How we verify every airdrop listing
Our method in plain terms: what counts as a source, how a status is chosen, how we rate effort and attention, and what we do when we are wrong.
Principles
airdrop.promo is an independent information site. We do not publish a number, date or status we cannot trace to a source. When something is unknown, the page says so.
What counts as a source
- First-party sources. The project's own website, documentation, governance forum, official blog, GitHub repository or a post you can open on a verified account. These are the only sources we use to state a rule, a date, an amount or a status.
- Regulator and standards pages. For tax and legal orientation we link to tax authorities and for technical background to standards and widely used references such as ethereum.org.
- Third-party reporting. Used only to locate an official post or, where no official page can be opened, to report a figure. In that case the source label states that it is third-party and the fact is attributed rather than asserted. At the moment 31 campaign pages are published, and any page that leans on a third-party report says so in its source list.
Social-media posts, Telegram messages, influencer threads and aggregator sites are never sufficient on their own.
How a status is chosen
| Status | We use it when |
|---|---|
| Active | An official source shows that a claim or qualifying activity is open now. |
| Potential | No distribution is confirmed, but credible signals exist (a points program, a stated token plan, a public testnet). We list what is missing. |
| Snapshot Taken | Eligibility has been frozen according to an official source; the claim may be pending or postponed. |
| Ended | The claim window has closed or the distribution is finished. We keep it as a case study. |
If we cannot decide between two statuses, we choose the more conservative one and explain why on the page.
Fields we show, and how we handle gaps
Each campaign page has a fact sheet with a snapshot, a reward pool or allocation, a deadline and an eligibility checker. A field is filled only if an official source states it. Otherwise it reads "Not officially announced". We would rather show a gap than a plausible guess, because a guessed deadline or pool size sends readers chasing something that may not exist.
Effort, reward type and hot score
- Effort (Easy, Medium, Hard). An editorial judgement of the time, capital and technical skill the qualifying activity realistically needs, including network fees. It is not a prediction of profit.
- Reward type. Token, points, NFT or unannounced, as described by the project. Points are not tokens until the project says how they convert.
- Hot score. An internal editorial score from 0 to 100 reflecting how relevant a campaign is to readers right now: clarity of the rules, recency of official activity and how actionable it is. It is not a community vote and not an estimate of reward size.
Verification dates and updates
Every page carries the date its sources were last read. We update a page when a source changes or when we find it out of date, and we change the date only when we have actually re-read the sources. We do not claim real-time coverage: if you need an exact moment, use the project's own channels. Live price widgets are a separate feature and load from public market-data APIs in your browser; they disappear when those sources are unreachable.
Safety review
For every campaign we note the official domain for claims and, where relevant, known imitation patterns. We never link to a claim page that is not published by the project itself.
Corrections
If something is wrong, write to contacts@airdrop.promo with a link to the primary source. We check it, fix the page and update the verification date. If a correction changes the meaning of an earlier statement, we say so on the page rather than editing it silently.
What we do not do
- We do not give financial, investment, legal or tax advice.
- We do not promise rewards, and we do not publish rumours as news.
- We do not copy other trackers' text. Our write-ups are produced from the primary sources listed on each page.
- We do not ask for your seed phrase, ever. If anything on a site claiming to be us asks for one, it is not us.