Author: KarenZ, Foresight News
Missed the lucrative airdrops of Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? No need to worry or be discouraged! This article carefully curates 30 promising projects to help you find new airdrop opportunities.
pump.fun 🌟🌟🌟
In this cycle, pump.fun is undoubtedly a shining star, with its revenue repeatedly hitting new highs, reaching a cumulative revenue of 1,595,278 SOL. In the X Space live broadcast in October 2024, pump.fun co-founder Sapijiju hinted at plans for future token issuance and airdrops, further igniting the community's expectations.
Interaction strategy: on-chain trading, using various platform functions.
Recommended reading: 'Is Pump.fun Going to Issue a Token? The Studio Has Already Opened the Book'
Phantom 🌟🌟🌟
Phantom has evolved from a Solana ecosystem wallet to one of the most preferred multi-chain wallets for many crypto users. Phantom has raised over $118 million, with investors including Paradigm, a16z, and Solana Ventures.
Interaction strategy: experience the Phantom multi-chain wallet, swap and purchase within the wallet.
Eclipse 🌟🌟🌟
Eclipse launched its public mainnet in November, with ecosystem projects including the prediction market Polymarket (launched in early December), the decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (through ezSOL), the Eclipse native NFT Launchpad Scope driven by Rarible, the native DeFi hub Astrol, and Orca. Eclipse has raised a total of $65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, and Delphi Digital.
Interaction strategy: cross-chain assets on https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, swap and provide liquidity on Orca, and interact with other ecosystem applications.
Recommended reading: 'Prospecting Manual | Eclipse Ecosystem Outlook and Airdrop Guide'
Berachain 🌟🌟🌟
Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on a liquidity proof-of-stake consensus, solving the liquidity problem in DeFi through a three-token model and liquidity proof-of-stake (PoL) consensus mechanism. It launched its public testnet bArtio B2 in June 2024. Berachain has raised over $140 million in total funding.
Interaction strategy: participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet, explore ecosystem applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.
Abstract 🌟🌟🌟
Abstract is a consumer-grade cryptocurrency blockchain built on the ZK Stack, achieving scalability through off-chain transaction execution, batching, and using ZK proofs to verify batched transactions on Ethereum. The Abstract contributors include individuals who have initiated or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. Igloo, the parent company of Pudgy Penguins, oversees and participates as a contributor in the development of Abstract. Abstract has launched its testnet and will go live on the mainnet in January 2025.
Abstract launched its testnet in July 2024, with plans to go live on the mainnet by the end of 2025. Igloo, the parent company of Pudgy Penguins, previously stated that Pudgy Penguins will first be launched on Solana, and then on Ethereum and Abstract.
Interaction strategy: join the waitlist to receive the Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain, transfer test transactions, and continue to hold PENGU airdrops.
MegaETH 🌟🌟🌟
MegaETH is committed to building a real-time blockchain, claiming the ability to process 100,000 transactions per second with a response time of milliseconds. In June, MegaETH's developer MegaLabs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round led by Dragonfly, with support from Vitalik Buterin, ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin, and EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan.
MegaETH has not yet launched a testnet, but you can currently follow the stablecoin project CAP Labs and the trading trend platform Noise.
Recommended reading: 'What is MegaETH, the Project that Gained Vitalik's Favor and Exploded Overnight?'
SOON 🌟🌟🌟
The Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) is currently focused on two main directions. First, the SOON Stack, a modular Rollup framework that combines SVM and OP Stack, allowing the deployment of any SVM L2 on L1 (such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos). Chains deployed using the SOON Stack are called SOON Chains. Second, SOON plans to collaborate with EVM RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) providers like Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit, aiming to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service systems to simplify the deployment process for users.
On August 27, SOON completed a Co-Builder round of funding, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (toly), Solana Foundation chairman Lily Liu, and Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam.
Interaction strategy: test network cross-chain, interact (with lending protocols like EnsoFi, etc.)
Recommended reading: 'toly's Favored Choice: SOON, the Ultimate L2 Rollup Stack Unlocking All L1s?'
Story Protocol 🌟🌟🌟
Story Protocol is a on-chain IP protocol. Story Protocol has raised over $140 million, with investors including a16z Crypto, Polychain, and Foresight Venture.
Story Protocol launched its final testnet Odyssey in November. Story has previously stated that they are firmly opposed to farmers (yield farmers), sybil attacks, and automated activities, and these will not receive any rewards. Instead, they place more emphasis on real feedback from genuine community members on real issues.
Story Protocol has now concluded the Odyssey activity, but the testnet is still interactive.
Monad 🌟🌟🌟
Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that enhances blockchain throughput through MonadBFT, delayed execution, parallel execution, and the MonadDb database. One of its novel features is the separation of execution and consensus, adopting a pipelined consensus-execution hierarchical mechanism. Monad completed a $225 million funding round in April 2024, led by Paradigm.
Interaction strategy: Monad Discord roles, hold Pythenian NFTs (purchased by Monad co-founders), stake ecosystem tokens (such as W or PYTH), try playing the Monad ecosystem Sparkball game, and explore other Monad ecosystem projects.
Recommended reading: 'A Quick Look at "Jump Gang" Monad Labs: The Ultimate EVM Solution?' and 'A Sneak Peek at the Monad Ecosystem'
Nillion 🌟🌟🌟
Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network, aiming to build a network where data is encrypted during storage, transmission, and computation, solving the current problem of "decrypt - compute - re-encrypt" in encrypted data computation. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round in 2022 at an $180 million valuation, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion raised an additional $25 million, led by Hack VC.
Interaction strategy: blind compute staking, verifying nodes. On December 11, Nillion announced the official conclusion of the Nillion Verifier program, with the TGE scheduled for the first half of 2025.
Recommended reading: 'What Innovations Does "Blind Computing" Network Nillion, Founded by Uber Engineers, Have?'
Solayer 🌟🌟🌟
Solayer, as a rising Solana staking project, announced the completion of a builder round of funding on July 2, 2024, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Solend founder Rooter, Tensor co-founder Richard Wu, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. In December, Solayer created an official foundation Twitter account.
Interaction strategy: staking
Recommended reading: 'A Quick Look at Solana Staking Newcomer Solayer'
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Ink is an L2 network launched by the US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on the Optimism Superchain, which has been launched on the mainnet in November 2024. The Ink documentation hints at the decentralization of the Superchain's sequencer.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain, explore the Ink network ecosystem.
Babylon 🌟🌟🌟
Babylon is a leading Bitcoin ecosystem staking protocol that allows Bitcoin holders to stake their Bitcoin on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) systems (such as PoS chains, L2s, data availability (DA) layers, etc.) and earn yield. Babylon has raised nearly $100 million, with investors including Paradigm, Binance Labs, and Polychain.
In May 2024, Babylon completed a $70 million funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture arm of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.
Interaction strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 to stake BTC, and join the Babylon Odyssey event.
Solv Protocol 🌟🌟🌟
Solv Protocol is also a leading Bitcoin ecosystem staking protocol, with a total funding of $25 million from investors including Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Nomura Securities.
Interaction strategy: Stake Bitcoin or wrapped Bitcoin, and participate in the points activity.
AO 🌟🌟🌟
The Arweave computing network AO mainnet will be launched on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of the newly minted AO tokens are proportionally distributed to AR holders, and 66.6% of the AO tokens will be allocated to users who cross-chain their assets to AO. AO has supported the deposit of stETH to earn token rewards.
Interaction strategy: Hold AR (preferably on-chain), cross-chain stETH.
Farcaster 🌟🌟
Farcaster is the most active Web3 social project, which has recently made a comeback through AI agents. In June 2024, according to Fortune magazine, citing an anonymous source constrained by business, like most protocols, Farcaster is expected to launch a token, and investors will be eager to capture its fully diluted value.
Interaction strategy: Post, experience different clients
Polymarket 🌟🌟
The prediction market Polymarket has experienced explosive growth since the beginning of 2024 and has shown relatively strong resilience after the elections.
Interaction strategy: Prediction
Perennial 🌟🌟
Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbitrum, which raised $12 million in funding in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype and Coinbase Ventures.
In December 2024, Perennial launched the intent layer, allowing traders to instantly execute and obtain deep liquidity from on-chain and off-chain venues, where traders specify the exact price they want to execute the trade, whether market or limit order; Solvers act as market makers, executing and automatically settling into the AMM. Perennial also launched the Perennial Petals program, providing rewards (mainly related to trading volume) to loyal participants, new users, and early adopters.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the Perennial Petals program.
daos.fun 🌟🌟
daos.fun is a platform founded by @baoskee and supported by Alliance DAO. The main function of this platform is to help fund managers and creators raise funds to build their own DAOs and invest in Memes on behalf of token holders. daos.fun has not yet explicitly or implicitly indicated that it will issue a token.
Interaction strategy: Trading
Pump Science 🌟🌟
Pump Science is built on top of Pump.fun. Pump Science is an almost barrier-free research experimentation and fundraising platform. On pump.science, anyone, including drug developers, scientists, etc., can submit longevity ideas and drug strategies to raise funds for their experiments, and others can bet on which interventions will extend the lifespan of the different model organisms being tested. Currently, there are only two experiments on Pump Science, Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).
According to the Pump Science roadmap, mouse experiments with Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO) will be conducted on January 25, 2025, and new compounds will be launched in collaboration with VitaDAO on February 25, 2025.
Pump Science has not yet explicitly or implicitly indicated that it will issue a token, but community members have speculated that Pump Science will issue a platform token.
Interaction strategy: Trading
Soneium 🌟🌟
Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony's blockchain division, Sony Block Solutions Labs, and has launched the public testnet Minato and the developer incubation program Spark in August 2024.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain, explore the Soneium ecosystem.
Nexus 🌟🌟
Nexus envisions building an internet based on verifiable computing, connecting computing devices (such as large GPU farms, computers, phones, etc.) around the world to form a supercomputer. Through the use of Nexus zkVM, Nexus will connect computing supply with proof of demand, allowing anyone to connect their devices to the network to participate in computing and earn rewards.
Interaction strategy: The Nexus testnet has ended, so you can follow the deployment of the next testnet.
Recommended reading: 'A Quick Read on the Supercomputer Nexus: How Does It Work? How to Participate?'
BOB 🌟🌟
BOB, short for "Build on Bitcoin", is an L2 technology stack aimed at supporting Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecosystem development. It not only inherits the security of Bitcoin PoW, supports the Bitcoin ecosystem like Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr, but is also fully EVM-compatible.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the BOB Fusion finale to earn Spice points, including maximizing Spice by depositing assets into various DeFi applications on BOB, voting with Spice, and referrals.
Perena 🌟🌟
Perena is a Solana ecosystem stablecoin infrastructure protocol that completed a Pre-Seed round of funding in December, led by Borderless, with participation from Binance Labs.
Interaction strategy: Earn Petal points by trading between stablecoins and forming LPs.
Recommended reading: 'Binance Invests in a New Project, Is Perena Worth Participating In?'
Lombard 🌟🌟
Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round in July 2024, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton and Foresight Ventures. In October 2024, Lombard also received investment from Binance Labs.
Interaction strategy: Stake Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB to earn LBTC, and deposit LBTC, WBTC or cbBTC assets into the Lombard DeFi Vault (automated yield management solution).
ZERO Network 🌟🌟
ZERO Network is an L2 network launched by the Web3 wallet Zerion based on ZKsync.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the Zerion Rewards program to earn XP, which measures user activity on Zerion and unlocks new rewards; complete quests; explore the ZERO Network ecosystem.
Kaito AI 🌟🌟
Kaito AI is a crypto search engine that launched the Yaps points program in December 2024.
Interaction strategy: Connect Twitter to create an account, post crypto-related tweets, and refer invites.
Foresight News
DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network in a physical resource network, using point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology to enable nodes to communicate efficiently with multiple nodes directly. DAWN previously completed a $18 million financing round in August 2024, led by Dragonfly. Subsequently, in December, VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha Fund and VanEck Ventures invested $2.5 million in DAWN through strategic financing.
Recommended reading: DAWN: Dragonfly Leads $18 Million Financing, Solana DePIN Adds New Force
Interaction strategy: Download the browser plugin and act as a validator node to earn early points rewards.
Reddio 🌟🌟
Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer 2 supported by GPUs for autonomous AI. Reddio completed a seed round financing (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) in August 2024 and is about to announce a Series A financing. Reddio has launched a public testnet.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain and explore the Reddio ecosystem.
Paradex 🌟🌟
Paradex is a decentralized perpetual derivatives Layer 2 application chain incubated by the cryptocurrency liquidity platform Paradigm (not the venture capital Paradigm) on Starknet, planning to allocate 20% of the tokens to a genesis airdrop. This airdrop spans multiple XP seasons, including the first season from February 1, 2024 to January 2, 2025, and the second season from January 3, 2025 to July 31, 2025, with the token distribution plan to be finalized at the end of the second season.
Interaction strategy: Trade.
ZORA 🌟
ZORA is an art minting platform that has also launched the L2 network Zora Network based on the OP Stack. ZORA has a total financing of $60 million, with investors including Haun Ventures and Coinbase Ventures. As the expectation of OpenSea's token issuance continues to increase, if the NFT market continues to heat up next year, whether ZORA will follow suit and issue its own token has become a hot topic. However, ZORA has also been criticized by some users as the "PUA airdrop king".
Interaction strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFTs, and explore the Zora Network ecosystem.
Virtual Ecosystem Airdrop 🌟
Entities such as the Virtual Protocol ecosystem's AI music agent MUSIC have previously airdropped to Virtual Protocol ecosystem users. It is expected that in 2025, as AI agents continue to be hot, more and more AI agents launched on Virtual may airdrop to Virtual ecosystem users.
Interaction strategy: Trade on Virtual, hold tokens of 3 or more AI agents.
