Airdrops

Farming airdrops can be a relatively safe strategy compared to trading, but can still quickly rake in thousands. Airdrops exist to grow the protocol, incentivize utilization of the protocol, and to gain loyal users. Successful airdrops can be lucrative and boost a protocol's attention but a failed airdrop can cause a project's reputation to fall.

Biggest risks of farming airdrops:

  • Smart contract security of the protocols being used

  • Connecting wallets to malicious look-a-like websites and links

Avoid risks by:

  • Researching security/audit measures of the protocol

  • Checking URLs of websites to see if it's legit

Perils of farming airdrops:

  • Time consuming (ex: researching projects, creating wallets, farming volume)

  • Protocols may launch underwhelming airdrops

  • More people farming means less rewards


Strategy 1: Research good projects with potential for airdrops

  • Look for signs of possible future airdrops:

    • Incentivizing growth of protocol

    • Points or rewards system

    • No token launched yet

  • Create multiple wallets to farm possible airdrop

    • Having a range of sizes across wallets can have the best chance of farming the most tokens

      • A few wallets with more volume/size

      • Many wallets with smaller volume/size

Strategy 2: Farm existing airdropping protocols

  • Create many wallets to meet future airdrop thresholds


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