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I used to be a strong believer that airdrops are free money but my friend really changed my point of view on that matter. He doesn't accept that airdrops are free money. And he was absolutely right. Airdrops were never “free money.” They’re risk compensation .. and most people massively underestimate the risks they’re taking for a chance of getting some tokens. It's a long 🧵 but trust me, it's worth it🔥 1️⃣ SMART CONTRACT RISK Every protocol you interact with is code. Bugs, logic errors, bad upgrades, or rushed deployments can drain funds instantly. Audits ≠ safety. Many “audited” contracts have still been exploited. 2️⃣ MALICIOUS or COMPRIMISED 3rd-party integrations. Recent cases (not gonna mentio the scam by @TroveMarkets ) showed how a single dependency, oracle, or external contract can become the . You might trust the main protocol but do you trust everything it touches? @superformxyz for example has several dozens of protocols underlying their dapp. That's risk upon risk upon risk. 3️⃣: STABLECOIN farming ≠ stable Yield farming stables on the top of all previous stuff adds a depeg risk. One bad market event, redemption halt, or liquidity shock and your “safe” 1.00 becomes 0.92 or even 0.5 overnight. Remember Luna? APY doesn’t matter if principal evaporates. 4️⃣: MULTISIG & ADMIN key risk. A multisig is only as strong as its signers. Social engineering, leaked keys, insider threats, or rushed governance actions can brick or drain a protocol even without a hack. 5️⃣: liquidity risk & pull scenarios. Thin liquidity means brutal slippage on exit. Incentives can disappear, pools can be rebalanced against you, or liquidity can be pulled once emissions end right when farmers try to leave. 6️⃣: upgrade & governance risk. Many contracts are upgradeable. A “harmless” update can introduce new attack surfaces, change parameters, or shift risk profiles after you’ve already deposited. 7️⃣: bridge risk (one of the biggest). Bridges are honeypots. If you’re bridging assets to farm an airdrop, you’re often taking on more risk than the airdrop is worth. 8️⃣: time & opportunity cost. Wallet management, gas, monitoring positions, reacting to incidents — all for an airdrop that might be diluted, vesting-locked, or worth far less than expected. 9️⃣: regulatory & blacklisting risk. Stablecoins can be frozen. Frontends can go down. Contracts can be sanctioned. “Permissionless” doesn’t mean consequence-free. 1️⃣0️⃣ And the last..Probably most important: Protocols that never TGE and keep prolonging the airdrop promises. We have so many old protocols that kept promising, hinting, milking their users to no end, without releasing airdrop, essentially giving a middle finger to all of their supporters. Their risk takers and beta testers. @jumperapp has been shamelessly milking users since 2022, @BungeeExchange milking us since early 2022, @MetaMask I lost count, @superformxyz 2 years and counting, @Rabby_io it's been 2 years since their points being visible, @syncswap , @opensea (lost count), @ArcadiaFi trying to sweep S2 under the rug, @phantom token since forever, @SuiNetwork S2 and so many more. Airdrops aren’t charity! You risk your money and put in trust, time and effort to companies that benefit from that. It is only logical that you are properly rewarded for that. They exist to incentivize early users to absorb risk while the protocol is unproven. So no it's not free money. It's reimbursement for the risk you took. For giving them value. Don't accept anything less than a proper reward for that. Donkey out 🫏 #AirdropCrypto #Airdrops #airdrop
