Special Report: Airdrops for 2023, Part 1
Stand by for Part 2 coming very soon
Over the years, we've seen airdrops worth thousands of dollars. Compound, Optimism, and Uniswap, to name a few. Some think the forthcoming SUI airdrop will match those lofty efforts.
With so many so-called “airdrops” out there, how do you know which ones are legit? Most are sketchy, some are scams, and many are worthless. Some ask you to promote them or give out your personal information.
Don’t waste time with sketchy platforms and worthless tokens.
With the help of my team, I put together a report on some legit projects that might offer airdrops. For each one, I include a probability score from 1-5, with 5 being max certainty and 1 being max uncertainty.
To save you time and effort, I also list the things you’ll need to participate, the key steps to give you the best chance to qualify, and links to videos, guides, and further information.
While these projects don’t promise you’ll get free tokens, I have reason to believe—from contacts within crypto—that the communities or project leaders anticipate having an airdrop at some point in the future.
Too much for one post
This report has so much information that my newsletter service, Substack, couldn't fit it all into one post. I needed to split it into two posts!
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Free tokens, not “risk-free” tokens
All of these projects ask you to put in a little effort and take a little risk.
Even if none of them end up giving you an airdrop, they’re worth trying out. You get a competitive advantage from learning about new protocols that might 100x over the coming years. You’ll also build the skills you’ll need to navigate Web 3.0 and find your own great opportunities.
It’s a great learning experience that might pay off very well for you.
These are developmental projects. Expect some features will not work yet. That’s the point of testing them!
Do you have airdrops to recommend? Please share them in the comments below!
PRECAUTIONS
Do not participate in any airdrops until you have read these vital, crucial, must-read instructions.
Never send cryptocurrency to a wallet you do not control.
Never give anyone your passwords or private keys.
Keep your airdrop wallets separate from your personal wallet and fund them with only as little crypto as necessary. You may lose all the crypto in these airdrop wallets from a hack, smart contract failure, or fraud, but your personal funds will be safe.
NEVER send cryptocurrency to any wallet you do not control.
Use a burner email or create a separate email account for airdrops. Try Proton or Gmail for free options and keep that email separate from your personal accounts and free of any personal or identifying information.
Set up an “alt” or “anon” account on Twitter and other social media platforms. Do this from your airdrop email and link that account to your airdrop email.
Never pay, donate, or contribute to anybody for anything related to these airdrops.
Use good online hygiene and NEVER give out sensitive information.
Ignore direct emails and messages from the team or people associated with the airdrop to you. There is no reason they should ever contact you directly. It may be phishing or some other type of scam.
***NEVER*** send cryptocurrency to any wallet you do not control.
After you complete the steps below, use Revoke.Cash to prevent apps and websites from interacting with your wallet without your permission.
If any of these instructions seem confusing, complicated, or beyond your ability, DON’T PARTICIPATE IN THE AIRDROP.
Also, never send cryptocurrency to any wallet you do not control.
Before you start
A quick checklist:
If you don’t already have an Ethereum wallet, get one.
For simplicity, start with a Metamask wallet. It’s a widely-used browser extension and YouTube has tons of instructional videos. Coindesk has a guide, How to Set Up a MetaMask Wallet.
You can also find other Ethereum wallets on the Find a Wallet website.
I suggest you create at least three wallets.
Keep one for your personal funds, preferably using a hardware wallet. Do not use this for the airdrops or mix its funds with the other wallets.
Keep the other wallets as “burner wallets” separate from your personal wallet. You don’t have to use each wallet for each airdrop, the point is you lose only a little crypto if anything goes wrong and you don’t risk people seeing your personal funds if they connect your personal information with your airdrop wallets.
Deposit some ETH in your burner wallets.
Get Goerli testnet tokens for each of your wallets. Goerli is an Ethereum testing platform. Watch this video and visit GoerliFaucet.com to get started.
With that out of the way, here’s the first part of this report. Make sure to read the second part, too!