2025's Top 30 Airdrop Projects to Watch

Original Article Title: "2025 Airdrop Treasure List | These 30+ Projects Are Worth Watching"

Original Article Author: KarenZ, Foresight News

Missed out on the generous airdrops from Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? Fret not, and do not be discouraged! This article carefully outlines over 30 promising projects to help you find new airdrop opportunities.

pump.fun

In this current cycle, pump.fun is undoubtedly a shining presence, with its revenue reaching new heights, totaling 1,595,278 SOL. During the October 2024 X Space live stream, pump.fun's co-founder Sapijiju hinted at plans for future token issuance and airdrops, further fueling community anticipation.

Engagement Strategy: On-chain trading, utilizing various platform features.

Phantom

Phantom has evolved from a Solana ecosystem wallet to become one of the top multi-chain wallets of choice for most users in the Crypto space. Phantom's total funding has exceeded $118 million, with investors including Paradigm, a16z, and Solana Ventures, among others.

Engagement Strategy: Experience the Phantom multi-chain wallet, in-wallet swaps, and purchases.

Eclipse

In November, Eclipse went live on the public mainnet, with ecosystem projects including the prediction market Polymarket (launched in early December), the decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (via ezSOL), the Eclipse-native NFT Launchpad Scope driven by Rarible, the native DeFi hub Astrol, Orca, and more. Eclipse has raised a total of $65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, Delphi Digital, and others.

Engagement Strategy: Cross-chain assets on https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, liquidity provision and exchange on Orca, and interaction with other ecosystem applications.

Berachain

Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on the liquidity-proof consensus, addressing liquidity issues in the DeFi space through a three-token model and Liquidity Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism. The public testnet, bArtio B2, was launched in June 2024. Berachain has raised over $1.4 billion in funding.

Engagement Strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet and explore the ecosystem applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.

Abstract

Abstract is a consumer-grade cryptocurrency blockchain built on the ZK Stack, achieving scalability through off-chain transactions, batching, and using ZK proofs to validate batch transactions on Ethereum. Contributors to Abstract include individuals involved in launching or contributing to projects like Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. Igloo, the parent company of Pudgy Penguins, oversees and contributes to the development of Abstract. Abstract has launched its testnet and is scheduled to go live on the mainnet in January 2025.

Abstract had gone live on the testnet in July 2024, earlier than planned for the mainnet launch by the end of 2025. Igloo, the parent company of Pudgy Penguins, previously stated that Pudgy Penguins would first launch on Solana and later on Ethereum and Abstract.

Engagement Strategy: Join the waitlist to receive an Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, engage in cross-chain transfers, transfer tests, and participate in the ongoing PENGU airdrop.

MegaETH

MegaETH aims to build a real-time blockchain capable of processing 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond-level response times. In June, MegaETH developer MegaLabs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round led by Dragonfly and received support from individuals like Vitalik Buterin, ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin, EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan, and others.

MegaETH currently does not have a testnet yet, but you can follow stablecoin projects like CAP Labs and trading trend platforms like Noise.

SOON

The Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) is currently focusing on two main directions. Firstly, the SOON Stack, which is a modular Rollup framework combining SVM and OP Stack, allowing deployment of any SVM L2 on L1s such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos. Chains deployed using the SOON Stack are called SOON Chains. Secondly, SOON plans to collaborate with EVM RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) providers such as Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service ecosystem to simplify user deployment processes.

On August 27, SOON completed its Co-Builder round of financing, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (toly), Solana Foundation Chair Lily Liu, Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam, among others.

Interoperability Strategies: Testnet Cross-chain, Interactions (e.g., lending protocol EnsoFi)

Story Protocol

The Story Protocol is an on-chain IP protocol. The Story Protocol has raised over $140 million in total funding, with investors including a16z Crypto, Polychain, Foresight Venture, among others.

In November, Story Protocol launched its final Odyssey testnet. Story has explicitly stated its strong stance against farmers, front-runners, and automated activity, stating that such behavior will not be rewarded. Instead, they prioritize genuine community members providing real feedback on real issues.

The Story Protocol has concluded its Odyssey event, and the testnet remains interactive.

Monad

Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that enhances blockchain throughput through MonadBFT, lazy execution, parallel execution, and MonadDb. A unique aspect is the separation of execution and consensus, using a pipelined consensus execution hierarchy. In April 2024, Monad completed a $225 million financing round with Paradigm leading the investment.

Interaction Strategy: Monad Discord Role, holding Pythenian NFT (Monad Co-Founder has purchased), staking ecosystem tokens (such as W or PYTH), attempting to play Monad ecosystem Sparkball game, and exploring other projects in the Monad ecosystem.

Nillion

Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network aimed at building a network where high-value data is encrypted during storage, transmission, and computation, solving the current issue of needing to "decrypt - compute - re-encrypt" when computing on encrypted data. Nillion achieved a $180 million valuation in December 2022 through a $20 million seed round funding, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion raised $25 million with Hack VC leading the round.

Interaction Strategy: Blind Computation Staking, Validator Node. On December 11, Nillion announced the formal conclusion of the Nillion Verifier plan, with TGE scheduled for the first half of 2025.

Solayer

As a rising star project in Solana's re-staking, Solayer announced the completion of the Builder Round funding on July 2, 2024, with investors including Solana Labs Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Solend Founder Rooter, Tensor Co-Founder Richard Wu, Polygon Co-Founder Sandeep Nailwal, among others. In December, Solayer created an official foundation Twitter account.

Interaction Strategy: Re-staking

ink

ink is an L2 network launched by the U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken on the Optimism Superchain, with the testnet released in November 2024. Ink's documentation hints at the decentralization of the superchain's sequencer and has already launched the mainnet.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain, Explore ink Network Ecosystem.

Babylon

Babylon is a leading Bitcoin ecosystem staking protocol that allows Bitcoin holders to stake their Bitcoin on proof-of-stake (PoS) systems (such as PoS chains, L2, Data Availability (DA) layers, etc.) and earn staking rewards. Babylon has raised nearly $100 million, with investors including Paradigm, Binance Labs, Polychain, among others.

Completed a $70 million financing round in May 2024, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 BTC staking, join Babylon Odyssey event.

Solv Protocol

Solv Protocol is also a leading Bitcoin ecosystem staking protocol, with a total financing of $25 million, with investors including Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Nomura Securities, among others.

Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin or wrap Bitcoin, participate in rewards events.

AO

The Arweave Compute Network's AO mainnet is set to launch on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of newly minted AO tokens are allocated proportionally to AR holders, while 66.6% of AO tokens will be distributed to users who cross-chain assets to AO. AO has already supported deposits of staked ETH to earn token rewards.

Interaction Strategy: Hold AR (preferably on-chain), cross-chain staked ETH.

Farcaster

Farcaster is the most active Web3 social project currently, and has recently made a comeback through AI proxies. In June 2024, according to Fortune magazine citing an anonymous source due to business constraints, like most protocols, he expects Farcaster to launch a token, with investors eager to capture its fully diluted value.

Interaction Strategy: Post, experience different clients.

Polymarket

Prediction market Polymarket has experienced explosive growth since early 2024 and has shown considerable resilience post-election.

Interaction Strategy: Prediction.

Perennial

Perennial is a derivative protocol based on Arbitrum, which completed a $12 million financing round in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, among others.

In December 2024, Perennial launched the Intent Layer, enabling traders to execute instantly and access deep liquidity from both on-chain and off-chain venues. Specifically, traders specify the exact price at which they want to execute a trade, whether it's a market order or a limit order; Solvers act as market makers, executing and settling automatically to the AMM. Additionally, Perennial also introduced the Perennial Petals program, which will reward loyal participants, new users, and early adopters (mainly based on trading volume).

Interactive Strategy: Participate in the Perennial Petals program.

daos.fun

daos.fun is a platform founded by @baoskee and supported by Alliance DAO. The primary function of this platform is to help fund managers, creators raise funds so they can establish their own DAOs, and invest in Meme on behalf of token holders. daos.fun has not explicitly stated or implied that it will issue a token.

Interactive Strategy: Trading

Pump Science

Pump Science is built on top of Pump.fun. Pump Science is an almost zero-barrier research trial and fundraising platform. On pump.science, anyone, including drug developers, scientists, etc., can submit ideas for longevity and healthspan, drug strategies, raise funds for experimentation, and others can bet on which intervention will extend the lifespan of the different model organisms being tested, supporting promising ideas. Currently, Pump Science has only two experiments, Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).

According to the pump.science roadmap, on January 25, 2025, mouse trials will be conducted using Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO), and on February 25, 2025, a new compound will be launched in collaboration with VitaDAO.

Pump Science has not explicitly stated or implied that it will issue a token, but some community members speculate that Pump Science will issue a platform token.

Interactive Strategy: Trading

Soneium

Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony's blockchain division, Sony Block Solutions Labs, and has gone live on the public testnet Minato in August 2024, along with the developer incubation program Spark.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain, explore the Soneium ecosystem.

Nexus

Nexus envisions building an internet based on verifiable computation, connecting computing devices distributed worldwide (such as large GPU farms, computers, smartphones, and other devices) to form a supercomputer. By leveraging Nexus zkVM, Nexus bridges compute supply to proof-of-demand, allowing anyone to plug their device into the network, participate in computation, and be rewarded accordingly.

Interaction Strategy: The Nexus new testnet has concluded; stay tuned for updates on subsequent testnet deployments.

BOB

BOB stands for "Build on Bitcoin" and is an L2 technology stack designed to support Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecosystem growth. It not only inherits Bitcoin's PoW security but also supports Bitcoin ecosystem projects like Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr as well as being fully EVM-compatible.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in BOB Fusion last season to earn Spice points, including maximizing Spice by depositing assets into various DeFi applications on BOB, voting with Spice, and referrals.

Perena

Perena is a Solana ecosystem stablecoin infrastructure protocol that completed its Pre-Seed funding round in December, with Borderless leading the investment and other investors including Binance Labs.

Interaction Strategy: Earn Petal points through stablecoin swaps and LP formation.

Lombard

Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round in July 2024, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, among others. In October 2024, Lombard also received investment from Binance Labs.

Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB as LBTC, deposit LBTC, WBTC, or cbBTC assets into the Lombard DeFi Vault (an Automated Yield Farming Solution)

ZERΘ Network

The ZERΘ Network is an L2 solution launched by the Web3 wallet Zerion based on ZKsync.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in Zerion Reward Program to earn XP, where XP measures user activity in Zerion and unlocks new rewards; complete quests; explore the ZERO Network ecosystem.

Kaito AI

Kaito AI is an AI-powered encrypted search engine that launched the Yaps Tokenomics in December 2024.

Interaction Strategy: Connect Twitter account, post crypto-related tweets, refer invites.

DAWN

DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network in a physical resource network, utilizing Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology, enabling nodes to efficiently communicate directly with multiple nodes. DAWN previously raised $18 million in August 2024 with lead investment from Dragonfly. Subsequently, in December, the VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha Fund and VanEck Ventures strategically invested $2.5 million in DAWN.

Interaction Strategy: Download browser extension, act as a validation node to earn early token rewards.

Reddio

Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 supported by GPU for autonomous AI. Reddio completed a seed round funding in August 2024 (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) and is about to announce a Series A funding round. Reddio has launched its public testnet.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain and explore the Reddio ecosystem.

Paradex

Paradex is a decentralized perpetual derivative Layer2 application chain incubated on Starknet by the crypto liquidity platform Paradigm (not the VC Paradigm). They plan to distribute 20% of the tokens through a Genesis Airdrop. The airdrop spans multiple XP Seasons, including the first season from February 1, 2024, to January 2, 2025, and the second season from January 3, 2025, to July 31, 2025, with the token distribution scheduled at the end of the second season.

Interaction Strategy: Transaction.

ZORA

ZORA is an art minting platform that has also launched the L2 Zora Network based on the OP Stack. ZORA has a total funding of $60 million, with investors including Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and others. With the increasing expectation of OpenSea's coin issuance, if the NFT market continues to heat up next year, whether ZORA will follow suit and issue its own token has become a hot topic. However, at the same time, ZORA has been criticized by some users as the king of PUA airdrops.

Interaction Strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFTs, explore the Zora Network ecosystem.

Virtual Ecosystem Airdrop

Virtual ecosystem entities such as Virtual Ecosystem AI Music Agent MUSIC have previously airdropped to users of the Virtual Protocol ecosystem. It is expected that by 2025, the AI agent trend will continue to rise, and an increasing number of AI agents launched on Virtual may airdrop to Virtual ecosystem users.

Interaction Strategy: Trade in the Virtual platform, hold three or more AI agent token types.

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