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 direction 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:

Airdrop players, where should they go?

Quick overview of this article:

1. ETH airdrops recede, the myth of swindling money ends
2. Base/Sui/Bera takes over and becomes the new main battlefield
3. Emerging blockchain projects: Strong financing and familiar gameplay
4. Featured project recommendations + low threshold gameplay
5. Airdrops ≠ Diligence, it’s 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. 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 week's 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 worthless when it comes to airdrops in the future."

However, by 2025, Jason had been away from the cryptocurrency industry for almost a year. "I didn't 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 didn't 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)

2/5 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 swiping coins have disappeared from X platforms, and even the once-powerful swiping KOLs have transformed. In 2025, the well-known airdrop blogger Ice Frog @Ice_Frog666666 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 was good as an example, among the 14 projects launched, the proportion of ETH ecosystem native projects was almost zero. Most public chain projects chose to directly launch the mainnet and airdrop tokens, while other projects chose @base with lower gas costs and greater exchange support.

Or emerging chains like @BNBCHAIN.

Compared with the grand occasion when ETH was at its peak in 2021, the current ETH ecosystem is completely different. As ETH's gas fee gradually dropped from tens of dollars to a few dollars, and even fell below $1, the number of projects announced to be launched on the ETH mainnet has not increased, but has become fewer and fewer. The reasons may include @solana becoming a paradise for new players, or BNB Chain becoming a token of investment for project parties 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.

3/5 The real "big 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. 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 include 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 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.

4/5 Migrate from Ethereum and head 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" 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 this is a different time. The market has gradually cooled down, and the airdrop track has also been fully rolled inward. Today, 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, @SuiNetwork

@berachain 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 protocols: @KodiakFi, @InfraredFinance, @beraborrow, @GummiFi, etc.;

• The most popular protocols on Sui: @HaedalProtocol, @AftermathFi, etc.

5/5 Choice is more important than effort, be a friend of 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 stage 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.