Airdrop Hunter

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Understanding Airdrop Objectives

Airdrops are essentially a variant of Ponzi scheme logic. First understand your airdrop objectives (the “Three Types”):

Objective	Target Audience (Who to extract money from)
Generate data for VCs and exchanges	VCs and exchanges (investment + listing liquidity)
Drive traffic for IDO and listing	Primary and secondary market retail participation
Profit from the airdrop process itself	Airdrop farmers themselves

Your objective can be one or a mix of the above, but the content in parentheses is what matters

Three Types Explained

1. Generate Data for VCs and Exchanges

Revenue = Benefits from VCs and exchanges (investment + listing liquidity)
        - Actual airdrop costs

Essence: A complex mutual-aid scheme where wool comes from sheep, but cattle and turtles pay

Large numbers of farmers participate in mutual-aid
        ↓
Entry timing completed by VCs and exchanges
        ↓
Final airdrop tokens find secondary market retail to hold bags

Hidden Demand: Reserve chips as insider positions for yourself and stakeholders

Strategy:

Financing and listing incomplete → Extend airdrop activities, continue PUA
Strict anti-Sybil, control actual distribution ratio
Maximize airdrop participation base and dimensions (muddy waters for fishing)

2. Drive Traffic for IDO and Listing

Essentially the entry side has nothing to do with airdrop recipients
Farmers have POW mining mentality: Did tasks, want rewards
Do Bitcoin miners buy Bitcoin?

Solution: Find the common ground between farmers and degens - both want to make money

Strategy	Description
Change redemption method	Convert to IDO and early secondary participation rights
Max out expectations	Maximize IDO or listing profit expectations

3. Profit from Airdrop Process

From the farmer perspective, airdrops like AEVO/Backpack/Linea are dividend scheme variants:

Mining rig cost = Cost of writing scripts or hiring workers
Electricity = High fees/gas

Bubble elimination mechanism: Sybil hunting = Mining disaster, total loss

Airdrop scheme design that treats farmers directly as revenue source

Understanding Strategy from Farmer Side

Farmer Participation Framework

Farmers’ expectations for “big airdrops” mainly depend on:

Factor	Impact
Funding amount and VC lineup	Endorsement and trust cost
Treasury revenue	Proof of capability
Visible costs	Sunk cost perception

Design Recommendations

Strategy	Description
Front-load PR resources	Let VCs appear more to reduce trust cost
Quantitative metric hints	Easy to imagine stories, hints of big airdrop potential
Back-load costs	Downplay early visible costs, back-load to point of no return

Core Formulas

Three Airdrop Types:
├── Data type: Revenue = VC benefits - Actual airdrop cost
├── Traffic type: Convert farmers into degens
└── Extraction type: Farmers as revenue source

Farmer Essence:
├── POW mining mentality
├── Rig cost = Script/worker cost
├── Electricity = Gas/fees
└── Sybil hunting = Mining disaster, total loss

Design Principles:
├── Front-load resources to reduce trust cost
├── Quantitative hints of big airdrop potential
└── Back-load visible costs

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