My Binance Alpha Journey: A True Experience from Observer to Airdrop Hunter #币安Alpha百文大赛 @币安Binance华语

1. First Encounter with Alpha: Missing Early Dividends

In April 2025, I first saw the entrance to the Alpha airdrop on the Binance app, and at that time I thought it was just “another marketing event,” so I didn’t pay much attention. Until May, my social circle was suddenly flooded with news—some people earned over $1,000 in a single week from airdrops, and tokens like HYPE surged 75% on the first day. It was then that I realized I had missed the best window of opportunity.

In my regret, I studied the rules: Alpha points are determined by holdings and trading volume, with a low entry threshold in the early days, even not requiring points. Holding 1000U + small daily trades could easily meet the criteria. But by May, with the launch of the Adventure Island project and crazy promotions from KOLs, participation soared, and the points threshold skyrocketed to over 200 points, causing the airdrop value to shrink to $50-200 per instance.

2. Difficult Start: The Dilemma of Insufficient Capital

In June, I finally saved up 1000U to enter the market, only to find the competition had become fierce:

• Trading Losses: High-frequency trading slippage + fees eat into profits; during one operation with ZKJ, I lost 20U due to price fluctuations.

• Airdrop Competition: Popular projects like MAT require facial recognition + 210 points; the moment the countdown ends, the network gets congested, and I failed three times in a row.

3. Strategy Optimization: Finding the Rules for Survival

After several failures, I summarized a survival strategy for low-capital players:

1. Token Selection: Only trade highly liquid stablecoin pairs (like USDT/BR), set slippage to 0.5%, and keep individual loss under 0.2%.

2. Timing of Operations: Avoid peak trading hours in Europe and America, choose to trade at midnight Beijing time for the lowest gas fees.

A turning point in July helped me regain confidence: after mistakenly buying the LA token, the price unexpectedly rebounded, turning a 50U airdrop into 300U in profit—this was probably my only instance of “turning misfortune into fortune.”

4. Future Outlook: Why I Choose to Continue Participating in Binance Alpha?

Despite experiencing rule adjustments and token crashes, I still see long-term value in Binance Alpha and have decided to continue deepening my involvement in this ecosystem.

As long as I maintain flexible strategies and controllable risks, it remains an important way for me to accumulate chips at a low cost in the market and learn about Web3. As CZ, our leader, said: “True Alpha belongs to those who can adapt to changes in the rules.”