It’s usually done to promote a new project, reward early supporters, or encourage people to use their platform.

Why do they give it for free?

Projects use airdrops to:

 • Create awareness and hype 🚀

 • Attract new users

 • Reward early community members

 • Help decentralize ownership (so many people hold the token)

How do people qualify?

Different projects choose different criteria, for example:

 • Using the project (making transactions, swapping, staking etc.)

 • Holding certain tokens

 • Completing tasks like joining their community

 • Being early users of the platform

Some famous examples:

 • Uniswap airdrop: early users got tokens that later became very valuable.

 • Arbitrum airdrop: users who interacted with the network got rewarded.

Where do people find airdrops?

People look for airdrops on:

 • Project websites

 • Crypto Twitter/X

 • Airdrop trackers (there are websites for this)

Safety tips

 • Only use official links

 • Never connect your wallet to random sites

Good side

✅ Free tokens

✅ Learn Web3 & crypto

✅ Possibly profit if project grows