The legendary airdrop projects in the currency circle are all here
1、UNI
The most famous airdrop case should belong to UniSwap.
As we all know, Uniswap is the leading decentralized exchange and automated market maker on the Ethereum network. It provides users with the means to create liquidity pools for any token based on the ERC20 protocol standard and trade it in a fully decentralized manner. On September 17, 2020, Uniswap officially launched the protocol governance token UNI, and announced that anyone who has used Uniswap before September 1 can receive 400 UNI airdrops, regardless of whether the exchange is successful or not. This airdrop, No one could have predicted it in advance, and it successfully triggered the entire DeFi craze.
When UNI was launched, the price fluctuated back and forth between 2 and 4 dollars. In other words, Uniswap airdropped 300 million to 600 million US dollars to old users at once. This was an event recorded in the history of the currency circle. Not to mention, the price of UNI has skyrocketed since then, reaching a maximum of 43 US dollars. 400 UNIs are worth about 16,000 US dollars, which can be said to be a real benefit to many users.
The total number of UNI tokens is 1 billion. After being unlocked in 4 years, it will inflate at an annual rate of 2%. The initial allocation method is:
· 60% allocated to the Uniswap community and users (15% of the total amount was retroactively airdropped and liquidity mining was conducted)
· 21.266% allocated to employees, unlocked in 4 years
· 18.044% allocated to investment institutions, unlocked in 4 years
· 0.69% allocated to advisors, unlocked in 4 years
2、ENS
The Ethereum Domain Name System (ENS) is the underlying basic protocol closest to the decentralized identity (DID) form in the Ethereum ecosystem, providing users with decentralized domain names and identities. And because it chose a subscription fee system in the early days, it has continued to operate without the support of venture capital.
On November 2, 2021, ENS announced the issuance of the airdrop token ENS. As long as you have previously registered an ENS domain name, you will be eligible for airdrops, and the community, contributors and other people involved in ecological construction can receive more substantial airdrops. This airdrop covers 138,000 addresses, which is another big carnival.
It is said that a college student directly received 46,000 contributor airdrops. Based on the current price of 13.63 US dollars each, it is equivalent to directly receiving more than 620,000 US dollars. He has indeed embarked on the road to sudden wealth.
The total number of ENS tokens is 100 million, and the initial distribution method is:
· 25% airdrop to ETH holders
· 25% allocated to ENS contributors
· 50% allocated to the DAO’s treasury
3、DYDX
DYDX is a governance token launched by the decentralized exchange dYdX. A total of 36,000 users are eligible to receive this time, and the conditions for receiving it are also very user-friendly. Users who have deposited in dYdX but have not traded can receive 310.75 tokens airdropped, which is equivalent to $3,500 based on the price of $11.3 on the day of token issuance; And if the transaction volume is more than 1 US dollar, you can get 1163.51 airdrops, which is equivalent to more than 13,000 US dollars. The intensity makes it synonymous with getting rich in the eyes of many crypto users.
Lao Ma, a big V miner on Weibo, previously created 800 accounts on DYDX, and each account earned 1163.51 DYDX. A rough calculation shows that Lao Ma received more than 930,000 DYDX from this airdrop alone. According to the price at that time, it was equivalent to more than 10 million US dollars.
The total number of DYDX tokens is 1 billion. After 5 years, in order to ensure that the community has the resources to continue to promote the development of the protocol, the maximum annual inflation rate of DYDX will not exceed 2%. The initial allocation method is:
· 50% allocated to community users
· 27.7% allocated to investors
· The remainder is allocated to the founding team and advisors
4、ATOM
ATOM is the governance token of the multi-asset distributed ledger Cosmos Hub (Cosmos Center). The airdrop targets mainly two types of participants, on-chain Stake and users who provide AMM on Osmosis. It is also recommended to use the official wallet Keplr, which requires at least 5 ATOMs to be pledged. It is safer to pledge more than 100 ATOMs per wallet. The staking nodes will choose nodes between 12-30, and the top ten staking nodes will not be included in the airdrop range.
The total initial token supply of ATOM is 200 million. The initial allocation method is:
· 75% allocated to crowd-selling backers
· 5% allocated to pre-sale backers
· 10% allocated to Cosmos Corporation
· 10% allocated to the founding team and advisors
5、ZRO
ZRO is a governance token launched by the decentralized exchange ZERONE. Users who sign up to participate are easily qualified to receive the benefits, and the benefits are considerable. ZRO pass holders can obtain ZERONE's governance voting rights or choose to pledge the pass to obtain rewards. The reward channels obtained by ZRO are very rich. In addition to the real-time mining rewards for participating in transactions, ZRO rewards can also be obtained through the accumulated transaction volume on ZERONE, and LP liquidity providers can also obtain a certain proportion of ZRO for use as It provides liquidity rewards.
As an early community builder, you can also obtain corresponding rewards by completing tasks. You can follow the official Twitter or follow each reward.
The total number of ZRO tokens is 1 billion, which will be burned through unlimited deflation. 20% of the platform’s handling fee and 50% of the revenue from the top 100 LP pool established by the community foundation will be used to repurchase and destroy the tokens, which also makes the price of the tokens There will be phenomenal growth. The initial allocation method of ZRO is:
· 47% allocated to community users
· 17.5% allocated to investors
· 17.5% Community Foundation
· 5.5% Community Treasury
· 12.5% allocated to the founding team and advisors
6、Arb
The Arb airdrop project was launched, and everyone who participated in the airdrop made a lot of money. People around the world are jealous of airdrops. They say some people make millions of dollars. If you do it right, you can actually make a lot of money through airdrops, but it requires a lot of time investment, opportunity costs, and a variety of complex interactions. Most of the time, this is an ineffective effort. Now, the era of meaningless airdrops is over
Now that airdrop culture is prevalent, what should we pay attention to?
In fact, the airdrop is good for everyone, but no one actually knows whether the project team will airdrop it, and we can't know in advance. Even if the tokens are issued, we don't know how the tokens will be distributed. Therefore, it is important for users to find a good project and use it unswervingly.
Secondly, many airdrops that make you "get rich" may not have much value at first. Most people will choose to sell the airdrop as soon as they receive it, and will not hold it for a long time until the value rises. Only then did I start to regret it. This is where my mentality is tested. Because many airdrops cannot stand the test of time and will slowly return to zero as time goes by. This is another story.
Another very important point is that not all airdrops are zero-cost. Many people did not participate in the DYDX airdrop. First of all, the project was not well-known at the beginning, and there was a certain operating threshold, and the interaction required a few dollars. There is a handling fee of ten US dollars. Most people think that the handling fee may be more expensive than this airdrop, so they choose not to participate after considering it. They will regret it when the actual airdrop rules come out. Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine.
Airdrops expose another wealth opportunity to the public. The premise is that you need to find the project party and study the project information. Maybe in the end you will find that an accidental airdrop will make your wealth gains far greater than the returns on your investment itself.
But looking at it from another perspective, for project parties, when launching airdrops, they must avoid the emergence of "woolists" and "scientists". They often have hundreds of accounts and a large number of interactions, and after receiving the airdrop, most of these accounts It is no longer active, which is completely contrary to the original intention of the project team’s airdrop. As the airdrop culture becomes more popular, how the project side should deal with the "wool party" has become a question that has to be considered.
