Airdrop

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This article explores the significance and current state of blockchain airdrop mechanisms, focusing on the innovative measures taken by LayerZero and ZKSync to address Sybil attacks and other challenges. Through self-reporting and bounty systems, LayerZero successfully flagged and filtered a large number of potential Sybil addresses, while ZKSync ensured fairness in distribution through strict qualification criteria and behavior pattern recognition. These cases provide valuable insights for the future design of airdrop mechanisms.

This article analyzes successful and unsuccessful cases of airdrop campaigns, focusing on key aspects such as team attitude, user expectation management, token distribution strategies, legal risks, and responses to Sybil attacks.

For conventional airdrops, the main criteria usually include engagement level, duration, and fund amount. However, one airdrop clause has drawn criticism for its lack of transparency. The relationship between project teams and "airdrop hunters" is strategic. If the balance of power shifts, it endangers the other party's interests. When the scales tip toward the project team, they can act arbitrarily, reducing airdrop hunters to mere tools.

Zircuit is a zk Rollup that is fully compatible with EVM. It is currently in the testnet stage. It can be generally understood as Ethereum L2 using zk technology. In essence, it is still to solve the performance and efficiency problems of Ethereum itself and help transactions to execute better and faster. Compared with the OP architecture, Zircuit can achieve the fast and consistent performance of zkEVM Rollup without the challenge period of withdrawal transactions.

While decentralized products and services offer powerful capabilities, their high barriers to entry have created a significant gap between users and these offerings. Many individuals are hesitant to bridge this gap, and Infinex aims to facilitate a smoother transition into the decentralized realm by simplifying the user experience.

Pencil Protocol has evolved into a cornerstone of the Scroll ecosystem by 2025, with TVL exceeding $15 million and over 25,000 active users. Originally backed by Gate Labs, OKX Ventures, Animoca Brands, and others, the platform has expanded its Launchpad, Staking, and Vaults offerings significantly. The Pencils points system now enables governance voting, NFT access, and revenue sharing, while its pETH has become a leading ETH derivative on Scroll. With enhanced ZK-powered security and 30+ ecosystem partners, Pencil Protocol demonstrates the viability of specialized Layer 2 launchpads in the multichain landscape.

Airdrops have always been one of the hottest topics in the cryptocurrency field. Initially, the concept of airdrops was simply to reward users with "free money" for participating in protocols. However, it quickly evolved into a highly complex system involving tokens, projects supported by venture capital, and unknown returns. This article will outline the origins, development, and potential opportunities of airdrops in the future.

As of 2025, Lava Network has become a cornerstone infrastructure project in the blockchain ecosystem. This article explores Lava Network's journey from its airdrop announcement to its current status, covering its background, features, and structure. We'll examine its significant growth, supporting over 50 blockchains and processing 2+ billion daily RPC requests, as well as its market position with high token staking rates and technical advancements. The piece also highlights Lava's ecosystem development, including a $50 million allocation for supporting projects, solidifying its role as the universal data access layer for blockchain technology.

This article analyzes the manipulation risks behind the points system, the opaque calculation rules, and the potential insider information issues of the project parties, and proposes the pros and cons of the points system and possible directions for future improvement.

Monad is an EVM Layer1 that achieved its targeted 100,000 TPS through parallel execution technology. As of January 2025, following its successful mainnet launch in late 2024, Monad now processes over 70,000 TPS in production. Its ecosystem has expanded to over 50 projects, with PancakeSwap reaching $250M TVL and LayerZero enabling sub-second cross-chain transactions. Recent technical advancements include 35% faster transaction confirmations and improved MonadBFT security. The Monad token shows strong performance with a $680M market cap and 63% staking participation. This article explores Monad's architectural design, technological innovations, key features, and latest ecosystem developments.

This article discusses Morph's new L2 ecosystem development strategy, which aims to address the issues of "ghost chain effect" and "fake TVL prosperity" on public chains by combining incentive airdrops and developer-centric ecosystem development. The article analyzes both the airdrop strategy of Blast and Morph's comprehensive approach, which includes incentives for testnet airdrops, a developer-centric ecosystem development fund, and strategies for attracting user and developer participation. Morph encourages AI, GameFi and other projects to build on Morph through a series of actions, such as the Sparkloom Builder Program and incubator programs, while providing financial support and airdrop incentives for participants..

Spectral is an on-chain agent machine intelligent network that combines AI and Web3, aiming to simplify the writing and deployment of smart contracts and enable non-technical users to participate in Web3 innovation. Through its product Syntax, Spectral lowers the barrier to innovation and provides decentralized AI services through the Nova inference network. The project has received approximately US$30 million in financing and is supported by giants in the Web2 and Web3 fields. Spectral’s ecological layout is extensive, including DeFi, DAO, security and other fields, demonstrating its leadership and development potential in the AI+Web3 field.

Catizen is a cat game built on the TON ecosystem. It combines Metaverse, GameFi and AI technologies to launch an innovative play-to-airdrop mode, allowing players to earn future airdrops in the game. Catizen is the leading project in the Gamefi Bot track in the TON ecosystem and has attracted 5.66 million game players and 193,000 on-chain users. The project has received support from well-known investment institutions such as TON and Web3 Ventures, and plans to transform Catizen into a Telegram gaming platform and launch more games. The total amount of Catizen Tokens is 1 billion, of which 35% is used for ecology and airdrops. Currently, players can participate in the airdrop expectations through krypton gold.

This article explores seven main categories of airdrops: hard forks, holder and staking airdrops, standard airdrops, exclusive airdrops, lotteries, bounty/on-chain activities, and retroactive airdrops. Each type has its unique distribution method and reward mechanism.