AirdropAlert launched in June 2017 as the world's first crypto airdrop aggregator. Back then an airdrop meant a holder airdrop: you got tokens because you already held a coin, and almost nobody was tracking them. There were so few that we had to go out and create them.
Morten cold-emailed ICOs from Chiang Mai to pitch a new idea, give tokens to people who join your Telegram and follow your socials, and the first campaigns ran through our own site. We also wrote the first airdrop smart contract, the Oyster Pearl distribution that went live on Ethereum on November 14, 2017. That format became the airdrop everyone knows, and the receipts are in the AirdropAlert origin story.
Nine years later the site has tested more than 13,000 campaigns, published over 5,000 vetted listings and served tens of millions of airdrop hunters across 180 countries. We are crypto enthusiasts first. Everyone on the team farms airdrops, trades, and keeps their own wallets clean, which is why our guides read the way they do.
Airdrops changed shape every cycle, and we were usually there before the shape had a name. We invented the task-based airdrop in 2017, ran our own exclusive campaigns with manual verification and a homemade bulk emailer through 2018, and watched quest platforms productise the same model years later. After that came retroactive airdrops, the NFT airdrop wave, points seasons, DEX airdrops and tokenized stock airdrops, and we wrote an early guide on each one as it emerged. How those first campaigns actually worked is in our exclusive airdrops throwback, and every airdrop type we have seen since is covered in the full picture of crypto airdrops.
That head start is still the job. We join every campaign ourselves before it goes on the site, flag the scams, and keep a close eye on every major hack and breach so you hear about it from us first.
AirdropAlert started as a two-person project. During the 2018 and 2021 cycles the team grew to fifteen people across content, development, campaign management and support, then scaled back down as the industry matured and the tooling improved. Today we are four, and that number works.
A small team that farms, writes and ships every day beats a large one that watches from the outside.
We have always recruited young, curious people with a strong interest in emerging markets, and most of them moved on to things we are proud to list.
When someone leaves AirdropAlert, we wish them well and keep in touch. A few of them still send us airdrop tips.
Four people. All of us farm, trade and keep our own wallets clean.
In crypto since 2013 and farming airdrops since 2016, Morten built AirdropAlert during a round-the-world trip and has run it ever since. He writes the trading and strategy content, handles partnerships and press, and has been quoted by Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN and the BBC.
Read Morten's author page →
Medi was already in crypto before he joined AirdropAlert in 2018, and he has reviewed airdrops for us ever since, more than 80,000 campaigns and counting. He joins every campaign before it is listed, writes the step-by-step guides and keeps the listings current through every claim window and snapshot.
Read Medi's author page →
Gabrielle runs our media relations, partner outreach and editorial placements. She holds a bachelor's degree in international communications and is taking a gap year before her master's, with prior roles across several AI and Web3 companies. She has been in crypto since she was sixteen, so she knows the space from the inside, not just the press release.
Ravi has built and maintained AirdropAlert since 2017 and knew Morten from earlier projects before that. In crypto since 2016, he handles the site's infrastructure, security and the AI tooling behind our listing and research workflows. If a page on this site loads fast and nothing leaks, that is Ravi.
AirdropAlert is the world's first crypto airdrop aggregator, launched in June 2017. The team tests every airdrop before listing it and publishes guides, reviews and market commentary for airdrop farmers and traders.
Morten Christensen founded AirdropAlert in 2017. He has been in crypto since 2013, farms airdrops himself and has been quoted by Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN and the BBC.
Yes. AirdropAlert has operated continuously since 2017, has tested more than 13,000 airdrops by hand, and is cited by mainstream outlets including Bloomberg, The New York Times and the BBC. The only official domain is airdropalert.com.
Every campaign is joined by the team before it is listed. The contract, claim flow, team and socials are checked, and listings that fail do not go live. Paid listings go through the same process.
Four people: founder Morten Christensen, airdrop analyst Medi, communication and outreach lead Gabrielle, and developer Ravi. All of them farm airdrops and trade with their own wallets.
Through paid airdrop listings, advertising placements and exchange referral links. Editorial content and listing decisions are kept independent of those.
Our airdrop coverage and market commentary have been featured across mainstream and crypto media. See the full list on our press page.
More than 3,000 projects have used AirdropAlert to reach real farmers since 2017. Every listing is tested by our team before it goes live, which is why our readers trust it.
Want to join the team? We do not post job ads, but we read every email. If you farm airdrops, write clearly and are curious about emerging markets, write to us at support@airdropalert.com.
