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🎯 6-figures of free money

🎯 6-figures of free money

PLUS: Amazing NVIDIA rendering & new 3-week highs

Alex M.
May 30, 2023

GM to absolutely everyone. This is 2036, the crypto newsletter that pays you.

Here’s what we’re serving up today 🍲: if you a) are a relatively small investor and b) have some spare time, we’re gonna introduce you to the most underrated strategy to make money in crypto.

Let’s dig in.

🥔 Today’s meat and potatoes

Get smarter on crypto in 2 minutes

Before crypto existed, most of the value generated on the Internet went to the Big Tech firms - Facebook, Google, etc.

But now, thanks to crypto tokens, that value can accrue to the users of the network.

That’s because tokens exist. You can own the token of the network you use.

The more popular the network becomes, the more valuable your token becomes.

Imagining owning Facebook tokens from the moment you signed up in 2007.

You -

a) could have owned part of the value creation of the network

b) would have been more likely to tell your friends to use it

In crypto, projects rely on tokens to drive adoption, get liquidity, allow users to vote through decentralized governance, and reward their most active users.

And to get tokens into their users’ hands, projects typically:

sell them (on platforms like Uniswap or Coinbase)
airdrop them to their most active users directly

That’s right. Crypto projects will send their tokens directly to their users’ wallets i.e. airdrop them.

And no, you don’t have to pay for these tokens.

All you have to do is be an active user of the project - whether that’s a crypto game, an NFT project, etc.

And the good news is that the barriers to becoming an ‘active user’ are pretty low.

Typically, you’ll need to complete a handful of transactions on the network once in a while - sometimes every day, sometimes once a month.

Networks take into account the volume of transactions you’ve done on the network but also how long you’ve been doing it. Older wallets tend to get much bigger airdrops.

Okay - so how much are we talking about?

Some airdrops are small.

But some active users can rack up tens of thousands of dollars in airdrops every few months by a) being early to a project and b) being active.

Some people made over $20,000 in the ENS airdrop for just registering a bunch of domain names early.

And others made over 6-figures in the Arbitrum airdrop.

a.k.a if you don’t have a lot of money but are willing to play around in crypto with your time, you could make $$.

(Actually, two “super airdrop hunters” made over $1 million on Arbitrum each, but if we wrote that upfront, you probably wouldn’t have believed us).

If you’re interested, here are some good accounts to follow if you want information on upcoming airdrops:

And if you want us to make more content around upcoming airdrops that might be worth it, just reply to this email and let us know!

In the meantime, we wish you happy airdrop hunting 💨💧.