Recently, I’ve come across a bunch of “tasks” for airdrop season. To put it bluntly, the attention economy is back in full swing: daily check-ins, cross-chain activities, point-and-click—everything. A points system makes it feel just like going to work. Anti-bot/anti–sybil measures are getting stricter and stricter, which I can understand, but ordinary people are especially likely to get dragged in by the psychological nudge of “it’s almost enough.” Then, little by little, time and Gas start slipping away.

My current approach is pretty basic: first, ask yourself whether I’d be willing to use this project even if there were no airdrop. If the answer isn’t “yes,” then treat it like an advertisement, watch it through, and move on. I’d rather miss out than get pulled along—only to realize at the end that you’ve been providing data and traffic for the platform.