Original title: 2025 Airdrop Treasure List | These 30+ projects are worth paying attention to
Original author: KarenZ, Foresight News
Original source: https://foresightnews.pro/article/detail/74821
Compiled by: Tom, Mars Finance
Missed out on the lucrative airdrops from Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? Don’t worry, and don’t be discouraged! This article carefully sorts out 30 projects with great potential to help you find new airdrop opportunities.
pump.fun 🌟🌟🌟
In this cycle, pump.fun is undoubtedly a shining presence, with its revenue hitting new highs, reaching a cumulative revenue of 1,595,278 SOL. In the 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, using various platform features.
Recommended Reading: (Is Pump.fun going to issue tokens? The studio has already opened its books)
Phantom🌟🌟🌟
Phantom has evolved from a Solana ecosystem wallet to one of the preferred multi-chain wallets for most users in the crypto space. Phantom's total funding has exceeded $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 launched its public mainnet in November, with eco-projects including the prediction market Polymarket (launching in early December), decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (via ezSOL), Eclipse's native NFT Launchpad Scope driven by Rarible, the native DeFi center Astrol, and Orca. Eclipse's total funding reached $65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, Delphi Digital, etc.
Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain assets at https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, exchange and provide liquidity on Orca, and interact with other ecological applications.
Recommended Reading: (Gold Rush Manual | Eclipse Ecosystem Outlook and Airdrop Guide)
Morph🌟🌟🌟
Morph is a global consumer-grade public chain that launched its mainnet on October 30, with eco-projects including liquidity protocol BulbaSwap, money market Abra Finance, NFT trading market Morpha.nft, and cross-chain and liquidity exchange protocol Owlto Finance. Morph completed a $20 million seed round financing led by Dragonfly Capital in March this year.
Interaction Strategy: Mysterious box NFT airdrop event, using the official cross-chain bridge Morph Bridge, explore ecological applications.
Recommended Reading: (Experience the Morph mainnet early, a guide to understanding Morph ecosystem projects and interaction)
Berachain 🌟🌟🌟
Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on liquidity proof consensus, solving liquidity issues in the DeFi space with a three-token model and liquidity proof (PoL) consensus mechanism. It launched the public testnet bArtio B2 in June 2024 and has raised over $140 million in total.
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 ZK Stack, achieving scalability through off-chain transactions, batching, and using ZK proofs to validate batch transactions on Ethereum. Abstract contributors consist of personnel who initiated or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. Pudgy Penguins' parent company, Igloo, oversees and participates in the development of Abstract as contributors. Abstract has launched its testnet and plans to launch its mainnet in January 2025.
Abstract has launched its testnet in July 2024, with plans to launch its mainnet by the end of 2025. The parent company of Pudgy Penguins, Igloo, previously stated that Pudgy Penguins would launch on Solana first, and later on Ethereum and Abstract.
Interaction Strategy: Join the waitlist to earn the Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain, conduct transfer tests, and continuously hold PENGU for airdrops.
MegaETH🌟🌟🌟
MegaETH is dedicated to creating a real-time blockchain, claiming to be able to process 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond-level 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, and EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan.
MegaETH has not yet launched a testnet, but currently, you can pay attention to stablecoin projects such as CAP Labs and trade trend platforms like Noise.
Recommended Reading: (What exactly is MegaETH that suddenly exploded in popularity and gained Vitalik's favor?)
SOON 🌟🌟🌟
The Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) currently focuses on two directions. First, the SOON Stack, a modular Rollup framework combining SVM and OP Stack, allows deploying any SVM L2 on L1 (such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos). Chains deployed using SOON Stack are called SOON Chains. Secondly, SOON plans to cooperate with EVM RaaS providers such as Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit, aiming to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service systems to simplify the deployment process for users.
On August 27, SOON completed a Co-Builder round of financing, 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 interactions on the testnet (lending protocols like EnsoFi, etc.)
Recommended Reading: (toly's favorite: Is SOON the ultimate L2 Rollup Stack unlocking all L1?)
Story Protocol 🌟🌟🌟
Story Protocol is an on-chain IP protocol. The total funding for Story Protocol exceeds $140 million, with investors including a16z Crypto, Polychain, Foresight Venture, etc.
Story Protocol will launch the final testnet Odyssey in November. Story has previously stated that they firmly oppose behaviors such as farmers (score manipulators), witch attacks, and automated activities, which will not receive any rewards. Instead, they place greater importance 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. A novelty is the separation of execution from consensus, adopting a pipelined consensus execution grading mechanism. Monad completed a $225 million funding round in April 2024, led by Paradigm.
Interaction Strategy: Monad Discord roles, hold Pythenian NFTs (already purchased by Monad co-founders), stake ecosystem tokens (like W or PYTH), try playing the Monad ecosystem Sparkball game, and explore other Monad ecosystem projects.
Recommended Reading: (A quick overview of 'Jump Gang' Monad Labs: The ultimate EVM solution?)
(A sneak peek at the Monad ecosystem landscape)
Nillion 🌟🌟🌟
Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network designed to build an encrypted network for high-value data throughout the processes of storage, transmission, and computation, solving the current problem of needing to 'decrypt - compute - re-encrypt' when computing encrypted data. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round financing at a valuation of $180 million in December 2022, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion completed a $25 million funding round, led by Hack VC.
Interaction Strategy: Blind computation staking, verification nodes. On December 11, Nillion announced the official end of the Nillion Verifier program, with TGE in the first half of 2025.
Recommended Reading: (Innovations of 'Blind Computation' Network Nillion 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 financing, 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: (Overview of the new star project Solayer for re-staking in Solana)
ink 🌟🌟🌟
ink is an L2 network launched by the US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on Optimism Superchain, with a testnet launched in November 2024. The ink documentation hints at the decentralization of superchain sorters and has launched the mainnet.
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 in proof of stake (PoS) systems (such as PoS chains, L2s, data availability (DA) layers, etc.) and earn yield. Babylon has raised nearly $100 million, with investors including Paradigm, Binance Labs, Polychain, etc.
In May 2024, a $70 million funding round was completed, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.
Interaction Strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 to stake BTC, take part in the Babylon Odyssey event.
Solv Protocol 🌟🌟🌟
Solv Protocol is also a leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with total funding reaching $25 million, and investors including Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Nomura Securities.
Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin or wrapped Bitcoin and participate in points activities.
AO 🌟🌟🌟
The Arweave computing network AO mainnet will be launched on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of the AO minted new tokens are proportionally allocated to AR holders, and 66.6% of AO tokens will be distributed to users transferring assets across chains to AO. AO already supports 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 who requested anonymity due to business constraints told (Fortune) magazine 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 and has shown considerable resilience after the election.
Interaction Strategy: Prediction
Perennial 🌟🌟
Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbitrum, which completed a $12 million funding round in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, etc.
In December 2024, Perennial will launch intention layers, allowing traders to execute instantly 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 to AMMs. Meanwhile, Perennial will also launch the Perennial Petals program to reward 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 on behalf of token holders in Memes. daos.fun has not yet explicitly or implicitly indicated that it will 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 pharmaceutical developers and scientists, can submit longevity ideas and drug strategies to raise funds for their experiments, while others can bet on which interventions will extend the lifespan of the different model organisms being tested. Currently, there are only two experiments on Pump Science, Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).
According to the pump.science roadmap, mouse experiments will be conducted using Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO) on January 25, 2025, and a new compound will be launched in collaboration with VitaDAO on February 25, 2025.
Pump Science has not yet explicitly or implicitly indicated that it will issue tokens, but 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 division, Sony Block Solutions Labs, which went live with its public testnet Minato and 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, mobile devices) distributed 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 you can follow up on subsequent testnet deployment.
Recommended Reading: (Quick Read on Supercomputer Nexus: How does it work? 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. It not only inherits Bitcoin PoW security but also supports the Bitcoin ecosystem including Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr, and is fully compatible with EVM.
Interaction Strategy: Participate in the final season of BOB Fusion 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 based on Solana and completed a Pre-Seed round of financing in December, led by Borderless, with additional investments from Binance Labs.
Interaction Strategy: Obtain Petal points through trading between stablecoins and forming LPs.
Recommended Reading: (Binance invests in new projects, is Perena worth participating in?)
Lombard 🌟🌟
Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round financing in July 2024, led by Polychain Capital, with Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, etc. In October 2024, Lombard also received investment from Binance Labs.
Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB for 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 rewards 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 cryptocurrency search engine that launched the Yaps points program in December 2024.
Interaction Strategy: Connect to Twitter to create an account, post crypto-related tweets, and recommend invites.
DAWN🌟🌟
DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network within a physical resource network, utilizing point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology to enable nodes to efficiently communicate directly with multiple nodes. DAWN previously completed a $18 million funding round in August 2024, led by Dragonfly. In December, VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha Fund and VanEck Ventures invested $2.5 million in DAWN through strategic financing.
Recommended Reading: (DAWN: Dragonfly led $18 million, Solana DePIN adds new force)
Interaction Strategy: Download the browser extension, act as a verification node to earn early points rewards.
Reddio 🌟🌟
Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 powered by GPUs used for autonomous AI. Reddio completed a seed round of financing in August 2024 (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) and is about to announce its A round of 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 by the cryptocurrency institution liquidity platform Paradigm (non-venture capital Paradigm) on Starknet, planning to allocate 20% of tokens to 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 issuance plan scheduled for the end of the second season.
Interaction Strategy: Trading.
ZORA🌟
ZORA is an NFT minting platform and has also launched the L2 network Zora Network based on OP Stack. ZORA's total funding amount is $60 million, with investors including Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, etc. With the increasing anticipation of OpenSea's token issuance, whether ZORA will also follow suit has become a hot topic. However, some users have also 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 🌟
Projects like the Virtual ecological AI music agent MUSIC have previously issued airdrops to users of the Virtual Protocol ecosystem. AI agents are expected to remain popular in 2025, and an increasing number of AI agents launched on Virtual may issue airdrops to Virtual ecosystem users.
Interaction Strategy: Trade in the Virtual ecosystem and hold more than three types of AI agent tokens.
