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Last week, we compiled a list of more than 30 potential Airdrop projects in the article "Airdrop Treasure Trove in 2025 | These 30+ Projects Are Worth Watching". However, for those friends who have become a bit tired of the frequent hair-pulling of initial Airdrops, we have specially filtered and summarized 15 token re-Airdrop opportunities.
Jupiter
In December 2024, the Jupiter community passed a new Airdrop proposal to distribute 700 million JUP tokens in each of the next two years, totaling 1.4 billion tokens. This proposal has made several adjustments to the original plan, including allocating unclaimed JUP tokens to the ASR (Staking Incentive) reward pool, prioritizing staking users, and strengthening anti-bot measures. According to the Jupuary distribution draft formulated by Jupiter, 500 million tokens will be distributed to Swap users and stakers, and 200 million tokens will be distributed to Carrots and Good Cats participants in 2025.
Interaction strategy: Stake, Swap, trade perpetual contracts.
Optimism
Optimism allocates 19% of its token economics for Airdrops, with 5% for the Genesis Airdrop. Optimism has distributed five seasons of Airdrops since its listing, in addition to the Genesis Airdrop, with Airdrops in February and September 2023, and February and October 2024, distributing a total of 6.2% of the total token supply, with an additional 12.8% of the total supply reserved for a series of future Airdrops.
Interaction strategy: Stake OP, participate in governance, interact on multiple Superchainsm.
Ethena
Ethena allocates 30% of its total token supply to the development of the Ethena ecosystem, with 5% of the tokens for the first and second season Airdrop activities. The third season activity starting on September 2nd will last 6 months until March 23, 2025.
Users who participated in the second or first season and continue to participate in the Ethena ecosystem will receive higher loyalty points in the third season rewards.
Interaction strategy: Holding USDe in any of the applications listed on the Ethena Liquidity dashboard (such as Morpho, Aave, Pendle or Curve LP) will receive a 20x reward; holding sUSDe in applications such as Morpho, Aave or Curve LP will receive a 5x reward; other rules can be found here.
Blast
Blast allocates 50% of its total token supply (100 billion tokens) to the community, with the first phase distributing 17% of the total token supply. The second phase is currently ongoing and will end in June 2025 (lasting 12 months).
50% of the second phase rewards (a total of 10 billion tokens) are allocated to Blast Points holders, and 50% to Blast Gold holders. Wallets will automatically earn points based on the user's ETH/WETH/USDB balance in each block, with the BLAST earning rate being twice that of ETH/WETH/USDB. DApps earn points at the same rate as wallets based on their TVL. The Blast documentation page shows that DApps should return the points they earn to users. Interacting with Blast ecosystem-selected DApps can get a multiplier on point accumulation. Blast Gold is for DApps to incentivize DApp growth. DApps should give 100% of the Gold they earn to users.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain, hold BLAST, ETH, WETH, USDB on-chain, interact with ecosystem applications.
Starknet
Starknet allocated 9% (900 million) of its total supply to the community Provisions during its launch in February, with 700 million tokens distributed in the first round, but only about 500 million tokens were claimed, meaning that around 400 million tokens will be used for future Airdrops.
Interaction strategy: Hold a certain amount of STARK, vote on governance or delegate, explore Starknet ecosystem applications (such as Nostra, AVNU, etc.).
Grass
The AI and DePIN data layer Grass has allocated 30% of its tokens to the community, with 10% of the tokens already distributed in the first Airdrop activity, 17% of the tokens will be used for future incentives, and 3% of the tokens will be used for Router incentives. Grass's reward activity is currently in Epoch 3 stage, which will end on January 16, 2025.
Interaction strategy: Use the plugin to connect to the network, recommend invitations.
Arkham Exchange
Arkham Exchange is a trading platform launched by blockchain data company Arkham, and has launched its second season points activity.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the Arkham points activity through Arkham Exchange invitations, spot/contract trading.
Saga
The modular blockchain Saga encourages users to stake to ensure network security through the Saga Vault activity, while providing rewards. Saga will launch Saga Vaults 2.0 in 2025, introducing new LP rewards (the official statement says that staking and providing liquidity on Saga Uniswap can maximize returns).
Interaction strategy: Participate in Saga Vaults 2.0.
Sei
Sei previously announced the second community Airdrop in May 2024, and mentioned that the third Airdrop would be launched afterwards. In the second community Airdrop in May 2024, Sei distributed 34,435,600 SEI tokens to 44,445 addresses.
Interaction strategy: Explore the Sei ecosystem, stake, and re-stake.
ZKsync
The ZKsync community has voted to pass the "Distribute 325 million ZK tokens within 9 months" proposal, which proposes to establish a DeFi liquidity center on the ZKsync Era and enhance the liquidity of all interoperable ZK chains (Elastic Chain).
The related ZKsync Ignite program will launch on January 6th, with the first batch of participating projects including SyncSwap, Koi Finance, zkSwap Finance, Uniswap, Maverick, PancakeSwap, Woofie, Izumi, RFX, Holdstation, Vest Exchange, Venus, ZeroLend, Aave and Reactor Fusion.
EigenLayer
EigenLayer will use 15% of its initial token supply for stakedrops, with the first two seasons distributing nearly 12% of the initial token supply, and the remaining about 3% as well as unclaimed tokens from the first two seasons will be allocated to the community through subsequent programs.
Interaction strategy: Stake and re-stake, operate nodes.
Magic Eden
The NFT trading market Magic Eden used 12.5% of its ME tokens (125 million tokens) for the initial Airdrop at TGE, with the unclaimed portion to be allocated as part of the community distribution as future rewards for ME stakers (currently over 30 million unclaimed ME tokens). In addition, Magic Eden plans to distribute 22.5% of the total supply through the Magic Ede reward program.
Interaction strategy: Stake ME, use the Magic Eden mobile APP to trade tokens and NFTs.
Puffer Finance
Puffer Finance previously allocated 7.5% of the total supply to the first season Crunchy Carrot Quest Airdrop, and 5.5% to the second season. The second season activity is currently ongoing.
Interaction strategy: Stake ETH, stETH or wstETH.
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Hyperliquid is the largest airdrop of the year, with 31% of the total supply used for the genesis distribution and 38.888% for future releases and community rewards. Some community users predict that Hyperliquid may issue a second airdrop. The HYPE token has also performed remarkably well, rising steadily, with a fully diluted market capitalization of $28 billion and a circulating market capitalization of $9.3 billion.
Interaction strategy: trade on the Hyperliquid platform, deposit funds into the Hyperliquid Vault, hold HYPE (may measure loyalty), and interact with Hyperliquid ecosystem projects.
Aptos
Aptos has reserved 51.02% of the token economics for the community, with an initial airdrop of 3% of the tokens. Some community users speculate that Aptos may conduct a second airdrop.
Interaction strategy: explore the Aptos ecosystem, hold some NFTs appropriately, and stake APT to any validator.
Recommended reading: The Gold Rush Manual | Aptos' Unmissable Airdrop + High-Yield Opportunities
