Top 10 Crypto Airdrop Opportunities

Become eligible for a confirmed or potential airdrop.

Crypto airdrops provide a way for projects to distribute tokens evenly among early adopters of their platform. Some of the more popular protocol airdrops like Uniswap, Rarible, dYdX, ENS, and 1inch have been highly profitable for their early users and represent excellent examples of being rewarded for participation in crypto. 

Last updated October 28th

Last year we saw multiple high-value airdrops for early users. One such example was dYdX, a decentralized margin trading platform that airdropped its early user’s tokens worth between $4,000 and $135,000, depending on trading volume.

Another memorable airdrop was carried out by Ethereum Naming Service (ENS) earlier this year, the web 3.0 username service. Users who bought ENS domains received upwards of four digits. Imagine their smiles.

Did you miss out on retroactive airdrops where early users have been airdropped a ton of free tokens? Keep reading and below you will find a list of promising decentralized DeFi protocols and platforms that have either confirmed airdrops or have great potential for it.

What you should know before airdrop hunting

Unless we point to confirmed airdrops, we believe it may be worth interacting with these protocols to increase your chances of being eligible for potential ones.

Note that we use the terms : criteria & potential criteria to differentiate confirmed airdrops from those that could happen. Also, it is never clear what the team behind the projects has in mind, and we can only speculate based on each project’s application.

Also, it is important to highlight that in the case of potential airdrops, there is no guarantee that they will do an airdrop for the early users of the platform.

Pixels

Pixels is a captivating, open-ended world of farming and exploration, built one pixel at a time. In this fun pixelated metaverse you can gather resources, skills and socialize while exploring the Pixels Universe.

Criteria:

The team behind Pixels has confirmed that they will be airdropping free PIXEL and BERRY tokens to the top 20K players on the Pixels platform.

Want to grab some juicy treats this Halloween? visit the airdrop page, connect your wallet and play the game to earn points. By October 31st the top selected players will get both PIXEL and BERRY tokens.

Arbitrum

Arbitrum is home to some of the hottest DeFi dapps such as Curve, Aave and Uniswap. It is a fast-growing L2 network designed to scale Ethereum by processing over 200k transactions per day.

Potential criteria:

Despite its fast growth and competitive advantage over other players, surpassing Optimism, Solana and Fantom with a TVL of $ 1 billion, they do not have a token yet.

Interacting with Arbitrum´s dapps can increase your chances of getting an airdrop.

Pangolin

This popular decentralized exchange (DEX) runs on Avalanche and Ethereum and it’s similar to Uniswap. It is community-driven providing assets with a fast settlement and low transaction fees.

Criteria:

Pangolin is airdropping 1% of the total supply of PSB tokens to PNG holders. Those who held PNG, staked PNG or provided liquidity to PNG/AVAX pair on Pangolin between February 18th, 2022 and July 31st, 2022 are eligible to claim free PSB tokens.

Gem

Type of product:

This NFT aggregator was recently acquired by OpenSea. It is an NFT aggregator on a user-friendly platform, allowing multiple transactions. It finds the best deals across marketplaces. You can pay with any token (or multiple ones) and sweep collection floors.

Potential criteria:

1. The succesful NFT aggregator platform has already hinted to a token launch in the past and it will be interesting to monitor what happens with this after they were bought by OpenSea, signaling their relevance in the market, earlier this year.
2. Early users who’ve bought or sold NFTs using Gem may get an airdrop if they launch their own token.

Sturdy Finance

Type of product:

Sturdy is the first-of-its-kind DeFi protocol for interest-free borrowing and high-yield lending. Rather than charging borrowers interest, Sturdy stakes their collateral and passes the yield to lenders.

This model changes the relationship between borrowers and lenders to make Sturdy the first positive-sum lending protocol. Sturdy is backed by leading investors including Pantera and Y Combinator.

Potential criteria:

1. Sturdy is the largest Ethereum lending protocol without a token and it is well positioned distributing staking yields to stablecoin lenders.
2. It offers 6% APY on stablecoins with 0% interests for borrowers. Early platform users may get an airdrop if they ever launch one.

Katana

Type of product:

Katana is an automated market maker (AMM) decentralized exchange (DEX) built on top of Ronin. It allows anyone to easily swap between the various ERC20 assets, provide liquidity to the DEX and earn swap fees. Also, users can stake their liquidity pool tokens to earn RON.

Potential criteria:

1. Katana is Axie Infinity´s native DEX. Despite the crypto market turmoil and Axie Infinity´s decline compared to last year, the community is still vibrant and in build mode.
2. Early platform users may get an airdrop.

Trust Domains

Type of product:

Trust Domains is a distributed domain service base on blockchain technology. The domains are ERC721-compliant tokens.

Potential criteria:

1. The domains are decentralized and users have full control over the domains and subdomains.
2. Trust Domains blockchain domains will never expire, it’s a ERC721-compliant NFTs assets. The demand for Ethereum domains is constantly rising.

Tezos Domains

Type of product:

Tezos Domains is a distributed, open and extensible naming system using the Tezos blockchain. The main function is to translate a meaningful and user-friendly alias to it’s corresponding Tezos address and vice versa.

Potential criteria:

1. Tezos Domains has a DAO and is actively working on an airdrop.
2. The demand for Tezos Domains is increasing, with over 89,242 domain registrations.

Pika Protocol

Type of product:

Pika Protocol is a decentralized perpetuals swap exchange on Ethereum Layer-2 with high leverage and Deep Liquidity.

Potential criteria:

1. Pika v2 was the first perpetual swap exchange launched on Optimism, attracting over 16k users, 100k trades, and $500m in trading volume since its launch in late 2021.
2. Pika does not have its own token yet but being part of the Optimism ecosystem, they currently offer OP tokens at the early stage to expand liquidity and gain more TVL as well as traders.

Quarry

Type of product:

Quarry helps more Solana projects launch on-chain liquidity mining programs. It is currently standard for projects to manually send tokens to addresses– while this is better than no distribution, it would be much better for the growth of the ecosystem if liquidity mining programs were composable and enforceable on-chain.

Potential criteria:

1. Quarry is the most user-friendly DeFi mining protocol on Solana.
2. Solana has recently seen continued growth in network usage, developer activity and overall ecosystem.  

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The above does not constitute investment advice. The information given here is purely for informational purposes only. Please exercise due diligence and do your research.