Once upon a time, the ETH main network was an airdrop gold mine, but by 2025, Damao's route had already quietly turned - Base, BNB, Sui, Berachain, which became synonyms for the New World.

We disassembled the logic behind this trend and tried to answer a question: Where should airdrop players go?

Quickly review of the content of this article:

ETH airdrops are gone, and the myth of hair-pulling ends

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

Emerging chain projects: strong financing and familiar gameplay

Selected project recommendations + low threshold gameplay

Airdrop ≠ diligence, and more in direction

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

"The higher the Gas, the more expensive the fish!"

Jason is a newcomer who entered the circle in 2022. He 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 awesome investment background. It must be a big fur! The GAS that is burned out now is completely worth mentioning when it is airdropped in the future."

However, by 2025, Jason has been out of the currency circle for almost a year. "I didn't make any money at all. Zksync and LayerZero's accounts were all judged as witches. They also spent money to buy them with fingerprint browsers and independent IPs. In the end, I didn't know what went wrong, so I could 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. What caught his eye was the familiar routine: points, blind boxes, and experience value (XP)

How long has it been since you heard about the airdrop of the Ethereum ecosystem project?

Don't mention that those "myths" that make you rich by purging your hair have disappeared from the X platform, and even the powerful purging KOLs who were in power back then have transformed.

In 2025, the well-known airdrop blogger Ice Frog @Ice_Frog6666666 even successively defended his rights, including Kiloex, Corn and other projects, successfully opening up a new "rights protection person design". Taking airdrop projects in January 2025 during the better market conditions as an example, among the 14 projects launched, the proportion of ETH ecological native projects is almost zero.

Most public chain projects choose to directly launch the main network and airdrop tokens, while other projects choose emerging chains such as @base or @BNBCHAIN, which have lower Gas costs and greater support from exchanges.

Compare the grand occasion of ETH in 2021, but the ETH ecology today is very different. As ETH's Gas fee gradually dropped from dozens of dollars to several dollars, or even fell below $1, the number of projects announced to be online on the ETH main network has not increased, but has become less and less.

The reasons may include that @solana has become a paradise for new players, or that BNB Chain has become a voting call for project parties to log in to Binance, but the more important reason is that the innovation and development activity that the Ethereum ecosystem has been proud of in the past has gradually declined, and the community’s complaints about the Ethereum Foundation are becoming increasingly obvious.

The real "big hair" never asks the source, they just want to send you money

@WalrusProtocol is an airdrop project officially confirmed by Sui Network. After Binance announced its launch contract on March 28, it undoubtedly became the most dazzling airdrop star in the quarter. Walrus' airdrop standards are very simple. Even if they are just the most basic "Subsidy Liability Number", you can get about 15 times the profit by depositing a minimum of 0.1 Sui.

At first glance, Walrus is indeed not ordinary: the financing scale is as high as US$140 million, the valuation is US$2 billion, and the investors are even moreIt brings together top institutions such as Standard Crypto, a16z crypto fund, Electric Capital and Franklin Templeton Digital Assets division.

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

These projects have several obvious commonalities: the team worked hard, the currency price steadily rose and tried to break through historical highs.

Migrate from Ethereum to the new world where airdrops

In the business field, the blue ocean means a market full of opportunities and unsaturated competition, while the red ocean symbolizes an extremely fierce and even white-hot market. 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 rich airdrops on the ETH main network.

But one time and another, the market trend gradually turned cold, and the airdrop track has been fully inverted, and Ethereum has now become a red ocean. If you want to continue to obtain good airdrop returns, you have to board the new generation of "May Flower" and go to a foreign country to explore new territory.

Where is the new continent for airdrop players?

At present, @SuiNetwork and @berachain seem to give the answer. By carefully observing these two emerging public chain ecology, it is not difficult to find that they have the following common characteristics: 1. The project has a high valuation and large financing scale; 2. The native tokens of public chains have been listed on mainstream exchanges; 3. The public chain itself provides ecological incentives and has strong financial support; 4. Projects in the ecosystem have generally completed high-quality financing; 5. Following the traditional "low threshold, high return" gameplay of airdrops, mainly zero-race, test network, and simple pledge activities.

According to the best examples, we can follow these chains:

Berachain Ecological Core Protocol:

@KodiakFi, @InfraredFinance, @beraborrow, @GummiFi, etc.

Sui with popular protocols:

@HaedalProtocol, @AftermathFi, etc.

Choose more than hard work and be a cycle

The well-known crypto blogger @keyahayek commented on the power of cycles in this way: "People who can see through the essence of the market in one or two cycles and those who can't see the market clearly for the rest of their lives are destined to have completely different destinies."

In the cycle rhythm of the crypto market, project parties and players are experiencing ups and downs, hoping to gain wealth in the rising cycle, but often frequently step on the wrong rhythm in the rapidly changing market rhythm. However, projects that truly cross cycles can often stage a perfect "deep V" at the currency 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:

Wait patiently and enjoy the game.