Are Airdrops Still Worth It in 2025? My Honest Thoughts!!!

[Gurujebs]

Tips I Follow:

I focus on ecosystem participation (testnets, bridging, trading) more than just social tasks.
I always check if the team is doxxed or if they have a history of legit launches.
I avoid any airdrop that asks for too much personal info or upfront payment.

What’s your experience with airdrops this year? Any hidden gems you’ve claimed or ongoing???
Let’s share and grow together!

For some weeks now, there has been a lot of wallet drainer complain, I think people need to be careful with the kind of airdrop they participate, some many airdrops nowadays are wallet drainer with bots that poison your wallet and take away everything from your wallet address. If uiubar  focus on airdrop, caution need to be taken.

There is something I have observe about airdrop, many of them find it difficult to do 500m market cap unlike then when you get to see even telegram projects do 500m but now, they can't maintain ordinary 200m and that's tells you about the interests of new projects.

[Glow]

Tips I Follow:

I focus on ecosystem participation (testnets, bridging, trading) more than just social tasks.
I always check if the team is doxxed or if they have a history of legit launches.
I avoid any airdrop that asks for too much personal info or upfront payment.

What’s your experience with airdrops this year? Any hidden gems you’ve claimed or ongoing???
Let’s share and grow together!

For some weeks now, there has been a lot of wallet drainer complain, I think people need to be careful with the kind of airdrop they participate, some many airdrops nowadays are wallet drainer with bots that poison your wallet and take away everything from your wallet address. If uiubar  focus on airdrop, caution need to be taken.

There is something I have observe about airdrop, many of them find it difficult to do 500m market cap unlike then when you get to see even telegram projects do 500m but now, they can't maintain ordinary 200m and that's tells you about the interests of new projects.

Yeah airdrops nowadays is about them becoming rich and fill their pockets while the people that engage with the projects and made them popular and rich are left with dus or even lossess because of some so called gas fee,the glorious days of airdrops are over.

[r_victory]

I have participated in Airdrops that were very profitable in the market at the time (2017/2018). Nowadays, it pays off if you participate in a project and receive Airdrops from other projects, as happens a lot in the TON ecosystem, or even in exchange promotions, such as Binance and Bitget do (I participated in some).

[MUGNIA]

If looking for free in 2025 for airdrops is already difficult to find, all require funds for daily check-ins, even boosting their groups/channels, indeed 2021 can be said to be the end of simple airdrops, maybe I'm not a consistent airdrop fighter, sometimes I'm only enthusiastic at the beginning and stop when there are too many tasks and it's possible to spend funds up front, it can be said that I really avoid retrodrops. It seems that in 2025 the trend is mostly airdrop nodes

[libert19]

...sometimes I'm only enthusiastic at the beginning and stop when there are too many tasks and it's possible to spend funds up front...

I used to do same, I'd start with a project but they'd keep bringing more tasks for users without giving anything concrete about rewards then I'd assume that project is farming users and I'd leave it.

[milewilda]

...sometimes I'm only enthusiastic at the beginning and stop when there are too many tasks and it's possible to spend funds up front...

I used to do same, I'd start with a project but they'd keep bringing more tasks for users without giving anything concrete about rewards then I'd assume that project is farming users and I'd leave it.

Most of airdrops now had already this kind of social media tasks on which they've been asking out tons of following,liking,commenting and repost or whatever but in the end of the day, you do end up on getting nothing or being that ineligible in the end on which it do really sucks big time after all the things that you've done. The only time on which i do considered out on where people been famred out is on the time that these projects that connects out with games on which accumulating points is their main criteria on which you do need up to invest or buy up someone to maximize points on which i do say that these scam devs are just trying out to milk those people who do really believe that they can make money at the end when the project ends and distribute those airdropped tokens.

[JISAN]

Currently, there is no value in airdrops. No project pays well. And most of them are scams. Today, the payment has been paid in batches, everyone here has received an average of one dollar. So working on airdrops is a complete waste of time. I myself do not work on them anymore and I do not advise anyone to do so. Because they will never be worth the time. And they are not professional work. So Airdrop should be avoided for now.

[Asiska02]

What’s your experience with airdrops this year? Any hidden gems you’ve claimed or ongoing???
Let’s share and grow together!

There is nothing special about airdrops anymore especially those ones that are linked to the TON ecosystem. They took advantage of newbies into the space through the telegram based tap bots and never did they compensate those people well, so many people who just got into the crypto space newly lost interest and thought that was the only way to make money from crypto. That was their first impression of what crypto is and since they were not compensated well, they lost interest and would discourage others that which to join through them not to get involved. Talking about airdrops on a wider note, they need to be able to know what airdrops do go well and have better expectations on. I really love Depin projects and despite the airdrop space getting saturated, one can still find a way to meet good projects that pay well.

[Cryptsafe]

The crypto industry is so big that one can be able to get something meaningful out of it, there are lots of engagements that one could get themselves in that would generate income for them if they are really committed to their work, compared to airdrops. Gone are the days when an airdrop is what it used to be. These days, there are lots of scams out there disguised in the form of airdrops to rip investors, and in the end, they abscond, leaving the airdrop participants with no pay. 

These days, projects just exploit airdropers to make sure they do the dirty work for them, to the point that they demand gas fees, donation,s etc, which is not normal to do but yet some people still fall for them, and in the end, they get dust and peanuts for a rewards after spending tangible amount of money for the project.

[MUGNIA]

...sometimes I'm only enthusiastic at the beginning and stop when there are too many tasks and it's possible to spend funds up front...

I used to do same, I'd start with a project but they'd keep bringing more tasks for users without giving anything concrete about rewards then I'd assume that project is farming users and I'd leave it.

Most of airdrops now had already this kind of social media tasks on which they've been asking out tons of following,liking,commenting and repost or whatever but in the end of the day, you do end up on getting nothing or being that ineligible in the end on which it do really sucks big time after all the things that you've done. The only time on which i do considered out on where people been famred out is on the time that these projects that connects out with games on which accumulating points is their main criteria on which you do need up to invest or buy up someone to maximize points on which i do say that these scam devs are just trying out to milk those people who do really believe that they can make money at the end when the project ends and distribute those airdropped tokens.

Actually, for social media tasks, I think it's not a problem, if it's only once like when I first got to know about airdrops, but now there are too many tasks, even if the airdrop has a game that takes up a lot of time where we are required to level up, top up, and even more, and when the results are distributed, they are not optimal, even 95% are at a loss

[Glow]

...sometimes I'm only enthusiastic at the beginning and stop when there are too many tasks and it's possible to spend funds up front...

I used to do same, I'd start with a project but they'd keep bringing more tasks for users without giving anything concrete about rewards then I'd assume that project is farming users and I'd leave it.

Most of airdrops now had already this kind of social media tasks on which they've been asking out tons of following,liking,commenting and repost or whatever but in the end of the day, you do end up on getting nothing or being that ineligible in the end on which it do really sucks big time after all the things that you've done. The only time on which i do considered out on where people been famred out is on the time that these projects that connects out with games on which accumulating points is their main criteria on which you do need up to invest or buy up someone to maximize points on which i do say that these scam devs are just trying out to milk those people who do really believe that they can make money at the end when the project ends and distribute those airdropped tokens.

Actually, for social media tasks, I think it's not a problem, if it's only once like when I first got to know about airdrops, but now there are too many tasks, even if the airdrop has a game that takes up a lot of time where we are required to level up, top up, and even more, and when the results are distributed, they are not optimal, even 95% are at a loss

This airdrop scam is now everywhere and people are becoming more aware about it and weary of it, most people are leaning towards trading which is good but should be threaded carefully.

[bhadz]

Many people that have been introduced to airdrops especially last year, they think that most airdrops are just tapping and clicking. No they are not and also the projects like grass where you just run the app on the browser. I agree with OP that testnets and bridging are the good ones because there is an actual platform for these projects where you'll receive the airdrop from them if lucky that they have become successful.

[Amug123]

Airdrops has changed significantly over the years while they still can be a source of free money the process has become more complex. While some projects offers substantial reward for early participants or these who completed all tasks.  Many airdrops requires significant time investment without guaranteed rewards. Some airdrops may even require KYC verification or involve spammy task. There nothing special about airdrops anymore especially the one associated with TON ecosystem. 

[JISAN]

Airdrops has changed significantly over the years while they still can be a source of free money the process has become more complex. While some projects offers substantial reward for early participants or these who completed all tasks.  Many airdrops requires significant time investment without guaranteed rewards. Some airdrops may even require KYC verification or involve spammy task. There nothing special about airdrops anymore especially the one associated with TON ecosystem.

Airdrop was only a source of free income at the time, but nowadays Airdrops are managed in a way where money needs to be spent. But the amount of money spent there is not enough profit return. So Airdrop is no longer used as a source of free money income, it has now become just a place to waste time and money. Instead of wasting your valuable time in Airdrop, you should use that time for some other good purpose. At least this can be a proper use of time.

[LogitechMouse]

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Tips I Follow:

I focus on ecosystem participation (testnets, bridging, trading) more than just social tasks.
I always check if the team is doxxed or if they have a history of legit launches.
I avoid any airdrop that asks for too much personal info or upfront payment.

What’s your experience with airdrops this year? Any hidden gems you’ve claimed or ongoing???
Let’s share and grow together!

I tried to join in different airdrops, but I'm the type of participant that doesn't have the patience to wait 8-12 months just to get a few bucks. I can still remember when Berachain required us to make testnet transactions for months. I started in February 2024, and it took months or nearly a year before they launched their token. I didn't regret for stopping because I don't know if that will be a waste of time or not at that time.

Anyway, as somebody that considered lazy when it comes to airdrop participation, I'd rather choose airdrops that requires us to become a liquidity provider in order to get some points that will give us the tokens through airdrop. Social task isn't worth it anymore because it's easy to do that anybody can do it hence, lowering the rewards. As for testnets, I'm trying, but as of this moment, I don't want to.

As for hidden gems, I haven't found anything aside from the Celestia and Dymension airdrop way back 1-2 years ago. Berachain is supposed to be the next one, but I'm lazy.