Testnets Might Just Be Back

When I started airdrop hunting I started it with the intention that it’s totally free, you can make huge amount of money for free, without investing anything, just invest your time and you will reap the fruit of your labor. This motivated me into airdrop hunting, until!! Testnets started flopping, you invest all your time and energy in a project, they launch at a very ridiculous price. I remember a testnet platform called metatime, spent all my time and energy doing the testnet, after launch I was given $14 that was vested for some months. Lots of people got discouraged, I still did some of them, the ones I could do I did them. We went into a phase where retroactive airdrops were the ones paying.

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Retroactive means that it’s not free, you have to spend money, for bridging, swapping, minting etc. Some of them started paying until they stopped, starting with Starknet. I spent a lot of money doing Starknet retroactive airdrop but at the end I wasn’t eligible for any airdrop. Zeta is the only testnet airdrop that I felt was worth it because it was totally free to do. So while hunting airdrop I started watching out for airdrop tasks with less stress. The more the stress, the less the airdrop value, the less the stress the more the airdrop value.

This theory was right until recently some tasking airdrop started paying according to the effort and stress. The project that started it was movement, movement tasks were too much, they were a lot, the moment I saw those tasks I knew I wasn’t going to be there, so I skipped it. Xion was okay, the testnet tasks were okay. But these two projects launched at a very good price and gave their testnet users huge amount of airdrops. Now we are seeing a lot of testnet projects get attended to because who knows, they might just be back again.