Airdrop guides, in the order you need them
Start with how airdrops work, protect your wallet, then learn to take part and to exit. Each guide is sourced, dated and written to be used, not skimmed.
- 01
Understand
Learn the vocabulary before you touch a wallet.
- 02
Protect
The habits that keep one mistake small.
Safety Burner wallet setup
Own phrase, own browser profile, a budget you chose in advance.
Safety Airdrop scams and drainers
How fake claims and malicious signatures work, and the ten-second check.
Safety How to spot a legitimate airdrop
A weighted checklist for judging any campaign.
Safety Revoke token approvals
Find and remove permissions you no longer need.
Safety Custodial vs non-custodial
Who holds the keys, and why it matters for claims.
- 03
Participate
Strategies, testnets and special formats.
Strategy Airdrop farming
A risk-managed routine, with a cost-benefit calculator.
How-to Testnet airdrop guide
Step by step, from faucet to feedback.
Formats Telegram airdrops
Tap-to-earn mechanics and the bot scams around them.
Formats NFT airdrops
Real drops, unsolicited NFTs and how to handle both.
- 04
Exit
Records, tax and selling.
How to use this library
Airdrop content online tends to be organised by hype: the biggest names first, the practical advice buried. We organise by what you need to know at each step, because the order in which you learn things decides how much you lose to mistakes. Someone who starts with farming tactics and learns about drainers afterwards has the sequence backwards.
The first stage, Understand, is short on purpose. If you can explain what a snapshot is, why a points balance is not a token and why the same address can be eligible for one drop and excluded from another, you have the vocabulary you need. The second stage, Protect, is where most of the value is. Wallet separation, signature discipline and approval hygiene prevent the losses that make headlines, and they cost nothing but attention.
Stage three covers participation. Farming has a reputation for guaranteed returns that it has not earned: rewards are decided by the project after the fact, and many past campaigns paid less than the effort spent. We show the criteria that official documents have actually published and give you tools to put numbers on your own time and fees. Stage four closes the loop. A token you cannot record, report and sell sensibly is not yet a result; tax orientation and selling venues belong in the plan before the claim, not after.
How we write the guides
Every factual claim links to a first-party or regulator page we opened, and the date at the top of each guide is the date we last checked those pages. When an official source is unavailable we leave the claim out rather than repeat a secondary summary. Opinions are labelled as editorial judgement. You can read the full method on How we verify, and you can report an error to contacts@airdrop.promo.
Where to go next
If you already know the basics, jump to the live sections: latest airdrops, potential airdrops and retroactive airdrops. If you follow a particular network, the ecosystem pages explain how rewards have worked there. When you start collecting notes, the airdrop tracker keeps them in your browser.