Treasure List: A Review of Potential Airdrop Projects to Watch in 2025

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1 year ago

Original Author: KarenZ, Foresight News

Missed out on the generous airdrops from Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? No need to worry, and certainly no need to be discouraged! This article carefully compiles 30 highly promising projects to help you find new airdrop opportunities.

pump.fun 🌟🌟🌟

In this cycle, pump.fun is undoubtedly a standout, with its revenue hitting new highs, total revenue reaching 1,595,278 SOL. During the X Space live stream in October 2024, pump.fun co-founder Sapijiju hinted at plans for future token issuance and airdrops, further igniting community expectations.

Interaction Strategy: Internal trading, utilizing various platform features.

Recommended Reading: 《Is Pump.fun going to issue tokens? The studio has already opened the book

Phantom 🌟🌟🌟

Phantom has evolved from a Solana ecosystem wallet to one of the preferred multi-chain wallets for most users in the crypto space. Phantom's total funding has surpassed $118 million, with investors including Paradigm, a16z, and Solana Ventures.

Interaction Strategy: Experience the Phantom multi-chain wallet, exchange and purchase within the wallet.

Eclipse 🌟🌟🌟

Eclipse launched its public mainnet in November, with ecosystem projects including the prediction market Polymarket (launching in early December), the decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (via ezSOL), the Eclipse native NFT Launchpad Scope powered by Rarible, the native DeFi hub Astrol, and Orca. Eclipse has raised a total of $65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, and Delphi Digital.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain assets at https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, exchange and provide liquidity on Orca, and interact with other ecosystem applications.

Recommended Reading: 《Gold Rush Manual |Eclipse Ecosystem Outlook and Airdrop Guide

Berachain 🌟🌟🌟

Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on a liquidity proof consensus, addressing liquidity issues in the DeFi space through a three-token model and liquidity proof (PoL) consensus mechanism. The public testnet bArtio B2 is set to launch in June 2024. Berachain has raised over $140 million in total funding.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet, explore ecosystem applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.

Abstract 🌟🌟🌟

Abstract is a consumer-grade cryptocurrency blockchain built on the ZK Stack, achieving scalability through off-chain transactions, batching, and using ZK proofs to validate batch transactions on Ethereum. Abstract contributors include individuals who initiated or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. The parent company of Pudgy Penguins, Igloo, oversees and participates in the development of Abstract as a contributor. Abstract has launched its testnet and is set to go live on the mainnet in January 2025.

Abstract launched its testnet in July 2024, previously planning to launch the mainnet by the end of 2025. The parent company of Pudgy Penguins, Igloo, previously stated that Pudgy Penguins would first launch on Solana, followed by Ethereum and Abstract.

Interaction Strategy: Join the waitlist to obtain the Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain, transfer testing, and continuously hold PENGU for airdrops.

MegaETH 🌟🌟🌟

MegaETH is dedicated to building a real-time blockchain, claiming to process 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond response times. In June, MegaETH developer MegaLabs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round led by Dragonfly, with support from Vitalik Buterin, Consensys founder Joseph Lubin, EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan, and others.

MegaETH has not yet launched its testnet, but currently, you can follow stablecoin projects like CAP Labs and trading trend platforms like Noise.

Recommended Reading: 《What exactly is MegaETH, which gained overnight popularity with Vitalik's favor?

SOON 🌟🌟🌟

Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) is currently focusing on two main directions. First is the SOON Stack, a modular Rollup framework that combines SVM and OP Stack, allowing any SVM L2 to be deployed on L1 (such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos). Chains deployed using the SOON Stack are called SOON Chains. Secondly, SOON plans to collaborate with EVM RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) providers like Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit, aiming to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service systems to simplify the deployment process for users.

On August 27, SOON completed a Co-Builder funding round, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (toly), Solana Foundation chair Lily Liu, and Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam.

Interaction Strategy: Testnet cross-chain, interact (with lending protocols like EnsoFi, etc.)

Recommended Reading: 《Toly's Favorite: SOON Unlocks the Ultimate L2 Rollup Stack for All L1s?

Story Protocol 🌟🌟🌟

Story Protocol is an on-chain IP protocol. Story Protocol has raised over $140 million, with investors including a16z Crypto, Polychain, and Foresight Venture.

Story Protocol launched its final testnet, Odyssey, in November. Story has previously made it clear that they firmly oppose behaviors such as farmers (score manipulators), witch attacks, and automated activities, which will not receive any rewards. Instead, they place greater importance on genuine feedback from real community members regarding real issues.

Story Protocol has concluded the Odyssey event, and the testnet is still interactive.

Monad 🌟🌟🌟

Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that enhances throughput through MonadBFT, delayed execution, parallel execution, and the MonadDb database. A novel aspect is the separation of execution and consensus, adopting a pipelined consensus execution hierarchy. Monad completed a $225 million funding round in April 2024, led by Paradigm.

Interaction Strategy: Monad Discord roles, hold Pythenian NFTs (purchased by Monad co-founders), stake ecosystem tokens (such as W or PYTH), try playing the Monad ecosystem Sparkball game, and explore other projects in the Monad ecosystem.

Recommended Reading: 《A Quick Look at "Jump Gang" Monad Labs: The Ultimate EVM Solution?

A Sneak Peek at the Monad Ecosystem Landscape

Nillion 🌟🌟🌟

Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network aimed at building an encrypted network for high-value data during storage, transmission, and computation, addressing the current issue of needing to "decrypt - compute - re-encrypt" when computing encrypted data. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round financing at a valuation of $180 million in December 2022, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion completed $25 million in financing, led by Hack VC.

Interaction Strategy: Blind computing staking, validator nodes. On December 11, Nillion announced the official end of the Nillion Verifier program, with TGE scheduled for the first half of 2025.

Recommended Reading: 《Founded by Uber engineers, what innovations does the "Blind Computing" network Nillion bring?

Solayer 🌟🌟🌟

Solayer, a new star project in Solana's re-staking, announced the completion of its builder round financing on July 2, 2024, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Solend founder Rooter, Tensor co-founder Richard Wu, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. In December, Solayer created an official foundation Twitter account.

Interaction Strategy: Re-staking

Recommended Reading: 《A Quick Look at Solana's Re-staking Star Project Solayer

ink 🌟🌟🌟

ink is an L2 network launched by the American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on the Optimism Superchain, with its testnet launched in November 2024. The ink documentation hints at the decentralization of the superchain's sequencer, and the mainnet has been launched.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain, explore the ink network ecosystem.

Babylon 🌟🌟🌟

Babylon is a leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing Bitcoin holders to stake their Bitcoin on proof-of-stake (PoS) systems (such as PoS chains, L2, data availability (DA) layers, etc.) and earn rewards. Babylon has raised nearly $100 million, with investors including Paradigm, Binance Labs, and Polychain.

In May 2024, it completed a $70 million financing round, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 to stake BTC and join the Babylon Odyssey event.

Solv Protocol 🌟🌟🌟

Solv Protocol is also a leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with total funding reaching $25 million, with investors including Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Nomura Securities.

Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin or wrap Bitcoin, participate in the points program.

AO 🌟🌟🌟

The Arweave computing network AO mainnet will launch on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of the newly minted AO tokens are proportionally allocated to AR holders, while 66.6% of AO tokens will be distributed to users who cross-chain assets to AO. AO has supported deposits of stETH to earn token rewards.

Interaction Strategy: Hold AR (preferably on-chain), cross-chain stETH.

Farcaster 🌟🌟

Farcaster is currently the most active Web3 social project, recently making a comeback through AI agents. In June 2024, a source who requested anonymity due to business constraints told Fortune magazine that, like most protocols, he expects Farcaster to launch a token, and investors will be eager to capture its fully diluted value.

Interaction Strategy: Post, experience different clients.

Polymarket 🌟🌟

The prediction market Polymarket has experienced explosive growth since early 2024 and has shown considerable resilience after the election.

Interaction Strategy: Make predictions.

Perennial 🌟🌟

Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbitrum, which completed a $12 million financing round in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, and others.

In December 2024, Perennial launched an intent layer, allowing traders to execute and obtain deep liquidity from on-chain and off-chain venues instantly. Specifically, traders specify the exact price at which they want to execute trades, whether market or limit orders; Solvers act as market makers, executing and automatically settling into the AMM. Additionally, Perennial launched the Perennial Petals program, which will reward loyal participants, new users, and early adopters (mainly related to trading volume).

Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Perennial Petals program.

daos.fun 🌟🌟

daos.fun is a platform founded by @baoskee and supported by Alliance DAO. The main function of this platform is to help fund managers and creators raise funds so they can establish their own DAOs and invest in memes on behalf of token holders. daos.fun has not explicitly or implicitly indicated plans to issue tokens.

Interaction Strategy: Trading.

Pump Science 🌟🌟

Pump Science is built on Pump.fun. It is a low-barrier research experiment and fundraising platform. On pump.science, anyone, including drug developers and scientists, can submit longevity health ideas and drug strategies to raise funds for their experiments, while others can bet on which interventions will extend the lifespan of different model organisms being tested. Currently, there are only two experiments on Pump Science: Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).

According to the pump.science roadmap, mouse trials using Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO) will begin on January 25, 2025, with a new compound launch in collaboration with VitaDAO on February 25, 2025.

Pump Science has not explicitly or implicitly indicated plans to issue tokens, but some community members speculate that Pump Science will issue a platform token.

Interaction Strategy: Trading.

Soneium 🌟🌟

Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony's blockchain division, Sony Block Solutions Labs, which launched its public testnet Minato and developer incubation program Spark in August 2024.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain, explore the Soneium ecosystem.

Nexus 🌟🌟

Nexus envisions building an internet based on verifiable computing, connecting computing devices scattered around the world (such as large GPU farms, computers, mobile phones, etc.) to form a supercomputer. By utilizing Nexus zkVM, Nexus connects computing supply with proof demand, allowing anyone to connect their devices to the network, not only to participate in computing but also to earn corresponding rewards.

Interaction Strategy: The new Nexus testnet has ended; keep an eye on subsequent testnet deployment.

Recommended Reading: 《A Quick Read on the Supercomputer Nexus: How Does It Work? How to Participate?

BOB 🌟🌟

BOB stands for "Build on Bitcoin," and it is an L2 tech stack aimed at supporting Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecosystem development. It not only inherits Bitcoin's PoW security but also supports the Bitcoin ecosystem, including Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr, while being fully compatible with EVM.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in BOB Fusion's final season to earn Spice points, including maximizing Spice by depositing assets into various DeFi applications on BOB, voting with Spice, and referrals.

Perena 🌟🌟

Perena is a stablecoin infrastructure protocol in the Solana ecosystem, completing its Pre-Seed round financing in December, led by Borderless, with participation from Binance Labs.

Interaction Strategy: Obtain petal points by trading between stablecoins and forming LPs.

Recommended Reading: 《Binance Invests in New Project, Is Perena Worth Participating?

Lombard 🌟🌟

Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round financing in July 2024, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, and others. In October 2024, Lombard also received investment from Binance Labs.

Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB for LBTC, and deposit LBTC, WBTC, or cbBTC assets into the Lombard DeFi Vault (automated yield management solution).

ZERϴ Network 🌟🌟

ZERϴ Network is an L2 network launched by the Web3 wallet Zerion based on ZKsync.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Zerion Rewards Program to earn XP, which measures user activity in Zerion and unlocks new rewards; complete quests; explore the ZERO Network ecosystem.

Kaito AI 🌟🌟

Kaito AI is an AI cryptocurrency search engine that launched the Yaps points program in December 2024.

Interaction Strategy: Connect Twitter to create an account, post cryptocurrency-related tweets, and invite referrals.

DAWN 🌟🌟

DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network within a physical resource network, utilizing point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology to enable nodes to efficiently communicate directly with multiple nodes. DAWN previously completed $18 million in financing in August 2024, led by Dragonfly. Subsequently, in December, VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha fund and VanEck Ventures invested $2.5 million in DAWN through strategic financing.

Recommended Reading: 《DAWN: Dragonfly Leads $18 Million, New Force Added to Solana DePIN

Interaction Strategy: Download the browser extension to act as a validator node and earn early points rewards.

Reddio 🌟🌟

Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 supported by GPUs for autonomous AI. Reddio completed its seed round financing in August 2024 (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) and is about to announce its Series A financing. Reddio has launched a public testnet.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain and explore the Reddio ecosystem.

Paradex 🌟🌟

Paradex is a decentralized perpetual derivatives Layer2 application chain incubated on Starknet by the cryptocurrency institutional liquidity platform Paradigm (not the venture capital Paradigm), planning to allocate 20% of tokens for a genesis airdrop. This airdrop spans multiple XP seasons, including the first season from February 1, 2024, to January 2, 2025, and the second season from January 3 to July 31, 2025, with token distribution planned at the end of the second season.

Interaction Strategy: Trading.

ZORA 🌟

ZORA is an art minting platform that has also launched the L2 network Zora Network based on OP Stack. ZORA has raised a total of $60 million, with investors including Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and others. With the increasing anticipation of OpenSea's token issuance, whether ZORA will follow suit and issue its own token has become a hot topic of discussion. However, ZORA has also been criticized by some users as the "PUA airdrop king."

Interaction Strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFTs, and explore the Zora Network ecosystem.

Virtual Ecosystem Airdrop 🌟

Virtual ecosystem AI music agents like MUSIC have previously distributed airdrops to users of the Virtual Protocol ecosystem. It is expected that in 2025, as AI agents continue to thrive, more AI agents launched on Virtual may distribute airdrops to users in the Virtual ecosystem.

Interaction Strategy: Trade on Virtual and hold more than three types of AI agent tokens.

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