Past Crypto Airdrops

Completed distributions are the closest thing this space has to evidence. Criteria are only ever published after the fact, so the archive is where you find out what actually earned an allocation rather than what people guessed would.

A few patterns repeat. Duration beats size: wallets active across months have consistently out-earned larger positions opened shortly before a snapshot. Breadth matters: distributions from Arbitrum, Optimism and zkSync all weighted the number of distinct actions taken, not just volume. And sybil filtering has become the norm rather than the exception, with LayerZero running a self-report window and paying a bounty for reporting wallet farms.

The archive also shows how differently value lands. Some distributions rewarded a few thousand deeply engaged users; Grass became the most widely distributed airdrop in Solana's history at the time, reaching close to 1.5 million addresses. Reading which pattern a project is likely to follow matters more than farming harder.

Worth remembering that a completed airdrop is not a closed story. Several projects here have run later seasons from unspent community allocations, so past participants sometimes remain eligible for distributions that have not happened yet.