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Airdrop Farming
Deliberately performing on-chain activity across protocols specifically hoping to qualify for a future token airdrop.
Airdrop farming means deliberately performing on-chain activity across one or more protocols specifically in the hope of qualifying for a future token airdrop that hasn't been announced or launched yet.
Projects are increasingly aware of this practice and design eligibility criteria — including heuristics meant to detect purely mechanical, low-value activity — specifically to exclude it, which makes farming a real but genuinely unreliable strategy. See Kaavon's "What Is a Crypto Airdrop?" guide for the fuller context.
Examples
- A user might deliberately use a new protocol's features repeatedly, hoping that activity qualifies them for a future governance-token airdrop.
- Airdrop farming carries real transaction-fee costs with no guaranteed payoff, since a project can design its eligibility criteria to exclude exactly this kind of activity.