🧐 Sahara Airdrop Review: How Did I Achieve This Return? | Token Economics Analysis and Airdrop Distribution Interpretation——

Many people are curious about the amount of airdrop I received, so I’m providing an interpretation here:

To be honest, I’m not very willing to package this as “mindlessly taking advantage of the situation.”

Because from the very beginning of my participation until now, I’ve actually taken quite a few detours and spent a lot of time; data labeling is not a simple task, but I’ve managed to stick with it;

Mainly because I was quite certain at that time:

Sahara @SaharaLabsAI is a project with “a product loop, community accumulation, and narrative logic,” which is worth spending time to participate in seriously.

My airdrop sources mainly come from three parts:

First, I got on the early whitelist for labeling, which took me a good half a year of effort;

Second, I participated in the public sale of Buildpad with about 10 accounts;

Third, long-term research provided some rewards to certain creators;

Basically, each part required some effort, while exchanging for some returns; overall returns were moderate, but the process was very interesting, experiencing the entire AI.

Many who pay attention to my content line should know that I was probably the earliest in the Chinese community to start labeling Sahara and have the most comprehensive tutorial:

https://x.com/btw0205/status/1871064385512472683?s=46&t=1fmViEEp4ahAv6QgAcIA2g

1️⃣ What Exactly Is Sahara Doing?

So now I find that many people are still asking what Sahara is doing, and I’ll answer the core in one sentence:

Sahara = Full-stack AI-native blockchain, connecting data → model → computation, allowing anyone to contribute / trade / cash out AI assets.

Still feel it’s complicated?

To simplify: what Sahara does is move the tasks of “providing data → using models → calling computing power,” which were originally only possible for large companies, onto the blockchain, transforming it into a system that anyone can participate in.

Whether you’re helping to label data, contributing models, or providing computing power, you can earn rewards on Sahara, and even sell these “AI assets” directly for profit.

In simple terms: everyone can participate in AI, use blockchain to record and trade these contributions, and receive tangible benefits.

This is what Sahara aims to do and is currently doing!

2️⃣ Tokenomics Appears to Be “Community-oriented.”

The current economic model shows that 64.25% is allocated to the community & ecosystem:

Among them, 8.15% for airdrops, 33.93% for ecological subsidies, and 20.75% for long-term incentives;

Team 15%, early investors 19.75%, liquidity 1%.

In short: the project team has thrown two-thirds of the chips to the outside, indicating that they do not intend to control the market.

From this perspective, I have some expectations for the price!

3️⃣ Key Points of Core Airdrop Distribution:

Sahara is actually quite interesting; it doesn’t start with a bunch of incentives + empty promises like some projects, but directly clarifies the airdrop targets, weighting rules, and unlocking rhythm.

Moreover, it has rarely achieved the coexistence of two things:

👉 It considers the real early participants in the community;

👉 It also takes care of the medium to long-term benefits of subsequent “supporters”;

I’ve summarized a few core highlights of the Sahara airdrop👇

1) Wide coverage, all identities can claim:

It’s not just the “interactive crowd” that can benefit; it divides the crowd into three dimensions, which is also what I mentioned above regarding the directions I received airdrops from:

Data labelers (users who have completed Sahara Point tasks);

Social identity participants (such as Sahara Legends, active users on X);

Community backbones (Mods, event organizers, UGC creators);

In other words, whether you’re doing tasks, posting, or part of the operations team, you can earn.

2) Rewards are cumulative; the more seriously you participate, the more you earn:

This point is actually quite interesting; the airdrop is not just “whoever participates gets a share,” but has multiple weighting designs:

Labeling users holding ≥ 0.01 ETH can directly double their airdrop;

New users on OKX or users on both OKX + Sahara will receive additional incentives;

This is quite rare, somewhat like a “qualified investor channel” version in the airdrop.

3) Airdrops are not given all at once but encourage people to stay with the project:

I really agree with this.

📦 Only 44% of the airdrop is directly unlocked at TGE;

📦 The remaining 56% has a 6-month cliff + linear release;

In simple terms: if you’re not a true believer, you can’t get the full amount.

This round of Sahara airdrop is not based on the old method of “interactive scripts,” but has established a whole new paradigm of “who is really working hard, who should get more.”

And this is a reasonable direction after the combination of AI and blockchain — allowing data, labeling, and training processes to be tokenized and rewarding individuals in return.

4️⃣ Valuation Speculation on Price:

The current pre-market trading price has been around 0.1;

Looking at the charts and industry estimates, the initial price of Sahara upon launch may fall in the $0.10 - $0.15 range——

1) Sahara already has endorsements from OKX + Binance wallets, and the backing investment institutions are top-notch, with early round financing of $43M (Pantera, Binance Labs, Polychain).

2) If the launch price is set at $0.1–$0.15, with 20% circulation, FDV would fall in the 10B-15B range, which is not outrageous and can’t be considered a floor; if it can surge, there’s a possibility it could reach $0.2–$0.35;

This valuation range is not outrageous compared to similar AI projects, but it’s also not cheap.

If it truly follows the path of data closure & model trading, there may still be re-rating space in the future; but in the short term, it may also experience a round of “cognitive regression + release realization.” If it goes live, everyone should pay attention to the rhythm if they want to make a move.

5️⃣ Conclusion——

Ultimately, this round of Sahara airdrop conveys a very interesting signal: the future combination of AI and blockchain does not necessarily rely on speculative concepts, but rather on who can tokenize the underlying processes of “data, labeling, training” and create a closed loop.

It doesn’t rely on interaction or simply giving out rewards; instead, it tells everyone:

If you’ve done real work in this system, spent time and effort, you should receive reasonable rewards.

I’ve always believed that this is what token incentives should originally look like.

Of course, how the price will move later and whether the narrative can last is another dimension of the matter.

But at least this time, I was genuinely involved in the early stages, hoping for a good result when it goes live tomorrow! Let’s go!

免责声明：本文章仅代表作者个人观点，不代表本平台的立场和观点。本文章仅供信息分享，不构成对任何人的任何投资建议。用户与作者之间的任何争议，与本平台无关。如网页中刊载的文章或图片涉及侵权，请提供相关的权利证明和身份证明发送邮件到support@aicoin.com，本平台相关工作人员将会进行核查。