To qualify for several airdrops, most crypto experts say to achieve a minimum trading volume of $5,000-$10000 on DEXs.

Now most of the DEXs (as seen on defiLAMA) I have checked out for a specific chain I am hoping for an airdop for only provides a SWAPs feature between tokens. Is swapping from USDT to USDC and repetitions of this counted as trading volume on the chain? Does that add up to both the number of transactions as well as the transaction volumes to give me the best chance for the airdrop?