At the moment the airdrop counter for Binance Alpha jumped over '100,' the app I had worn out, the icon corner of the 'Alpha airdrop' entry on the homepage was virtually frayed. Clicking in, 'the list of ‘participated projects’ takes 3 seconds to scroll to the bottom, each line of record behind it is a small story about waiting, surprise, or 'ah, I forgot to claim again.'
01 'The first time I clicked ‘confirm receipt,’ my hands were shaking.'
👍 I started my journey in 2025. At that time, I had just transferred 1/3 of my salary to my Binance wallet. 'Looking at the balance, I always felt I had to do something.' While scrolling through the square, I stumbled upon the announcement for the Alpha airdrop, 'It requires 160 points, and I calculated the rules for half a day: how much to deposit, how much to trade daily, to gather enough in 12 days'—what is the best cost-performance ratio, and how to save money.
👍 I remember the day I first met the standards, getting out of bed to claim the airdrop, 'when the Binance wallet pop-up said ‘receipt successful,’ I stared at that string of numbers for 5 minutes, like I had won a small lottery.' Later, when that token went online, I made my first 'milk tea money,' and I still have 1 in my wallet, 'not because it's worth much, but because it was the first time I felt ‘blockchain’ was so close to me—just hidden behind a button on my phone.'
02 'The wallet remembers my friend's “points calendar,” it’s even more accurate than an alarm clock.
👍 'My friend is a “points obsessive.” She has a memo in her Binance wallet, noting ‘claim current points every Wednesday at 3 PM’ and ‘wait for new airdrop announcements on Friday at 8 PM.’ ‘At first, I always forgot, and once I missed a project, I was so frustrated I slapped my thigh,’ later she set the wallet notifications to 'strong reminders,' and when her phone rang, she would reflexively click in.
👍 Now her total points add up to thousands, 'but I still flip through the “points details” in my wallet, watching the daily increase in points, like collecting stamps for the journey with Alpha, each one stamped with a mark of having been there.'
03 'It’s not just a wallet, it’s a ‘airdrop chat room’ with friends.'
🤭 My friend, Old Zhou, has a screenshot saved on his phone: last summer, he and three friends were at a barbecue stall, their four Binance wallets lined up side by side on the table, all screens stopped on the same airdrop project page. 'That day we had just received a token, some made enough for a hot pot, while others could only afford a bottle of cola, arguing about how to 'earn points together' next time.' This joy always brings a smile when reminiscing, the happy memories with friends and the bits and pieces from Binance forever etched in our hearts.
👍 100 airdrops are actually 100 moments of 'opening Binance': some people receive notifications on the subway and secretly smile; others draw tables against the points rules, puncturing small holes with their pen on the paper; some set the screenshot of the airdrop receipt as their wallpaper, telling themselves 'just hold on a little longer.'
👍 The journey with Binance Alpha continues, and our stories are hidden in every loading screen and every record on Binance. Perhaps you too have a screenshot you can’t bear to delete, a memory of waiting with friends, or the heartbeat when you received your first airdrop—feel free to write it down, take a photo, or tell it out loud, letting these temperatures hidden in numbers become the brightest light in the next 100 issues.
👍 After all, the endpoint of a journey of over 100 times has never been a number, but us—each one of us who has stayed up late for it, cheered for it, and connected a little more to the world because of it.
