The term ‘airdrop farmer’ is commonly associated with being successful at airdrops, but I’d like to caution you against adopting the farming approach.

Projects are clamping down hard on Sybil farms that “extract value from the community” (as quoted by ZKsync).

Farming a protocol to get an airdrop is no longer an effective strategy.

I explained why farming airdrops is the wrong approach here.

Transaction count and volume are not enough to qualify for an airdrop.

Many protocols available like Dmail, Carv, or SecondLive allowed wallets to spam transactions on different L2s, but this strategy no longer works.

Your quantity of transactions no longer matters.

This can be exploited by industrial Sybils who use complex scripts to bump up their metrics on airdrop tools.

(Which are unofficial and are poor indicators of the project’s airdrop criteria)

That’s why the Arbitrum playbook no longer works (and I explained why ZKsync didn’t use this criterion here)

Instead, quality matters.

Having high-quality transactions is a characteristic of an organic user. And quoting ZKsync:

“Organic users are likely to be valuable members of a community.”

ZKsync listed its definition of an organic user in this blog post:

• Risk-on
• Try new protocols
• Hold speculative assets

Let’s take a look at two wallets that took part in the ZKsync airdrop:

Wallet A

• 1,200 transactions