wallets, you will be eligible for 2 NFTs!
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28. Sentiment
Description: Sentiment aims to solve the capital inefficiencies associated with overcollateralized lending primitives, enabling permissionless, undercollateralized, on-chain credit markets, providing users unique ways to leverage positions and interact with dApps.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Sui: While Sentiment does not currently have a token, Sentiment mod and community manager NLP Choppa noted that the Protocol has the potential to launch a token in the future.
The protocol’s whitepaper also notes that governance will have the ability to control optimal utilization and margin call risk thresholds, in addition to whitelisting protocols Sentiment users can interact with and approving new token lending markets.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Lend ETH, USDC, or USDC to Sentiment for yield or borrow those assets with as little as 20% margin to interact with whitelisted DEXs and lending protocols.
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29. Swell Network
Description: Swell Network is a permissionless, non-custodial liquid staking solution for ETH. The Project was the first to implement atomic deposits, allowing users to deposit ETH with their validator of choice, driving competition among validators and creating a competitive staking market.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Swell Network: Competitors RocketPool (RPL) and Lido (LDO) have issued protocol governance tokens, setting precedent for Swell Network. Additionally, Swell’s website notes that it is a “community-driven” protocol, implying that users will eventually control the Project’s actions.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Currently, Swell has postponed further staking deposits, due to post-Merge validator activation difficulties with 2 of the network’s validators. Phase 2 of Swell’s roadmap has been temporarily delayed launch as a result of these issues.
When Phase 2 is implemented, however, the most likely actions to establish your eligibility for a potential SWELL airdrop is to stake ETH with Swell Network or run a node for the Project.
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30. Infura
Description: Infura provides tooling and infrastructure support for devs to quickly and cheaply connect their dApps to Ethereum and IPFS. Projects on Ethereum leverage Infura’s APIs to connect their applications to the Ethereum network.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Infura: After questions regarding OFAC compliance requirements for Web3 infrastructure providers arose in the aftermath of the Tornado Cash sage, Infura announced its intention to decentralize.
A decentralized Infura would continue to provide high-quality Web3 API services, but would eliminate any single point of failure. A decentralized Infura network would continue to run in parallel with current centralized Infura solutions.
While Infura has released no specifics on how its decentralized network would operate, fellow decentralized infrastructure Pocket Network has a utility token, POKT.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Interact with projects that use Infura’s APIs. These include MetaMask, Aragon, and Gnosis
Additionally, sophisticated users can apply to join Infura’s Early Access Program to help provide decentralized API access.
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31. Mero
Description: Mero is a trustless reactive liquidity protocol where users can earn yield and register “Actions” with their liquidity.
Users can earn yield on ETH, USDC, USDT, DAI, or FRAX from single-exposure yield farming strategies. Furthermore, Mero LPs can make their liquidity reactive by registering Actions, such as collateral top-ups, which protect their loans on over-collateralized borrowing platforms from liquidation.
Combining yield generation with programable Actions allows users to automatically deploy liquidity when it is needed, while generating yield when it is not.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Mero: The “Tokenomics” section of Mero’s docs states that governance tokens will be distributed to liquidity providers, keepers (bots executing collateral top-ups), and AMM liquidity providers.
Further, the docs note that additional tokenomic information will be available after the launch of the token, clearly indicating the Project’s intention to have a token.
👉 Airdrop strategy: LP and earn yield using Mero’s liquidity pools.
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32. Atlendis
Description: Atlendis is an unsecured lending protocols that offers DeFi users the ability to lend capital directly to whitelisted borrowers. Interest rates are determined via an order book model, with lenders able to set their cost of capital to pre-defined interest rate levels when supplying liquidity to borrower pools.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Atlendis: The “Governance and Pool Creation” section of the developer documentation highlights that the core team has chosen to focus on the base protocol before decentralizing. Protocols that decentralize typically do so via airdrop.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Lend to one of Atlendis’s whitelisted borrowers. Seek out borrowers with high credit ratings - the Protocol has partnered with Credora to underwrite some of its borrower set - to minimize exposure to default risk.
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33. IPOR
Description: IPOR calculates an index based on lending rates form overcollateralized DeFi protocols, known as the “Inter Protocol Over-Block Rate,” and provides users market to trade swaps on the underlying index.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Ipor: The developer documentation states that the protocol’s native token, IPOR, will be issued to parties involves in the project, including builders, investors, protocol users, etc. Additionally, the IPOR Manifesto references that the protocol will be governed by a DAO.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Trade interest rate swaps.
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34. Voltz
Description: Voltz is an interest rate swap marketplace that allows users to speculate on or hedge against changes in interest rates for a variety of underlying assets.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Voltz: Section 6 of the Protocol’s litepaper, entitled Governance, states that a DAO will take governance control over from the Voltz team, and that decentralizing ownership aligns with crypto’s values.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Trade interest rate swaps.
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35. Rage Trade
Description: Rage Trade provides up to 10x leverage on ETH to traders and provides HODLers high yields via GLP and USDC delta neutral yield strategies.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Rage Trade: Discord communications from Rage Trade team members indicate that users of the dApp’s delta neutral vaults will receive an airdrop.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Deposit funds into the Protocol’s delta neutral vault strategies and start earning yield to position yourself for a potential airdrop.
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36. Neptune Mutual
Description: Neptune Mutual is an insurance-like cover product that allows crypto users to purchase protection on various smart contracts and exchanges. Payouts from the mutual are discretionarily approved by governance.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter
Why Neptune Mutual: The Protocol’s FAQ section under “Can you share the token design?” states that, “The NPM token design is under review and will be published before we publicly launch the token.”
👉 Airdrop strategy: Purchase cover on Binance custody.
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37. JediSwap
Description: JediSwap is a fully permissionless and composable AMM built on StarkNet’s ZK-Rollup on Ethereum inspired by Uniswap.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why JediSwap: The projects docs note that Mesh Community members contributing development, design, marketing, community managing, and other efforts will be awarded points, in the form of NFTs, for distribution of Mesh community project tokens. Therefore, we can assume JediSwap will have a token.
Additionally, AMMs, such as Uniswap, have proven token airdrop models and are a likely category of project to airdrop tokens to early users.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Download the StarkNet compatible Argent X wallet and swap tokens in JediSwap.
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38. SynFutures
Description: SynFutures is a permissionless web3 infrastructure for derivatives. SynFutures allows any users to list arbitrary asset pairs and even the market itself to form endogenous pricing and behaviors, enabling the protocol to capture the widest array of assets ranging from Bitcoin and Ethereum to long-tail assets and even some NFTs.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why SynFutures: While the protocol does not directly reference a potential airdrop, participating in closed alpha versions of dApps has set users up for past airdrops.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Sign up to trade on the Protocol’s V2 Closed Alpha.
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39. Pika Protocol
Description: Pika Protocol is a decentralized perpetuals swap exchange on Ethereum layer 2 with high leverage (up to 100x), low slippage, a wide range of assets, low fees, and a simple UX. Users can trade various popular cryptos and Forex pairs.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why Pika: While the Protocol’s whitepaper does not mention governance or a potential airdrop, competitors, such as dYdX and Perpetual, have tokens. It is likely that an airdrop would serve as a likely distribution tool for the Protocol.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Bridge funds to Optimism using the Pika Bridge and trade ETH futures on the Protocol.
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40. StarkNet
Description: StarkNet is a permissionless decentralized Validity-Rollup (often referred to as ZK-Rollup). It operates as an L2 network over Ethereum, enabling any dApp to achieve unlimited scale for its computation – without compromising Ethereum's composability and security.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Why StarkNet: The Protocol team confirms in a Medium post that 9% of the token supply will be used as rebates to cover onboarding costs to StarkNet from Ethereum.
👉 Airdrop strategy: Download the StarkNet compatible Argent X wallet and swap tokens in JediSwap.
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We update the Bankless Airdrop Guide on a Regular basis. Check back often!
Btw did you know that 47% of the airdrops we predict resulted in success?
👇 Here’s the track record of airdrops we successfully predicted 👇
💸A History of Success💸
✅ Blur
✅ CONFIRMED: December 2022
Description: Blur is an NFT marketplace aggregator that allows you to sweep NFT floors across multiple marketplaces and claims to provide a better+faster UX than its competitors.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
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✅ Aptos ($APT)
✅ CONFIRMED: October 2022
Description: Aptos is a novel L1 that uses Move programming languages and promises users increased scalability, reliability, and usability.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
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✅ Element Finance ($ELFI)
✅ CONFIRMED: March 2022
Description: Element Finance is an “open-source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets.”
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
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✅ Hop Exchange ($HOP)
✅ CONFIRMED: May 2021
Description: Hop Protocol is a token bridge protocol for easily sending ETH and ERC-20s among blockchains and rollups; it currently supports bridging assets across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and xDai.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
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- 📺 How to use Hop Protocol (complete video tutorial!)
✅ Saddle Exchange ($SDL)
✅ CONFIRMED: November 2021
Description: Saddle is a decentralized exchange “optimized for pegged value crypto assets such as stablecoins and wrapped BTC.”
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
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✅ Gro Protocol ($GRO)
✅ CONFIRMED: March 2022
Description: Gro Protocol is a yield aggregator protocol that caters to stablecoins.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Starter guides:
✅ Cowswap ($COW)
✅ CONFIRMED: December 2021
Description: Cowswap is a MEV-resistant DEX aggregator built on top of the Gnosis Protocol v2.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Starter guides:
✅ Lyra ($LYRA)
✅ CONFIRMED: December 2021
Description: Derivatives protocol built on Synthetix and deployed on the Optimism L2.
Resources: Twitter
Starter guides:
✅ Kwenta ($KWENTA)
✅ CONFIRMED: April 2022
Description: Derivatives protocol built on Synthetix and deployed on the Optimism L2
Resources: Twitter
Starter guides:
✅ Ethereum Name Service ($ENS)
✅ CONFIRMED: November 2021
Description: ENS is a Web3 domain and profile system.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Starter guides:
✅ Optimism ($OP)
✅ CONFIRMED: April 2022
Description: Optimism is an optimistic rollup, a type of layer-two (L2) scaling solution that helps make Ethereum-based transactions very fast and very affordable.
Resources: Website | Docs | Twitter | Discord
Starter guides:
✅ Sudoswap ($SUDO)
✅ CONFIRMED: September 2022
Description: Sudoswap is a trading platform for exchanging any combo of NFTs and ERC20s.
Resources: Website | Twitter | Discord
Starter guides:
Conclusion
It’s important to keep in mind that using young DeFi and NFT projects can be risky. They’re essentially all experiments.
As such, you’ll want to do more research before diving into any of these protocols. That’s a requirement. If you do test any of them out, make sure to do it cautiously and only with amounts of crypto that you won’t miss if worst-case scenarios, e.g. hacks, happen.
That said, as Darren Lau mentioned back in that earlier tweet, even a modest amount of participation can lead you to a nice chunk of change in an airdrop. A pioneer approach can potentially pay off accordingly.
Lastly, keep in mind that we have seen rollups, such as Optimism, launch their own native tokens.
Users of Hop Protocol not only ensured their eligibility for $HOP, but ALSO became eligible for $OP token onboarding incentives, and those who bridged to Optimism before the airdrop announcement were ALSO eligible for their share of $OP! It is likely that future airdrops from L2s may follow a similar approach to incentivize migration.
But that’s all speculation for now.
