Hello everyone, I'm Pasha. I think few people would not like to earn several tens of thousands of dollars on some retro drop, NFT sale or other crypto activity.
But finding really worthwhile and useful information about a project that will bring you thousands of dollars is quite difficult. After all, few people with valuable information would want to share their potential profits with anyone else.
In this article you will learn: who gets all the biggest retrodrops, why today's drop hunters are doing the wrong thing, and how to become one of the most successful drop hunters.
The first service for today that will help us in research is Dune. Dune is an analytics platform that makes it easy to aggregate and analyze data from various blockchains.
The most popular feature on Dune is the creation of various boards that can show certain blockchain data.
We will use boards created by other users for analysis, since creating your own board requires minimal knowledge of the SQL programming language.
You can search for boards directly through dune, but for convenience we will use the search engine from ora.so.
For example, now one of the most anticipated retrodrops is a retrodrop from the Arbitrum project. We don’t know how much, when and to whom the drop will be given, we can only guess.
Since we are interested in retrodrop from this project, we write Arbitrum in the ora search engine.
We were given a lot of results with boards with various statistics. For example, statistics on the Arbitrum Odyssey event, statistics on second-level bridges and other boards related to the Arbitrum project.
In the board with statistics on bridges, we can see that the official Arbitrum bridge has already been used by more than half a million unique addresses.
In the board with general statistics, you can see that the number of Arbitrum network users has exceeded 2 million.
If previously, to receive a retrodrop from projects, a simple transaction in their protocol was enough, but now, at least in popular projects, such activities are unlikely to give you a good drop. After all, giving out even a thousand dollars to two million users would be incredibly expensive, and giving out fifty cents each is somehow not respectable.
Therefore, projects are now trying to issue their tokens for more niche activities, those that have not been completed by every multi-account.
If we take the same Arbitrum, we know that it has half a million unique users on the official bridge. But the total number of transactions on this bridge is eight hundred thousand, that is, not all users made two, let alone three transactions through the bridge. And as an option, those who have made several transactions through the bridge will receive a good drop.
Same thing with the Arbitrum Odyssey event. If Arbitrum has more than two million users, then the first day of the odyssey only involved four hundred thousand of them, which is still a lot, but a drop for the currently suspended odyssey seems more likely than for simply using the Arbitrum network.
The smaller the group of people in some activity of a large project, the greater the chances of getting a large retrodrop. For example, out of two million Arbitrum users, only two hundred thousand made more than 5 transactions. Now we know what we need to do in order to get into some small sample of users, in this case, make more than 5 transactions and be active on the network for at least 2 weeks and perhaps we will fall under some of the criteria or multipliers for the drop.
A similar analysis, which will help you avoid wasting time on unpromising activities, can be applied to any other projects. Here, for example, are boards for the StarkNet and zksync projects.
On dune you can find other information that will help you in your research. For example, the base of wallets that received the majority of large retrodrops. Here are the addresses of wallets and the drops that these wallets received.
Since these guys are good at finding promising projects, it makes sense to monitor their activity. You can track the actions of wallets using a block explorer, but this is not very convenient, and besides, a specific browser only works on a specific network.
But you can conveniently track transactions in all networks using the rss3 or Debank service. To do this, we enter the address we need in the search bar of one of the services and it will give us every transaction made by this wallet.
For example, recently one of the successful wallets from our database minted an NFT called Alpha Insiders.
After a little searching on Twitter, we see that this project is currently running a campaign where they are giving away NFTs, as they claim, with unique use cases.
Now, knowing this, we can fulfill the conditions of the event and also receive these NFTs.
In the Debank service, to track a wallet, enter its address in the search bar, then go to the “History” section and also view all activities.
By reviving and repeating the activities of such wallets, as well as correctly analyzing and executing various popular activities in the future, you will definitely receive a good reward for your work.
