The path to “getting rich through airdrops” has become increasingly challenging, but its potential and opportunities are still significant. Coindarwin has compiled a list of nearly 40 projects with significant airdrop opportunities in the second half of this year or the coming year, for investors’ reference.
Fuel
Fuel is an operating system specifically built for Ethereum Rollup. Fuel claims that the Fuel Rollup will feature parallel and state-minimized execution, designed for cross-chain interoperability as well as native account abstraction and support for all network wallets. Fuel plans to launch its mainnet in early Q4 and has completed a testnet snapshot.
Participation Strategy: Fuel launched a points program this month, offering point rewards to users who deposit assets before the mainnet launch. Early participants will earn more points and potentially receive additional incentives and higher loyalty rewards after the mainnet launch.
Participants will earn 1.5 to 3 points daily based on their deposit amount, multiplied by a factor depending on the asset. Currently, ETH, WETH, eETH, rsETH, rETH, wbETH, USDT, USDC, USDe, sUSDe, or stETH can earn 1.5 points per dollar value daily from July 8 to 22, and ezETH can earn 3 points per dollar value daily.
Fuel states that through Fuel Points, it is creating a sustainable rewards mechanism that will span all stages of Fuel network deployment (from public testnet to Fuel mainnet), rewarding users who contribute to the development of the Fuel network and ecosystem.
Participation Link: https://app.fuel.network/earn-points
Notes: Although Fuel states that there is no minimum deposit requirement and users can withdraw funds at any time, withdrawing any pre-deposited assets before the Fuel mainnet launch will result in the loss of related Fuel points. Points may also be forfeited due to violating service terms or failing to meet specified eligibility criteria. Additionally, Fuel’s points program terms show that Fuel reserves the right to block access to the service (in whole or in part) from certain geographical locations, IP addresses, and unique device identifiers at its sole discretion at any time.
Funding Background: In September 2022, Fuel developers Fuel Labs announced the completion of up to $80 million in funding, led by Blockchain Capital and Stratos Technologies, with participation from Alameda Research, CoinFund, Bain Capital Crypto, and others. In September 2021, Fuel Labs completed $1.5 million in funding, led by CoinFund.
Linea
Linea events are frequent, and despite having some aspects of PUA (pickup artist) tactics, the airdrop opportunity is worth a shot as part of the Consensys matrix. Linea previously stated that Linea Surge is the last piece of the puzzle before embarking on a decentralized journey to create a truly community-owned and operated network.
Participation Strategy: Complete PoH (Proof of Humanity), cross-chain, and participate in the Linea Surge Volt points program.
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Berachain
Berachain addresses liquidity issues in the DeFi field through a three-token model and Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism.
Participation Strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet and explore ecosystem applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.
Funding Background: In April 2023, Berachain completed $42 million in funding, led by Polychain Capital. In April 2024, Berachain completed $100 million in Series B funding, co-led by the Abu Dhabi branch of Brevan Howard Digital and Framework Ventures.
Base
While Coinbase may not issue tokens, Base has the potential to do so.
Participation Strategy: Participate in Onchain Summer, collect points through minting, playing games, trading, and more.
Participation Link: https://wallet.coinbase.com/ocs/
Scroll
Scroll is an EVM-equivalent zkRollup with a current TVL of over $1 billion.
Participation Strategy: Participate in the Scroll Sessions One loyalty rewards activity to earn Marks by depositing supported assets into selected DEX liquidity pools and lending markets.
Participation Link: https://scroll.io/sessions
Funding Background: In April 2022, Scroll completed $30 million in Series A funding, led by Polychain Capital. In March 2023, Scroll completed $50 million in funding, with participation from Polychain Capital, Sequoia China, Bain Capital Crypto, and others.
Monad
Monad is an EVM-compatible blockchain project founded by Keone Hon, former research director at Jump Trading, fully compatible with EVM bytecode and Ethereum RPC API. Monad is about to launch its testnet.
Funding Background: In February 2023, Monad Labs completed $19 million in seed funding, led by Dragonfly Capital. In April 2024, Monad Labs completed $225 million in funding, led by Paradigm, with participation from Electric Capital, Castle Island Ventures, and others.
Kakarot
Kakarot is a zkEVM based on Starknet and Cairo, aiming for EVM compatibility in the short term and serving as a modular backbone for the EVM validium RaaS stack in the medium term. In the long run, Kakarot aims to become a high-performance zkEVM class 1 client, proving Ethereum blocks and transactions.
Participation Strategy: Kakarot launched a public testnet this month, allowing developers to deploy smart contracts and ordinary users to explore Kakarot test network applications like iZUMi Finance, HisokaFinance, Goku Hub, and Swaplace.
Kakarot also plans to release a testnet community points system and deploy Kakarot on Starknet Sepolia later this summer, making it a dual VM ZK-Rollup (EVM and CairoVM).
Participation Link: https://sepolia-faucet.kakarot.org/
Funding Background: In June 2023, Kakarot completed a pre-seed round of unknown amount, with participation from Vitalik Buterin, StarkWare, Node Guardians co-founder and CEO Sam Benyakoub, LambdaClass, Zama CEO Rand Hindi, Starknet co-founder Fricoben, FuzzingLabs, and others. In November 2023, Kakarot completed a second round of funding, led by Stake Capital Group and LongHash Ventures, with participation from Eterna Capital, Foresight Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, OKX Ventures, and others.
Superposition
Superposition is a Layer 3 built on Arbitrum Orbit, developed by Fluidity Labs. The first DApp on Superposition chain is Longtail, which follows Uniswap’s V3 AMM model with concentrated liquidity.
Participation Strategy: In June, Superposition launched the first phase of its incentivized testnet. Every transaction on Longtail is incentivized.
Symbiotic
Symbiotic is a competitor to EigenLayer, developed by the team behind the Stakemind staking service.
Participation Strategy: Earn points by restaking wstETH, wBETH, cbETH, sUSDe, rETH, mETH, ENA, swETH, sfrxETH, and ETHx.
Participation Link: https://app.symbiotic.fi/restake
Funding Background: In June 2024, Symbiotic completed $5.8 million in seed funding, led by Paradigm and Cyber Fund.
StakeStone
StakeStone is an omnichain liquidity asset protocol, more like Ethereum’s MakerDAO.
Participation Strategy: Stake ETH across multiple chains to earn STONE, and provide STONE liquidity for rewards. StakeStone previously launched the “StakeStone Omnichain Carnival,” allowing users to earn StakeStone governance token airdrops through open-term staking of STONE or participating in ecosystem project activities. This event offers three types of rewards: 6.5% StakeStone governance tokens, points/tokens from 15+ ecosystem projects, and ETH staking yields.
Participation Link: https://app.stakestone.io/u/stake
Notes: The founder previously stated, in response to the question “What do you think of Sybil behavior?”, that “Under the TVL game rules, unless the fund amount of a single address reaches a considerable scale, splitting addresses is not particularly meaningful. Sybil behavior affects the game rules of ‘contribution based on deposit amount and time,’ but compensating for gas fees for small fund deposits is a reasonable consideration. However, users are not encouraged to test the minimum. StakeStone hopes this TVL game is fair.”
Funding Background: StakeStone has received funding from Binance Labs and OKX Ventures.
Puffer Finance
Puffer Finance is an LSD protocol that allows users to earn Ethereum staking and EigenLayer re-staking rewards.
Participation Strategy: Stake ETH, stETH, or wstETH to receive pufETH, and provide liquidity with pufETH.
Participation Link: https://quest.puffer.fi/restake
Funding Background: Puffer Finance completed a $5.5 million seed round in August 2023, led by Lemniscap and Lightspeed Faction. In April 2024, they completed an $18 million Series A round, led by Brevan Howard Digital and Electric Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Lemniscap, and Franklin Templeton.
Usual
Usual is a decentralized Tether-like platform. When users deposit assets, they receive Liquid Deposit Token (LDT) synthetic assets, which can be freely traded permissionlessly and are backed 1:1 by the original deposited assets. LDT holders have permanent withdrawal rights, allowing them to redeem the underlying assets at any time under normal circumstances.
The first LDT on the protocol is the USD0 stablecoin, backed 1:1 by real-world assets (RWA) with ultra-short maturities. Pierre PERSON, the CEO of Usual, is also a former French parliament member.
Participation Strategy: Usual launched its mainnet and points activity in mid-July. Early participants can earn more Usual Pills points by providing liquidity or minting and holding USD0++, which can be exchanged for USUAL tokens during the airdrop. The points activity will distribute tokens representing 7.5% of the USUAL supply minted at TGE. The event starts on July 10, 2024, at 22:30 and lasts for four months. Referring friends earns a 10% bonus of their points.
Participation Link: https://app.usual.money/
Funding Background: In April 2024, Usual Labs completed a $7 million funding round led by IOSG and Kraken Ventures, with participation from GSR, Mantle, Starkware, Flowdesk, Avid3, Bing Ventures, Breed, Hypersphere, Kima Ventures, Psalion, Public Works, and X Ventures.
Zircuit
Zircuit is a zkEVM built on Optimism Bedrock, combining the OP architecture with zero-knowledge proofs and AI algorithms for security detection.
Participation Strategy: Participate in LRT staking to earn rewards and points; join the Build to Earn program by building on Zircuit.
Participation Link: https://stake.zircuit.com/
Funding Background: Zircuit’s investors include Pantera Capital, Dragonfly, and Binance Labs.
Zerion
Zerion is a Web3 wallet and portfolio management tool that launched the ZERO Network testnet supported by ZKsync in June 2023.
Participation Strategy: Use the wallet, mint Zerion DNA, and interact with the ZERO Network testnet.
Participation Link: https://zerion.io/
Funding Background: In December 2019, Zerion completed a $2 million seed round led by Placeholder. In 2021, they raised $8.2 million in a Series A round led by Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Placeholder, Digital Currency Group, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
In October 2022, they raised $12.3 million in a Series B round led by Wintermute Ventures, with participation from Mosaic, Coinbase Ventures, Alchemy, and Placeholder.
Zapper
Zapper is a DeFi and NFT portfolio management tool that launched the open protocol Zapper Protocol in June, aiming to incentivize users to interpret and explain on-chain information. The protocol will be supported by the ZAP token, which is planned to be released in the fourth quarter of this year.
Participation Strategy: Zapper’s interaction strategies include exchanging and cross-chain transactions on Zapper. It is unclear if a snapshot has been taken for Zapper users. The Zapper Protocol offers two ways to participate: as a curator, finding and interpreting unparsed data without coding knowledge, or as an auditor, reviewing curators’ submissions. Auditors must be skilled in parsing on-chain information and apply in Discord or Telegram. The protocol has released a curator leaderboard, where users can earn points through contributions.
Funding Background: In 2020, Zapper completed a $1.5 million seed round led by Framework Ventures and Libertus Capital, with participation from CoinFund, The LAO, MetaCartel, CoinGecko, and Kain Warwick. In May 2021, they raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Sound Ventures and Mark Cuban.
Nubit
Nubit is a Bitcoin-native DA layer, using Cosmos SDK and supported by solutions like Babylon for BTC staking, allowing BTC staking on the Nubit DA Chain.
Participation Strategy: Nubit launched an Alpha testnet incentive activity in June 2024. The Alpha testnet activity has three phases: community assembly, light node tasks, and testnet adventures, each with incentives. Currently, the activity is in the second phase (lasting until July 24), where users can earn points by running light nodes.
Participation Link: https://alpha.nubit.org/
Funding Background: In early June, Nubit completed an $8 million seed round led by Polychain Capital, bringing their total funding to $12 million.
Movement
Movement is building a blockchain network based on Move, with its flagship products being the Movement Network and M1 shared sequencer.
Participation Strategy: Movement is hosting the Battle of Olympus event on the testnet from July 17 to September 17. Developers and non-developers can earn rewards through various activities, including team registration and project development on the Movement Labs testnet, creating guides, engaging with the community, organizing events, creating Movement-related content, and interacting with partners.
Participation Link: https://olympus.movementlabs.xyz/about
Funding Background: Movement Labs was founded in 2022 and completed a $3.4 million seed round in September 2023, followed by a $38 million Series A round in April 2024, led by Polychain Capital with participation from Hack VC and Foresight Ventures.
Redstone Chain
Redstone Chain, developed by Lattice, is a Layer 2 network focused on the gaming ecosystem. The mainnet launched two months ago. Lattice’s primary funder and incubator is 0xPARC, a research organization founded by Dark Forest creator Gubsheep.
Participation Strategy: Transfer assets from Ethereum, OP Network, Polygon, and other networks to explore games on the Redstone network.
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Karak
Karak is a universal re-staking layer supported by the entire crypto economy across all chains and assets, allowing users to provide universal security in exchange for higher rewards.
Participation Strategy: Karak launched an XP points program, allowing users to earn XP points by staking stablecoins, liquid staking assets, and liquidity re-staking assets. Currently, Karak’s total TVL exceeds $1 billion.
Participation Link: https://app.karak.network/
Funding Background: Karak’s developer Andalusia Labs (formerly RiskHarbor) completed a $48 million Series A round at the end of 2023, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Investors include Mubadala Capital, Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Digital Money Group.
Solayer
Solayer is a re-staking protocol within the Solana ecosystem, supporting SOL holders to stake their assets in other Solana ecosystem protocols or DApp services for additional PoS staking rewards.
Participation Strategy: Currently, Solayer supports the deposit of native SOL, mSOL, and JitoSOL assets.
Participation Link: https://app.solayer.org/
Funding Background: Solayer has no institutional investors yet. In the recently announced builder round on July 2, investors included Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Solend founder Rooter, Tensor co-founder Richard Wu, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal.
MegaETH
MegaETH bills itself as the first fully Ethereum-compatible real-time blockchain (akin to L2), benefiting from MegaETH’s full utilization of Ethereum’s security, integration of Optimism’s fault-proof system, and its own optimized sequencer. Recently, MegaETH launched the 10x builder program, MegaMafia, to help developers and founders build applications alongside the MegaLabs team and its advisors.
Participation Link: https://megaeth.systems
Funding Background: In June, MegaETH developer MegaLabs completed a $20 million seed round led by Dragonfly, with support from Vitalik Buterin, Consensys founder Joseph Lubin, and EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan.
Unisat and Fractal Bitcoin
UniSat is a Bitcoin ecosystem wallet that supports creating inscriptions and trading Ordinals, Runes, and Atomicals. UniSat will also launch a Bitcoin extension solution, Fractal Bitcoin.
Participation Strategy: Use the UniSat wallet; mint Ordinals and Runes; trade Ordinals, Runes, and Atomicals on the UniSat Marketplace; then interact with Fractal Bitcoin, using the UniSat Swap feature on the Bitcoin mainnet and Fractal Bitcoin.
Participation Link: https://unisat.io
Funding Background: In May 2024, UniSat completed a Pre-A round of funding led by Binance. OKX Ventures and Inception Capital are also investors.
Nillion
Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network, aiming to build an encrypted network for high-value data during storage, transmission, and computation, addressing the current issue of needing to “decrypt – compute – re-encrypt” for encrypted data computation.
Participation Strategy: Participate in the recently launched Genesis Sprint (now ended) of the incentivized testnet; the second phase, Catalyst Convergence, allows developers to build and deploy Blind applications on the network, using NIL tokens from the faucet to power projects, accessing SDK features through direct interaction with the testnet, and utilizing Petnet for secure storage and computation.
Participation Link: https://docs.nillion.com/quickstart
Funding Background: In December 2022, Nillion completed a $20 million financing round led by Distributed Global.
Zora
Zora is an NFT minting and marketplace platform that has launched the L2 network Zora Network based on the OP Stack.
Participation Strategy: Mint NFTs on Zora; create NFTs on Zora; interact with mint.fun (acquired by Zora) for minting; use the official cross-chain bridge to transfer assets to the Zora network; explore applications on the Zora network.
Participation Link:
Funding Background: In May 2022, Zora completed a $50 million financing round at a $600 million valuation, led by Haun Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Kindred Ventures, and others.
SynFutures
SynFutures is a decentralized crypto derivatives exchange, with its V3 launched on the Blast and Base mainnets.
Participation Strategy: Trade to earn O_O points.
Participation Link: https://www.synfutures.com
Funding Background: In June 2021, SynFutures completed a $14 million Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital. In October 2023, SynFutures completed a $22 million Series B funding round led by Pantera Capital.
Kiloex
Kiloex is a perpetual contract DEX based on BNB Chain, opBNB, and Manta, and was selected for Binance Labs’ Season 6 MVB Accelerator Program.
Participation Strategy: Trade and refer. Kiloex will airdrop 10% of the total token supply (100 million tokens), with 4% allocated to participants of the Genesis Season airdrop (now ended) and 6% to participants from July 17 to TGE (Airdrop Pioneer Season) and the 180 days post-TGE.
Participation Link: https://app.kiloex.io/airdrop
Funding Background: Kiloex investors include Binance Labs and Foresight Ventures.
Aleo (Incentivized Testnet Ended)
Aleo is a zero-knowledge Layer 1 blockchain. Aleo is about to launch its mainnet, previously stating that the June testnet was the final testnet. The mainnet will launch later this year. Aleo Credits allow users and developers to ensure the security of verification and data services on the decentralized network.
Provers and verifiers are rewarded with Aleo Credits for securing the network, and stakers can delegate Aleo Credits to verifiers to earn a portion of inflation rewards. Aleo Credit holders can participate in decentralized governance after the mainnet launch.
Marginfi
Marginfi is a lending platform in the Solana ecosystem.
Participation Strategy: Earn Marginfi points through lending and referring new users.
Participation Link: https://app.marginfi.com
Funding Background: Total funding of $8 million, with investors including Multicoin Capital and Pantera Capital.
BOB
BOB is a hybrid L2 project powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, launched on the mainnet on May 2.
Participation Strategy: The BOB points program BOB Fusion has entered its second season, where points can be earned by contributing TVL, using ecosystem DApps, referrals, and completing tasks.
Participation Link: https://app.gobob.xyz/fusion
Funding Background: In March 2024, BOB completed a $10 million seed round led by Castle Island Ventures. In July, BOB completed another $1.6 million round led by Ledger Ventures.
Babylon
Babylon is a Bitcoin staking protocol, currently in the Test-4 testnet phase with the staking window closed.
Participation Link: https://btcstaking.testnet.babylonchain.io
Funding Background: In December 2023, Babylon completed an $18 million funding round led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC. In May 2024, Babylon completed a $70 million funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and Bullish’s venture arm. Babylon has also previously received investment from Binance Labs.
Lombard
Lombard is a Bitcoin re-staking protocol that connects Bitcoin with DeFi through liquidity Bitcoin (LBTC). BTC staked in Lombard is re-staked in Babylon to earn native yields. LBTC represents BTC staked in Babylon.
Participation Strategy: Currently, you can apply for the whitelist.
Participation Link: https://www.lombard.finance
Funding Background: In July 2024, Lombard completed a $16 million seed round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, and others.
Magic Eden
In January 2024, Magic Eden launched the Magic Eden Rewards Program, allowing users to earn Diamonds through actions such as listing, bidding, purchasing, and accepting bids. Magic Eden’s long-term goal is to be 100% open source, with IP managed by the community. Magic Eden is open-sourcing and contributing all its cross-chain NFT trading and minting protocols to Non-Fungible DAO. Non-Fungible DAO will use its (yet-to-launch) $NFT token to control and manage the best open-source technologies for NFTs.
Participation Link: https://magiceden.io/rewards
Funding Background: In March 2020, Magic Eden completed a $27 million funding round with investors including Sequoia Capital, Paradigm, Greylock, and others. In June 2022, Magic Eden completed a $130 million Series B round at a $1.6 billion valuation, led by Electric Capital and Greylock, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, and others.
Farcaster Ecosystem
Farcaster is a decentralized social protocol. According to Fortune magazine last month, an anonymous source due to business constraints indicated that, like most protocols, Farcaster is expected to launch a token, with investors eager to capture its fully diluted value.
However, Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero also stated, “Running a Hub now or in the future will not bring economic rewards. There are no follow-up surprises or traps. All YouTube tutorials are misleading you about potential rewards.”
Participation Strategy: Be active on the Farcaster ecosystem client Warpcast (https://warpcast.com/) and try using Farcaster Actions.
Funding Background: In May 2024, Farcaster completed a $150 million funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from a16z crypto, Haun, USV, Variant, Standard Crypto, and others.
Drakula
Drakula is an on-chain short video social app based on Base.
Participation Strategy: Use Farcaster to log in and receive 250 BLOOD points. Users can also earn points by posting and watching short videos, sharing links, purchasing creator tokens, and using BLOOD for tipping. Drakula has also partnered with Degen, using DEGEN as the main trading token.
Participation Link: https://drakula.app
Aligned Layer
Aligned Layer is a decentralized ZK proof verification layer.
Participation Strategy: Aligned Layer has launched its third testnet, which is the first public testnet of its EigenLayer AVS open to third-party operators. With the Aligned EigenLayer testnet, developers can start verifying various types of proofs immediately and publish results on Ethereum.
However, Aligned Layer notes that this is not an incentivized testnet and is only for operators and developers. For the broader community, Aligned Layer is running Galxe tasks and will later launch a public incentivized light client.
Funding Background: In April 2024, Aligned Layer completed a $2.6 million seed round (led by Lemniscap) and a $20 million Series A round (led by Hack VC).
0G Labs
0G is a modular AI chain, designed as an infinitely scalable data availability layer and data storage system.
Participation Strategy: Run nodes; interact with the Newton testnet, including validator nodes, storage nodes, etc.
Funding Background: In March this year, 0G Labs completed a $30 million Pre-Seed round, led by Hack VC, with participation from Foresight Ventures and others.
MyShell
MyShell is building an AI consumer layer that connects users, creators, and open-source AI researchers.
Participation Strategy: Earn points by daily logins, completing on-chain interactions on the opBNB chain, binding Discord accounts, enhancing images, chatting or voice calling with integrated AI bots, inviting friends, and more. MyShell’s page indicates that points can be redeemed for Shell Coins, which will serve as vouchers for future airdrops.
Participation Link: https://app.myshell.ai/zh/rewards-center
Funding Background: In October 2023, MyShell completed a $5.6 million seed round, led by INCE Capital. In March 2024, MyShell completed an $11 million Pre-Series A round, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Foresight Ventures, Delphi Ventures, and others.
dappOS
dappOS is an intention execution network that transforms intentions into on-chain results by creating a two-way market: on the supply side, service providers stake collateral and choose to run one or more intention task execution services; on the demand side, developers can find solutions that meet user intentions based on the state of users and suppliers.
Participation Strategy: Explore and interact with dappOS ecosystem projects integrated with dappOS.
Participation Link: https://wallet.dappos.com/dapps
Funding Background: In July 2023, dappOS completed a seed round, led by IDG Capital and Sequoia China. In March 2024, dappOS completed a $15.3 million Series A round, led by Polychain.
ODOS
ODOS is a DEX aggregator that uses intention optimization algorithms through the ODOS Smart Order Router (SOR) to provide competitive rates for single-token and multi-token swaps. ODOS was founded by the Semiotic Labs team, which is a core development organization for The Graph protocol.
Participation Link: https://app.odos.xyz
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