Original title: (2025 Airdrop Treasure List | These 30+ Projects Are Worth Watching)
Original author: KarenZ, Foresight News
Missed out on the generous airdrops from Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? No need to worry or feel discouraged! This article carefully outlines 30 highly promising projects to help you find new airdrop opportunities.
pump.fun
In this round of cycles, pump.fun is undoubtedly a dazzling presence, with revenue hitting new highs and a total revenue of 1,595,278 SOL. In an X Space live broadcast 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, use various functions of the platform.
Phantom
Phantom has evolved from a Solana ecosystem wallet to one of the preferred multi-chain wallets for most users in the crypto field. Phantom has surpassed $118 million in total funding, with investors including Paradigm, a16z, and Solana Ventures, among others.
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 driven by Rarible, the native DeFi center Astrol, and Orca, among others. Eclipse has raised a total of $65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, and Delphi Digital.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain assets on https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, exchange and provide liquidity on Orca, and interact with other ecological applications.
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, launching its public testnet bArtio B2 in June 2024. Berachain has raised over $140 million in total funding.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet and explore ecological applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.
Abstract
Abstract is a consumer-grade cryptocurrency blockchain built on the ZK Stack, achieving scalability by executing off-chain transactions, batch processing, and using ZK proofs to validate bulk transactions on Ethereum. Abstract contributors include those who initiated or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. The parent company of Pudgy Penguins, Igloo, supervises and participates as a contributor in the development of Abstract. Abstract has launched its testnet and will go live on the mainnet in January 2025.
Abstract has launched its testnet in July 2024, previously planned to launch its 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 Early Bird badges, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain, conduct transfer tests, and hold PENGU airdrops continuously.
MegaETH
MegaETH is committed to building a real-time blockchain, claiming to process 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond response time. In June, MegaETH developer MegaLabs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round led by Dragonfly and received support from Vitalik Buterin, Consensys founder Joseph Lubin, EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan, and others.
MegaETH has not yet launched its testnet, but stablecoin projects like CAP Labs and trading trend platforms like Noise can be followed.
SOON
Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) is currently focusing on two directions. First is the SOON Stack, a modular Rollup framework combining 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 such as Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit, aiming to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service systems to simplify user deployment processes.
On August 27, SOON completed the 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.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain on the testnet, interact with lending protocols like EnsoFi, etc.
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 has previously made it clear that they are firmly against 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 on real issues.
Story Protocol has already concluded the Odyssey event, but 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 novelty is the separation of execution and consensus, using a pipelined consensus execution hierarchy mechanism. Monad completed a $225 million fundraising in April 2024, led by Paradigm.
Interaction strategy: Monad Discord roles, hold Pythenian NFTs (purchased by Monad co-founders), stake ecosystem tokens (like W or PYTH), try playing the Monad ecosystem Sparkball game, and explore other projects in the Monad ecosystem.
Nillion
Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network aimed at building an encrypted network for high-value data throughout storage, transmission, and computation, addressing the current issue of having to 'decrypt - compute - re-encrypt' during encrypted data calculations. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round funding in December 2022 at a valuation of $180 million, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion completed $25 million in funding, led by Hack VC.
Interaction strategy: Blind compute staking, validation nodes. On December 11, Nillion announced the official end of the Nillion Verifier program, with TGE in the first half of 2025.
Solayer
Solayer, as a rising star project for Bitcoin re-staking, announced the completion of a builder round funding 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-stake.
ink
ink is an L2 network launched by the US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on the Optimism Superchain, with its testnet launched in November 2024. Ink's 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, L2s, data availability layers, etc.) and earn returns. Babylon has raised nearly $100 million, with investors including Paradigm, Binance Labs, and Polychain.
Completed $70 million in funding in May 2024, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital branch of the cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.
Interaction strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 staking BTC and join the Babylon Odyssey event.
Solv Protocol
Solv Protocol is also a leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with a total funding amount of $25 million, with investors including Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Nomura Securities.
Interaction strategy: Stake Bitcoin or wrap Bitcoin to participate in point activities.
AO
The Arweave computing network AO mainnet will launch on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of AO minting new tokens is proportionally allocated to AR holders, and 66.6% of AO tokens will be allocated to users bridging assets to AO. AO has supported deposits of stETH for token rewards.
Interaction strategy: Hold AR (try to stay 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, according to a source who requested anonymity due to business constraints, as cited by Fortune magazine, 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 the beginning of 2024 and has shown considerable resilience after the end of the elections.
Interaction strategy: Prediction.
Perennial
Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbitrum, which completed a $12 million funding in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, and others.
In December 2024, Perennial will launch an intention layer that enables traders to execute instant trades and obtain deep liquidity from on-chain and off-chain venues. 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. At the same time, Perennial will 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 platform's main function is to help fund managers and creators raise funds so they can establish their own DAOs and invest memes on behalf of token holders. daos.fun has not explicitly indicated or hinted that it will issue tokens.
Interaction strategy: Trade.
Pump Science
Pump Science is built on pump.fun. Pump Science is a virtually barrier-free research experiment and fundraising platform. On pump.science, anyone including pharmaceutical developers, scientists, etc., can submit longevity ideas and drug strategies to raise funds for their experiments, while others can bet on which intervention will prolong the lives of various tested model organisms. Currently, there are only two experiments on Pump Science, Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).
According to the pump.science roadmap, on January 25, 2025, mouse trials will be conducted using Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO), and on February 25, 2025, a new compound will be launched in cooperation with VitaDAO.
Pump Science has not explicitly indicated or hinted that it will issue tokens, but some community members speculate that Pump Science will issue a platform token.
Interaction strategy: Trade.
Soneium
Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony's blockchain department, Sony Block Solutions Labs, which has launched the public testnet Minato and the developer incubation program Spark in August 2024.
Interaction strategy: Cross-chain, explore the Soneium ecosystem.
Nexus
Nexus envisions building an internet based on verifiable computation, connecting computing devices (such as large GPU farms, computers, smartphones, etc.) scattered around the world to form a supercomputer. By utilizing Nexus zkVM, Nexus connects computing supply with proof demand, allowing anyone to connect their devices to the network, participate in computation, and earn corresponding rewards.
Interaction strategy: The Nexus new testnet has ended, and follow-up testnet deployment should be monitored.
BOB
BOB is short for 'Build on Bitcoin' and is an L2 technology stack aimed at supporting Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecosystem development. It inherits Bitcoin's PoW security, supports Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr within the Bitcoin ecosystem, and is fully compatible with EVM.
Interaction strategy: Participate in the BOB Fusion final season to earn Spice points, including maximizing Spice by depositing assets into various DeFi applications on BOB, voting with Spice, and recommending others.
Perena
Perena is a stablecoin infrastructure protocol in the Solana ecosystem, completing its Pre-Seed round of funding in December, led by Borderless, with Binance Labs also investing.
Interaction strategy: Trading between stablecoins and forming LPs can earn Petal points.
Lombard
Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round funding 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, 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. XP 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, publish crypto-related tweets, and recommend invites.
DAWN
DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network in a physical resource network that utilizes point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology, allowing nodes to efficiently communicate directly with multiple nodes. DAWN 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.
Interaction strategy: Download the browser extension to act as a validation node and receive early points rewards.
Reddio
Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 supported by GPUs for autonomous AI. Reddio completed its seed round funding in August 2024 (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) and is about to announce its Series A funding. 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 by the cryptocurrency liquidity platform Paradigm (not venture capital Paradigm) on Starknet, planning to allocate 20% of the tokens for a genesis airdrop. The airdrop spans multiple XP seasons, including the first season from February 1, 2024, to January 2, 2025, and the second season from January 3, 2025, to July 31, 2025. The token distribution plan will take place at the end of the second season.
Interaction strategy: Trade.
ZORA
ZORA is an art minting platform and 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 and Coinbase Ventures. With the increasing expectations for OpenSea to issue tokens, whether ZORA will follow suit to issue its own token has become a hot topic. However, ZORA has also been criticized by some users as the king of PUA airdrops.
Interaction strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFTs, and explore the Zora Network ecosystem.
Virtual ecosystem airdrop
Projects like Virtual ecosystem's AI music agent MUSIC have previously airdropped to Virtual Protocol ecosystem users. It is expected that in 2025, as AI agents continue to thrive, there may be more AI agents launching on Virtual that will airdrop to users in the Virtual ecosystem.
Interaction strategy: Trade on Virtual, hold more than three AI agent tokens.
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