2025 Airdrop Treasure List｜These 30+ Projects Are Worth Paying Attention To

Written by: KarenZ, Foresight News

Missed out on the generous airdrops from Hyperliquid, Magic Eden, Pudgy Penguins, and Fuel? Don't worry, and certainly don't be discouraged! This article carefully outlines 30 highly promising projects to help you find new airdrop opportunities.

pump.fun

In this cycle, pump.fun is undoubtedly a shining presence, with its revenue hitting new highs, total revenue reaching 1,595,278 SOL. During the X Space live stream in October 2024, pump.fun co-founder Sapijiju hinted at plans for future token issuance and airdrops, further igniting community expectations.

Interaction Strategy: Internal trading, utilizing various platform features.

Recommended Reading: 《 Is Pump.fun going to issue tokens? The studio has already opened the book 》

Phantom

Phantom has evolved from a Solana ecosystem wallet to one of the preferred multi-chain wallets for most users in the crypto space. Phantom's total funding has surpassed $118 million, with investors including Paradigm, a16z, and Solana Ventures.

Interaction Strategy: Experience the Phantom multi-chain wallet, exchange and purchase within the wallet.

Eclipse

Eclipse launched its public mainnet in November, with ecosystem projects including the prediction market Polymarket (launching in early December), the decentralized peer-to-peer cross-chain lending protocol EnsoFi, Renzo Protocol (via ezSOL), the Eclipse native NFT Launchpad Scope powered by Rarible, the native DeFi hub Astrol, and Orca. Eclipse has raised a total of $65 million, with investors including Placeholder, Hack VC, Polychain Capital, and Delphi Digital.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain assets at https://app.eclipse.xyz/bridge, exchange and provide liquidity on Orca, and interact with other ecosystem applications.

Recommended Reading: 《 Gold Mining Handbook ｜Eclipse Ecosystem Outlook and Airdrop Guide 》

Berachain

Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on a liquidity proof consensus, addressing liquidity issues in the DeFi space through a three-token model and liquidity proof (PoL) consensus mechanism, launching its public testnet bArtio B2 in June 2024. Berachain has raised over $140 million in total funding.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Berachain v2 Bartio testnet, explore ecosystem applications at https://bartio.faucet.berachain.com/#dapps.

Abstract

Abstract is a consumer-grade cryptocurrency blockchain built on the ZK Stack, achieving scalability by executing off-chain transactions, batching, and using ZK proofs to validate batch transactions on Ethereum. Abstract contributors include individuals who initiated or helped build Pudgy Penguins, Ethereum, Frame, and Kubernetes. The parent company of Pudgy Penguins, Igloo, oversees and participates in the development of Abstract as a contributor. Abstract has launched its testnet and will go live on the mainnet in January 2025.

Abstract launched its testnet in July 2024, previously planning to launch the mainnet by the end of 2025. The parent company of Pudgy Penguins, Igloo, previously stated that Pudgy Penguins would first launch on Solana, followed by Ethereum and Abstract.

Interaction Strategy: Join the waitlist to receive the Early Bird badge, hold Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, cross-chain , transfer testing, and continuously hold PENGU for airdrops.

MegaETH

MegaETH aims to create a real-time blockchain, claiming to process 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond response times. In June, MegaETH developer MegaLabs announced the completion of a $20 million seed round led by Dragonfly, with support from Vitalik Buterin, Consensys founder Joseph Lubin, EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan, and others.

MegaETH has not yet launched its testnet, but currently, you can follow stablecoin projects like CAP Labs and trading trend platforms like Noise.

Recommended Reading: 《 What is MegaETH, which gained overnight popularity with Vitalik's favor? 》

SOON

Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) is currently focusing on two main directions. First is SOON Stack, a modular Rollup framework that combines SVM and OP Stack, allowing any SVM L2 to be deployed on L1 (such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos). Chains deployed using SOON Stack are referred to as SOON Chains. Secondly, SOON plans to collaborate with EVM RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service) providers like Caldera, AltLayer, and Conduit, aiming to seamlessly integrate SVM RaaS into their service systems to simplify user deployment processes.

On August 27, SOON completed a Co-Builder round of financing, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (toly), Solana Foundation chair Lily Liu, and Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam.

Interaction Strategy: Testnet cross-chain , interactions (lending protocol EnsoFi, etc.)

Recommended Reading: 《 Toly's Favorite: SOON Unlocks the Ultimate L2 Rollup Stack for All L1? 》

Story Protocol

Story Protocol is an on-chain IP protocol. Story Protocol has raised over $140 million, with investors including a16z Crypto, Polychain, and Foresight Venture.

Story Protocol launched its final testnet Odyssey in November. Story has previously made it clear that they firmly oppose behaviors such as farmers (score manipulators), witch attacks, and automated activities, which will not receive any rewards. Instead, they place greater importance on genuine feedback from real community members on real issues.

Story Protocol has concluded the Odyssey event, and the testnet is still interactive.

Monad

Monad is an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that enhances throughput through MonadBFT, delayed execution, parallel execution, and the MonadDb database. A novel aspect is the separation of execution and consensus, adopting a pipelined consensus execution hierarchical mechanism. Monad completed a $225 million funding round in April 2024, led by Paradigm.

Interaction Strategy: Monad Discord roles, hold Pythenian NFT (purchased by Monad co-founders), stake ecosystem tokens (such as W or PYTH), try playing the Monad ecosystem Sparkball game, and explore other projects in the Monad ecosystem.

Recommended Reading: 《 Quick Overview of "Jump Gang" Monad Labs: The Ultimate EVM Solution? 》

《 Sneak Peek at the Monad Ecosystem Landscape 》

Nillion

Nillion can be understood as a decentralized secure computing network aimed at building an encrypted network for high-value data during storage, transmission, and computation, solving the current problem of needing to "decrypt - compute - re-encrypt" during encrypted data computation. Nillion completed a $20 million seed round at a valuation of $180 million in December 2022, led by Distributed Global. In October 2024, Nillion completed a $25 million funding round, led by Hack VC.

Interaction Strategy: Blind computing staking , verification nodes . On December 11, Nillion announced the official conclusion of the Nillion Verifier program, with TGE expected in the first half of 2025.

Recommended Reading: 《 Founded by Uber engineers, what innovations does the "Blind Computing" network Nillion bring? 》

Solayer

Solayer, as a new star project in Solana's restaking, announced the completion of a builder round of financing on July 2, 2024, with investors including Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Solend founder Rooter, Tensor co-founder Richard Wu, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. In December, Solayer created an official foundation Twitter account.

Interaction Strategy: Restaking

Recommended Reading: 《 Quick Overview of Solana's New Star Project Solayer 》

ink

ink is an L2 network launched by the American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken based on Optimism Superchain, which has launched its testnet in November 2024. The ink documentation hints at the decentralization of the superchain's sequencer, and the mainnet has been launched.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain , explore the ink network ecosystem .

Babylon

Babylon is a leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing Bitcoin holders to stake their Bitcoin on proof-of-stake (PoS) systems (such as PoS chains, L2, data availability (DA) layers, etc.) and earn rewards. Babylon has raised nearly $100 million, with investors including Paradigm, Binance Labs, and Polychain.

In May 2024, it completed a $70 million funding round, led by Paradigm, with participation from Polychain Capital and the venture capital arm of cryptocurrency exchange Bullish.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in Babylon Cap-3 to stake BTC, join the Babylon Odyssey event.

Solv Protocol

Solv Protocol is also a leading staking protocol in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with total funding reaching $25 million, with investors including Solv Protocol, OKX Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Nomura Securities.

Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin or wrap Bitcoin, participate in points activities .

AO

The Arweave computing network AO mainnet will launch on February 8, 2025. Currently, 33.3% of AO minted new tokens are proportionally allocated to AR holders, and 66.6% of AO tokens will be distributed to users who cross-chain assets to AO. AO has supported deposits of stETH to earn token rewards.

Interaction Strategy: Hold AR (preferably on-chain), cross-chain stETH.

Farcaster

Farcaster is currently the most active Web3 social project, recently making a comeback through AI agents. In June 2024, a source who requested anonymity due to business constraints told Fortune magazine that, like most protocols, he expects Farcaster to launch a token, and investors will be eager to capture its fully diluted value.

Interaction Strategy: Post, experience different clients

Polymarket

The prediction market Polymarket has experienced explosive growth since early 2024 and has shown considerable resilience after the election.

Interaction Strategy: Predict

Perennial

Perennial is a derivatives protocol based on Arbitrum, which completed a $12 million funding round in October 2022, led by Polychain Capital and Variant, with participation from Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, and others.

In December 2024, Perennial launched an intent layer, enabling traders to execute and obtain deep liquidity from on-chain and off-chain venues instantly. Specifically, traders specify the exact price at which they want to execute trades, whether market or limit orders; Solvers act as market makers, executing and automatically settling into the AMM. Meanwhile, Perennial also launched the Perennial Petals program, which will reward loyal participants, new users, and early adopters (mainly related to trading volume).

Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Perennial Petals program.

daos.fun

daos.fun is a platform founded by @baoskee and supported by Alliance DAO. The main function of this platform is to help fund managers and creators raise funds so they can establish their own DAOs and invest in memes on behalf of token holders. daos.fun has not explicitly or implicitly indicated plans to issue tokens.

Interaction Strategy: Trading

Pump Science

Pump Science is built on Pump.fun. Pump Science is a low-barrier research experiment and fundraising platform. On pump.science, anyone, including drug developers and scientists, can submit longevity and health ideas, drug strategies, and raise funds for their experiments, while others can bet on which interventions will extend the lifespan of different model organisms being tested, supporting promising ideas. Currently, there are only two experiments on Pump Science, Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO).

According to the pump.science roadmap, mouse experiments using Rifampicin (RIF) and Urolithin A (URO) will take place on January 25, 2025, with a new compound launch in collaboration with VitaDAO on February 25, 2025.

Pump Science has not explicitly or implicitly indicated plans to issue tokens, but some community members speculate that Pump Science will issue a platform token.

Interaction Strategy: Trading

Soneium

Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony's blockchain division, Sony Block Solutions Labs, which has launched its public testnet Minato and developer incubation program Spark in August 2024.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain , explore the Soneium ecosystem 。

Nexus

Nexus envisions building an internet based on verifiable computing, connecting computing devices (such as large GPU farms, computers, mobile phones, etc.) scattered around the world to form a supercomputer. By utilizing Nexus zkVM, Nexus connects computing supply with proof demand, allowing anyone to connect their devices to the network, not only participating in computing but also earning corresponding rewards.

Interaction Strategy: The new Nexus testnet has concluded, and you can follow up on subsequent testnet deployment.

Recommended Reading: 《 Quick Read on Supercomputer Nexus: How Does It Work? How to Participate? 》

BOB

BOB stands for "Build on Bitcoin," a technology stack aimed at supporting Bitcoin DeFi innovation and ecosystem development, inheriting Bitcoin's PoW security, supporting Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr, and being fully compatible with EVM.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in BOB Fusion's final season to earn Spice points, including maximizing Spice by depositing assets into various DeFi applications on BOB, voting with Spice, and referrals.

Perena

Perena is a stablecoin infrastructure protocol in the Solana ecosystem, completing a Pre-Seed round of financing in December, led by Borderless, with participation from Binance Labs.

Interaction Strategy: Engage in trading between stablecoins and forming LP to earn Petal points.

Recommended Reading: 《 Binance invests in a new project, is Perena worth participating in? 》

Lombard

Lombard is a Bitcoin LST protocol that completed a $16 million seed round in July 2024, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, and others. In October 2024, Lombard also received investment from Binance Labs.

Interaction Strategy: Stake Bitcoin, cbBTC, BTCB for LBTC, and deposit LBTC, WBTC, or cbBTC assets into the Lombard DeFi Vault (automated yield management solution).

ZERϴ Network

ZERϴ Network is an L2 network launched by the Web3 wallet Zerion based on ZKsync.

Interaction Strategy: Participate in the Zerion rewards program to earn XP, which measures user activity in Zerion and unlocks new rewards; complete quests ; explore the ZERO Network ecosystem .

Kaito AI

Kaito AI is an AI cryptocurrency search engine that launched the Yaps points program in December 2024.

Interaction Strategy: Connect Twitter to create an account, post crypto-related tweets, and invite referrals.

DAWN

DAWN is a decentralized autonomous wireless network within a physical resource network, utilizing point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless technology to enable nodes to efficiently communicate directly with multiple nodes. DAWN previously completed a $18 million funding round in August 2024, led by Dragonfly. Subsequently, in December, VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha fund and VanEck Ventures invested $2.5 million in DAWN through strategic financing.

Recommended Reading: 《 DAWN: Dragonfly Leads $18 Million, New Force Added to Solana DePIN 》

Interaction Strategy: Download the browser extension to act as a verification node and earn early points rewards.

Reddio

Reddio is a parallel EVM Layer2 supported by GPUs for autonomous AI. Reddio completed a seed round of financing in August 2024 (led by Paradigm and Arena Holdings) and is about to announce its Series A funding. Reddio has launched its public testnet.

Interaction Strategy: Cross-chain and explore the Reddio ecosystem 。

Paradex

Paradex is a decentralized perpetual derivatives Layer2 application chain incubated on Starknet by the cryptocurrency liquidity platform Paradigm (not the venture capital Paradigm), planning to allocate 20% of tokens for the genesis airdrop. This airdrop spans multiple XP seasons, including the first season from February 1, 2024, to January 2, 2025, and the second season from January 3 to July 31, 2025, with token distribution planned at the end of the second season.

Interaction Strategy: Trading.

ZORA

ZORA is an art minting platform that has also launched the L2 network Zora Network based on OP Stack. ZORA has raised a total of $60 million, with investors including Haun Ventures and Coinbase Ventures. With the increasing anticipation of OpenSea's token issuance, whether ZORA will follow suit and issue its own token has become a hot topic. However, some users have also criticized ZORA as the "PUA airdrop king."

Interaction Strategy: Create a ZORA account, mint NFTs, and explore the Zora Network ecosystem.

Virtual Ecosystem Airdrops

Platforms like the Virtual ecosystem AI music agent MUSIC have previously issued airdrops to users of the Virtual Protocol. It is expected that in 2025, as AI agents continue to thrive, more AI agents launching on Virtual may issue airdrops to users of the Virtual ecosystem.

Interaction Strategy: Trade on Virtual and hold more than three types of AI agent tokens.