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Airdrop has long been a special money-making niche in the crypto market, but this craze has only really emerged in the past 2 years with the vast majority of users. Typically, large projects such as Optimism, Aptos, Arbitrum, etc. conduct airdrops of thousands of USD worth of tokens for each wallet. So in the next time, which projects will have great airdrop potential for users? Here, GFI will summarize and send you the article "Top 8 potential big Airdrop projects coming".
zkSync
zkSync is a Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum using ZK Rollups technology that improves transaction speed, reduces costs, but at the same time inherits the security of Ethereum. On March 25, 2023, zkSync officially launched its Full Launch Mainnet, zkSync Era, which means that the project has become the first complete zkEVM solution to launch on the mainnet on the market.
The project was built by the Matter Labs team and successfully raised $ 200 million in the latest Series C round, bringing the total funding to $ 458 million from leading entities such as Andreessen Horowitz, Dragonfly, Blockchain Capital, ConsenSys , BitDAO,…
We're excited to share, we have:
1) Raised $200M and now have a total of $458M in mission-driven funding
2) Decided to go FULL OPEN SOURCE at our next milestone
3) Reserved of a potential future token for the ecosystem
4) Formed a partnership with @OpenZeppelin
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— zkSync (@zksync) November 16, 2022
Airdrop potential of zkSync is huge as competitors using Optimistic Rollups technology Arbitrum and Optimism have done this very well. According to the CEO of Matter Labs, the token of zkSync will be released in about 1 year when the project enters the phase of decentralization to all users.
You can view the full quests to hunt for the zkSync Airdrop here .
Starknet
Starknet is a Layer 2 solution for Ethereum using ZK Rollups with STARK proof technology. Built by the StarkWare team, at the end of May 2022, the company successfully raised $100 million in Series D, bringing the total funding to $273 million at a valuation of $8 billion. This amount of capital helps Starkware focus on building Starknet, besides the company also has another product, StarkEx.
We are thrilled to announce our $100M Series D at an $8B valuation.
We would like to thank Greenoaks and Coatue – our lead investors, Tiger Global, and many of our existing investors, for their vote of confidence in the technology, products, and ecosystem that we're building. pic.twitter.com/0R1e1h31HK
— StarkWare (@StarkWareLtd) May 25, 2022
Starknet has long been seen as a counterweight to zkSync in the battle between Layer 2, especially ZK Rollups as Vitalik has always believed that in the long run ZK Rollups will show more efficiency than Optimistic Rollups.
Starknet's Airdrop potential is also huge for the same reason as zkSync above. The token of Starknet is $STRK has been confirmed, but according to the sharing from the development team, they will also launch the token in the next 1 year, around Q1-Q2/2024.
You can see the full quests to hunt for the Starknet Airdrop here .
Linea
Linea (Originally Consensys zkEVM) is a ZK Rollups solution with zkEVM built by the highly respected team of Consensys, the parent company of Metamask, Infura, Truffle and Besu. This company has so far successfully raised more than 720 million USD in capital by big names such as Mastercard, HSBC, Dragonfly Capital, Electitrc Capital, etc.
It's not hard to see people talking that Linea might not launch a token similar to what Consensys did with Metamask. However, in my opinion these are two completely different products:
- Metamask: The current wallet token does not show too many usecases, along with the position and business model of Metamask, it is not necessary to launch the token at the moment. As for the future, this is still an open hypothesis.
- Linea: Consensys has chosen to build a Layer 2 solution and moreover an HST around it, the pressure to launch tokens like other competitors is huge.
Currently Linea is on Public Testnet, you can see the full tasks to do to hunt the Linea Airdrop here .
Scroll
A major zkEVM solution on the market with the deepest compatibility at the Opcode level, along with Polygon zkEVM. This project has successfully raised 50 million USD in the latest round, bringing the total to 80 million USD, equivalent to a valuation of 1.8 billion USD. This funding round has the participation of Polychain Capital, Sequoia, IOSG Ventures, etc.
You can see the full quests to hunt for the Airdrop Scroll here .
Mantle
Mantle is a Layer 2 solution for Ethereum with a modular blockchain model built by BitDAO, one of the largest DAOs in the world backed by big names like Dragonfly Capital, Pantera, Spartan, billionaire Peter Thiel and many more. other large organizations. Currently, BitDAO is managing a volume of assets in the Treasury of more than 2.5 billion USD. At the beginning of May 2023, BitDAO made a proposal to merge them all into Mantle, renaming BitDAO to MantleDAO and token conversion plans.
With abundant financial potential, Mantle is a potential project that promises a huge airdrop. You can view the full quests to hunt for the Airdrop Mantle here .
Eigen Layer
As a project towards necessary solutions for Ethereum today with two main products, EigenDA (Data Availability Layer) and Eigen Layer (Restaking solution for Ethereum after Shanghai). The project has successfully raised $50 million in Series A with the participation of Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Polychain Capital, etc.
You can view the full quests to hunt for the Eigen Layer Airdrop here .
LayerZero
LayzerZero is a cross-chain infrastructure platform, but they develop with a new model of Omnichain dApps (OdApps). The platform is Omnichain interoperable, and allows dApps built on different blockchains to interact with each other efficiently and quickly.
In the most recent round, LayerZero successfully raised $120 million in Series B, bringing the total to nearly $300 million, raising its valuation to $3 billion.
You can see the full quests to hunt for the LayerZero Airdrop here .
Lens Protocol
Lens Protocol is a decentralized social graph platform that is highly compatible with the dApps around it. For users, Lens Protocol is an online social ecosystem where users own their social graph, content and data. The task of a dApp developer is to create a living space in that social ecosystem.
Lens Protocol was created by Stani Kulechov, founder of the number one Lending platform on the AAVE market. In addition, in February 2023, the community took turns broadcasting the price chart of the token $LENS on the Coinbase exchange. This reminds users of a similar event of Optimism when it was leaked by Coinbase. Therefore, the price of NFT Lens on the NFT Marketplace OpenSea platform spiked from $50 to $200 because of the fomo of hunting Airdrops from users.
You can view the full quests to hunt for the Airdrop Lens Protocol here .
Conclude
In these 8 projects, we can see up to 5 projects building Layer 2 solutions using ZK Rollups technology for Ethereum, Eigen Layer was also launched to offer a restaking model for Ethereum. The tradition of large Airdrop projects are derived from Ethereum such as dYdX, Uniswap, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc., helping to strengthen users' trust in the above projects. However, you need to consider the capital source before participating in the Airdrop hunting of these projects because high gas fees and costs for on-chain operations will be a big barrier.
In addition, many more airdops are waiting at GFI Airdrop Channel .
