Welcome back, airdrop farmer. I hope you had a great summer and a couple of airdrop cooks. As you probably know by now, we don’t just post about crypto airdrops. We farm them ourselves as well. Sometimes team members do so individually, sometimes on behalf of the whole team. The entire reason we started our site back in 2017 was because we were airdrop farming, but lacked a solid source to find all these opportunities. Fast forward to today, we’re still here and active with you deep in the airdrop trenches.
Today we look at some of the airdrop plays that went well for us in 2024 and where we expect the value lays for the remaining of the year, or maybe even the remaining bull market.
Airdrops in 2024: Complete Airdrop Farming Guide
Airdrop Cooks 2024
Honestly, it’s been a slow summer. With crypto ranging and moving sideways, this usually isn’t good for airdrop season. The excitement and hype of new coins slowly wears off, and we must wait for it to spark again. Don’t let that discourage you, as the biggest airdrop cooks are usually farmed in “off” season.
Blast
Our biggest win this year was definitely the Blast airdrop. The combination of depositing ETH, being active on the various dApps, and a referral bonus all helped us a ton to earn a great-sized airdrop. It was an obvious play to begin with. The founder Pacman, had given out record-breaking airdrops prior through his NFT platform Blur. So him launching a Layer-2, with a few Billion in TVL was a no-brainer airdrop farm. We provided you with tons of content for the Blast Airdrop throughout a couple of months. The cool thing about it was, that you would farm Blast, but you’ll also get airdrops from he dApps. We collected airdrops from dozens of Blast projects, including Pacmoon, Juice Finance, Fantasy Top, Yolo Blast, and more.
We actually got to meet Pacman in NFT NYC during a Blur brunch which made us even more confident in locking up a lot of ETH to farm it.
Right now, Blast has a season 2 active. Although this season might take one full year, we’re not very active in it right now. We have plenty of time ahead to farm it.
Eigenlayer
Another long anticipated airdrop cook in 2024. Anyone active in the staking/restaking game on Ethereum got a generous $EIGEN stimmy. This was great to farm pre-bull market as you were yielding ETH instead of selling the bear market bottom, while you were collecting points for the airdrop. Don’t fade these types of airdrops in the next bear market.
If you want to join their second season, study the airdrop guide here.
Etherfi S1
The first season of EtherFi was the best for us. They put heavy rewards for late depositors so we came in last minute with a bag of ETH and got huge returns for only restaking a couple of days. Keep in mind to always check for criteria of airdrop campaigns and when they get changed, you might find huge EV spots if you pay attention.
The second season was alright, not the biggest airdrop cook, but not the worst. Their 3rd season is live right now, more information is here.
Wormhole
We were at NFT NYC when everyone had to rush out of their events to claim their $W airdrop through a VPN. Good times, and rewarding for active Solana and Ethereum users. Outside of Jupiter, this was probably one of the largest airdrops on Solana to date.
Friend Tech
The mother of all Socialfi apps. Friend Tech was the first of its kind and it killed the airdrop meta at the time. Every micro-influencer on X was trading “keys” to stack the points, which eventually led to many 6-figure, and some 7-figure airdrops.
We farmed it on some alt accounts, mostly by trading keys without shilling our own. Copy trading some smart account helped us to farm a mid-5 figure airdrop, without losing ETH trading keys.
Today, we see many new SocialFi projects popping up, Match is one of them. Keep an eye out for good farms for the remainder of the year. One of these might pop again.
Pixel
Alright, this one is kinda cheating cause we didn’t play the game all that much. But Pixel was definitely a good airdrop cook for us based on the referrals. The people from our community loved the game and made sure we got a ton of points for it. So thanks to everyone who joined it using our link! It always helps.
Gaming airdrops will always be a valid niche to grind. Not all of them will be a cook, but some take off and will leave you wondering why you didn’t farm it. In the end, if it’s not a great airdrop, at least you pass some of the time by playing games.
Ton Airdrops
One of the bigger surprises of the last couple of months is the airdrops on Ton. It started with “notcoin” and it ignited a whole string of tap-to-earn or retroactive Telegram airdrops. Like yesterday, we sold some $DOGS airdrop for over $1000 that we received based on old Telegram activity. Free money for clicking “claim” like once. Currently, there are tons of promising ones you can grind. Although with hundreds of millions of active players for these mini-games, one might wonder how big of a cook these airdrops will be?
Sidenote, the founder and CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, recently got arrested in Paris. if you plan to farm these airdrops, you might want to track this case.
Here’s a list of current active ones.
Trading Airdrops
Another thing that’s been going extremely well for us, is trading airdrops. Often at TGE you can find profitable spots longing and shorting the airdrop on the first day of trading. A lot of the airdrops we claimed this year were quickly listed on Bybit & Binance which made it very easy to trade.
The classic price action is: Pump first, dump heavy, sideways slow grind down, (sometimes including some relief pumps). If you’re active with a basic knowledge of trading, this adds a lot of value to your airdrop cooks.
Farming the Next Airdrop Cooks
So what will be the next airdrop cooks? Well, you will never know. You need to find the right balance, between TVL, smart investors behind the project, good time, the right hype etc. Unfortunately, it’s not an exact science where you can predict the outcome. However, you can make smart bets with your money and time by picking what you believe in and farming it hard!
Here are a couple of options for the next stage of this bull market.
Symbiotic
In the airdrop farming communities, this is considered the biggest Eigenlayer competitor. You’re going to need to lock up some ETH for a while, but it’s one of those airdrops where you can farm 2, 3, or 4 projects in one go. For example, you can combine it with EtherFi S3.
Big cooks are often slow, so if you are patient enough and have some spare ETH to stake and restake, you should check out all the information on the Symbiotic airdrop.
EigenPie
This should be a small cook, relatively low TVL means less competition. FDV at $3 Million currently with enough room to grow. The team looks stellar, with some good backing and a name that keeps popping up on the timeline.
Study the season 2 guide and decide for yourself if you want to put some capital to work.
Hyperliquid
Good traders have the best opportunities to farm. Not only can they just easily clear bonuses on exchanges, but many DEX’s offer airdrop farming opportunities. And when you’re using a Dex you’re showing onchain activity and volume, which might qualify you for other retroactive airdrops in the future.
We often write trading content and provide some guides. You should educate yourself a little on trading if you’re active in crypto. You never know when it can come in handy.
Check out the step-by-step airdrop guide of Hyperliquid, one of the better trading farms you can join at the moment.
Solana Meme Coin Retroactive Airdrops?
This one is highly speculative, but crypto has a way to reward early degens. We’ve seen it plenty of times in the past. Uniswap, ENS, NFT airdrops all took the industry by surprise with their retroactive airdrops. Why won’t we see the same with the current meme coin craze on Solana?
Currently, there are no signs there will be rewards for the meme coin degens, but often in crypto, the best ones take you by surprise. Personally, I’m just gambling a little on Pump.fun. Small sizes, money I can afford to lose. Hoping to get lucky on a meme, or that a potential future surprise covers the small losses. If you haven’t used Pump.Fun before, here’s a full guide on it.
If you trade some Solana memes on Jupiter, you’re already farming their confirmed season 2 airdrop as well.
Final Thoughts
There you have it, our list of biggest airdrop cooks of 2024. Hopefully, you can learn from our experience and farm better airdrops the rest of the year. The summer was long, but good times are coming. Don’t lose faith, keep grinding. See you in the trenches!
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You might also like our guide about low-cap meme coins.
