Original author: Biteye
Once upon a time, the ETH mainnet was a gold mine for airdrops, but by 2025, the route of the big Mao had already quietly shifted - Base, BNB, Sui, and Berachain became synonymous with the new world.
We disassembled the logic behind this trend and tried to answer a question: Where should airdrop players go?
Quick overview of this article:
ETH airdrops recede, the myth of staking ends
Base/Sui/Bera takes over and becomes the new main battlefield
Emerging blockchain projects: Strong financing and familiar gameplay
Featured project recommendations + low threshold gameplay
Airdrops ≠ Diligence, it’s more about direction
Understand the logic behind migration and see where the next outbreak point is.
The higher the gas, the more expensive the fish!
Jason is a newcomer who entered the circle in 2022. He once interacted with Opensea with thousands of GAS. A set of the most basic Approve and Send operations cost him $120, which is equivalent to half a weeks salary. Opensea has a high valuation, a lot of financing, and a strong investment background. It must be a big deal! The GAS burned now will be completely insignificant when it comes to airdrops in the future.
However, by 2025, Jason had been away from the cryptocurrency industry for almost a year. I didnt make any money at all. All my Zksync and LayerZero accounts were judged as witches. I also spent money to buy fingerprint browsers and independent IPs. In the end, I didnt know what went wrong. I could only go back to work in shame.
In February 2025, Opensea suddenly announced that we are going to issue coins. Jason went home from get off work and clicked on the official website. What came into view was the familiar routine: points, blind boxes, and experience points (XP)
How long has it been since you heard about the airdrop of Ethereum ecosystem projects?
Not to mention that those myths of getting rich by rubbing the fur have disappeared from X platform, and even the once powerful rubbing the fur KOLs have transformed.
In 2025, the well-known airdrop blogger IceFrog @Ice_Frog 666666 even successively defended the rights of multiple projects such as Kiloex and Corn, successfully opening up a new rights protection personality. Taking the airdrop projects in January 2025 when the market conditions were good as an example, among the 14 projects launched, the proportion of ETH ecological native projects was almost zero.
Most public chain projects choose to directly launch the mainnet and airdrop tokens, while other projects have chosen emerging chains such as @base or @BNBCHAIN with lower gas costs and greater exchange support.
Compared with the grand occasion when ETH was at its peak in 2021, the current ETH ecosystem is very different. As the gas fee of ETH gradually dropped from tens of dollars to a few dollars, and even fell below 1 dollar, the number of projects announced to be launched on the ETH mainnet has not increased, but has become less and less.
The reasons may include that @solana has become a paradise for new players, or that BNB Chain has become a token of investment for the project to land on Binance, but the more important reason is that the innovation and development activity that the Ethereum ecosystem once prided itself on has gradually declined, and the community’s complaints about the Ethereum Foundation have become more and more obvious.
The real Da Mao never asks where the money comes from, they just want to give you money
@WalrusProtocol is an airdrop project officially confirmed by Sui Network. After Binance announced the launch of the contract on March 28, it undoubtedly became the most dazzling airdrop star in the first quarter. Walruss airdrop standard is very simple. Even if it is just the most basic low-income number, you only need to deposit a minimum of 0.1 Sui to get about 15 times the income.
At first glance, Walrus is indeed unusual: it has raised $140 million in financing, is valued at $2 billion, and has investors including top institutions such as Standard Crypto, a16z Crypto Fund, Electric Capital, and Franklin Templeton Digital Assets.
In the past, such backgrounds usually only appeared in the Ethereum ecosystem, but nowadays, more and more star projects with similar backgrounds are beginning to take root in emerging public chains such as Sui and Berachain.
These projects have several obvious things in common: the team is hard-working, and the price of the currency is steadily rising and trying to break through historical highs.
Migrate from Ethereum to the new world of airdrops
In the business world, a blue ocean means a market full of opportunities but not saturated with competition, while a red ocean represents a market with extremely fierce or even white-hot competition. In the past, Ethereum has always been the noble chain in the airdrop circle. New players flocked to Ethereum L2 to look for opportunities, while experienced players calmly enjoyed the generous airdrops on the ETH mainnet.
But the market is getting colder and the airdrop market is in full swing. Ethereum has now become a red ocean. If you want to continue to get good airdrop returns, you have to board the new generation of Mayflower and go to a foreign land to open up new territories.
Where is the new world for airdrop players?
At present, @SuiNetwork and @berachain seem to have given the answer. By carefully observing these two emerging public chain ecosystems, it is not difficult to find that they have the following common characteristics:
1. The project valuation is high and the financing scale is large;
2. The public chain’s native tokens have been listed on mainstream exchanges;
3. The public chain itself provides ecological incentives and has strong financial support;
4. Projects within the ecosystem have generally completed high-quality financing;
5. Following the traditional airdrop gameplay of low threshold, high return, it mainly focuses on zero-cost, test network, and simple staking activities.
Following the same pattern, we can focus on the popular projects on these chains:
Berachain Ecosystem Core Protocol:
@KodiakFi, @InfraredFinance, @beraborrow, @GummiFi and more;
The most popular protocols on Sui:
@HaedalProtocol, @AftermathFi, etc.
Choice is more important than effort, be friends with cycles
Well-known crypto blogger @keyahayek commented on the power of cycles: People who can see through the essence of the market in one or two cycles and those who cannot see through the market in their entire lives are destined to have completely different destinies.
In the cyclical rhythm of the crypto market, project owners and players are experiencing ups and downs, hoping to gain wealth in the rising cycle, but often miss the beat in the rapidly changing market rhythm. However, projects that truly cross the cycle can often perform a perfect deep V in the coin price, giving supporters stable feedback in the ecological construction.
As an airdrop player, what you need to do from beginning to end is actually the same thing:
Be patient and enjoy the game.
