Recently, a number of projects have been doing interactive campaigns. Seeing others post about their whale accounts does make me a little jealous, but I still haven’t gone after those contracts with gas fees that are outrageously high. Put simply, there are only two ways to avoid getting rugged or scammed: either your interaction cost is too high, or the project team’s promises are too fake. I usually only go for ones with teams that seem reliable, and where the protocol itself is something I can actually use—like cross-chain bridges or lending protocols. Even if there’s no airdrop in the end, at least I’ve used them myself and gotten familiar with the tools.

Actually, a lot of social mining and fan tokens sound pretty lively, but if “attention is mining” doesn’t have liquidity to back it up, it’ll inevitably turn into nothing. In any case, I’d rather move slower than chase projects that suddenly blow up on Twitter. The few strategies I’ve interacted with before are all low-correlation and low-cost—I diversify so at least I won’t get locked into a single narrative.