One obvious thing about the crypto world is that what you earn is a function of your input. The input can be money, skill, or knowledge, but most of the time money takes the lead. Many newbies in the crypto world do find it difficult to get started because of a lack of funds.  In this blog, I wish to highlight ways through which one can earn crypto payments passively. 

1. Social Mining. 

Social mining offers people the opportunity to put their social media accounts to work. It involves promoting projects that have social mining hubs and getting paid for the action. Just as influencers make money from promoting projects on Twitter, individuals can make money doing the same thing. 

DAOLABS is the leading body in Social mining and has incubated leading Blockchains like Avalanche, Polygon, Wax, and Kava. 

To get started on this, you need to register for an account on the hubs and connect your Twitter account to the hub so that the in-built system will recognize your tweets. There are also tasks that you can do to earn more points. Each action you do gives you a point that can be converted to its equivalent dollar token value, that is 1 point equals $0.01. The reward will be paid in the native token of the Blockchain. For example, Avalanche hub pays in $AVAX, Polygon hub pays in $MATIC, and so on. DAOLABS currently pay in $BUSD pending when they launch their token. 

To connect your Twitter account to the hub, follow the images below. When you join the hub, you can join their telegram group and ask other questions you may have. 

I will drop the link to the hubs down the blog. 

2. SocialFi. 

SocialFi brings two worlds together, Social media and Decentralized Finance ( DEFI). These platforms allow for the creation, management, and ownership of social media platforms and the material their users provide, and in return reward their users for their contribution. They also have Decentralized Financial products such as staking. 

Examples of such platforms include Hive Blockchain, Blurt, Torum, etc.  These platforms operate in different ways, for example, Hive users earn $Hive and HBD when other users upvote their posts. The value of the reward following an upvote depends on the Hive power of the upvoter ( Hive power is staked Hive ). There are several communities on Hive and with their native tokens, a post needs to be posted on the appropriate community. However, one can still have the post appear in other communities by using the community tags. This means a post can appear in several communities and the post creator earns the tokens of these communities from that single post. For example, a post about Finance can be posted on the Leofinance community with other community tags like #pob, #neoxian, #bdcommunity, etc. The post will appear in the Leofinance community as the main community but will also appear in the Proof of Brain community and Neoxian community because of the #pob and #neoxian tags used. 

There is also a downvote option for punishing plagiarism and low-quality content. 

Blurt operates in the same way as Hive but does not have a Downvote option. 

Torum rewards users with their native tokens for doing tasks like making a post, engaging with other posts on the platform, etc. 

3. Ambassadorial Roles 

There are projects especially startups that are looking for crypto enthusiasts to help them spread awareness of the project. Now before I proceed, I must admit that there is the possibility of being employed by a scam project and not getting paid in the end. So you need to be careful when applying for these roles. It is usually advised to apply for a project that has launched and has shown signs that they are here to stay. 

Most Ambassadorial roles pay every month, while some pay weekly. Some do have fixed payments while others pay according to the input of the ambassador. The Medium is a good place to search for such jobs. 

4. Community Manager Job 

This may not be an easy job to land but it is indeed a good way to earn money in the space. It involves working on a project and taking care of the project's community and social media handles. It involves tasks like maintaining order in the community and attending to community queries; you will be the bridge between the project and the community. 

5. Airdrops / Testnet Participation 

This is one of the most popular ways of earning crypto. Airdrops of tokens from new projects are obtained in several ways, but I will be talking about Airdrops gotten from participating in Testnets. 

First, what are Testnets? 

Usually when new projects, especially those that will deploy a decentralized product using smart contracts, start with a replica of what the real product will be and users will use it for testing and experimentation. The main goal is to ensure that the product has no bugs. 

Participating in this type of event makes one eligible for an Airdrop of the project tokens when they go mainnet. Currently, there are lots of Testnet going on, you only need to be selective of the ones you do, so as not to waste your time on projects that won't launch. 

It is also important that you create a separate wallet for Testnets for security reasons. 

These are mere suggestions and not financial advice, you are encouraged to make research before going for any of them.