Arbitrum Airdrops
6 active Arbitrum airdrops you can take part in right now, plus 20 past distributions to research. Each listing covers eligibility, the steps involved, and how the allocation worked.
Active Arbitrum airdrops6
Robinhood Chain
A Layer 2 built by a listed broker for tokenised equities, already holding over $1B. No token announced, and regulation makes one less straightforward.
Layer 24.3(3)
Variational
Perp DEX on Arbitrum with omni-collateral margin. VAR is set for a Q4 2026 TGE, with 32% of supply airdropped to points holders, fully unlocked.
Perp DEX4.4(5)
OpenSea
The largest NFT marketplace. SEA was announced in February 2025, with the launch since postponed indefinitely.
NFT3.6(5)
Ostium
Decentralised perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum for stocks, commodities and forex. Its OLP vault lost $23.75M in a July 2026 exploit, and a recovery plan is under way.
Perp DEX4.0(2)
Glider
Automated on-chain strategy platform: deposit once and let curated strategies rebalance across Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum and Optimism.
DeFi1.5(2)
LI.FI Protocol
Cross-chain bridging and swap infrastructure powering multi-chain DeFi behind wallets like MetaMask.
DeFi1.5(2)
Past Arbitrum airdrops20
Kinto
PastA KYC gated Ethereum L2 whose token launched in March 2025, was exploited through a proxy backdoor in July, and shut down by September.
Layer 22025
Connext
PastA cross chain bridge that paid both users and the routers fronting liquidity, then rebranded to Everclear and migrated NEXT into CLEAR one for one.
Infra2023
Xai
PastA gaming Layer 3 on Arbitrum that paid node operators and NFT holders rather than transactors. Running infrastructure was the qualifying act, not clicking.
Layer 22024
SPACE ID
PastA naming service on BNB Chain and Arbitrum that paid its early domain holders. Holding a .bnb or .arb name at the March 2023 snapshot was the whole test.
Infra2023
Thales
PastBinary outcome markets built on Synthetix liquidity. THALES went to SNX stakers, aimed at an existing community rather than acquiring a new one.
Prediction Market2021
Azuro
PastThe liquidity and settlement layer under other betting front ends. AZUR went to the people betting through them and the pools taking the other side.
Prediction Market2024
Usual
PastA stablecoin backed by tokenised treasury bills that routes the yield to holders rather than the issuer. It paid the people who minted USD0 first.
Stablecoin2024
Instadapp
PastA management layer over Aave, Compound and Maker letting one transaction do the work of four. INST went to those who used it before the token.
Lending2021
Renzo
PastLiquid restaking through ezETH, and the launch that showed what happens when a receipt token drifts from its value while everyone exits at once.
Staking2024
ether.fi
PastLiquid restaking where the depositor keeps their own validator keys. Season 1 rewarded those holding eETH while restaking was still unproven.
Staking2024
Hop Protocol
PastA rollup to rollup bridge moving assets between Ethereum and its L2s using bonders and AMM swaps. HOP is the protocol's DAO governance token.
Infra2022
Galaxy
Past: A Web3 credential/identity data network and campaign ("quest") platform, projects create on-chain credentials and reward users for verified actions.
Infra2022
CoW Protocol
PastA meta-DEX (DEX aggregator) that settles trades via batch auctions with built-in MEV protection, sourcing the best price across on-chain liquidity.
DEX2022
Graph
PastA decentralized protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data, the "Google of Web3."
Infra2020
Balancer
PastAn AMM with arbitrary pool weights. When BAL arrived three months after launch, the liquidity providers who came first received a retroactive allocation.
DEX2020
LayerZero
PastZRO went out across two rounds in 2024. LayerZero says no further airdrop is planned, and value now flows through ATLAS fee buybacks and burns.
Infra2024
PENDLE
PastSplits any yield bearing asset into a principal token and a yield token, each traded separately. It became the backbone of the 2023 to 2024 points meta.
DeFi2021
Arbitrum (ARB)
PastThe largest L2 airdrop yet: 1.275B ARB to 625,000 wallets under a 15 point system that rewarded sustained behaviour over one off deposits.
Layer 22023
Uniswap
PastThe airdrop that invented the retrodrop model.
DEX2020
Aster
PastSix activity based airdrop phases ran to March 2026. Emissions are now staking only at 450k ASTER weekly, with 99% of fees funding veASTER buybacks.
Perp DEX2025
About Arbitrum airdrops
Arbitrum is one of the largest Ethereum layer 2 networks and the home of a deep DeFi ecosystem: perpetuals exchanges, lending markets, real world asset protocols and more. Its own airdrop in 2023 showed how a layer 2 rewards early users, and many protocols built on it run points programmes of their own.
Rewards here usually follow sustained use of a protocol rather than one-off transactions, and several projects measure activity across more than one chain.
Use an EVM wallet, keep a little ETH on Arbitrum for gas, and bridge through the official bridge or a well known aggregator.
Wallets to use: MetaMask or Rabby.
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