Altcoins Talks - Cryptocurrency Forum
Crypto Discussion Forum => Cryptocurrency discussions => Topic started by: bayu7adi on April 27, 2025, 09:57:46 PM
-
Hi, surely some of you are part of the airdrop lovers...
Many complain about airdrop payments that are not always in accordance with what is done... this is very detrimental to many people, and even some airdrops end in fraud... I am sure, many agree that now the percentage of airdrop success is very low to promote new projects... this is proven by the many projects that failed to launch and even ended in fraud.... the problems in the crypto world around airdrops have never met their end...
However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...
Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.
-
I believe that airdrops are far from over, as they are the method that most projects find to attract attention, reward users and reinforce the decentralization of a project
It should last a few more years, but I think it can always “revive” when there are good, decent projects worth investing in
Airdrops are also part of the cycle, where most altcoins are performing badly, and if there is an altseason, airdrops should improve considerably
-
There is no way airdrops will disappear. Projects use it as a tool to attract people and users, once there is a promise of airdrop, you find many people interested in the project. However, it does not always end on a good note for the participants, but you still see them running after the next airdrop.
-
There's a big help from airdrops; this is the way they promote their projects and introduce crypto. I saw many people today talking about crypto; the first thing they knew was some airdrops like Hamster Combat before they deeply explored crypto.
So if this is going to be gone in the future, new generations can't easily find the crypto world. However, since we're talking about fake projects and frauds, if airdrops are gone, it will help reduce scammers and falling into these schemes. It might also help to filter out scam and legit projects.
-
Nothing will happen as airdrops are not helping matters and in fact it's meaningless to me knowing to well that airdrops aren't that rewarding compared to before as many people have been saying about airdrop. Though I have also came across some post that speaks good about airdrop but nowadays people seems to be regretting about airdrop as it's a worthless effort.
-
Hi, surely some of you are part of the airdrop lovers...
Many complain about airdrop payments that are not always in accordance with what is done... this is very detrimental to many people, and even some airdrops end in fraud... I am sure, many agree that now the percentage of airdrop success is very low to promote new projects... this is proven by the many projects that failed to launch and even ended in fraud.... the problems in the crypto world around airdrops have never met their end...
However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...
Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.
I think as time goes by we can see improvements in the crypto space including airdrops. Fraudulent methods will always be there since the industry is decentralized those methods will still exist and it's up to people if they will fall for that kinda trap given the time they spent on the crypto industry so knowledge is a must really.
-
...what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdrop suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...
Oh, and there had been so many in the past and there can be even more into the future. These disappearing projects are so common all because here everything can just be experimental and if established platforms can come and go for many reasons the more neophyte ones have this tendency. Many are not getting the kind of response they are longing from from the market so they are forced to close shop (failure) and some are just outright scams pretending to be pure and exciting but will go into vacations and never come back once their bags are filled. I am getting used to so many failures and runaways that I am already expecting them from time to time. And this is one reason I decided to never use my money to invest with something new in this industry. Obviously, it is very disheartening to learn that your effort, time and even some money are gone to the trash can. Better be careful than sorry.
-
Hi, surely some of you are part of the airdrop lovers...
Many complain about airdrop payments that are not always in accordance with what is done... this is very detrimental to many people, and even some airdrops end in fraud... I am sure, many agree that now the percentage of airdrop success is very low to promote new projects... this is proven by the many projects that failed to launch and even ended in fraud.... the problems in the crypto world around airdrops have never met their end...
However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...
Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.
Airdrops have been around and evolved a lot in the crypto market. Many projects choose them to gain community support and reach more potential holders and investors. Right now, I can't think of any reason that could wipe airdrops off the crypto market, unless there's a harsh law that considers airdrops illegal and creates unfairness in the market.
Let's say airdrops no longer exist. Projects will need to spend on advertising through bounties, media, and other events on CEXs and within this market. Airdrop hunters will also disappear to become bounty hunters. Personally, I don't feel any difference because I haven't participated in airdrops for a long time. I need to work to get paid instead of betting on rewards from airdrops.
-
Airdrops have been a popular marking strategy in the crypto space. While it's possible for airdrops to become less common, or evolve into new forms, it difficult to predict whether it would be gone forever. Ultimately the future of airdrops will depend on the market dynamics, regulatory development and innovation into the crypto space. I believe instead of airdrops fading away forever, the crypto space would likely adopt and evolve, with new methods emerging to replace airdrops.
-
However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...
i do not think this will happen airdrops are a way of promotion and even if there is not much interest from investors, dev team might still want to use airdrops as a way to attract investors
Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.
it is a cycle investors will learn how to beat frauds but there will always be new methods that investors would not be aware of until it is normalized enough and people have learned enough how to beat the new methods maybe airdrops will just reinvent itself and turn into something else so that they can regain the attention of investors
-
Nothing? Look, airdrops do lure users to particular projects for a while but once airdrop is done, whether upto expectations or not, most users sell their tokens and move on to next. I agree that there tends to be hype and immense volume particularly if airdrop was good, but it's still nothing lasting.
-
So if this is going to be gone in the future, new generations can't easily find the crypto world.
Actually, you could express your prefer opinion in your comment. I am also agree with your prefer comment. Because we know that many of crypto currency users, can understand and knowing crypto space for this airdrop. So when it would be gone forever, i am also believe that it must be difficult for knowing crypto space. Because some new person was very interested to playing telegram game and acquire airdrop from there. So i think that it must be very helpful source for understand in cryptocurrency market properly.
-
If you notice the distributions of many tokens, the airdrop represents less than 10% of the distributions in most projects, so if it suddenly disappears, there won't be a significant change. From an investor's perspective, at best, you'll receive $500 from these distributions every few months, making them easy to replace.
-
Considering today's airdrop condition, i would argue there are more pros than the cons. These days most people would sell airdropped coin/token as soon as possible. It would cause price of the coin/token going down after launch, which seen negatively by some people. Most airdrop also allocate fixed amount of coin/token as airdrop reward regardless of total participant, so we won't see people got disappointed after wasting their energy, time and money (for certain airdrop tasks).
-
I would only be happy if airdrops would gone forever, considering what airdrops looks like today.
1. They used to be free tokens to use to test project or its products. Such concept never worked well. People immediately sold them. In addition there not so many new projects appear today.
2. They were used frequently to scam people.
3. In majority they were waste of time.
4. They often played a role of garbage on addresses. So many addresses are drawn in free distributed airdrops garbage.
-
Nothing? Look, airdrops do lure users to particular projects for a while but once airdrop is done, whether upto expectations or not, most users sell their tokens and move on to next. I agree that there tends to be hype and immense volume particularly if airdrop was good, but it's still nothing lasting.
It is correct in saying that many of the users that enter come in for the specific airdrop and then depart subsequently. However, based on the observation made above, this could just be a way of many projects attaining a facade. If the airdrop is promising and has been done right, then it is among the most helpful means of presenting a product or a platform. However, the stimulation of users continuing to be engaged with a project much beyond this immediate get requires far more than that. They should be in a position to provide proofs of quality and merits as to what they offer. Many will remain connected should that be accomplished making it relatively easy to have people stick around more than long periods.
-
Thank you very much for the responses from friends here....
Well...Some responses here say that "this is impossible" ... so does this airdrop have an immortal nature? Is that true? If the crypto industry continues to use airdrops as their promotional media, it means that its development will never grow progressively ... yes, there are times when an agency can come in to handle this, specifically handling marketing related to cryptocurrency ...
For example, there is platform A that has 100 of the best advertisers with clear certification, their expertise is clear and experienced ... they stand on company A and are ready to handle everything related to cryptocurrency promotion effectively without going through airdrops ... yes, it's like a vendor and the job of the project developer is to hire this platform A to work together ... clear right? That there will be no more airdrops here is actually possible?
We are talking about "if something happens, then you will do...........", yes this topic is discussing something that is unlikely, but we are trying to position ourselves in the worst case scenario,
sorry, but it seems the context of "if" here is not well understood....
-
Those who said that it is impossible for airdrops to disappear, do you really think that promotion through airdrops is still a working method? I rarely see airdrops today, but instead I see retrodrops. Airdrops as a promotion is a working strategy only if projects that distribute them list its tokens. Without listing, every token is garbage, and people are tired of garbage in their wallets. Retrodrops or as I call them, advanced or improved form of bounty is what still work effectively and attract attention to projects. As chance of retrodopped token to get listed is way higher than airdropped token.
bayu7adi has mentioned platform that gather airdrop data, but I remember there was platform or webpage airdrop alerts (or something similar to that). I remember receiving emails from them in past (but unsubscribed to that), but dont know if they still exist with up-to-date info. Nevertheless, with time I have noticed that platform like airdrop alerts is more a place where projects pay for getting noticed (kind of a promotion-of-a-promotion strategy), than a place to find something useful.
-
If, magically, AirDrop is going to be gone, I don’t think the crypto world would be affected by it. It’s just that people are getting onboarded because of it, and if people stay there, I think there’s nothing wrong with crypto by then
I believe that’s not going to happen because there are many reasons why projects do that, and I don’t think it’s that easy to get rid of. It’s a two-way thing for projects and users.
-
There are two reasons,
1. The project team doesn't want to spend any money to promote their project.
2. Better and effective promotional methods are available now.
It ended a very long time ago, there were very few in the last 5 years combined and number of airdrops in the year 2018-19, and that's the golden era for bounty hunters and from that it's never been the same.
-
Although airdrops have been a significant aspect of cryptocurrency for a long time. it seems like they have gradually turned into a scam.Many people are solely interested in the free items, and they wind up getting defrauded or burned by unsuccessful businesses when they don't receive their incentives. Airdrops were always a mechanism for new companies to reach people and acquire traction, therefore I think the crypto market may potentially improve without them if we get rid of some of the fraudulent projects. However I also wonder how it will influence new projects trying to reach customers and acquire traction. Therefore without it there might be alternate techniques or perhaps things would merely slow down but eventually, if it aids in space cleansing, it might be useful.
-
I think not giving out airdrops is more problematic to the developers or project founders than the airdrop hunters. Crypto is already a tough space to compete and if a token becomes less visible to the public because of no airdrop, it might end up in the obituary in just a few weeks/months. They can pay for some influencers for sure and create temporary hype but it will only add up to the pump and dump list.
-
I wouldn't be sad if airdrops suddenly disappeared, or if there were no airdrops at all in the cryptocurrency world. That wouldn't be sad for me, and I think it's the case for many who are tired of all this nonsense.
A long time ago, airdrops were much better, despite the proliferation of scams. However, there were good airdrops that compensated participants for failed or worthless airdrops. Unfortunately, today, the vast majority of them are scams, and the few remaining provide nothing more than ridiculous rewards that are disproportionate to the participants' efforts.
-
Without listing, every token is garbage, and people are tired of garbage in their wallets.
We are in era of dexes, even if tokens are not listed anywhere, you can still trade them on chain's dexes (chain on which token is created on) with a contract address, liquidity is thing but more often than not, there tends to be enough to make your trade.
bayu7adi has mentioned platform that gather airdrop data, but I remember there was platform or webpage airdrop alerts (or something similar to that). I remember receiving emails from them in past (but unsubscribed to that), but dont know if they still exist with up-to-date info. Nevertheless, with time I have noticed that platform like airdrop alerts is more a place where projects pay for getting noticed (kind of a promotion-of-a-promotion strategy), than a place to find something useful.
If you are famous, you'll get promotional offers, it's alright. Aside, from site you mentioned, there are plenty resources one can follow to stay up to date with airdrop stuff — telegram/discord channels, and Twitter handles.
-
However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...
Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.
Airdrops are used as a way or medium to advertise or promote new projects, this often involved giving or sharing a small portion of the token supply to the people who are interested in the token based on various tasks they are able to perform or complete.
What I do think is that as long as new projects keeps popping up and are in need of a community, there will always be airdrops, the only thing I will assume is that, if all airdrops continue to fail to reward their community well based on their effort in advertising the project, interest will drop greatly and most projects will suffer because they will have to spend alot of money on buying ad spaces on different platforms like this forum, btt, telegram, X, Facebook and so on.
But then, if at any point in time, we get to that point where airdrops goes extinct or no longer exists, then I would say this would be very good for the crypto community because by then, only strong and very serious projects will see the limelight, this would greatly reduce scam projects and would make the entire crypto community a much better and safer place to invest.
-
What I do think is that as long as new projects keeps popping up and are in need of a community, there will always be airdrops, the only thing I will assume is that, if all airdrops continue to fail to reward their community well based on their effort in advertising the project, interest will drop greatly and most projects will suffer because they will have to spend alot of money on buying ad spaces on different platforms like this forum, btt, telegram, X, Facebook and so on.
But then, if at any point in time, we get to that point where airdrops goes extinct or no longer exists, then I would say this would be very good for the crypto community because by then, only strong and very serious projects will see the limelight, this would greatly reduce scam projects and would make the entire crypto community a much better and safer place to invest.
I also see a positive impact in this direction, where some projects that are not serious about being worked on will be immediately eliminated from the competition, because it will take a lot of money to promote new projects... it sounds cruel, but this will actually make the community feel that the price of their sweat and time is no longer cheap... like a paid BTC or USDT signature campaign that also does promotions but at a commensurate price....
Some people will assume that there will be good projects that die before fighting when the airdrop standard is removed... however, we have seen hundreds of projects launched in a week, some of which look good, but it really disappoints many people, from the investor side and from the airdrop hunter side...
-
From my point of view, airdrops cannot leave the Crypto space because it has a big role it plays apart from the 2024 popular Telegram based P2E games, CEX also do airdrops.
Airdrop is just a part of promotional strategy and every new token requires promotion to foster exposure and popularity. Though these airdrops are much common with new projects but I can remember when I won an airdrop with one of these top CEX without getting to do any task but I think it was just a way of them still promoting their native token.
In conclusion I don't think airdrops can leave the Crypto space but it is obvious that they are not as active as before.
-
Without listing, every token is garbage, and people are tired of garbage in their wallets.
We are in era of dexes, even if tokens are not listed anywhere, you can still trade them on chain's dexes (chain on which token is created on) with a contract address, liquidity is thing but more often than not, there tends to be enough to make your trade.
DEXes arent a solution either. I have hundreds of tokens, but swapping them would cost many times more than their value.
Dont know about the rest, but for me airdrops today have ran out of efficiency as a promotional instrument. Time have such promotions is now gone. In the past, they were effective, because it was one of the cheapest way to promote. Now creating a telegram group is more effective and cheaper.
-
Hi, surely some of you are part of the airdrop lovers...
Many complain about airdrop payments that are not always in accordance with what is done... this is very detrimental to many people, and even some airdrops end in fraud... I am sure, many agree that now the percentage of airdrop success is very low to promote new projects... this is proven by the many projects that failed to launch and even ended in fraud.... the problems in the crypto world around airdrops have never met their end...
However, what comes to your mind spontaneously, when we encounter a moment where the airdorp suddenly disappears and there is no airdrop at all in the crypto space...
Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.
- If airdrops can just disappear so that the number of people being scammed and victimized in the crypto space can be reduced, why not? It just seems unlikely that it will happen and it may not disappear. As long as there are scammers or hackers, it will remain for sure.
That's why it's better to be careful, smart and vigilant. and if we are going to try something, we should accept the unexpected things that will happen, so that we don't get hurt in the end. Or if we don't want to get hurt or waste our time, just don't participate in airdrops.
-
Airdrops cannot be gone like that, it has its own little way of helping out in understanding how the crypto markets works, starting from how we can send and receive a coin, handling of wallet and the likes, its just that some newbies would have put on much expectations on them, with the hope that they should be worth a reasonable amount, while they are only a minor incentive received as a reward for performing a particular task in crypto, due to this low value, they are mostly gotten after the completion of such task.
-
I'm not sure this will happen, because the purpose of Airdrop is to promote new Crypto projects or there are some events from old Crypto as well. If there is still growth in cryptocurrency, then Airdrop will definitely continue to exist. But if we think what if Airdrop really doesn't exist, maybe we will just focus on trading and or will return to life as before knowing Airdrop.
-
Airdrops will never disappear because through this a project is promoted to a sufficient extent. Through this all the updates of a project are delivered to everyone as quickly as possible, so all projects want to launch airdrops but currently airdrops are a kind of fraud. A project promises to give a million dollar reward for airdrop but in the end it turns out that they are fraudsters. At one time many projects were promoted through bounty but due to the increase in scam projects, people refrained from bounty. Similarly, many people refrain from airdrops because there have been many scam projects here as well, but those who are new to crypto are jumping into airdrops without knowing anything.
-
Airdrops are made to promote new projects, without airdrops, give aways, tesnets and the like then there will be no development and use of new projects being built.
Until any time an airdrop or a marketing is needed, unless there is no more development of a crypto project or no new innovation,
but that is not possible.
The crypto ecosystem is constantly evolving and as more new projects emerge every day,
the airdrops will always be there and reward those who do their jobs.
-
Airdrops are made to promote new projects, without airdrops, give aways, tesnets and the like then there will be no development and use of new projects being built.
Until any time an airdrop or a marketing is needed, unless there is no more development of a crypto project or no new innovation,
but that is not possible.
The crypto ecosystem is constantly evolving and as more new projects emerge every day,
the airdrops will always be there and reward those who do their jobs.
When it comes to marketing aspects then we can really that that airdrops will really be that continue to exist no matter what on which just like you've said that this will be that pertaining about marketing and exposure on which this is that relevant or something which is important when it comes to a certain business or whatever it would be. On the time that it do lacks exposure then it will definitely be having problems on getting up investors on which means that you do need up to have such approach and thats why airdrops or bounty hunting wont be that totally be removed or would be that gone. It is just that if we do make out comparison into those airdrops n the past and on the present, then you can tell the significant drop when it comes to rewards and other aspects on which it turned out that its never been worth on dealing up with it.
-
Airdrops will not completely disappear from the crypto space; instead, the high rise of their participation will deeply decrease as people will no longer find it useful to engage in what they don't earn anything from.
However, if you have noticed, airdrop participation is not deeply done by a good number of people compared to before. Most people no longer find it interesting again based on their last disappointment with telegram mining
-
I don't think it will disappear. Airdrop is a way to promote a project token, its the easiest way to make a project well known for users who received free money somehow are going to shill the project to some crypto community. People are posting airdrops to spread the word about the project.
There are platforms also going to distribute tokens to holders of particular L1 projects. TON users are getting some tokens from unknown devs AFAIK.
-
So if this is going to be gone in the future, new generations can't easily find the crypto world.
I found out about crypto through BTC, and i am sure that is the case for a lot of other people, and since then i have never been interested in airdrops. I know many people like these airdrops and they use it to get into crypto, but i have a feeling that many of them are get-rich-quick hunters, who do not even care about understanding crypto or what they are getting into.
-
Is the crypto world getting worse? or will there be a big dispute when that happens? Or will the crypto space actually improve by reducing some other fraudulent methods...? Express your opinion on this... about what you would think when the crypto airdrop really disappears.
When airdrops disappears, I feel their will be new innovations that will take on and people will be interested to join just like when airdrops came and were paying well. Everything happens for a reason and overtime, what has a beginning may also have an end or will not longer have so much value like it used to when another similar technology replaces it. A lot of things needs to be corrected in the crypto space, most especially the high number of memecoins scamming people, may be it has been saturated now and they don’t get to scam more people like before which is already turning into the end of an era for airdrops especially those that are memecoin inspired.
-
Airdrops will not completely disappear from the crypto space; instead, the high rise of their participation will deeply decrease as people will no longer find it useful to engage in what they don't earn anything from.
However, if you have noticed, airdrop participation is not deeply done by a good number of people compared to before. Most people no longer find it interesting again based on their last disappointment with telegram mining
With the disappointing airdrop rewards distribution, it makes the airdrop participants decrease and the enthusiasts are not as many as before. But I agree with you, the airdrop project will not disappear in the crypto project because it is part of the promotion of the dev team so that their project succeeds. We will always see airdrops and I also see that many are still participating even though the rewards are worthless.
-
With the disappointing airdrop rewards distribution, it makes the airdrop participants decrease and the enthusiasts are not as many as before. But I agree with you, the airdrop project will not disappear in the crypto project because it is part of the promotion of the dev team so that their project succeeds. We will always see airdrops and I also see that many are still participating even though the rewards are worthless.
I believe that is quite logical because airdrops are not as rewarding as before they used to be. In the past, the people also wished to get high gains despite investing a small effort. But now, people have begun to shift dully on their heels and thinking that anything they get, if it is tagged as ‘instant’, won’t take long to wear out. Thus, there must be some explanations for the continued use of the airdrop. They are not only for advertising purpose but also for the new projects to establish the first group of followers. You may also be more selective now and this is even better in many ways than before if being selective was the main reason for your past behaviour. They said that if you want results then you will be let down many times. However, if you are interested in supporting the project, which you expect will have continued progression in the future then, airdrops can be the initial stage.
-
However, if you are interested in supporting the project, which you expect will have continued progression in the future then, airdrops can be the initial stage.
Some people consider airdrops as a kickstart for a project promotion, well at least it will really form a new community to gather support too.. but uniquely, airdrop participants never expect more unless there is money there... there is no sincere support there, so the project cannot be maximized because airdrop participants tend to prefer to give effort when it is profitable for them...
Projects need success in order to run according to the roadmap, while airdrop innovators only care about the money they will get after getting paid... if these airdrop participants are disappointed from the start, then what will happen is before the project is actually launched, the community will leave the related project... so it goes back to zero...
For now, the easiest instant way to form an initial community to fill telegram groups, fill hashtags on Twitter and flood social media with keywords related to projects is to take advantage of airdrop participants, but airdrop participants rarely get rewards that are commensurate with their contributions.
-
-snip-
It is just that if we do make out comparison into those airdrops n the past and on the present, then you can tell the significant drop when it comes to rewards and other aspects on which it turned out that its never been worth on dealing up with it.
Airdrops used to be and now are completely different, it used to be easier to get rewards without complicated tasks, but now it's very complicated and more tasks need to be done to get rewards.
This is because crypto prices in the past were also cheaper and certainly not as high as they are today,
Projects are getting more varied and more competition is happening now.
New projects really need to get higher exposure.