The airdrops getting the most attention, and what that tells you

What “hot” means (and does not)

Our hot score is a number from 0 to 100 assigned by an editor. It rises when a project has confirmed or hinted at a token, when there is a concrete action to take, and when readers keep asking about it. It falls when the programme has closed. Nobody votes, nobody pays for a position, and the number is not a forecast of what you would receive.

This page lists campaigns scoring 40 or higher. Today 5 campaigns clear that bar, which is fewer than the six we need for a useful grid, so the grid falls back to the top eight by score. The score ladder is short at the top: Variational 72, Base 70, Jupiter 55, MetaMask 55 and Grass 45 are the only entries at 40 or above, and the next closest sit in the mid-30s.

The largest documented distributions

This table uses only figures recorded on our project pages, each tied to the source named in the last column. It mixes closed airdrops with one planned one, because the point is to see how big allocations are, not to find something to claim. Shares are shares of supply as the sources state them, so they are not comparable in dollar terms.

Two cautions about the table. First, the Hyperliquid figure comes from a news report of the Foundation’s announcement, because the original post could not be opened. Second, Aster’s 53.5% describes a category reserved for airdrops, not the amount paid to the first claim; the docs say the remainder is subject to future governance adjustment. Read those entries on their own pages before quoting them.

Why size does not equal value to you

A large allocation can still be a small payout. The share of supply tells you what the project gave away. It says little about what one wallet received, and nothing about what the token is worth later. Three effects explain most of the gap.

There is also a cost side that no allocation table shows. Notcoin cost players time, with an account as the only entry barrier, and our Notcoin page notes that the reward per person was small and uncertain. Variational asks for trading activity with leverage. The effort and the risk belong in the comparison, which is what the next section is for.

What the table teaches about the hot list

Look at the range first. The documented shares run from about 3% of supply in a claimed portion to more than half in a reserved category, and that spread says more about how projects define “airdrop” than about generosity. Some count only the first claim. Some count every future points season. Some count a category whose remainder can still be changed by governance. When you compare headline percentages, compare definitions first.

Next, look at what the large entries have in common. Almost every one of them was tied to measurable activity before the claim: a points total, a dated snapshot, an on-chain history. That is the useful signal for today’s hot list. Variational’s plan follows the same shape, with a points balance as the basis, but the missing snapshot date and conversion ratio are exactly the pieces that earlier large distributions published before or at launch.

Finally, look at what the table cannot show: the people who missed out. The claim windows recorded in our data range from two weeks (Paradex) to roughly six months (EigenLayer Season 2, from 16 September 2024 to 16 March 2025). A large allocation with a short window is mostly a reward for being early to the claim page, and the window length belongs in your comparison next to the percentage. For that reason our claims hub tracks windows separately from allocations.

Compare the hot list: effort, risk and what is published

The tool below ranks the campaigns in the grid using only fields from our data: the editorial difficulty rating, the attention score, the status and the number of key facts a project has not published. Choose a sort and a maximum difficulty. It runs entirely in your browser and remembers your choice locally.

How to read the result: the “reward type” column says what the programme pays in, taken from our project data. “Unannounced” means the project has not said, and “Points” means a points programme without a guaranteed conversion. The count of unpublished facts is a rough measure of how much is still unknown; it counts items such as snapshot, allocation, launch date or checker that the project has not published.

A short method for choosing where to spend your effort

This is editorial judgement, not advice. It is the order in which we would think about a campaign.

1. 1

   Price the entry

   Write down the cost in gas, deposits, trading fees and time. If a step needs leveraged trading, treat liquidation as a possible cost, as the Variational docs themselves imply.

2. 2

   Count what is unknown

   Use the unpublished-facts column. Zero is rare. If snapshot, allocation and launch are all unknown, you are speculating, whatever the attention score says.

3. 3

   Check the closing risk

   Look for end dates and postponement risk. Jupiter shows a planned airdrop postponed by DAO vote; Abstract’s chain is winding down.

4. 4

   Separate use from farming

   Prefer actions you would take anyway. Read about farming trade-offs in our guide to airdrop farming.

5. 5

   Cap the downside

   Decide the maximum amount and time you will lose before you start, and use a separate wallet for first contact.

If you want to see how closing risk plays out, the ended airdrops list shows what happened to windows, unclaimed tokens and postponed distributions. The farming guide and the guide to spotting legitimate airdrops cover the two habits that matter most: cost discipline and source discipline. For live campaigns with official dates, switch to confirmed airdrops; for the speculative end, use potential airdrops.

Hot also means targeted

Attention attracts impersonators. A project that trends is a project whose name gets used in fake checkers and claim pages. MetaMask is a clear case in our data: its official pages describe a Rewards programme paying in LINEA and announce no MetaMask token, yet reports of a live claim circulate on third-party sites that we could not tie to any MetaMask page. Base is similar, since no claim has been announced and any Base checker is therefore unofficial. Likewise, Variational’s docs say any site claiming $VAR is claimable today should be treated as fraudulent because the token has not launched. When a topic is hot, go to the official domain from a source you already trust, never from a post or message. The scam guide has the full pattern list.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a crypto airdrop hot on this site?

An editorial attention score from 0 to 100 that reflects how relevant a campaign is to readers right now: whether the project has confirmed or hinted at a token, whether there is something concrete to do, and how much reader interest it draws. It is not a vote count and not a prediction of profit.

Does a hot airdrop mean a bigger reward?

No. Attention and reward are separate. Some of the highest-scored entries on this page have no published allocation, snapshot or launch date, so no one can say what a participant would receive. A high score tells you where to read first, not what to expect.

Which airdrops were the biggest by share of supply?

Among the distributions documented on this site, the largest by share of supply include Aster, with 53.5% of maximum supply reserved in the airdrop category, Hyperliquid with 31%, Variational with a planned 32%, Backpack with 25% and Arbitrum with 11.62% to users. The table above lists each with its source.

How do I compare two airdrops fairly?

Compare the cost to take part, the time it takes, the risk of loss, and how many of the key facts are published. The sorting tool on this page ranks the listed campaigns by difficulty, attention score or the number of unpublished facts so you can see trade-offs rather than a single headline number.

Are these airdrops open right now?

Not necessarily. Only one tracked campaign has the Active status, and one more has a snapshot without an open claim. Several hot entries are Potential, meaning no confirmed distribution you can qualify for. Check the badge on each card and the project page before doing anything.