Crypto Journey Part 6 🎯 | Airdrops, Farming & the Alpha Shift

My airdrop and farming journey truly kicked off in January 2024.

I dove deep into different strategies — watching, reading, experimenting. I engaged with multiple projects, mainly hoping to earn airdrops just by staking.

🔹 On Stride, I began liquid staking $TIA and farming it — this was my first taste of passive income from DeFi.

By summer, I received a few small airdrops in the Cosmos ecosystem for staking $ATOM — but they were disappointing. That’s when I started thinking:

“Maybe #CosmosIsDead.”

So, I shifted my focus toward ecosystems with stronger momentum — Ethereum, Solana, and Sui.

I also started exploring retrodrops — engaging early with promising blockchains, bridges, and protocols like:

• Optimism

• Sui

• Hyperlane

🎁 Then the airdrops started to land:

• $OP Season Airdrop – $144 ✅

• $SCR – ~$100 ✅

• Layer3 – $70 from questing and farming Cubes ✅

• $WAL – $490 ✅

• $HYPER – $330 ✅

• Another $60 from Layer3 shortly after ✅

By this time, I had completely exited Cosmos — I unstaked and sold everything.

Parallel to that, the coins I had invested in earlier were also rising in value, making this one of my most profitable and consistent periods in crypto.

Right now, my focus is on farming Binance Alpha Points — because I believe the upcoming airdrops through Binance’s new system are way more efficient and rewarding than grinding testnets for 190+ days just to get a $20 airdrop (or worse… like $ZORA — I got $1–2, not even worth remembering 😅).

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👉 In Part 7, I’ll explain why I believe Binance’s approach is changing the airdrop game for good.

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Which ecosystem do you think gives the best airdrops today? Drop your thoughts 💬👇