Ethereum Airdrops

No, tokens can land in an empty wallet. You do need ETH to move, sell or claim them, because every action on Ethereum costs gas. Keep a small amount of ETH in your farming wallet from day one, and a little on each Layer 2 you use. Our guide on how to send ETH walks through the first transaction step by step.

You qualify by using protocols the way a real user would: swapping on a DEX, lending or borrowing, restaking ETH, minting NFTs or bridging to a Layer 2, and keeping that activity going over months. Most projects now track it in a points program and take a snapshot before launch. Some still reward past users out of the blue, which our guide on retroactive airdrops explains.

The live list on this page shows every active Ethereum airdrop our team has verified, including Layer 2 projects that settle on Ethereum and potential campaigns with no token yet. We update it daily, so new protocols appear as soon as we confirm them. Each card opens a step-by-step guide with the tasks, the gas you should expect and any known snapshot dates.

Uniswap's September 2020 drop paid 400 UNI to more than 250,000 wallets, worth around $1,200 each at launch and about $12,000 at the 2021 peak. 1inch, dYdX, Arbitrum, Optimism and EigenLayer all followed with drops worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Our ranking of the biggest DEX airdrops ever covers what the Ethereum giants paid.

Less than most people think. Mainnet gas is real money, but farmers only use mainnet for claims and bridges. The daily work happens on Layer 2s like Base and Arbitrum, where a swap costs a few cents and a $10 wallet farms for weeks. Pay the aggressive gas setting only when a claim or snapshot has a deadline. The gas guide in the guides section covers the full fee math.

MetaMask is the default most apps support, and Rabby has become the farmer's favourite because it previews what each transaction does before you sign. Use a dedicated farming wallet, keep only the ETH you need for gas in it, and move tokens you want to hold to a hardware wallet. Our list of the best wallets for airdrops compares them all.

Farming audited protocols is safe. The risk sits in token approvals and fake claim pages: a malicious approval lets a contract drain your wallet long after you forget about it. Review and revoke token approvals regularly, never connect to a link from a DM, and keep real holdings away from the farming wallet. Our crypto airdrop starter kit covers the safe setup for a first Ethereum wallet.