Written by: CryptoBrand


In December 2023, #Starknet announced an airdrop;

On January 17, 2024, MANTA tokens were launched and will be available on January 18.

On January 18, 2024, #AltLayer announced the launch of $ALT tokens, and the airdrop plan will be launched on January 25;

On November 23, 2024, the Zetachain airdrop qualification query page was launched on ZetaHub.

Now is the time to harvest, although the value of each person's candy is different, some people may receive thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in return, while others may only receive less than a hundred dollars. Regardless of the amount, each one is of vital significance.

The established facts cannot be changed, so we can turn our attention to other potential airdrop projects:

Star Airdrop Project

Judging from the value of past airdrops, we can see that infrastructure has always been a track where wealth effects gather. Competition in this field is always fierce, and all parties are competing fiercely driven by interests. Although the competition in the infrastructure track is fierce, we still have to actively participate:

zkSync

zkSync is a layer 2 scaling solution developed by Matter Labs that preserves the security properties of the underlying blockchain by leveraging the latest generation of succinct zero-knowledge proofs. All funds in zkSync are held by smart contracts on the main chain, while computation and storage are performed off-chain. For each Rollup block, a state transition zero-knowledge proof (SNARK) is generated and verified by the main chain contract. This SNARK includes proof of validity for each transaction in the Rollup block.

From 2019 to 2022, ZkSync completed a total of 4 rounds of financing. The most recent round of financing took place in November 2022, led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly, with participation from LightSpeed ​​Venture Partners, Variant and a16z, with a financing amount of US$200 million.

Recently, there have been frequent reports of ZkSync snapshots, but there has been no statement on the official website. According to convention, snapshots will be completed a few months before the coin is issued, but the official has not made it clear yet. You can interact more often to increase account activity.

Enter the official website and click Explore to experience the ecosystem:

If the address on zkSync does not have assets yet, you can use a cross-chain bridge:

  • Go to https://lite.zksync.io/transaction/deposit/ and select wallet to connect. Here I use Little Fox Wallet

  • Enter the amount of assets and click Top Up to transfer the assets on Ethereum to zkSync


LayerZero

#LayerZero It is a full-chain interoperability protocol designed for lightweight messaging across chains. LayerZero provides trusted and guaranteed messaging with configurable trustlessness.

From 2021 to 2023, LayerZero completed a total of 3 rounds of financing. The most recent round of financing occurred in April 2023, completing a US$120 million Series B financing with a valuation of US$3 billion. A16z, Sequoia Capital, IOBC Capital, BOND, Christie's and Circle Ventures participated in the investment.

Officials say the goal is to launch the coin in the first half of 2024.

Go to the official website, click [Ecosystem], and click the corresponding project to participate in the interaction. There are sufficiently detailed tutorials on the Internet, so I will not go into details here. You can search by keywords.

Scroll

Scroll is a native zkEVM layer 2 solution for Ethereum. It enables native compatibility with existing Ethereum applications and tools. Scroll processes transactions off-chain and publishes concise correctness proofs on-chain. This results in higher throughput and lower costs compared to the Ethereum base layer.

As of now, Scroll has completed three rounds of financing. The most recent round of financing occurred in early 2023, completing a US$30 million Series A financing round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Robot Ventures, Geometry DAO and others.

Go to the official website, click [Ecosystem], and click the corresponding project to participate in the interaction.

 

The above three are currently the most popular projects in the infrastructure track. A large number of people have gathered and they have been around for a long time. You can get involved, but if you have never interacted with them before, the possibility of qualification is relatively small. Below I will focus on Dapps in some popular ecosystems:

Orbiter

Orbiter Finance is a decentralized cross-rollup bridge for transferring Ethereum's native assets. In Orbiter Finance, there are two roles: Sender and Maker. When a Sender initiates a transfer, the Maker provides liquidity. Smart contracts ensure the security of this process. If the Maker has bad behavior that causes the transfer to fail, the Sender can use the Maker's margin to initiate an arbitration request to the contract and then receive excess compensation.

From 2022 to 2024, Orbiter completed 2 rounds of financing, the most recent of which took place on January 11, 2024, and the amount of financing was not disclosed. This year, Orbiter Finance posted a summary of 2023 on their social media account and put forward a vision for 2024, saying that in order to thank its loyal community, it confirmed that it will launch a native token this year, and will gradually announce the token economy and distribution plan to ensure a fair process.

At present, they have launched the Points system. It is expected that the Points score will be one of the important indicators for airdrop reference. At present, the tasks are relatively simple:

You can pay attention to the infrastructure mentioned in the first part of the key interactions. Orbiter is a cross-chain track that supports many things and can swipe tx on multiple chains.

Scallop

Scallop is the money market for the Sui ecosystem. By emphasizing institutional-grade quality, enhanced composability, and strong security, Scallop is committed to building a dynamic money market that provides high-rate lending, low-fee lending, AMM and asset management tools on a unified platform, and provides SDKs for professional traders.

Last week, Cetus invested in Scallop, but the amount has not been disclosed. Recently, the SUI ecosystem has exploded, especially the TVL data has soared. Scallop's TVL ranks first in the entire SUI ecosystem.

The snapshot of the first phase has been completed, which is aimed at supporting early supporters of Scallop, including Zealy participants, verified Sui Scalloper roles on Discord, etc. You can wait for the second phase, and now Scallop has also launched an event on TaskOn. To experience the Scallop lending function, the amount needs to be greater than 5U.

Market hotspots are short-lived and scattered. In the absence of clear investment opportunities, all we can do is seize every opportunity worth exploring. Who knows, we can discover the next valuable target in advance. After all, if we do something, we may not get it, but if we don’t do anything, we will definitely not get it.