Hot take: if you can write Solidity (or Sway, or Move), you have a massive unfair advantage in airdrop farming that most people don't realize.
Here's why: every airdrop scoring system weights "developer activity" heavily. Deploying contracts, creating verified code, running validators - these activities get 5-10x the allocation of simple swaps and bridges.
The Starknet airdrop proved this. Developers who deployed contracts got 3-5x more tokens than users who just did bridge + swap loops. Same pattern with zkSync.
Found a guide that specifically breaks down which of the current 8 airdrop opportunities reward developer activity:
- Monad: "Deploy at least 2 smart contracts using Remix" - testnet, free, massive valuation ($3B) - Fuel Network: "Deploy a Sway smart contract" - unique VM, very few devs farming this - MegaETH: "Apply for builder program, deploy demo app" - pre-launch, builders get priority - Initia: "Deploy on testnet if you have Solidity/Move experience" - bonus for devs
If you can write a basic ERC20 or NFT contract, you can farm 4 of the 8 drops with developer-tier allocation. Most farmers are doing the same swap-bridge-LP loop because they can't code.
$3 for the full guide with exact steps. I've already started on Monad and Fuel based on it.
Link: https://hokedev.gumroad.com/l/inwplz
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