30 airdrop projects worth paying attention to in 2025

By KarenZ, Foresight News

Missed the lucrative airdrops of Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? No need to worry, and no need to be discouraged! This article carefully sorts out 30 projects with great potential to help you find new airdrop opportunities.

pump.fun 🌟🌟🌟

In this cycle, pump.fun is undoubtedly a dazzling presence, with its revenue hitting new highs repeatedly, with its cumulative revenue reaching 1,595,278 SOL. During an X Space live broadcast in October 2024, pump.fun co-founder Sapijiju hinted at plans for future token issuances and airdrops, further igniting community expectations.

Interactive strategies: internal trading and use of various platform functions.

Phantom🌟🌟🌟

Phantom has grown from a Solana ecological wallet to one of the preferred multi-chain wallets for most users in the Crypto field. Phantom’s total financing amount exceeded US$118 million, with investors including Paradigm, a16z and Solana Ventures.

Interaction strategy: Experience Phantom multi-chain wallet, exchange and purchase within the wallet.

Eclipse 🌟🌟🌟

Eclipse launched the public mainnet in November. Ecological projects include the prediction market Polymarket (launched in early December), decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (through ezSOL), Eclipse's native NFT Launchpad Scope driven by Rarible, and native DeFi Center Astrol, Orca, etc. Eclipse’s total financing amount reaches US$65 million, and investors include Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, Delphi Digital, etc.

Interaction strategy: cross-chain assets on https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, exchange and provide liquidity on Orca, and interact with other ecological applications.

Berachain 🌟🌟🌟

Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built based on the Proof of Liquidity consensus. It solves the liquidity problem in the DeFi field through the three-Token model and the Proof of Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism. It will launch the public test network bArtio B2 in June 2024. . Berachain’s cumulative financing amount exceeds US$140 million.

Interaction strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio test network and explore ecological applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.

Abstract 🌟🌟🌟

Abstract is a consumer-grade cryptocurrency blockchain built on the ZK Stack that achieves scalability by performing off-chain transactions, batch processing, and verifying batch transactions on Ethereum using ZK Proofs. Abstract Contributors consist of people who started or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. Igloo, the parent company of Pudgy Penguins, oversees and participates in the development of Abstract as a contributor. Abstract has launched the test network and will launch the main network in January 2025.

Abstract has launched the test network in July 2024, and had previously planned to launch the main network at the end of 2025. Igloo, the parent company of Pudgy Penguins, previously stated that Pudgy Penguins will be launched on Solana first, and will be launched on Ethereum and Abstract later.

Interaction strategy: Join the waiting list to obtain the Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain , transfer test and continue to hold PENGU airdrops.

MegaETH🌟🌟🌟

MegaETH is committed to building a real-time blockchain and claims to be able to process 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond response speed. In June, MegaETH developer MegaLabs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round of financing led by Dragonfly, and received support from Vitalik Buterin, Consensys founder Joseph Lubin, EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan and others.

MegaETH has not yet launched a testnet, but you can currently pay attention to the stablecoin project CAP Labs, the trading trend platform Noise, etc.

SOON 🌟🌟🌟

Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) is currently focusing on two directions. The first is SOON Stack, which is a modular Rollup framework that combines SVM and OP Stack, allowing any SVM to be deployed on L1 (such as Ethereum, Bitcoin and Cosmos) L2. The chain deployed using SOON Stack is called SOON Chain. Secondly, SOON plans to cooperate with EVM RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) providers such as Caldera, AltLayer and Conduit, aiming to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service systems to simplify the user's deployment process.

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

Interaction strategy: test network cross-chain and interaction (lending agreement EnsoFi, etc.)

Story Protocol 🌟🌟🌟

Story Protocol is an on-chain IP protocol. Story Protocol’s total financing amount exceeds US$140 million, and investors include a16z Crypto, Polychain, Foresight Venture, etc.

Story Protocol launched its final testnet, Odyssey, in November. Story has previously made it clear that they are firmly opposed to farmers, witch attacks, automated activities and other behaviors, and these behaviors will not receive any rewards. Instead, they place a greater emphasis on real feedback from real community members on real issues.

Story Protocol has currently ended its Odyssey event, and the testnet is still interactive.

Monad 🌟🌟🌟

Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that improves blockchain throughput through MonadBFT, delayed execution, parallel execution, and MonadDb database. One of the novelties is the separation of execution and consensus, using a pipelined consensus execution hierarchical mechanism. Monad completed US$225 million in financing in April 2024, led by Paradigm.

Interaction strategy: Monad Discord role, holding Pythenian NFT (Monad Lianchuang has purchased), staking ecosystem tokens (such as W or PYTH), trying to play the Monad ecological Sparkball game and exploring other projects in the Monad ecosystem.

Nillion 🌟🌟🌟

Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network. It aims to build a network for high-value data that is encrypted during storage, transmission and calculation. It solves the current problem of "decryption -calculation - then" when encrypted data is calculated. Encryption" issue. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round in December 2022 at a $180 million valuation, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion completed US$25 million in financing, led by Hack VC.

Interaction strategy: blind calculation of pledge and verification nodes . On December 11, Nillion announced the official end of the Nillion Verifier program, with TGE in the first half of 2025.

Solayer 🌟🌟🌟

As a rising star project re-pledged by Solana, Solayer announced the completion of the builder round of financing on July 2, 2024. Investors include Solana Labs co-creator Anatoly Yakovenko, Solend founder Rooter, Tensor co-creator Richard Wu, and Polygon co-creator Sandeep Nailwal wait. In December, Solayer created an official foundation Twitter account.

Interaction strategy: re-staking

ink 🌟🌟🌟

ink is an L2 network launched by the American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on Optimism Superchain. It has launched a test network in November 2024. The Ink document hints at the decentralization of the super chain's orderer, which has been launched on the mainnet.

Interaction strategy: cross-chain , explore the ink network ecology .

Babylon 🌟🌟🌟

Babylon is a leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem that allows Bitcoin holders to stake their Bitcoins and earn income on Proof of Stake (PoS) systems (such as PoS chains, L2, Data Availability (DA) layers, etc.). Babylon Babylon’s total financing amount is close to US$100 million, and investors include Paradigm, Binance Labs, Polychain, etc.

In May 2024, it completed US$70 million in financing, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.

Interactive strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 staking BTC and participate in the Babylon Odyssey event.

Solv Protocol 🌟🌟🌟

Solv Protocol is also the leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with a total financing amount of US$25 million. Investors include Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Nomura Securities.

Interaction strategy: pledge Bitcoin or encapsulate Bitcoin and participate in points activities .

AO 🌟🌟🌟

The Arweave Computing Network AO mainnet will be launched on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of the new tokens minted by AO are distributed to AR holders in proportion, and 66.6% of the AO tokens will be distributed to users whose assets cross-chain to AO. AO has supported depositing stETH to receive token rewards.

Interaction strategy: hold AR (on-chain as much as possible), cross-chain stETH.

Farcaster 🌟🌟

Farcaster is currently the most active Web3 social project, and has recently made a comeback through AI agents. In June 2024, Fortune magazine cited a source who requested anonymity due to business constraints as saying that like most protocols, he expected Farcaster to launch a token and investors would be eager to capture its fully diluted value.

Interaction strategy: post and experience different clients

Polymarket🌟🌟

The prediction market Polymarket has experienced explosive growth since the beginning of 2024 and has also shown relatively strong resilience after the election.

Interaction Strategy: Prediction

Perennial 🌟🌟

Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbiturm. The project completed US$12 million in financing in October 2022. Polychain Capital and Variant led the investment, and Archetype, Coinbase Ventures and others participated.

In December 2024, Perennial launched an intent layer that enables traders to instantly execute and access deep liquidity from on-chain and off-chain venues. Specifically, traders specify the exact price at which they want to execute a trade, whether it is a market trade. It is still a limit trade; Solvers act as market makers, execute and automatically settle into AMM. At the same time, Perennial also launched the Perennial Petals program, which will provide rewards (mainly related to transaction volume) to loyal participants, new users and early adopters.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Perennial Petals program.

daos.fun🌟🌟

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

Interaction Strategy: Trading

Pump Science🌟🌟

Pump Science is built on Pump.fun. Pump Science is a virtually barrier-free research trial and funding platform. On pump.science, anyone including drug developers, scientists, etc. can submit longevity regimen ideas, drug strategies, raise funds for their experiments, and others can bet on which intervention will prolong the different models being tested. The longevity of living things supports optimistic thinking. Currently, there are only two experiments on Pump Science, Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).

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

Pump Science has not yet made it clear or hinted that it will issue tokens, but some community members speculate that Pump Science will issue platform tokens.

Interaction Strategy: Trading

Soneium 🌟🌟

Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony Block Solutions Labs, Sony's blockchain division. It has launched the public test network Minato and the developer incubation program Spark in August 2024.

Interaction strategy: cross-chain , explore the Soneium ecosystem .

Nexus 🌟🌟

Nexus envisions building an Internet based on verifiable computing, connecting computing devices (such as large GPU farms, computers, mobile phones, etc.) scattered around the world to form a supercomputer. By leveraging Nexus zkVM, Nexus connects computing supply with proof demand. Anyone can connect their device to the network and not only participate in computing, but also receive corresponding rewards.

Interaction strategy: The new Nexus testnet has ended. You can pay attention to the subsequent testnet deployment.

BOB 🌟🌟

BOB is the abbreviation of "Build on Bitcoin". It is an L2 technology stack designed to support Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecological development. It can not only inherit the security of Bitcoin PoW and support Bitcoin ecosystems such as Ordinals, Lightning and Nostr, but also Fully compatible with EVM.

Interactive strategy: Earn Spice points by participating in the final season of BOB Fusion, including maximizing Spice by depositing assets into various DeFi applications on BOB, voting with Spice, and making recommendations, etc.

Perena 🌟🌟

Perena is a Solana ecological stablecoin infrastructure protocol. It completed a Pre-Seed round of financing in December, led by Borderless, and investors also include Binance Labs.

Interaction strategy: Petal points can be obtained by conducting transactions between stablecoins and grouping LP.

Lombard 🌟🌟

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

Interaction strategy: pledge Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB as LBTC, and deposit LBTC, WBTC or cbBTC assets into Lombard DeFi Vault (automated income management solution)

ZERϴ Network 🌟🌟

ZERϴ Network is an L2 network launched by Web3 wallet Zerion based on ZKsync.

Interaction strategy: Participate in the Zerion reward program to earn XP. XP measures user activities in Zerion and unlocks new rewards; complete quests ; explore the ZERO Network ecosystem .

Kaito AI 🌟🌟

Kaito AI is an AI encrypted search engine that has launched the Yaps points program in December 2024.

Interaction strategy: Connect to Twitter to create an account, publish encryption-related tweets, and recommend invitations.

DAWN🌟🌟

DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network in a physical resource network that leverages point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology to enable nodes to efficiently communicate directly with multiple nodes. DAWN previously completed US$18 million in financing in August 2024, led by Dragonfly. Subsequently, in December, VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha fund and VanEck Ventures invested US$2.5 million in DAWN through strategic financing.

Interaction strategy: Download the browser plug-in and act as a verification node to obtain early point rewards.

Reddio 🌟🌟

Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 powered by GPUs for autonomous AI. Reddio completed its seed round of financing in August 2024 (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) and will soon announce Series A financing. Reddio has launched a public testnet.

Interaction strategy: cross-chain and explore the Reddio ecosystem .

Paradex🌟🌟

Paradex is a decentralized sustainable derivatives Layer 2 application chain incubated on Starknet by the cryptocurrency institutional liquidity platform Paradigm (non-venture capital Paradigm). It plans to allocate 20% of the tokens to the 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 to July 31, 2025. The token issuance plan is in the Take place at the end of the second season.

Interaction Strategy: Trading.

ZORA🌟

ZORA is an art casting platform and has also released the L2 network Zora Network based on OP Stack. ZORA’s total financing amount is US$60 million, and investors include Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, etc. As expectations for OpenSea's currency issuance continue to increase, if the NFT market continues to gain popularity next year, whether ZORA will follow up and issue its own tokens has become a hot topic. But at the same time, ZORA has also been complained by some users as the king of PUA airdrops.

Interaction strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFT, and explore the Zora Network ecosystem.

Virtual ecological airdrop🌟

For example, Virtual Ecosystem AI music agent MUSIC has issued airdrops to Virtual Protocol Ecosystem users. It is expected that AI agents will continue to be popular in 2025, and more and more AI agents launched on Virtual may issue airdrops to Virtual ecosystem users.

Interactive strategy: Trade on Virtual and hold more than 3 AI agent tokens.