Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author: Golem (@web3_golem)
Odaily Planet Daily has reviewed the airdrop projects that can be claimed from October 7 to October 13, and also compiled important information about this week's airdrops. For details, see the text.
Puffer Finance
Project and air investment qualification introduction
Puffer Finance is a liquidity staking protocol based on EigenLayer. The project announced the PUFFER token economics on October 10, with a total supply of 1 billion (initial supply of 102, 300, 000), of which 7.5% was used for the Crunchy Carrot Quest Season 1 airdrop, and the airdrop qualification snapshot was taken on October 5, 2024.
As part of the Protocol Guild Pledge, 1% of the total PUFFER supply will support Ethereum core development with a vesting period of 4 years. In addition, the ecosystem and community allocation accounts for 40%, the second quarter airdrop allocation accounts for 5.5%, the early contributors and advisors allocation accounts for 20%, and the investor allocation accounts for 26%.
Financing
Puffer Finance’s total financing amount exceeds 24.15 million US dollars. In June 2022, it completed a $650,000 Pre-seed round of financing, led by Jump Crypto, with participation from IoTeX and Arcanum Capital; on August 8, 2023, it completed a $5.5 million seed round of financing, led by Lemniscap and Faction, with participation from SNZ Holding, Animoca Brands, Bankless Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, etc.; on January 30, 2024, it completed a strategic financing with participation from Binance Labs, the amount of which was not disclosed; on April 16, 2024, it completed a $18 million Series A financing, led by Electric Capital and Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Lemniscap, GSR, Faction, Mechanism Capital, Mask Network, etc.
Application deadline and link
Application period: October 14, 2024 to January 14, 2025
Link: https://claims.puffer.fi/
price
Not online
Optimism
Project and air investment qualification introduction
Ethereum L2 Optimism announced the opening of Airdrop 5 on October 10, distributing more than 10 million OPs (10,368,678) to 54,723 independent addresses. Users who interacted with at least 20 independent contracts on the hyperchain between March and September 2024 and whose contract-transaction ratio reached 10% are eligible to receive the airdrop, with different airdrop multipliers matching according to the interaction situation.
Financing
Optimism has raised a total of $429.5 million. On January 15, 2020, it completed a $3.5 million seed round of financing, with participation from Paradigm and IDEO CoLab Ventures; on February 25, 2021, it completed a $25 million Series A round of financing, led by a16z and participated by Coinbase Ventures; on March 17, 2022, it completed a $150 million Series B round of financing, led by Paradigm and a16z; on September 20, 2023, it completed a $162 million token OTC, and on March 8, 2024, it conducted another $89 million OTC with a16z.
Application deadline and link
Application period: October 10, 2024 to October 9, 2025
Link: https://app.optimism.io/airdrops/5
price
According to CoinGecko data, the current price of OP is 1.7 USDT.
Thruster
Project and air investment qualification introduction
Thruster is the native DEX in the Blast ecosystem. The project announced the opening of THRUST token airdrops on October 9. Thruster will airdrop 35,000,000 THRUST governance tokens to more than 135,000 qualified users of the protocol, accounting for 7% of the total supply, 50% in the form of THRUST and 50% in the form of veTHRUST, with a minimum staking period of 13 weeks (about 3 months).
Users who have provided liquidity on Thruster, traded WETH or USDB tokens on Thruster, participated in points activities on Thruster and passed the witch check are eligible to receive the airdrop.
Financing
Thruster's total financing amount exceeds US$7.5 million. It completed its first round of financing on January 16, 2024, with participation from Not 3 Lau Capital, Nick Chong, Kevin McCordic, DCF GOD, etc., and the amount was not disclosed. On April 18, 2024, it completed a seed round of financing of US$7.5 million, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from OKX Ventures, Mirana Ventures, ParaFi Capital, etc.
Application deadline and link
Application period: October 9, 2024 to January 9, 2025
Link: https://app.thruster.finance/credits
price
According to CoinMarketCap data, the current price of THRUST is 0.09 USDT.
Swell
Project and air investment qualification introduction
Swell is a liquidity staking protocol. The project announced on October 10 that SWELL token inquiries are now open, and the token distribution is the amount of SWELL earned in the Voyage airdrop, which accounts for 8.5% of the total supply of 10,000,000,000 SWELL, including a loyalty bonus of 1.5% of the total supply. The loyalty bonus will be applicable to long-term Swell stakers.
Financing
Swell completed a $3.75 million seed round of financing on March 14, 2022, led by Framework Ventures, IOSG Ventures and Apollo Crypto, with participation from Maven 11, Kain Warwick and Ryan Sean Adams.
Query deadline and link
Query period: October 10, 2024 to present
Link: https://app.swellnetwork.io/dao/voyage
price
According to Aevo data, SWELL’s current pre-market price is 0.455 USDT.
CARV
Project and air investment qualification introduction
CARV is a modular identity and data layer for games and AI. The project announced the opening of airdrops on October 10. The total amount of S 1 airdrop tokens is 40 million, accounting for 4% of the total supply; the subsequent S 2 and S 3 airdrop tokens will each account for 3% of the total token supply. However, the official has not disclosed the detailed airdrop qualification criteria.
Financing
CARV’s total financing amount exceeds US$49 million. On November 22, 2022, it completed a financing of US$4 million, led by Xiangfeng Investment, with participation from Infinity Ventures Crypto, W 3 GG, and PAKA; on December 5, 2023, it completed strategic financing, with participation from HashKey Capital, Alibaba, Jeffrey Jiho Zirlin, Michael Tong, etc., and the amount was not disclosed; on April 25, 2024, it completed a US$10 million Series A financing, led by IOSG Ventures and Tribe Capital, with participation from OKX Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, No Limit Holdings, Arweave, etc.; on May 31 and June 28, 2024, it completed two more rounds of financing, with an amount of over US$35 million, with participation from Animoca Brands, Intella X, and double jump.tokyo.
Application deadline and link
Application period: October 10, 2024 to present
Link: https://airdrop.carv.io/
price
According to CoinGecko data, the current price of CARV is 0.76 USDT.
Taiko
Project and air investment qualification introduction
Ethereum L2 Taiko announced on October 12 that it is open for claiming the first season rewards. The rewards for the first season are: LEGEND: 5,263.16, Densetsu: 2,346.04, Kodai: 1,055.41, Hashira: 572.56, Shogun: 290.31, Taichou II: 174.19, Taichou I: 135.24, Sensei II: 100.38.
Financing
Taiko's total financing amount reached US$37 million. In September 2022, it completed a US$10 million seed round of financing, led by Sequoia China, with participation from Hash Global, IOSG Ventures, WWVentures, GGV Capital, and Kucoin Ventures; on June 8, 2023, it completed a US$12 million Pre-A round of financing, led by Generative Ventures, with participation from Mirana Ventures, OKX Ventures, GSR, etc.; on March 3, 2024, it completed a US$15 million A round of financing, led by Faction, Hashed, Generative Ventures and Token Bay Capital, with participation from Amber Group, OKX Ventures, GSR, Wintermute, etc.
Application deadline and link
Application period: October 12, 2024 to November 12, 2024
Link: https://trailblazers.taiko.xyz/
price
According to CoinGecko data, the current price of TAIKO is 1.52 USDT.
Morkie
Project and air investment qualification introduction
Morkie is an NFT trading platform. The project announced the launch of the second season airdrop on October 11. The snapshot time of this airdrop is 6:00 on October 9 (UTC).
Financing
Unreleased
Application deadline and link
Application period: October 11, 2024 to present
Link: https://app.morkie.xyz/claim
price
According to CoinGecko data, the current price of MORK is 0.000014 USDT.
Airdrop Important Information
Scroll: Airdrop snapshot planned for October 19, 7% of the total supply of 1 billion SCR tokens will be used for airdrop
Scroll announced the token distribution design details on October 8. The total supply of tokens is 1,000,000,000 SCR, the airdrop snapshot date is October 19, 2024, and the token release date and airdrop claim time is October 22, 2024. 7% of the total supply will be used for airdrops.
Zora creates website subdomain claim, which may be used for airdrop claims
On October 9, according to the domain name information of the official website of the Ethereum L2 network Zora Network, the domain name contains the subdomain "claim.zora.co", which may be the domain name of the token airdrop claim website. The domain name was first discovered on October 9, 2024, and the last update date was also October 9, 2024. It should be noted that the purpose of the domain name is still in the speculation stage, and the official has not updated the specific information yet. Users need to pay attention to protecting the security of funds.
WalletConnect: Some early users and contributors can get Season 1 WCT airdrops. Register before October 18th
WalletConnect said in a post on October 13 that the WalletConnect Foundation will launch Season 1 WCT airdrops for certain early users and contributors. If a user has ever used WalletConnect to connect a mobile wallet to an application (whether by scanning a QR code or using the "Connect via WalletConnect" button), they may be eligible for the WCT airdrop. Users must register before October 18.
Tomarket announced that it will hold TGE on October 31
Telegram TON ecosystem application Tomarket officially announced on October 12 that it will conduct TGE on October 31, and the detailed token airdrop details will be announced in the future. It is reported that Tomarket uses a level system to determine the amount of airdrops each user can receive. Users can upgrade their levels by participating in platform activities before TGE to lock in more airdrop rewards. At the same time, Tomarket will also launch more airdrop activities this month.
Xterio’s flagship game Age of Dino reveals its ecosystem token economics, with airdrops accounting for 10% of total token supply
On October 11, according to official news, Age of Dino announced its ecological token economic model. The total supply of the token AOD is 200,000,000, of which 25% belongs to the team, 40% to game rewards, 10% to airdrops, 10% to marketing, 6% to DinostyNFT holders, 3% to consultants, and 6% to liquidity. At the same time, in order to maintain the long-term value of AOD, the team decided to implement several plans to achieve deflation of the token.
Elixir hinted on social media platforms that it may have conducted an airdrop snapshot
Modular DPoS network Elixir released a camera image on the X platform on October 11, which may indicate that an airdrop snapshot has been taken.
Bitcoin native stablecoin project bitSmiley is about to launch SMILE token airdrop
On October 9, the Bitcoin native stablecoin project bitSmiley announced the launch of the "Harvest Season" theme event. During the event, existing community users and new members of bitSmiley will have the opportunity to obtain airdrop rewards. Existing community members can check the airdrop status of previous events through the bitSmiley official website, and new users can obtain rewards by participating in community interactions during the event.
