In the field of digital currency, airdrops may be one of the best opportunities for novices.

A reader's sharing

When I was a freshman in college, I entered the digital currency market with a capital of 5,000 yuan. Now, I am a senior, and my investment has grown to 1 million yuan.

Looking back on 2021, that was the year I started to try speculating in altcoins. However, the plunge on May 19 caused me to suffer huge losses, and my principal of 3,000 yuan evaporated directly. In order to make up for the loss, I tried to participate in the public fundraising of the coinlist account, but was defrauded by the seller and lost 2,000 yuan again. In the first six months of joining the digital currency circle, I spent a lot of time every day collecting various information and working hard on research, but the result was a series of losses. Not only did I not make a profit, but my principal became less and less.

The turning point came in September last year. I noticed the airdrop activity of dydx, a decentralized contract platform, with a reward of up to more than 100,000 yuan, which gave me an opportunity to make money. So, I decided to shift my focus to airdrops. Due to limited funds, I dare not participate in the Ethereum mainnet project, so I had to choose some low-cost airdrop projects. In December last year, I successfully won an airdrop reward worth 5,000 yuan because I posted a few words in Lyra's discord group. This year, although the income and expenditure were barely balanced, I also delayed my studies.

Entering the first three months of 2022, I continued to focus on participating in the airdrops of projects such as matcha, slingshot, clipper, and superfluid. Although these projects have not issued airdrops so far, I have not given up. In April, I encountered an important opportunity-the airdrop of Ethereum's second-layer protocol Optimism. I successfully obtained 2,496 OP tokens and sold them for 20,000 yuan, with a cost of only 50 US dollars. This successful airdrop experience has made me more determined to move in the direction of airdrops.

During the summer vacation, while learning to drive, I actively participated in various interactive projects such as zksync, zigzag, argent, rabbit, safe, etc. In October, I successfully received the airdrop of the layer 1 project Aptos developed by the Facebook team based on the Move language, and sold it for 7,000 yuan. However, due to negligence, I missed the other four airdrops that I was eligible to receive, which made me very regretful.

By the end of February 2023, I successfully obtained the airdropped ZZ tokens from the exchange Zigzag on ZkSync 1.0 and sold them for 40,000 yuan. In mid-March, the airdrop of Arbitrum arrived as scheduled. After receiving the airdrop, I sold all of them and made 160,000 yuan. These successful airdrop experiences made me more actively participate in various projects.

In April, I used the money I earned to participate in the interaction of LayerZero and the activities of Argent Wallet on Starknet, and successfully opened 200 accounts. In May, Sui announced its listing and opened a public offering. I obtained ten whitelist qualifications and made 100,000 yuan. So far, I have made 300,000 yuan, and the whole process took a little more than two years.

In the second half of the year, I continued to consolidate my position on LayerZero and Starknet and opened a new ZkSync account. In order to get more airdrop opportunities, I worked hard most of the day, and the cost of investment reached 50,000 yuan. Although the time cost and money cost are very large, I believe it is worth it.

On November 30, Starknet Foundation announced that it would take a snapshot. On Valentine's Day, February 14, 2024, I had an unexpected surprise - starknet announced the airdrop results. Because some accounts had a balance of less than 0.005 eth, I lost the airdrop qualification for 150 accounts, but the remaining 50 accounts brought me a generous return of 45,000 strk tokens. The current value of these tokens is as high as 680,000 yuan.

It is March 18, 2024, and I have been working in the field of digital currency for three years. Starting from the initial capital of 5,000 yuan, I finally earned my first million. #bnb金铲子 $BTC $SOL