Bitcoin has reached a historic high, and Ethereum is back above $2600. The overall market is steadily rising, and the process of Airdrop interaction is gradually entering a new era. In the past, Airdrop almost meant a set process of “testnet launch - claiming tokens - on-chain actions.” But now, the meaning of Airdrop has gradually shifted from low-cost new listings in interactive forms to a kind of arbitrage, which can generally be divided into three directions: “classical,” “trading platform Airdrop,” and “mouth Airdrop.”

This article will sort out these 3 directions for gaining benefits.

Classical School

The classical school, broadly speaking, refers to the traditional “direct interaction with projects”; therefore, it is introduced in the form of project inventory.

Virtuals

The latest big dog $VIRGEN is a pure meme coin, so it might be more appropriate to view the AI Agent Launchpad on this Base as a new platform without the AI features.

The reward mechanism of Virtuals has undergone a major update. They have launched the “Virgen Point” points system, which encourages long-term holding and staking behaviors through four methods: staking $VIRTUAL, participating in Kaito Yap, holding/staking designated AI Agent tokens, and holding new project/Airdrop tokens. Correspondingly, there are punitive point deductions for paper hands.

If the allocation is reduced, the amount that can be obtained will also be less, and it may even fall behind new projects.

Pharos

On November 9, 2024, Pharos announced the completion of an $8 million seed round funding, with participation from Faction, Hack VC, SNZ Holding, Reforge, Dispersion Capital, Hash Global, Generative Ventures, Legend Star, MH Ventures, Zion, and Chorus One Ventures.

CEO Alex Zhang was previously with a Web3 technology company under Ant Group.@zan_team the CEO, and also served as the CTO of AntChain. CTO Wish Wu was previously with the Web3 technology company under Ant Group.@zan_teamthe CSO (Chief Security Officer). CMO Laura Shen was previously the head of marketing for Solana Mobile and has also served as the head of Crypto marketing for Paypal. Ecosystem head Aliu Musa previously worked on ecosystem development at Celo and Arbitrum.

On March 6 of this year, the test network for developers was launched, and it was announced that a $20 million incentive for ecological projects would be provided, targeting innovative projects such as RWA/payment, DeFi, as well as AI, DeSci, and GameFi.

Although the $8 million funding amount is not much compared to some previous public chains that reached hundreds of millions of dollars, the $20 million ecosystem project incentives indicate that Pharos is not short of funds. From the perspective of partnerships, Pharos announced in April 2024 the open-sourcing of the blockchain virtual machine DTVM, jointly developed with AntChain and the Ant Group’s supercomputing team, and partnered with the Web3 technology company under Ant Group.@zan_teamMaintaining a cooperative relationship.

At present, the testnet has been opened, and the interactive tutorial can be found in theHow to leverage Pharos, which has deep cooperation with Ant Chain?.

Ethos

Kaito’s success has sparked the “Infofi” concept, which simply and bluntly means that it has created a more direct and reliable channel for “monetizing traffic” in the crypto space. After Kaito, a relatively popular project is Ethos.

Ethos is somewhat like the “Dazhong Dianping” of the coin community, where users can give positive or negative reviews to project parties or individual players in the coin circle on this reputation network. In the future, this may become another way for project parties to filter collaboration partners.

Currently, participation requires an invitation code. After successfully registering, you can complete daily evaluation tasks and actively engage in mutual evaluations with others.

Blackhole

New DEX supported by AVAX Foundation (@BlackholeDex), some innovative mechanisms have been announced, but it has been confirmed that there will be tokens and testing activities.

Oyl Wallet

On March 8, 2024, Bitcoin infrastructure company Oyl completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Arca, with participation from Foresight Ventures, Arthur Hayes’ family office Maelstrom, Domo, UTXO Management, Taproot Wizards CEO Udi Werthheimer, Kanosei, and FlamingoDAO.

This wallet is currently promoting a Bitcoin asset protocol called Alkanes, which can be considered the most active new protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Oyl wallet has an XP system, and by depositing Bitcoin and related Bitcoin ecosystem assets, users can earn XP. This XP may later be related to the airdrop of the token $DIESEL, which is also the first token deployed under the Alkanes protocol.

MEET48

On April 4, 2025, MEET48, the world’s first AI-Agent and AIUGC creator and fan economy ecological community focused on the entertainment field in WEB3.0, announced the completion of its token round financing, with a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $100 million. The round was led by Liang Xinjun, co-founder of Fosun Group, along with Hash Global and HashKey Capital, with follow-on investments from Animoca, Infinity Labs, Promontory, Oak Grove, and several Web3 professionals. The new funding will be used to develop its team and create related AI products.

After registering an account, inTask CenterYou can normally experience the product by completing daily tasks. There are reports that they are about to have their TGE.

Trading platform arbitrage

In the past, the main ways to acquire new coins on Binance were through staking BNB, FDUSD, and other tokens for mining, long-term benefits for BNB holders, and locking BNB while completing tasks. However, with the expansion of Binance’s Web3 wallet services, Binance Alpha points have become a new important channel for obtaining Airdrops. Since the launch of Binance Alpha points in February this year, if you haven’t missed a single period, the earnings from odd-numbered periods have already exceeded 5000 U.

To efficiently obtain Binance Alpha points, please refer to “ Binance Profit Effect Guide: BNB Holders vs Alpha Points Holders, How to Maximize Returns?“.

In addition, OKX’s recent actions are also worth noting. OKX’s approach is currently quite different from that of Binance, as it involves participating in a white list draw after completing specified tasks, and then participating in new listings on Meteora. The first phase is Doodles’ $DOOD, which has yielded several times returns. The second phase is @soon_svmThe quality of both phases of the project is good. Since the final operation is conducted on Meteora, it is likely that the process of issuing new ones will also involve double earning Meteora points.

Mouth Lick

If you don’t know what project to interact with, directly looking at Kaito’s attention leaderboard is also a good choice at the moment. Especially after analyzing the projects on the leaderboard and expressing your opinions, if it gains popularity, you might unexpectedly reap rewards.

More and more KOLs are obtaining a larger share of Airdrops by deeply participating in Kaito or becoming project ambassadors. It feels a bit like a return to the NFT era when I was a Discord Mod, but the community is more open now, and it won’t be like before where a small group of people recommended each other and monopolized everything. Therefore, if you have excellent writing skills and unique ideas, you might as well express yourself more on Twitter.

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