The Best Crypto Protocols, Bridges and Chains to Farm in 2026:

Since 2020, I've received over 100 airdrops. Hyperliquid was definitely the largest, followed by Zksync, Ion (Cosmos Hub), Arbitrum (with the most addresses), Celestia, Starknet, Wormhole, Paraswap, Dymension, EVMos and Forth. All airdrops exceeded 8k. Then there were countless airdrops from 1k to 5k. I recently used the Otomato site, which tells me I've received 43 airdrops; in reality, there are many more (I'm guessing there are at least 50 that I've received that aren't tracked by this site).

Check yours if you want (just paste the address, without connecting your wallet):
Otomato app (check the airdrops you received)

In this article, I'd like to list the airdrops I've been following and the protocols I've been interacting with for months/years that will release in the future. Maybe not all of them will release, but most of them will. 2025 and 2026 weren't a good year for airdrops, but as soon as a major airdrop is released, I believe the trend will restart (one airdrop after another). It will be too late to interact by then, so if you're a farmer, you should interact now and choose what to farm. Remember, it's never too late: building a "footprint" for your DeFi address is essential.

HOW TO FARM AIRDROPS
Essentially, once you've established on-chain liquidity (Metamask or Phantom), you need to interact with these protocols. If you use a chain, you need to carry out transactions (a few per month); if you use a dex, you need to perform swaps; if you use an NFT/RWA market, you need to buy/sell NFT; if you use a perp exchange, you need to generate volume; and finally, if you use a prediction market, you need to make predictions. Typically, tokenless protocols tend to reward users who use their services when they release the token (airdrop). A parameter that indicates the possible release of the token is "funding" (if a protocol receives this from a VC, it is very likely that it will release a token in the future).