Where do airdrops come from? 3 keywords beginners should understand

In the community, people often say 'grab airdrops, interact, brush chains,' so what exactly is an airdrop?

An airdrop is essentially a way for project teams to attract attention and reward early users by distributing a portion of tokens for free to wallet addresses that meet certain criteria.

The common logic behind airdrops is roughly as follows:

You have genuinely used a particular chain or protocol

Completed some actions: transfers, transactions, providing liquidity, staking, etc.

The project team later takes a 'snapshot + scoring' based on your past behavior, and addresses that meet the criteria can claim tokens.

3 reminders for beginners:

1️⃣ Don't recklessly gamble just for 'grabbing airdrops'

Some projects may not distribute at all

Some projects may distribute, but the tokens have no liquidity

2️⃣ Pay attention to interaction costs and security

Gas fees and cross-chain bridge fees are real money

Be careful of fake websites, fake contracts, and fake 'airdrop claim entrances' Sumsub+1

3️⃣ Treat airdrops as 'handy rewards,' not your main business

The core is still to learn and truly understand what the protocol is doing

The deeper you understand, the easier it is to discern which ones are worth participating in and which are obviously fake.