I just happened to see a project, and the airdrop model caught my eye.

Everyone may know that the Cosmos ecosystem generally uses pledges to maintain the security of each chain, such as cosmos hub staking its governance token $ATOM to maintain the security of the network. At the same time, the pledgers will have certain benefits, and the operators who deploy verification nodes can customize commissions to charge certain fees to maintain the operating costs and profits.

In the early days, many chains built on cosmos-related open source tools would actively open airdrop qualifications to the addresses of related pledged atoms, and the pledgers had almost no connection with the project, except for the notice when the airdrop was issued and the subsequent airdrop collection.

It is possible that in the future, many cosmos ecosystems (perhaps we will see it on other public chains in the future, but the cosmos ecosystem naturally supports it) that are in urgent need of financing will indirectly finance and operate in this way, and attract more people to enter the cosmos ecosystem.

The cosmos ecological projects that have been deployed on the chain are all deployed with open nodes, and usually the returns are good. The project party can deploy nodes and charge a certain commission. When the commission collected by the project party in each ecological project reaches a certain level, there will naturally be funds. At the same time, it is implied that rewards will be issued to supporters of the project in the future.

Raise funds through mutual benefit and interaction with existing communities and users. Under normal circumstances, the pledged tokens remain unchanged, and the pledger can also get a part of the pledged income. Familiar users may feel that it is a bit like YT of $PENDLE , taking out a part of the pledged income tokens to win future airdrops.

I hope that more and more projects will debut in this way in the future!

Although the staking behavior itself is almost risk-free, it is not ruled out that the verification node will do some malicious behavior. The tokens pledged by the pledger may be confiscated, and even some malicious contract interactions may be used to authorize you to cause the funds in the wallet to be stolen during the subsequent airdrop. So it is not without any risk.

If you want to participate in similar projects, try to use a new wallet, transfer the funds to the new wallet and then pledge. (If your wallet is just for the small amount of money that you want to bet on airdrops, you can directly change the verification stage. Most projects will take some time to cancel the pledge before the funds are credited!),

Only on behalf of personal views