Honestly, it's probably a waste of time.

Here are some wake-up tips for friends interested in airdrops (2026 edition):

**What can be directly abandoned**
Testnets, on-chain activities on certain task platforms, unofficial guilds, check-in sign-ins, social interaction tasks — these are basically exhausted by script armies. Ordinary people, no matter how diligent, won't get any benefits; it's just a black hole of time.

**What a promising project looks like**
First, it needs real money invested. It's not enough to just register an account; you need to pay gas fees and actual costs. Second, the project itself must have self-sustaining capabilities and not rely solely on fundraising hype. Common strategies include presales combined with prediction market-type products. Most successful cases rely on heavy holdings plus high gas consumption to gamble on probabilities, averaging 2 to 6 times returns. Early entrants might get 10 to 20 times, but the risks are also very high.

**Using real data to speak**
When Lighter was hottest around September-October last year, the cost was about $10 for 1 point, and the final airdrop was around $50, netting a 5x profit.

The Backpack project still has about 3 weeks left. Currently, the cost per point is only $0.18. Conservatively estimating a market cap of $500 million (some say $800 million to $1.5 billion, depending on market response), the airdrop per point is expected to be at least $0.5, translating to roughly 2 to 3 times the return.

**Most worth paying attention to right now**
A leading NFT trading platform. Using the most conservative calculations, the current participation data is already quite impressive. This might be the most promising track at the moment.