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Written by: Biteye Junior Sister
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Just now, TGE’s Scroll basically marked the gradual end of the L2 airdrop. After the airdrop standard with points as the minimum living allowance threshold was announced, the junior sister saw a 199.99-point little unlucky guy hhh~
Yes, the most eye-catching thing about the airdrop standards of each project is the most basic “finalization criteria”, because it means “the difference between 0 and hundreds of dollars”.
And if you consider the situation of multiple numbers, it is the difference between “0 and tens of thousands of knives”.In this article, the junior sister will sort out the “minimum insurance” standards for mainstream airdrops and provide ideas for the “minimum insurance” strategies for future projects.
01 Click to get it
1.1 UNI
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Airdrop time: 2020
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Minimum Insurance Standard: Anyone who has used Uniswap before September 1 can receive 400 UNI airdrops with a number of around 1000U.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
UNI has ushered in the era of airdrops, and a real click is given away. As long as you have a TX, you can get a minimum living allowance of thousands of dollars.
1.2 DYDX
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Airdrop time: August 2021
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Minimum insurance standard: You can get 310 pieces by saving money on the main network, and the value of the single number is around US$2,000.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If UNI is the big hair of DEX, then DYDX will start the hair grabbing of the PERP track.You only need Deposit (no transaction required) to get a minimum living allowance. If there is a transaction volume of more than 1 knives, the number of airdrops you will get will be more.
However, it should be noted that there is a need to brush trading volume before receiving the airdrop, which needs to be met before receiving the airdrop. The cost of this part also needs to be taken into account.
1.3 EIGEN
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Airdrop time: May 2024
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Minimum insurance standard: You can get an additional 100 minimum insurance premiums by saving money on the main network. LRT users before March 15 will also have an additional 100 minimum insurance premiums, with a order number of about US$400.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
When the rules were first announced, EIGEN did not give a minimum living allowance, but roughly gave coins according to points. Some accounts with less money were not airdropped, which attracted a lot of criticism.
The team quickly adjusted and announced new rules, which were more beneficial to retail investors.Any user who saves money on the main network before the announcement has 100 minimum living allowances in addition to the tokens obtained by their own points.
In addition, LRT users who were earlier (before March 15) such as renzo, can also get 100 minimum living allowances.We must admit that the EIGEN team is still very large.
1.4 PIZZA
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Airdrop time: June 2024
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Minimum insurance standard: Users who use unisat wallet transfers or use unisat platform within three months of February-May snapshot, with order numbers of $600-800.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pizza is another big hair in the BTC ecosystem. It is very simple and crude. You only need to use unisat to transfer money once to meet the requirements.However, the snapshot start date happened to be after the inscription fever faded, and many players did not use BTC wallets during that period.
1.5 ZIRCUIT
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Airdrop time: August 2024
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Minimum insurance standard: Users who store ZIRCUIT on the main network can obtain minimum living allowance of 115 tokens, with a order number of about 15 yuan.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️
ZIRCUIT minimum living allowance is actually not worth it, but because ETH gas was quite low at that time, the cost was also very low.Some accounts can achieve a cost of less than 2 dollars. If it is on batch, it will still have a good return ratio. It is said that Feng Wuxiang @0x0xFeng has 2,000 accounts.
02 Multiple use
2.1 Optimism
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Airdrop time: May 2022
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Minimum insurance standard: Use the official bridge to span the OP chain or use the OP network for at least two days (intermittent 24 hours), the order number is about $800
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
OP is the originator of L2 airdrops. Because L2 is relatively cheap, it is also the beginning of multi-size large hair.OP Minimum insurance is very simple. You only need to use OP twice every other day.Other qualification conditions are also very simple, such as using OP in 4 independent weeks, etc.
2.2 Arbitrum
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Airdrop time: March 2023
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Minimum insurance standard: scoring system, at least three points, the simplest three items are: cross-chain to ARB, TX>4, used in two separate months, with a single number of about 800 yuan.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
ARB is an airdrop that has become popular. The cost of getting a minimum living allowance is quite low, and the whole process is also quite simple.There are many players who rushed to A7 in one event.After ARB airdrop, the era of studio hair picking has officially begun.
2.3 STRK
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Airdrop time: February 2024
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Minimum insurance standard: TX>5, use time>3 independent months, transaction volume>100 US dollars, on-chain balance>0.005ETH.Each condition must be met before you can get a minimum living allowance, with a order number of more than 1,000 yuan.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stark’s minimum living allowance rules are very standard “multiple use” rules, and there are certain requirements for the quantity, usage time and transaction amount of tx, but they are not strict.
However, one of the controversial requirements is that the balance needs to be greater than 0.005 ETH.This “one-size-fits-all” standard has caused many DeFi users who deposit funds into loans or liquidity pools to be eligible for airdrops.Moreover, there is no need for so many ETH as gas in the L2 network, which also leads to another group of users not being able to meet the airdrop conditions.
03 Points System
3.1 Zksync
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Airdrop time: June 2024
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Minimum Insurance Standard: All addresses that meet the requirements are granted $ZK, but tokens that do not meet the minimum living allowance threshold of 450$ZK will be reclaimed, with the minimum order number being only $100.According to actual situation, funds of more than $100 can be deposited in the liquidity pool of the Defi agreement for a long time to meet the minimum living standard.
Since 22 years, the airdrops of L2 projects have mostly adopted the “multiple use” standard to determine the minimum living allowance, which has also led to the influx of many studios.
The Zksync project party took a different approach and adopted the points system, while the standard for accumulating tokens adopts TWAB, that is, the weighted time balance.In layman’s terms, the more money you save and the longer you save, the more airdrops you get.
If you also interact with Zksync according to the interactive OP, ARB or Starknet method, go in, swap, deposit and withdraw money, and then deposit funds into the next number on a train, then you are likely to have no harvest because youThere is too little weighting time.
3.2 Scroll
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Airdrop time: October 2024
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Minimum Insurance Standard: Only if you have points above 200, you will get a minimum living allowance, and the badge will add extra points (up to 60).
Scroll airdrops points on the open L2, and also uses the TWAB mechanism. Most people have guessed the threshold of 200 points for minimum living allowance.
According to the actual case of the junior sister, the junior sister deposited 0.16 ETH at the end of May and exchanged it for Stone, but it was not deposited into any Defi protocol, and the final score was 190 points.
The points in the deposit loan agreement or liquidity pool will be higher, so it can be concluded that if you deposit 0.15ETH in the Defi agreement for more than 4 months, you can get a minimum living allowance.
3.3 Puffer
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Airdrop time: October 2024
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Minimum insurance standard: points are 1001 points or above.
There are activities in the early stage of Puffer, and you will be rewarded with 1,000 points when registering, plus the invitation reward, you can get a minimum living allowance without saving money.
04 Best Number Reward
4.1 TIA
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Airdrop time: October 2023
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Minimum insurance standard: The active address of early adopters of Ethereum rollups (users with mainnet, OP chain, Gitcoin donations, and ENS active behavior may all be eligible) The order number will be about 200 yuan, but the later profit will be greater.
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Modular projects represented by Celestia are more infrastructural than L2, and have many partners.Therefore, you may have interacted with the project without realizing it. TIA’s airdrop also reminds us of the importance of each account to do a good job in main network interaction, ENS, and Gitcoin three-piece set.
4.2 AVAIL
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Airdrop time: May 2024
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Minimum insurance standards: Rollup active users (ARB, OP, Polygon zkEVM, Starknet and Zksync)
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Junior sister rating: ⭐️⭐️
The project party did not clearly write down the standards for active users of Rollup, which is quite simple from the actual situation.The evm address of the junior sister and senior brother did not meet the requirements, but the senior brother left a few Starknet wallets with a large balance.
In addition, some group members said that it is easy to meet the requirements after swiping the address of zkEVM, and that the wallet part that has called zksync inscriptions has also obtained a minimum living allowance.
05 Summary
5.1 Difficulty changes and user challenges
From the perspective of the timeline, the development of airdrops is from “click and get it away” ➡️ “multiple use” ➡️ “point system”, and the difficulty is constantly increasing.
Admittedly, there will also be big hair like Eigenlayer like “click-and-get-free” in 2024, but this is based on the project’s strong strength and good structure.
It is also because the early Eigen had a limited time each time the pool was opened, and the gas was relatively high.
Judging from the results, you can get a minimum living allowance even if you save 10u, but it takes a lot of courage to spend high gas and deposit multiple numbers in batches, because you will not get any reward for doing this in most projects.
I think Babylon may still have the opportunity to “click and get it” for the following reasons:
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The BTC ecosystem has relatively few addresses and has great potential, with previous precedents of runes and PIZZA;
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Babylon also has an upper limit for each issue, and the time window is short.
However, in the future, this type of airdrop will definitely decrease and fewer, which is determined by increasing competition.
In addition, there will be fewer and fewer airdrops for open cards like ARB. Although it is not open cards, the returns after issuing coins will be higher.Because non-Ming card airdrops usually have less competition and richer imagination, this kind of project will test users’ mining capabilities and strategies.
5.2 Strategy for points-based projects
I personally believe that the points-based projects should be mainly subsistence allowance numbers, because projects such as Blast and Mode will lock the top wallets.
The best result of a high-quality account is that the reward is completely released linearly according to points, but this is not convenient for the project party to operate the ambush “rat warehouse”. Therefore, it is not recommended to only make high-quality accounts, but at least half of the funds are required, and half of the funds are low.If you guarantee your number, such a strategy may be more secure.
The minimum living allowance number must be at least the top 30%.From existing experience, equivalent tokens of more than 100U to 200U are needed when the points are first launched, and it is best to deposit them into defi protocols, such as lending or liquidity pools.
In addition, some projects can increase points through revolving loans (care to control risks), such as BOB.However, Scroll has made it clear that the amount of funds for revolving loans will not be taken into account.
