空投大年，一文梳理值得参与的项目
Less than 60 days into 2024, several large-scale projects have already launched airdrops, including JUP, DYM, ALT, STRK, and others, bringing joy to the hodlers who have experienced abundant harvest. The "ebeggers" who were once crushed by the inscription hodlers finally have a chance to turn the tables. However, the airdrop party is not over yet. According to Daily Degen's estimation, there will be dozens of projects that are expected to launch coins and airdrops this year. Based on Daily Degen's summary article, the key participating projects are as follows.
Rabby Wallet
Rabby Wallet is developed by the DeBank team. In December 2022, DeBank completed a $25 million equity financing at a valuation of $200 million. This round of financing was led by Sequoia China, with participation from Dragonfly, Hash Global, Youbi, Coinbase Venture, Crypto.com, Circle, and Ledger. DeBank Chain was launched last year, and in January of this year, Rabby Wallet introduced a points system.
The interaction process is also very simple. Download Rabby Wallet from the project's official website, install and use it, and try to get as many points as possible. In addition, the social features of the DeBank interface can also be interacted with. If conditions permit, you can choose to mint a Web3 ID ($96).
Rainbow Wallet
https://twitter.com/rainbowdotme
Rainbow, a Web3 mobile wallet startup, was born in 2019. It is an open-source self-hosted wallet for Ethereum that helps users manage their assets. It currently supports the Ethereum mainnet, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, BSC, Base, and Zora networks.
In February 2022, Rainbow completed a $18 million Series A financing round. This round of financing was led by Seven Seven Six, the venture capital firm founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Further details of the financing have not been disclosed.
Currently, Rainbow is launching a points program. Users can import wallet addresses with transaction activities on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Zora, Base, and BSC into Rainbow to receive "traceability points" (snapshot until 5:00 PM UTC on December 11, 2023).
MetaMask
MetaMask's background needs no introduction, backed by the giant ConsenSys, it has been airdropping to PUA users since the last cycle, mainly using its built-in wallet's swap, cross-chain bridge, and other functions.
Eigenpie
https://twitter.com/Eigenpiexyz_io
As a re-staking protocol, Eigenpie, although without high-profile capital investment, has a TVL of over 300 million USD as of the time of writing, second only to Kelp DAO in the same field.
In March of this year, Eigenpie announced its token economics, specifying that 10% of the tokens will be airdropped to early supporters, and Eigenpie will introduce the EGP token through a fair launch with no VC or presale participation. The team officially gave up token allocation, distributing 15% of EGP tokens to the Magpie Treasury. The community has always favored teams that emphasize fair distribution. Perhaps this grassroots re-staking protocol can bring some surprises to stakers.
Kelp DAO
Kelp DAO is the Restaking project of multi-chain LSD platform Stader Lab, based on EigenLayer and built with rsETH, it has the Liquid Restaked Token (LRT) solution. The protocol currently has a TVL of 601 million USD and will launch the KEP loyalty token in the near future. Users can exchange EigenLayer loyalty points generated by staking in Kelp DAO for KEP (an ERC-20 token) at a ratio of 1 : 1, and freely transfer and trade it.
Renzo
https://twitter.com/RenzoProtocol
Liquidity re-staking protocol Renzo announced the completion of a $3 million seed round in January of this year. The round was led by Maven 11, with participation from SevenX Ventures, Figment Capital, IOSG, and others. In February, Binance Labs made additional investments. The protocol currently has a TVL of 617 million USD.
ether.fi
As the first protocol to launch native staking tokens on EigenLayer, the current TVL is 1.655 billion US dollars, which can be said to be the leader in the field. The project completed a $5.3 million financing in February last year, jointly led by North Island Ventures, Chapter One, and Node Capital, with participation from BitMex founder Arthur Hayes, among others. According to previous announcements, the protocol will have its TGE in April this year.
Meteora
Meteora, a liquidity protocol in the Solana ecosystem, was launched by the original Solana DeFi project Mercurial and has currently launched liquidity mining.
Drift Protocol
https://twitter.com/DriftProtocol
Drift Protocol, a leading perpetual DEX protocol in the Solana ecosystem, announced the completion of a $3.8 million seed round financing in 2021. The financing was led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from Jump Capital, Alameda Research, among others.
Pike
https://twitter.com/PikeFinance
A lending protocol with support from Wormhole, Cirle, and Base, with a strong background. The protocol currently supports Ethereum mainnet, Arbitrum, OP, and Base networks.
Today, Pike has launched a token incentive program called Pike PIU. Users can earn PIU tokens through depositing assets, borrowing, and joining Discord to obtain roles, etc. PIU tokens can be claimed and traded on Base and Solana networks at any time. Holding PIU tokens can provide privileges such as whitelisting for the upcoming public sale of PIKE tokens.
Bungee
https://twitter.com/BungeeExchange
Interchain aggregator protocol, built by interchain infrastructure Socket. In March 2022, Socket completed a $5 million seed round financing, led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed, eGirl Capital, Nascent, Geometry, and Mark Cuban.
Jumper
https://twitter.com/JumperExchange
Multi-chain DEX launched by cross-chain transaction aggregator LI.FI, which connects Solana and EVM network liquidity. In March last year, LI.FI announced the completion of a $17.5 million Series A financing, led by CoinFund and Superscrypt, with participation from Bloccelerate, L1 Digital, Circle, Factor, Perridon, Theta Capital, Three Point Capital, Abra, and nearly 20 angel investors.
deBridge
https://twitter.com/deBridgeFinance
In September 2021, cross-chain protocol deBridge completed a $5.5 million seed round financing, led by ParaFi Capital, with participation from Animoca Brands, Huobi Ventures, Lemniscap, Crypto.com Capital, MGNR, IOSG, Fundamental Labs, and bitScale. Strong investment background.
Owlto Finance
https://twitter.com/Owlto_Finance
An decentralized Cross-Rollup cross-chain bridge focusing on Layer 2. It currently supports users to perform cross-chain transactions between more than 15 L2 networks, including Ethereum mainnet, zkSync Era, Starknet, Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova, Optimism, Polygon zkEVM, Linea, Mantle, Base, Manta, OpBNB, Kroma, and Zora. The project has launched a scoring system.
Polyhedra Network
https://twitter.com/PolyhedraZK
Last February, Polyhedra Network, a startup specializing in ZK infrastructure, completed a $10 million financing round with lead investments from Binance Labs and Polychain Capital, as well as participation from Animoca Brands and Dao 5.
Polyhedra has developed various infrastructure products using Zero Knowledge (ZK) proof technology, including the ZK Bridge solution for asset transfers between Web2 and Web3 systems, the ZK Decentralized Identity solution (zkDID), and scalability solutions.
The protocol has gained significant community interest, and the Legendary Pandra King series NFT floor price has already skyrocketed to 0.76 BNB.
El Dorado
https://twitter.com/ElDoradoMRKT
A DEX protocol based on the decentralized liquidity network Maya Protocol. According to the official website, the current TVL (Total Value Locked) is $57.78 million.
Azuro
https://twitter.com/azuroprotocol
Azuro, a decentralized prediction market protocol, secured $4 million in financing with participation from Hypersphere, Ethereal Ventures, Arrington Capital, Delphi Digital, AllianceDAO, Gnosis, Merit Circle, and others. The protocol has already generated a total revenue of $2 million.
Clip Finance
https://twitter.com/ClipFinance
An AI-driven on-chain asset management protocol. The project is reported to have involvement from Chainlink and is incubated by Cointelegraph. It is currently mainly targeted at the Linea network.
Struct Finance
https://twitter.com/StructFinance
Based on Avalanche's DeFi protocol, Struct Finance completed a $3.9 million seed round of financing in March 22. This round of financing was led by Blizzard Fund, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Antler, Arcanum Capital, Assymetries Technologies, Avalaunch, AVentures Dao, with participation from Bison Fund, Bixin Ventures, Double Peak, FBG Capital, Finality Capital Partners, Keychain Capital, Lancer Capital, Lucidblue, MC Ventures, Skyvision Capital, QCP Capital, SCC Investments, Spark Digital, Wintermute, Woodstock, Zokyo, 0x Ventures, and others.
According to the latest news, the project will focus on the RWA field.
Scroll
https://twitter.com/Scroll_ZKP
A Layer 2 network based on zkEVM. The network's TVL has exceeded $100 million, and the ecosystem is beginning to take shape.
Linea
https://twitter.com/LineaBuild
A Layer 2 network under ConsenSys. Since the testnet, it has been launching guided interactive activities to incentivize user participation. Follow the official announcements to stay updated on related activities and receive official rewards in LXP tokens.
zkSync
After the release of Starknet, the community has been discussing airdrops for zkSync. Matter Labs CEO Gluchowski stated in March last year that zkSync is expected to achieve sequencer decentralization in about a year.
Mode
https://twitter.com/modenetwork
Mode is a modular DeFi Layer 2 based on OP Stack. On February 1st, Mode announced that it has received a grant of 2 million OP tokens (approximately $5.3 million) from the Optimism Foundation.
Mode is currently live on the mainnet and has launched the Mode Sunrise airdrop campaign. In this campaign, Mode will distribute 550 million MODE tokens (5.5% of the total supply) as incentives. Among them, 400 million MODE tokens will be distributed for the loyalty airdrop, 50 million MODE tokens will be unlocked when the TVL reaches $100 million, 50 million MODE tokens will be unlocked when the TVL reaches $200 million, and 50 million MODE tokens will be distributed to the top 500 NFT winners among the top 20% participants.
Rysk Finance
https://twitter.com/ryskfinance
In January last year, on-chain derivatives market maker Rysk Finance completed a $1.4 million Pre-Seed funding round. It was led by Lemniscap, with participation from Encode Club, Ascensive Assets, Starbloom, Yunt Capital, and Manifold Trading. Individual investors include Hype.eth, Ivangbi, Windra Thio, and others.
The protocol is based on the Arbitrum network and has received funding from Arbitrum STIP. The team will distribute 12,900 ARB tokens to liquidity providers and traders on a weekly basis.
LogX
https://twitter.com/LogX_trade
LogX is a multi-chain perpetual DEX protocol that currently offers loyalty activities for traders and liquidity providers.
Hyperliquid
https://twitter.com/HyperliquidX
Hyperliquid is a decentralized derivatives trading platform that currently supports over 100 asset trading pairs, including tokens like TAO, RNDR, and ONDO. The project launched its loyalty activities in November last year and has been running ever since.
Aevo
Options trading platform, formerly known as Ribbon Finance, has raised $8.75 million in funding with Paradigm leading the investment. The platform relies on its unique futures trading to provide market price discovery for project tokens that have not yet been officially traded, gaining community favor. The project has launched a liquidity mining program and introduced airdrop incentives to traders. According to the latest news, the protocol plans to conduct its TGE in mid-March.
After enduring a two-year bear market in the crypto industry, project teams are unable to resist the urge to issue coins and are rushing to launch reward programs and interactive activities to incentivize user participation. With this year's bullish market conditions, issuing coins is a top priority for project teams and investment institutions. With numerous projects available, users need to carefully discern and diligent work is essential to achieve "skyrocketing wealth".
