All terms
Free tokens distributed to past users of a protocol.
Projects distribute tokens to early users as a reward and to decentralize ownership. Some airdrops have been worth thousands of dollars per wallet.
This has created airdrop farming, where people use protocols specifically to qualify. It has also created a huge number of fake airdrops designed to drain wallets.
Never connect your main wallet to an unexpected airdrop site. Real airdrops usually let you claim from the project's own domain, and often do not require a signature that moves assets.
That an airdrop is free money with no downside. Claiming one means signing a transaction, and fake claim pages are one of the most reliable ways wallets get drained. The real ones also arrive unannounced, so anything urgently telling you to claim is suspect.
Common questions
How do I qualify for an airdrop?
Are airdrops free money?
Where this comes up on the site
The guides that actually use this word, rather than a list of everything we have written.
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