Airdrop Weekly Report | ZKsync opens the second wave of ZK token claims; Degen and Phantom interaction tasks will end ne

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Author: Golem ( @web3_golem )

Odaily Planet Daily has reviewed the airdrop projects that can be claimed from June 24 to June 30 (as shown below), and also sorted out and introduced the interactive projects/tasks that were added last week. For detailed information, see the text.

Blast

Project and air investment qualification introduction

Blast is an EVM-compatible OP rollup. Users can earn additional Blast rewards by depositing assets into Blast. The Blast Foundation announced on June 25 that it will airdrop to the community on June 26. The total supply of BLAST is 100 billion, 50% of which will be airdropped to the community, with an initial airdrop of 17 billion. At the same time, the top 0.1% of users will linearly vest part of the airdrop within 6 months, and Blur traders and token holders will also receive part of the airdrop.

Financing

Blast completed a $20 million financing on November 21, 2023, with participation from Paradigm, Standard Crypto, eGirl Capital, Manifold Trading, Andrew Kang, Hasu, Larry Cermak and others.

Application deadline and link

Application period: June 16, 2024 to July 16, 2024

Link: https://blast.io/en/airdrop

price

According to Coingecko data, the current price of BLAST is $0.022.

ZKsync

Project and air investment qualification introduction

ZKsync is an L2 network developed by Matter Labs using zero-knowledge proof technology. The project announced on June 24 that the second wave of ZK token claims is now online. Members of the Protocol Guild, contributors to external projects, or users nominated by ZKsync native ecosystem projects can check their airdrop eligibility. This claim accounts for 1.91% of the total airdrop.

Financing

ZKsync has raised a total of $258 million. On September 29, 2019, it completed a $2 million seed round of financing, led by Placeholder, with participation from Dragonfly, 1kx, etc.; on March 1, 2021, it completed a $6 million Series A financing, led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, etc.; on November 8, 2021, it completed a $50 million Series B financing, led by a16z, with participation from Dragonfly, Placeholder, and OKX Ventures; on November 16, 2022, it completed a $200 million Series C financing, led by Dragonfly and Blockchain Capital, with participation from a16z, Lightspeed Venture, and Variant Fund.

Application deadline and link

Application period: June 24, 2024 to January 3, 2025

Link: https://claim.zknation.io/

price

According to Coingecko data, the current price of ZK is $0.178.

NFTfi

Project and air investment qualification introduction

NFTfi is a peer-to-peer NFT lending protocol. On June 24, the NFTfi Foundation announced that the Earn Season 3 airdrop has been launched, with a total of 30 million NFTFIs issued. Users who repay the loans of the first three Earn Seasons during Earn Season 3 are eligible to receive the airdrop.

Tokens that are not claimed after the deadline will be returned to the NFTfi Foundation Treasury. At the same time, users can immediately unstake their NFTFI after receiving them, or keep staking to maintain the Earn Season 4 staking multiplier.

Financing

NFTfi has raised a total of $11.89 million. On February 26, 2021, it completed a financing of $890,000, with participation from CoinFund, 1kx, Animoca Brands, etc.; on November 16, 2021, it completed a seed round of financing of $5 million, with participation from SkyVision Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Galaxy Digital, Sound Ventures, etc.; on March 11, 2024, it completed a $6 million Series A 1 financing, led by Placeholder, with participation from Maven 11, Cypher Capital, Punk DAO, The LAO, etc.

Application deadline and link

Application period: June 24, 2024 to August 5, 2024

Link: https://nftfifoundation.org/

price

According to Coingecko data, the current price of NFTFI is $0.00399.

Aevo

Project and air investment qualification introduction

Aevo is a decentralized derivatives trading platform. On June 24, the project announced the launch of the second airdrop project in cooperation with Aevo, which will airdrop a total of 666,666 AZUR to Aevo stakers and pre-market traders. Eligible wallets need to have ETH on the Ethereum mainnet to receive the airdrop.

Aevo Airdrops is an airdrop activity for AEVO stakers and pre-market traders. Currently, ZERO and AZUR airdrops have been carried out, and subsequent airdrops have been announced including SWELL, ORDER, BLUE and MOCA.

Financing

Aevo has raised a total of $10.6 million. On April 13, 2021, it completed a $1.85 million seed round of financing, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Nascent, Alliance DAO, etc. On March 22, 2022, it completed an $8.75 million Series A 1 round of financing, led by Paradigm. Subsequently, Aevo received investments from Pantera Capital and Binance Labs on March 14 and May 21, 2024, respectively, with undisclosed amounts.

Application deadline and link

Application period: June 25, 2024 to present

Link: https://app.aevo.xyz/airdrops

price

According to Coingecko data, the current price of AZUR is $0.083.

Merlin Chain

Project and air investment qualification introduction

Merlin Chain is a Bitcoin L2. The project announced on June 28 that the third phase of the MERL airdrop has been distributed. 20% of the MERL tokens will be airdropped to users who participate in the staking program. These tokens will be airdropped monthly in the ratio of 50% /25% /12.5% /6.25% /3.125% /3.125%.

Financing

Merlin Chain completed two rounds of financing on February 5 and April 17, 2024. The amount was not disclosed. The second round of financing was valued at US$800 million. It was led by Spartan Group and Hailstone Labs, and participated by Amber Group, IOBC Capital, and Presto.

Application deadline and link

Application period: June 28, 2024 to present

Link: https://airdrop.merlinchain.io/

price

According to Coingecko data, the current price of MERL is $0.3.

Zeta Markets

Project and air investment qualification introduction

Zeta Markets is a perpetual cryptocurrency exchange on Solana. The project announced the opening of airdrop inquiries last week on June 20, with a snapshot date of June 7. The initial ZEX airdrop accounted for 8% of the total supply, 7% was allocated based on the total Z score of users at the time of the snapshot, and the remaining 1% was allocated to community partners activity participants. However, the minimum Z score required to obtain the airdrop is 500, and the airdrop qualification also introduced loyalty multipliers and activity multipliers. The early supporters of the project are allocated airdrops based on the trading volume of users trading on Zetas Perps product, not based on Z scores.

Financing

Zeta Markets has raised a total of $13.5 million. On December 8, 2021, it completed a strategic financing of $8.5 million, led by Jump Capital, with participation from Electric Capital, Wintermute, Amber Group, Solana Ventures, etc.; on May 14, 2024, it completed another strategic financing of $5 million, led by Electric Capital, with participation from Digital Asset Capital Management, Selini Capital, AirTree Ventures, etc.

Application deadline and link

Application period: June 27, 2024 to September 25, 2024

Link: https://token.zeta.markets/

price

According to Coingecko data, the current price of ZEX is $0.117.

Added new interactive items/tasks

Blur: Launches Season 4 Rewards and Loyalty Program

Blur completed an $11 million seed round of financing on March 28, 2022, led by Paradigm.

Blur.io announced the launch of the fourth season of the rewards and loyalty program . This season is powered by the full-stack chain Blast, with a total of 500 million BLAST tokens allocated, and the program will last until June 2025. Users earn points by bidding, placing orders, and borrowing on BLUR.io. The fourth season will allocate $1 billion BLAST to BLUR token holders, requiring the community to hold tokens directly to participate in future governance proposals.

Phantom: Free Ordinal NFT minting, deadline tomorrow

Phantoms total financing amount reached US$118 million. On July 14, 2021, it completed a US$9 million Series A financing, led by a16z and participated by Variant Fund and others; on February 1, 2022, it completed a US$109 million Series B financing, with participation from a16z, Paradigm, Variant Fund, Solana Ventures and others.

On June 28, Phantom announced the launch of the Ordinals NFT series Forever Bullish on the Bitcoin chain. The minting is free and users only need to pay the handling fee. At the same time, this series of NFTs is limited in time but not in quantity. The minting will end on July 2. The community speculates that this minting may mean that Phantom is entering the Bitcoin ecosystem and may involve future airdrops.

Link: https://gamma.io/ordinals/collections/forever-bullish

ALIENX: Launch of the 3-week Mainnet Genesis Voyage Airdrop

ALIENX has completed a total financing of US$17 million, with participation from OKX Ventures, C虏 Ventures, Next Leader Capital and others.

The AI node application chain ALIENX mainnet is launched and the 3-week Mainnet Genesis Voyage airdrop event is launched. Users who participate in the mainnet cross-chain, DEX, NFT transactions and staking can obtain interstellar NFTs. Those who hold NFTs will be eligible for AIX token airdrops, and those who collect the full series of NFTs can share an additional 5 million AIX tokens.

Owlto Finance: Blast cross-chain mission, brand name airdrops

Owlto Finance has completed a strategic financing of US$8 million on May 8, 2024, led by Bixin Ventures and CE Innovation Capital.

The cross-chain interoperability protocol Owlto Finance has launched the Blast cross-chain task . Through Owlto, you can get extra Owlto points by crossing assets from any of more than 30 networks to Blast. Owlto Finance has recently announced the Q3 snapshot and the airdrop.

Degen: Airdrop 2 Season 5 extended to July 4

Degen completed a $1.5 million angel round of financing on February 20, 2024, led by 1confirmation.

Farcaster ecosystem Meme coin Degen announced that the second round of airdrop Airdrop 2 Season 5 will be extended to July 4, and the sixth season will be launched on July 4.

Zentry: Stake stZENT again to receive $SOPH airdrop

Zentry completed a $6 million seed round of financing on November 11, 2021; it conducted an IDO on December 5, 2021, raising $130 million.

Zentry recently announced that starting at 15:00 UTC on June 25, 2024, ZENT stakers can re-stake their stZENT on the Sophon mainnet to earn Sophon Points (SP), making them eligible for future $SOPH airdrops. 10% of the total $SOPH supply will be used for re-staking rewards: 6% on Ethereum and 4% on Sophon mainnet.

Rainbow: Airdrop ETH to active users every week

Rainbows total financing amount reached US$19.5 million. It completed a US$1.5 million seed round of financing in May 2021 and a US$18 million Series A financing on February 15, 2022.

Web3 wallet Rainbow announced the launch of the Rainbow ETH Rewards Program, which will airdrop ETH to active Rainbow users every week, and plans to airdrop ETH rewards to more users in the future. To receive the Rainbow ETH rewards, users must first accumulate at least 10,000 Rainbow points; to receive the weekly airdrop, they need to be among the top 1,000 active Rainbow users based on the number of points earned in the previous week. Users can check their personal rankings at any time in the Rewards tab. The higher the ranking, the more ETH they will receive.

Users can claim ETH rewards on any Superchain network supported by Rainbow (Base, Zora, and Optimism), and the official will bear the Gas fees.

BloodLoop: Launching Season 1 of Play-to-Airdrop

BloodLoop game developer 7 Digital Labs has completed a $4 million seed round of financing, with participation from Avalanche Foundation, Merit Circle and Citizen Capital.

The Avalanche-based shooter BloodLoop is now available on the Epic Games Store for PC, along with the launch of the first season of play-to-airdrop . Players can now log in to BloodLoop to complete daily and weekly tasks to earn points. Players can obtain corresponding levels through these points, and at the end of the event, the level will be associated with the players airdrop amount. BloodLoops servers will be online from 10 am to 3 pm and 7 pm to 0 pm (UTC time) every day until June 30. (Decrypt)

Nifty Island: The final round of airdrop activity Wave 3 is now online

Nifty Island completed a $20 million financing on October 21, 2021.

Ethereum blockchain game Nifty Island announced that the final round of airdrop activities Wave 3 has been launched. Participants in the game can obtain ISLAND tokens. It is reported that this round of airdrops will provide 40% of the total token supply. The percentage allocated to P2A will be finalized based on the data collected from Wave 3.

This article is sourced from the internet: Airdrop Weekly Report | ZKsync opens the second wave of ZK token claims; Degen and Phantom interaction tasks will end next week (June 24-June 30)

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