Crypto Airdrops: Verified Claims & Honest Labels

SolPump — 'Earn Free SOL Every Hour'

Casino dressed as an airdrop

Advertised in banner slots on airdrop aggregators. The 'hourly airdrop' requires wagering at least 0.001 SOL every hour — it's a crash-game casino funnel aimed at people searching for free crypto. Earning should never require betting.

Minotaurus — '$100,000 USDT giveaway'

Presale lottery

A paid sponsored listing where 'entering the giveaway' means buying at least $50 of presale tokens, with more tickets the more you spend and a draw date of 'TBA'. Presale-plus-raffle is a classic rug structure.

Exchange 'prediction' campaigns labeled as airdrops

KYC + deposit bait

Some aggregators rank exchange betting campaigns among the 'hottest airdrops'. They require full KYC and deposits, and the 'reward' is just the settlement of bets you can lose. Not an airdrop by any definition.

Zoth zOPAL points

Deposit farming on a previously-hacked protocol

Requires depositing USDC/USDT into a vault for an unconfirmed token — on a protocol that was exploited for roughly $8.4M in March 2025. We won't list deposit-to-farm programs, and certainly not this one.

The deposit-to-'earn airdrop' cluster

If step 1 is 'deposit stablecoins', it's an investment, not an airdrop

A rotating cast of pre-deposit campaigns (real teams included) market vault deposits as 'airdrops'. Whatever the team quality, they carry smart-contract and peg risk and are not free. Our blanket rule: we don't list anything whose first step is depositing money.

Dead official domains, re-registered by phishers

Old project domain expires → scammer buys it → fake claim page

When a project moves domains, its old one can be re-registered and turned into a phishing claim site. Example: Pear Protocol's old pearprotocol.io is dead — the canonical site is pear.garden. Always confirm the current domain from the project's pinned X post before connecting a wallet.

Name-collision airdrops (two projects, one name)

A real project shares a name with an unrelated token

Searching a project name can land you on the wrong one. Example: a testnet 'UpOnly' lives at uponly.space, while uponly.com is a different, unrelated token (UPO). Match the exact domain from the official account — don't trust the name alone.

'Claim' pages for projects that have no token

A real product with no token gets fake claim/presale sites

Legitimate apps that have never announced a token attract fake 'claim' and 'presale' pages. Matchday (a licensed football game) and Mantle have both been impersonated this way. If the real project hasn't announced a token, every 'claim it now' page is a scam.

Sweepstakes banners dressed as per-user airdrops

'$250 each' is a 100-winner raffle, not your allocation

Aggregator banners like '100 winners, $250 each' are promotional sweepstakes, not a token allocation everyone receives — and the entry action is often 'activate membership' engagement-bait. A headline dollar value attached to a giveaway is not what you'll earn.