How to make passive income with staking airdrops

A staking airdrop is when a blockchain project rewards users who stake (lock up) their tokens to help secure the network. Unlike regular airdrops (which reward testers or early users), staking airdrops passively reward holders for participating in the ecosystem.

Some examples of my good wins and awfull losses in this income source

Some super awfull airdrops include for example Anzen which I did for 10 months, I had 10,000$ staked to just make around 1,000$ from it, or even worse Scroll which I farmed with 20,000$ and they gave me only 500$… Of course you don’t lose the money you’ve staked, but it’s still disappointing to me since I had way higher expectations as most airdrops give at least 30% APY while some have netted up to 300%.

Some good wins are for example Sophon that I’ve staked with 15,000$ and they gave me an airdrop worth around 12,000$ and I’ve staked my Ethereum there for only 1 year. Anzen game me an 14,000$ worth airdrop for 6,000$ worth of Ethereum staked and it was only 10 months worth of staking.

Whos this for?

Anyone who’s already holding Ethereum/Bitcoin/Solana/USDT or other crypto could find this very worth wile as in most cases you can make 30-500% per year on your crypto, but mostly expect 50-100% which is already amazing return.

Or if you already have a running business and want to create another income source this could be good option for you.

What risks to consider before starting with staking airdrops

First of all one in few months one of thosuands of projects gets hacked, chances are super small that a project that you’re farming get’s hacked, and even if it does, 70% of projects get money back to their users one way or another or hacker gets caught.

Another risk is if you bought Ethereum/Bitcoin/Solana etc to farm specific airdrop it can always go down in price so you go in minus, this is why a lot of people farm airdrops with stablecoins like USDT/USDC.

Safer options for you could be Binance staking for BnB, you get some of it and stake it, you get their launch pool projects airdrops, some small apy and mega drop rewards as well.

You’d make around 1,3% APY per year though you’d actually make 10-30% more through the launchpool and mega drop airdrops, though keep in mind if BnB price goes down you can lose cash, this is why for new users I recommend juts getting some USDT or USDC on Binance and then putting it on a DEX wallet to farm staking airdrops.

What’s an Airdrop?

An airdrop is when a crypto project drops free tokens into your digital wallet – like finding money in your jacket pocket!

Why they do it: To reward early supporters or attract new users.

How you qualify: By using testnets or doing simple tasks (like sharing a tweet), though airdrops that give most money are staking airdrops.

Real example:

In 2023, Arbitrum airdropped tokens worth $2,000-$10,000 to testers.

Celestia gave early users $500-$20,000 in $TIA tokens in late 2023.

To Sybil or not

A Sybil refers to a single person or group creating multiple fake identities to exploit a system—like a crypto airdrop, testnet rewards, or blockchain voting.

Imagine one person using 100 different email addresses to sign up for the same free giveaway, tricking the system into thinking they’re 100 different people. In crypto, that’s a Sybil.

Half of people in staking airdrops create several wallets to put less cash on them to farm the airdrop via multiple wallets, for example insted of putting 1,000$ on 1 wallet they put 250$ on 4 wallets, in most projects you get points every day for the cash you’ve staked (In almost all projects you can withdraw your money whenever you want though you stop earning points then and start falling in rankings), so why people put less money on more wallets, because some projects make tiers for points, for example:

1,000+ Points = 400 Tokens

1,500+ Points = 800 Tokens

3,000+ Points = 1,000 Tokens

5,000+ Points = 1,500 Tokens

This is just an example though it can show you how putting 250$ on 4 wallets and getting 1,500 points on each is way more tokens than putting 1,000$ on 1 wallet and getting 5,000 points.

This is on you, since if you want to instantly sell what you’ve got it will take way more time to claim on several wallets than one, most projects don’t do tiers, i’d say 20% of them do, most just calculate 1:1 points:tokens ratio. on top of that several wallets means more fees in case project is on ethereum main net where transaction fees are highest so I can recommend you sybil only if you are going in with 5,000$+ so that you put 500-1000$ per wallet and if you plan to hold that specific token at least for some time and not sell it instantly when it’s out.

Getting started

Here’s a list of stuff you will need:

– Anti Detect Browser
– Proxies or VPn
– EVM Wallet for Crypto (Rabby Wallet is best), depending on what staking airdrops you will do you might need a Solana wallet, though on our site we will show guides only for EVM wallets, they give best airdrops in most cases.
– Google, Twitter, Discord and Telegram accounts as most projects will ask you to follow them, join their servers, etc..

For Anti Detect browser I can recommend Incogniton, for free you can set up to 3 profiles which is more than enough for newbies.

You should install Incogniton, in their knowledge center you can learn and see how it’s set up, but to simply put it up what they’re used for is having several browsers on your computer while each looks like it’s a diffirent computer, while if you’d just use chrome and mozilla for example without proper set ups it would be easy for projects to mark you as a sybil and ban your accounts from getting the airdrops, this is why we use anti detect browsers to make it look like we are several diffirent people and hence do same airdrops from several accounts to get the rewards from several accounts.

Second thing you will need is either proxies for your profiles or VPn, I use proxies as it’s just more secure in my opinion, I use Instant Proxies, so 10 of them cost me only 10$ per month.

You could also just use a free vpn or some paid one for 2-3$ just keep in mind to re-connect it to diffirent location every time you connect to a diffirent profile, a con with using vpn and not proxies is that you can’t work on several profiles at once.

I won’t explain you how to create google, discord, telegram and so accounts, you should know how to do that yourself.

So now that you’ve set up your accounts, you have to install chrome extension for rabby wallet, here’s the download link.

When creating your wallet keep in mind that you must save your pass phrase (12 words) if you want to use your wallet anywhere else, and that you must never give your pass phrase to anyone! Scammers will often DM you when you’re in projects servers and try to impersonate moderators to get the pass phrase from you and then steal all the money on your wallet.

Keep in mind you don’t need more than 1 wallet and 1 profile if you don’t want to sybil.

How airdrops usually go

For airdrops you can sometimes even wait for them to get out year or two, most I’ve waited myself was 18-19 months. Though I farmed 15 staking airdrop projects that I am expecting and waiting for airdrops through those 18-19 months, so something I’ve farmed for last 12 months and spent only 30-60 minutes setting up makes me 50% APY, usually staking projects take way less time to come out, so expect to have your money staked there anywhere from 6 to 18 months.

Where to find projects to farm

Our site has a section with good projects that we have researched and farm ourselves with complete guides on how to farm them, though other good way to find them is Twitter though its full of scams and viruses so be carefull.

How to know when to claim it and if I was qualified

All projects post when their airdrops are out on their twitter profiles, though if you will do the projects from tutorials we create here, you can just follow our airdrops telegram channel as we will post all of them there!