Written by: KarenZ, Foresight News
Missed out on the generous airdrops from Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? Don't worry, and don't be discouraged! This article carefully sorts through 30 highly promising projects to help you find new airdrop opportunities.
pump.fun
In this round, pump.fun is undoubtedly an outstanding presence, with revenue reaching new highs, totaling 1,595,278 SOL. In 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, using various functions of the platform.
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 become 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 will launch its public mainnet in November, with ecosystem projects including the prediction market Polymarket (launching in early December), decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (via ezSOL), Eclipse native NFT Launchpad Scope powered by Rarible, and the native DeFi center Astrol, Orca, etc. Eclipse has raised a total of $65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, Delphi Digital, and others.
Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain assets on 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 liquidity proof consensus, solving liquidity issues in the DeFi space through a three-token model and liquidity proof (PoL) consensus mechanism, launching its public testnet bArtio B2 in June 2024. Berachain has raised over $140 million.
Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet and 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 bulk transactions on Ethereum. Abstract contributors consist of individuals who initiated or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. Pudgy Penguins' parent company Igloo supervises and participates in the development of Abstract as contributors. Abstract has launched its testnet and will launch its mainnet in January 2025.
Abstract has already launched its testnet in July 2024, previously planning to launch its mainnet by the end of 2025. Pudgy Penguins' parent company Igloo previously stated that Pudgy Penguins would first launch on Solana, followed by launches on Ethereum and Abstract.
Interaction Strategy: Join the waitlist to earn the Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain, transfer testing, and continuously hold PENGU airdrops.
MegaETH
MegaETH is committed to creating a real-time blockchain, claiming it can process 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond-level response speed. 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 yet to launch a testnet, but currently, attention can be paid to 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
The Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) currently focuses on two directions: first, SOON Stack, a modular Rollup framework that combines SVM and OP Stack, allowing deployment of any SVM L2 on L1 (like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos). Chains deployed using SOON Stack are referred to as SOON Chains. Second, SOON plans to collaborate with EVM RaaS providers like Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service systems, simplifying the deployment process for users.
On August 27, SOON completed its Co-Builder round of funding, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (toly), Solana Foundation chair Lily Liu, and Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam, among others.
Interaction Strategy: Test net cross-chain, interact (with lending protocols like EnsoFi, etc.)
Recommended Reading: (toly's choice: SOON unlocking 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, Foresight Venture, and others.
Story Protocol launched its final testnet Odyssey in November. Story previously stated that they firmly oppose farmers (score manipulators), witch attacks, and automated activities, which will not receive any rewards. Instead, they place more emphasis on real feedback from genuine community members on real issues.
Story Protocol has currently ended the Odyssey event, but the testnet is still interactive.
Monad
Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that enhances blockchain throughput through MonadBFT, delayed execution, parallel execution, and the MonadDb database. The novelty lies in the separation of execution and consensus, using a pipelined consensus execution hierarchical mechanism. Monad completed $225 million in financing in April 2024, led by Paradigm.
Interaction Strategy: Hold 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 Overview of 'Jump Gang' Monad Labs: The Ultimate EVM Solution?)
(Sneak Peek of Monad Ecosystem Map)
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, solving the current problem of needing to 'decrypt - compute - re-encrypt' during encrypted data computation. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round at a valuation of $180 million in December 2022, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion completed a $25 million financing round, led by Hack VC.
Interaction Strategy: Blind computation staking, validate nodes. On December 11, Nillion announced the official end of the Nillion Verifier program, with TGE in the first half of 2025.
Recommended Reading: (What innovations does 'blind computation' network Nillion have, founded by Uber engineers?)
Solayer
Solayer, as a new star project for re-staking in Solana, announced on July 2, 2024, that it completed a builder round of funding, 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 Overview of the New Staking Star Project Solayer)
ink
ink is an L2 network launched by the US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on Optimism Superchain, with the testnet launched in November 2024. Ink's documentation suggests decentralization of the superchain's sequencers 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 that allows Bitcoin holders to stake their Bitcoin and earn returns on proof-of-stake (PoS) systems (like PoS chains, L2s, data availability (DA) layers, etc.). Babylon has raised nearly $100 million, with investors including Paradigm, Binance Labs, Polychain, and others.
In May 2024, raised $70 million, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital division 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, raising a total of $25 million, with investors including Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Nomura Securities.
Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin or wrap Bitcoin, participate in points activities.
AO
Arweave computing network AO mainnet will be launched on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of AO minted new tokens are proportionally allocated to AR holders, and 66.6% of AO tokens will be allocated to users who cross-chain assets to AO. AO has supported deposits of stETH for 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 cited by (Fortune) magazine, who requested anonymity due to business constraints, stated 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, showing considerable resilience even after the elections.
Interaction Strategy: Prediction
Perennial
Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbitrum that completed a $12 million funding round in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, and others.
In December 2024, Perennial will launch the intent layer, enabling 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 a trade, whether it's a market order or a limit order; Solvers act as market makers, executing and automatically settling into the AMM. At the same time, Perennial will also launch the Perennial Petals program, providing rewards to 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 Meme 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. Pump Science is a nearly barrier-free 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 test organisms, supporting promising ideas. Currently, Pump Science has only two experiments: Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).
According to the pump.science roadmap, on January 25, 2025, mouse experiments will utilize Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO), and on February 25, 2025, a new compound will be launched in collaboration with VitaDAO.
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 department, Sony Block Solutions Labs, which went live on the public testnet Minato in August 2024 and has a developer incubation plan called Spark.
Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain, explore the Soneium ecosystem.
Nexus
Nexus envisions building an internet based on verifiable computing, connecting computing devices scattered across the globe (such as large GPU farms, computers, mobile phones, etc.) to collectively 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 Nexus new testnet has ended; please pay attention to subsequent testnet deployment.
Recommended Reading: (Quick Read on the Supercomputer Nexus: How does it operate? How to participate?)
BOB
BOB stands for 'Build on Bitcoin' and is an L2 tech stack aimed at supporting Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecosystem development, inheriting Bitcoin PoW security, supporting Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr, and 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, etc.
Perena
Perena is a stablecoin infrastructure protocol in the Solana ecosystem, completing its Pre-Seed round funding in December, led by Borderless, with investors including Binance Labs.
Interaction Strategy: By trading between stablecoins and forming LPs, you can earn Petal points.
Recommended Reading: (Is Perena, a new project invested by Binance, worth participating in?)
Lombard
Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round in July 2024, led by Polychain Capital, with Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, and others participating. In October 2024, Lombard also received investment from Binance Labs.
Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB as 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 reward 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 crypto search engine that launched the Yaps points program in December 2024.
Interaction Strategy: Connect Twitter to create an account, post crypto-related tweets, and refer invites.
DAWN
DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network within a physical resource network that utilizes point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology, enabling nodes to efficiently communicate directly with multiple nodes. DAWN previously completed $18 million in funding 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, adding new forces to Solana DePIN)
Interaction Strategy: Download the browser plugin, act as a validation node to earn early score rewards.
Reddio
Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 powered by GPUs for autonomous AI. Reddio completed its seed round funding (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) in August 2024 and is about to announce its Series A financing. Reddio has launched its 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 the tokens for the 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 the token distribution plan taking place at the end of the second season.
Interaction Strategy: Trading.
ZORA
ZORA is an art minting platform that has also launched an L2 network called 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 expectation of OpenSea issuing tokens, whether ZORA will follow suit and issue its own token has become a hot topic of discussion. At the same time, some users have criticized ZORA as the king of PUA airdrops.
Interaction Strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFTs, and explore the Zora Network ecosystem.
Virtual ecosystem airdrop
Ecosystem users of Virtual Protocol have previously received airdrops from AI music agents like MUSIC. It is expected that in 2025, as AI agents continue to thrive, more AI agents launched on Virtual may distribute airdrops to Virtual ecosystem users.
Interaction Strategy: Trade in Virtual, holding more than three types of AI agent tokens.
