By KarenZ, Foresight News
Missed out on the lucrative airdrops from Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? Don’t worry, and don’t be discouraged! This article carefully sorts out 30 projects with great potential to help you find new airdrop opportunities.
In this cycle, pump.fun is undoubtedly a dazzling presence, with its revenue 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 strategies: internal trading and use of various platform functions.
Phantom has evolved from a Solana ecosystem wallet to one of the preferred multi-chain wallets for most users in the Crypto field. Phantom's total financing has exceeded US$118 million, with investors including Paradigm, a16z, and Solana Ventures.
Interaction strategy: Experience the Phantom multi-chain wallet, exchange and purchase within the wallet.
Eclipse launched its public mainnet in November, and its ecosystem projects include prediction market Polymarket (launched in early December), decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (through ezSOL), Eclipse native NFT Launchpad Scope driven by Rarible, native DeFi center Astrol, Orca, etc. Eclipse has raised a total of US$65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, Delphi Digital, etc.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain assets on https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, exchange and provide liquidity on Orca, and interact with other ecological applications.
Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on a liquidity proof consensus. It solves the liquidity problem in the DeFi field through a three-token model and a liquidity proof (PoL) consensus mechanism. The public testnet bArtio B2 will be launched in June 2024. Berachain has raised more than $140 million in total.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet and explore ecosystem applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.
Abstract is a consumer-grade cryptocurrency blockchain built on top of the ZK Stack that achieves scalability by performing off-chain transactions, batching, and verifying batch transactions on Ethereum using ZK proofs. Abstract contributors consist of people who initiated or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. Pudgy Penguins' parent company Igloo oversees and participates in the development of Abstract as a contributor. Abstract is now live on the testnet and will be live on the mainnet in January 2025.
Abstract has already launched its testnet in July 2024, and previously planned to launch its mainnet at the end of 2025. Pudgy Penguins' parent company Igloo previously stated that Pudgy Penguins will first be launched on Solana, and will then be launched on Ethereum and Abstract.
Interaction strategy: Join the waiting list to get the Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain , transfer testing, and continue to hold PENGU airdrops.
MegaETH is committed to building a real-time blockchain, claiming to be able to process 100,000 transactions per second with a millisecond response speed. In June, MegaETH developer MegaLabs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round led by Dragonfly, and supported by Vitalik Buterin, Consensys founder Joseph Lubin, EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan and others.
MegaETH has not yet launched a testnet, but you can currently pay attention to stablecoin projects such as CAP Labs and trading trend platform Noise.
Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) is currently focusing on two directions. The first is SOON Stack, a modular Rollup framework that combines SVM and OP Stack, allowing any SVM L2 to be deployed on L1 (such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos). The chain deployed using SOON Stack is called SOON Chain. Secondly, SOON plans to cooperate with EVM RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) providers such as Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service system to simplify the user's deployment process.
On August 27, SOON completed its Co-Builder round of financing. Investors included Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (toly), Solana Foundation Chairman Lily Liu, Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam, and others.
Interaction strategy: testnet cross-chain , interaction (lending protocol EnsoFi, etc.)
Story Protocol is an on-chain IP protocol. Story Protocol has raised more than $140 million in total funding from investors including a16z Crypto, Polychain, Foresight Venture, etc.
Story Protocol launched the final testnet Odyssey in November. Story has previously made it clear that they are firmly opposed to farmers, witch attacks, and automated activities, which will not receive any rewards. Instead, they attach more importance to real feedback from real community members on real issues.
Story Protocol has now ended the Odyssey event, and the test network is still interactive.
Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that improves blockchain throughput through MonadBFT, delayed execution, parallel execution, and MonadDb database. One of its novelties is the separation of execution and consensus, which uses a pipeline consensus execution grading mechanism. Monad completed a $225 million financing in April 2024, led by Paradigm.
Interaction strategies: Monad Discord role, holding Pythenian NFT (Monad co-creation has been purchased), staking ecosystem tokens (such as W or PYTH), trying to play the Monad ecosystem Sparkball game and exploring other Monad ecosystem projects.
Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network, which aims to build a network for high-value data that is encrypted during storage, transmission and computing, solving the current problem of "decryption-computation-re-encryption" when computing encrypted data. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round of financing in December 2022 with a valuation of $180 million, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion completed a $25 million financing, led by Hack VC.
Interaction strategy: blind calculation staking , verification node . On December 11, Nillion announced the official end of the Nillion Verifier program, with TGE in the first half of 2025.
As a rising star project of Solana re-staking, Solayer announced the completion of the Builder Round on July 2, 2024. Investors include Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Solend founder Rooter, Tensor co-founder Richard Wu, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, etc. In December, Solayer created an official foundation Twitter account.
Interaction Strategy: Re-staking
Ink is the L2 network launched by the US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on the Optimism Superchain, and the testnet was launched in November 2024. The Ink document hints at the decentralization of the superchain's sorter, and the mainnet has been launched.
Interaction strategy: cross-chain , explore the ink network ecology .
Babylon is a Bitcoin ecosystem head staking protocol that allows Bitcoin holders to stake their Bitcoin and earn yield on proof-of-stake (PoS) systems (such as PoS chains, L2, data availability (DA) layers, etc.). Babylon Babylon's total financing amount is close to US$100 million, and investors include Paradigm, Binance Labs, Polychain, etc.
In May 2024, it completed a financing of US$70 million, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.
Interaction strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 to pledge BTC and participate in the Babylon Odyssey event.
Solv Protocol is also the leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with a total financing amount of US$25 million. Investors include Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Nomura Securities.
Interaction strategy: pledge Bitcoin or package Bitcoin to participate in points activities .
The Arweave computing network AO mainnet will be launched on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of AO minted new tokens are distributed proportionally to AR holders, and 66.6% of AO tokens will be distributed to users who cross-chain assets to AO. AO already supports depositing stETH to obtain token rewards.
Interaction strategy: hold AR (on-chain as much as possible) and cross-chain stETH.
Farcaster is the most active Web3 social project and has recently made a comeback through AI agents. In June 2024, Fortune magazine quoted a source who requested anonymity due to business constraints as saying that like most protocols, he expects Farcaster to launch tokens and investors will be eager to capture its fully diluted value.
Interaction strategy: posting and trying different clients
The prediction market Polymarket has experienced explosive growth since the beginning of 2024 and has shown relatively strong resilience after the election.
Interaction Strategy: Prediction
Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbiturm. The project completed US$12 million in financing in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures and others.
In December 2024, Perennial launched the intent layer, which enables traders to instantly execute and obtain deep liquidity from on-chain and off-chain venues. Specifically, traders specify the exact price at which they want to execute the transaction, whether it is a market transaction or a limit transaction; Solvers act as market makers, execute and automatically settle into AMM. At the same time, Perennial also launched the Perennial Petals program, which will provide rewards (mainly related to transaction volume) to loyal participants, new users and early adopters.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the Perennial Petals program.
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 so that they can establish their own DAOs and invest in Memes on behalf of token holders. daos.fun has not yet explicitly or implicitly issued tokens.
Interaction strategy: Trading
Pump Science is built on Pump.fun. Pump Science is a research trial and fundraising platform with almost no barriers. On pump.science, anyone, including drug developers, scientists, etc., can submit longevity health ideas and drug strategies to raise funds for their experiments, and others can bet on which intervention measures will extend the lifespan of different model organisms tested to support promising ideas. Currently, there are only two experiments on Pump Science, Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).
According to the pump.science roadmap, mouse trials will be conducted using rifampicin (RIF) and urolithin A (URO) 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 hinted that it will issue coins, but some community members speculate that Pump Science will issue platform tokens.
Interaction strategy: Trading
Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony Block Solutions Labs, the blockchain division of Sony. It launched the public test network Minato and the developer incubation program Spark in August 2024.
Interaction strategy: cross-chain , explore the Soneium ecosystem .
Nexus envisions building an Internet based on verifiable computing, connecting computing devices scattered around the world (such as large GPU farms, computers, mobile phones, etc.) to form a supercomputer. By using Nexus zkVM, Nexus connects computing supply with proof demand, and anyone can connect their devices to the network, not only participate in computing, but also receive corresponding rewards.
Interaction strategy: The new Nexus test network has ended, and you can pay attention to the subsequent test network deployment.
BOB is the abbreviation of "Build on Bitcoin". It is an L2 technology stack designed to support Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecological development. It not only inherits the security of Bitcoin PoW, supports Bitcoin ecosystems such as Ordinals, Lightning and Nostr, but is also fully compatible with EVM.
Interaction Strategy: Earn Spice points by participating in the final season of BOB Fusion, including maximizing Spice by depositing assets into various DeFi applications on BOB, voting with Spice, and making recommendations.
Perena is a Solana ecosystem stablecoin infrastructure protocol. It completed its Pre-Seed round of financing in December, led by Borderless, and other investors also include Binance Labs.
Interaction strategy: Petal points can be obtained by trading between stablecoins and forming LPs.
Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round of financing in July 2024, led by Polychain Capital, Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, etc. In October 2024, Lombard also received investment from Binance Labs.
Interaction strategy: Pledge Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB for LBTC, and deposit LBTC, WBTC or cbBTC assets into Lombard DeFi Vault (automated yield management solution)
ZERϴ Network is an L2 network launched by Web3 wallet Zerion based on ZKsync.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the Zerion Rewards Program to earn XP, which measures user activity in Zerion and unlocks new rewards; do quests ; explore the ZERO Network ecosystem .
Kaito AI is an AI encrypted search engine that has launched the Yaps points program in December 2024.
Interaction strategy: connect to Twitter to create an account, post crypto-related tweets, and recommend invitations.
DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network in a physical resource network that uses point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology to enable nodes to communicate directly with multiple nodes efficiently. DAWN previously completed $18 million in financing 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.
Interaction strategy: Download the browser plug-in and act as a verification node to obtain early point rewards.
Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 powered by GPUs for autonomous AI. Reddio completed its seed round in August 2024 (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) and is about to announce its Series A round. Reddio has launched a public testnet.
Interaction strategy: cross-chain and explore the Reddio ecosystem .
Paradex is a decentralized perpetual derivatives Layer2 application chain incubated by cryptocurrency institutional liquidity platform Paradigm (not venture capital Paradigm) on Starknet. It plans to allocate 20% of its tokens to the Genesis airdrop. The airdrop spans multiple XP seasons, including the first season from February 1, 2024 to January 2, 2025, and the second season from January 3 to July 31, 2025. The token distribution is planned to be carried out at the end of the second season.
Interaction strategy: Transactional.
ZORA is an art casting platform, and has also released the L2 network Zora Network based on OP Stack. ZORA has raised a total of $60 million, with investors including Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, etc. As OpenSea's expectations for issuing tokens continue to increase, if the NFT market continues to heat up next year, whether ZORA will follow up and issue its own tokens has become a hot topic. But at the same time, ZORA has also been criticized by some users as the king of PUA airdrops.
Interaction strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFTs, and explore the Zora Network ecosystem.
For example, Virtual ecosystem AI music agent MUSIC has issued airdrops to Virtual Protocol ecosystem users. It is expected that AI agents will continue to be popular in 2025, and more and more AI agents launched on Virtual may issue airdrops to Virtual ecosystem users.
Interaction strategy: Trade in Virtual and hold more than 3 AI agent tokens.
