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What Is an Airdrop (and How Farming Works)

🕐 8 min read · Updated 2026-10-09 · Not financial advice

An airdrop is a token giveaway to early users of a protocol. Projects do it to reward real activity and decentralize the token. Early Arbitrum and Jupiter users got four-figure payouts for work they were already doing.

  • *How farming works:**
  • Use new protocols early: bridge, swap, provide liquidity, mint an NFT. You are building a track record on your address.
  • Be a real user. Projects filter sybil accounts (many wallets doing identical small actions). One wallet with meaningful activity beats ten wallets with dust.
  • Costs are real: gas fees add up, and most farms pay nothing. Treat every interaction as spending money on a lottery ticket.

Safety: never sign a transaction you don't understand, approve tokens in limited amounts only, and revoke old approvals regularly (revoke.cash). Airdrop DMs are always scams — real drops appear in your wallet, not your inbox.

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