Latest crypto airdrops, checked against official sources

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What a crypto airdrop actually is, and how to treat one

An airdrop is a way of getting tokens into many wallets at once. A team creates a token, decides who qualifies, and publishes a claim page or sends the tokens directly. The word comes from the image of supplies dropped from a plane, and the image fits: recipients did not buy anything, but someone chose where the parcel lands. That choice is the interesting part, because it tells you what the project values, and it is also where most of the risk and most of the misunderstanding live.

Most readers arrive with one question: is this free money? The honest answer is that it is a free option with costs attached. The token is usually unpaid for, yet reaching it can mean weeks of transactions, network fees, locked capital and the security exposure of connecting a wallet to unfamiliar software. Some drops pay for that effort handsomely; many do not, and some are never announced at all. Our job is to show you the whole picture before you spend anything.

Why projects hand out tokens

The commercial reasons are fairly consistent. A network needs users who also own a stake, so that governance is not concentrated in the team and its investors. A protocol wants liquidity and usage on day one rather than a quiet launch. A wallet or application wants to reward the people who tried it while it was still rough. And sometimes it is plain marketing. None of these motives is charitable, which is fine; understanding them helps you predict who will be rewarded and how.

That is also why "airdrop" and "marketing campaign" overlap. A giveaway that asks you to follow accounts and share a post is closer to an advertising bounty than to a reward for using a product. Both exist, they pay differently, and we label which kind each listing is.

The shapes an airdrop takes

• Standard airdrops. A claim page opens for a defined group, often holders of another token or members of a community. You check eligibility, sign a claim transaction and pay a small fee.
• Retroactive airdrops. The reward is for what you already did before the token existed: trading, bridging, providing liquidity, voting. They cannot be "joined" after the snapshot, so the practical question is whether you already qualify. See retroactive airdrops.
• Points programs. The team counts activity as points and later converts them into tokens at a rate that is rarely known in advance. Points feel like a loyalty scheme, but their conversion is a decision the team makes after the fact.
• Testnet and bounty campaigns. You perform tasks on a test network or complete social quests. Testnet tokens have no value; the hope is that your early activity is rewarded later. Steps and pitfalls live on the testnet airdrops page.

How eligibility really gets decided

Behind every announcement is a snapshot, a moment at which the project records who held or did what. Everything you do afterwards is invisible to that list. Two well-documented examples show how different the design can be. Uniswap's 2020 distribution gave every address that had ever interacted with its v1 or v2 contracts a flat 400 UNI, with proportional rewards for historical liquidity providers, based on a snapshot ending on 1 September 2020 (Uniswap's announcement). Arbitrum's 2023 distribution instead scored wallets with a point system across months of activity, transaction counts and value thresholds, doubled the weight of activity before its Nitro upgrade and removed points from patterns that looked like farming (Arbitrum Foundation documentation).

The lesson is that there is no universal recipe. Flat rewards favour whoever showed up early; scored rewards favour consistency; and every large distribution now includes some form of Sybil filtering, the practice of excluding many wallets that appear to belong to one person. If you hear that a certain pattern of transactions is "guaranteed" to qualify, treat that as a sales pitch.

Why the cards say "Not officially announced"

A large share of airdrop coverage online is guesswork presented as fact: invented snapshot dates, inflated pool sizes, "confirmed" labels on rumours. We do the opposite. Each listing carries links to the project's own pages and the date we last read them. Where a fact has not been published, the card says so, because a blank is more useful than a wrong number that sends you chasing a deadline that does not exist. If a status changes, we change the listing and the date; if we cannot verify it, we mark it as unverified rather than leave an old claim on the page.

Custodial or non-custodial: where your keys live

A non-custodial wallet is software that holds your keys, so only you can move the funds. It is the place where you farm and claim, because airdrops are tied to wallet addresses. A custodial service, such as a centralised exchange, holds the keys on your behalf and shows you a balance. That is convenient for converting a token into something else, and it brings the usual trade-offs of trusting a company: its security, its rules and its availability in your country. We explain the difference in detail in custodial vs non-custodial.

The practical consequence is a simple habit. Keep farming in a throwaway wallet, keep your savings in a wallet that never signs unfamiliar transactions, and treat any exchange account as the place where you sell, not the place where you store everything. The burner wallet guide walks through creating one, funding it and cleaning up afterwards.

Realistic expectations on time, fees and tax

Reward sizes are unpredictable. Some past distributions were worth many months of effort; others were worth less than the fees paid to qualify. Fees matter more than most beginners expect, particularly on Ethereum mainnet, so we describe the likely cost of each task in the listing. Treat any amount as an upside, never as income you rely on.

Tax is the other part people miss. In many countries receiving tokens can be a taxable event, and selling them is another. The rules differ by country and change over time, so our airdrop tax guide links to the official tax authority pages rather than telling you what to file. For anything that affects your return, ask a qualified adviser.

How to use this site without wasting a week

1. Start from a section that fits your goal: Latest for new campaigns, Potential for early signals, Ecosystems if you already use a specific network.
2. Open a card and read the sources first. If there is no official link, do not proceed.
3. Prepare a separate wallet, then follow the listed actions in order.
4. Record what you did in the airdrop tracker, which stays in your browser.
5. After claiming, revoke any approvals you no longer need; this guide shows how.

If you spot something that is wrong or out of date, write to contacts@airdrop.promo with a link to the primary source and we will correct it. The verification method is public.