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There are two major groups in the Web3 industry: currency speculation and airdropping.
Although there are fewer and fewer opportunities to get rich by airdrops nowadays, token distribution methods such as airdrops will always exist.
Crypto The entire industry is still in its early stages, and we are still among the early players, so we can still gain industry dividends by taking airdrops in the next two years.
For newcomers who have just entered the Web3 industry, airdropping is a good way to learn.
Because in the process of interacting with different projects, you can not only establish your own cognition and methodology, but also have the opportunity to earn airdrops as positive feedback for learning.
So how do you get started with airdrops?
No matter which field, newcomers can make efforts from three dimensions: Tao, art and instrument.
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“Tao” means cognition, the cognition and thinking mode of the industry, which requires long-term and accumulation to form your own thinking model.
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“Technique” is a methodology, and the specific practical methods can be disassembled into different modules and abilities to guide our daily operations.
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“User” is a tool, a tool used in daily life. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen the tool. Efficient tools can help us achieve twice the result with half the effort.
01: Establish a global cognitive model
What is airdrop?
When the project party issues tokens, it will distribute tokens for free to community members or specific user groups.
Why did the project party airdrop?
On the one hand, it is for the project to start cold. With the incentive of airdrop tokens, many wool party users will invest time or a small amount of funds to participate in the product to complete the cold start;
On the other hand, more people are encouraged to participate in the development of products. The more people hold tokens, the more people participate in the use of products, the more prosperous the ecosystem, the higher the value of the tokens, and finally the positive direction is formed.cycle.
Of course, from the perspective of pure trading, it is just to make the plate. After the airdrop, the capital plate will be even larger.
Then why do we need to take airdrops?
First, you must correct your mentality and don’t fantasize that you can get rich by pursuing your hair, but accumulate your first pot of gold through pursuing your hair.
On the one hand, you can maintain the market’s acumen, participate in more new projects, grasp the direction of market development, and establish your own project analysis capabilities; on the other hand, you can obtain certain benefits through “fine masturbation”, which can be regarded as Learn to Eran, while learningEarn, providing positive feedback for your own learning.
Finally, where is the airdrop?
There are two core dimensions: First, choose a track. The Web3 industry actually has many sub-track tracks, so you must choose a track with a high ceiling.This is why the Layer2 track used to have big hair, while purely applied projects are often small hair, because the ceiling of the public chain is higher than that of the application.
The second is to choose a leader. No matter which track, you must focus on the leading projects and add a dragon or second at most.Many tracks are basically a double leader. For example, in Layer2, Arbitrum and Optimism are the absolute leaders; in the inscription track, SATS and ORDI are the absolute leaders.
Okay, after understanding the above, we have basically established a basic understanding of airdrops.
However, this information is still far from enough. The global cognitive and thinking model needs to be immersed in this industry for a long time to establish and requires the accumulation of experience.
02 Technique: Establishing a systematic methodology
For airdrops, the two most important abilities are: project analysis ability and fund management ability.
(1) Project analysis ability
Learn to research and screen projects through a lot of information.
The most important thing is to target the top projects: industry infrastructure and track leaders.
There are many dimensions in the judgment criteria for leading projects: team background, financing background, operating mechanism, technological innovation, product data, user reputation, etc.
Products that can bring user value and have decentralized goals (that is, products that can issue tokens with high certainty) are worth airdropping.
The most important thing is to experience the product yourself. When there are enough products you experience and a new product is placed in front of you, you will have a very intuitive feeling and judgment.
Airdrop Hunters are all in-depth experiencers in this industry.
(2) Fund management capabilities
There are many things to do here.
Anti-witch: A witch is a person who controls a lot of identities, so the project party will take many anti-witch measures. For us, different wallet addresses must be isolated funds and cannot be related to related transactions.(High-level isolation also includes device isolation, IP isolation, etc.)
Enrich on-chain data: multi-chain interaction, experience different products more, and stay active.
Fund utilization efficiency: Interaction during periods of low network costs.Eat more fish, and make as much on-chain interaction as possible with a certain amount of funds to reduce wear and tear.
Risk management: Especially in early projects, the probability of running away or being hacked is very high, so funds should be isolated.For example, try not to put large amounts of funds into the project party’s smart contract for a long time and be cautious in signing and authorizing.
Cost control: Do a good job of cost calculation, and it is divided into Jinglu + Xiaolu. Jinglu’s wallet address requires more network handling fees.
From the specific process of airdropping, we can see that airdropping is a systematic project that not only requires the establishment of project analysis capabilities, but also requires a systematic understanding of various scenarios of on-chain interaction.
03 Tool: Build your own arsenal
The core is to find effective tools and information channels.
(1) Commonly used tools recommended:
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DeFi analysis tool: Defilama, you can see the top DeFi applications of different public chain ecosystems.
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Project background analysis tool: RootData, you can see the investment and financing status of each project.
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Asset management tool: Debank can manage its own assets in one-stop, with a very comprehensive asset coverage.
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On-chain data analysis tool: Dune, you can find many valuable data boards.
(2) Do the task:
I don’t know which projects to use, these task platforms are the weather vane.
The first recommendation is OKX Wallet’s Cryptopedia, which will select many well-known projects with airdrops and give additional prize pools. Therefore, I will participate in each event, and the actual rewards I received in the end were much more unexpected.
Wallet Platform:
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OKX Wallet’s Cryptopedia
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Binance Wallet Airdrop Platform
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Bitget Wallet’s Coin Earning Center
Task platform: -Galxe: Old-established task platform
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Layer3: The task platform that just issued coins
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RabbitHole: Ancient Mission Platform
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QuestN: Emerging Mission Platform
(3) Establish information channels:
Here I am just throwing bricks and attracting jade. I share some of the airdrop bloggers I often watch, and there are many airdrop teachers that have not listed.
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Ice frog@Ice_Frog666666: Recent thinking mode sharing
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Fengmi@KuiGas: Sharing of practical experience
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sanyi@sanyi_eth_: Focus on technical guidance
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Hebi@hebi555: Discover early projects in advance
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zhaozhao@0xzhaozhao: Provides system methodology
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Zhuifeng@ZF_lab: Daily Project Summary and Sharing
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Wuyan@WY_mask: Daily Project Summary and Sharing
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Prophet @Crypto_He: Daily Project Summary and Sharing
Finally, the easiest thing is to take the first step first, buy some digital assets, and then experience some decentralized applications. Only in this way can you have a personal experience of this industry.
Just stand on the shore and watch, and never learn to swim.
