Migrate from Ethereum and look for a new world of airdrops

Once upon a time, the ETH mainnet was a gold mine for airdrops, but by 2025, the route of the big Mao has quietly turned - Base, BNB, Sui, and Berachain have become 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 the content of this article:

ETH airdrops recede, and the myth of Mao Mao ends

Base/Sui/Bera takes over and becomes the new main battlefield

Emerging chain projects: fierce financing and familiar gameplay

Selected project recommendations + low threshold gameplay

Airdrops ≠ diligence, but more about direction

Understand the logic behind migration and see where the next outbreak point is.

1/5 "The higher the gas, the more expensive the fish!"

Jason is a newcomer who entered the circle in 2022 and has interacted with Opensea with thousands of GAS. A set of the most basic Approve plus Send operations cost $120, which is equivalent to his half-week salary. "Opensea has a high valuation, a lot of financing, and a great investment background. It must be a big money! The GAS burned now will be completely worthless when the airdrop is launched in the future."

However, by 2025, Jason has been away from the cryptocurrency circle for almost a year. "I didn't make any money at all. The Zksync and LayerZero accounts were all judged as witches. I also spent money to buy fingerprint browsers and independent IPs. In the end, I don't know what went wrong. I can only go back to work in shame."

In February 2025, Opensea suddenly announced that "we are going to issue coins." After Jason got home from get off work, he clicked on the official website and saw the familiar routine: points, blind boxes, and experience points (XP)

2/5How long have you not heard about the airdrop of Ethereum ecological projects?

Don't mention that the "myths" of getting rich by making money have disappeared from the X platform, and even the KOLs who were once powerful in the past have transformed. In 2025, the well-known airdrop blogger IceFrog even 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 main network and airdrop tokens, while other projects choose emerging chains with lower gas costs and greater exchange support or etc.

Compared with the grand occasion when ETH was in its heyday in 2021, the current ETH ecology is very different. As ETH's gas fee 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 becoming a paradise for new players, or BNB Chain has become a token of investment for the project party to land on Binance, but the more important reason is that the innovation and development activity that the Ethereum ecosystem used to be proud of has gradually declined, and the community's complaints about the Ethereum Foundation have become more and more obvious.

3/5Real "big money" never asks where you come from, they just want to give you money.

Sui Network officially confirmed the airdrop project. After Binance announced the launch of the contract on March 28, it undoubtedly became the most dazzling airdrop star in the first quarter. Walrus's 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 return.

At first glance, Walrus is indeed extraordinary: the financing scale is as high as 140 million US dollars, the valuation is 2 billion US dollars, and the investors are top institutions such as Standard Crypto, a16z Crypto Fund, Electric Capital and Franklin Templeton Digital Asset Department.

In the past, such backgrounds usually only appeared in the Ethereum ecosystem, but now more and more star projects with similar backgrounds have begun to take root in emerging public chains such as Sui and Berachain.

These projects have several obvious common points: the team is practical, the price of the currency is steadily rising and trying to break through the historical high.

4/5Migrate from Ethereum and go 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 symbolizes a market with extremely fierce or even white-hot competition. In the past, Ethereum has always been the "noble chain" of 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 now is a different time, the market has gradually cooled down, and the airdrop track has been fully rolled inward. Today's Ethereum has 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, and 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. High project valuation and large financing scale;

2. The public chain native token has landed on mainstream exchanges;

3. The public chain itself provides ecological incentives and has strong financial support;

4. The projects in the ecosystem have generally completed high-quality financing;

5. Following the traditional airdrop "low threshold, high return" gameplay, it is mainly based on zero-cost, test network, and simple staking activities.

5/5 Choice is greater than effort, be a friend of the cycle

A well-known crypto blogger commented on the power of the cycle: "People who can see through the essence of the market in one or two cycles and those who can't see the market clearly in their lifetime are destined to have completely different destinies."

In the cyclical rhythm of the crypto market, project parties and players are experiencing ups and downs, hoping to gain wealth in the rising cycle, but often step on the wrong beats in the rapidly changing market rhythm. However, projects that truly cross the cycle can often stage a perfect "deep V" in the coin price, giving supporters stable feedback in 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.