Airdrop farming: what still works
Airdrop farming is using protocols that don't have a token yet, betting that early activity gets rewarded retroactively. The bet has paid off many times: people who simply swapped on Jupiter or staked with Jito before their tokens existed received allocations worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. But the easy version of farming died with sybil filtering, and what's left rewards patience more than volume tricks.
What the successful drops rewarded
Look at the criteria of past Solana drops and a pattern shows up. Jito required points earned over months of staking. deBridge counted distinct days of use, not volume. Kamino ran an open points season with published multipliers. Drift weighted long-term trading activity. The consistent winners were wallets that used one product repeatedly over a long window, which is exactly what a real user looks like.
What gets you filtered
Sybil detection has become standard since 2024. Running many wallets funded from one source, doing the minimum qualifying action once per wallet, or moving the same funds in circles are the patterns teams cluster and cut before distribution. The wallets lose everything, including activity that would have qualified honestly in one wallet.
A sane farming routine
Pick a small number of credible protocols without tokens, use them for things you'd plausibly do anyway, and spread the activity over months. Prioritize protocols with open points programs, since those publish the score you're accumulating. Keep costs below what a reasonable allocation would repay. Our upcoming airdrops page tracks which Solana points programs are live and what their published criteria are.
Track what you've already earned
Farmers forget their own history. If you were active on Solana through 2023-2025 you may have unclaimed allocations sitting in closed or open claim windows. Paste your address into Airdropped.link to check every drop in the directory at once.