- Who it suits
- People who use protocols they genuinely find useful and are content to be rewarded occasionally rather than reliably. It suits patience far more than effort.
- What it costs
- Gas only, plus whatever capital you were going to use anyway. There is no fee to qualify, but there is also no guarantee of anything at all.
How to take part
A blueprint rather than a guarantee. Following every step improves your chances; nothing makes a distribution certain.
Use protocols that have no token yet
A project that has already launched its token cannot run a retroactive drop for past users. Well-funded projects without a token are the only candidates.
Behave like a real user, not a farmer
Most modern criteria filter for depth: transactions spread across many months, several different features used, meaningful amounts. A hundred one-dollar transactions in one afternoon is the pattern teams specifically exclude.
Spread activity over time
Arbitrum's criteria explicitly counted activity across distinct months, with more months scoring higher. Consistency over a year beats intensity over a week.
Use more than one feature
Bridging, swapping, lending and governance all counted separately in several past drops. Interacting with several contracts scored higher than repeating one.
Keep one wallet clean
Sybil detection has become the main filter. Arbitrum disqualified wallets flagged by Hop Protocol's sybil bounty outright. One honest wallet beats twenty linked ones.
Check eligibility only on the official domain
Every large drop attracts fake claim sites within minutes. Confirm the URL through the project's own X account before connecting anything.
What this has paid historically
Figures below are from the distributions named, on the dates named. They describe what happened once and are not a forecast. Most campaigns in every category pay nothing at all.
Optimism (OP) — May 2022
200 million OP distributed to roughly 250,000 addresses. Average allocation was around 800 OP, worth approximately $1,600 at the time, with individual allocations ranging from 409 to 27,534 tokens.
Source: Forbes, March 2023Arbitrum (ARB) — March 2023
1.162 billion ARB to 625,143 eligible addresses. The median allocation was 1,250 ARB; the minimum was 625 and the maximum 10,250. ARB traded around $1.30–$1.50 in its first days.
Source: Arbitrum Foundation governance docs; CoinMarketCap, March 2023Common mistakes
- Farming with dozens of wallets. Sybil clusters are now the first thing teams remove, and being flagged usually means zero rather than less.
- Chasing minimum thresholds. Criteria are set after the snapshot, so optimising for a number someone guessed on X is guesswork twice over.
- Assuming past criteria repeat. Every major project has adjusted its rules after watching the previous one get farmed.
- Missing the claim window. Arbitrum's ran from March to September 2023; unclaimed tokens returned to the DAO treasury.
Finding current campaigns
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