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An airdrop is a distribution of free cryptocurrency tokens to wallet addresses. Projects use airdrops to reward early users, increase adoption, and decentralise their token supply across a community rather than selling it all to investors.

Use the protocol before it announces a token: bridge funds, swap, provide liquidity, or mint an NFT. Projects weight genuine, sustained activity over time more heavily than a single large transaction, and they filter out bot-like or duplicate wallets.

The tokens are free, but qualifying is not. Every on-chain interaction costs gas, and most farms pay nothing. Treat each interaction as a small bet, and budget a monthly cap on gas spending.

Never share your seed phrase, never sign a transaction you cannot explain, and remember that real airdrops appear in your wallet — never in a direct message. Eligibility checks are read-only; any site asking you to connect and sign to 'claim' is a red flag.

There is no single best exchange, but the right choice for a beginner is the one with deep liquidity on the pairs you want, a straightforward interface, and a fee you can afford at low volume. Binance and Bybit cover most needs because of their liquidity; MEXC and Gate.io offer far more pairs but carry delisting risk and thinner books on small caps. The referral code applies at registration and cannot be added later, so it is worth applying whichever you pick.

A referral code links your new account to a referrer, and the exchange records that permanently at the moment the account is created. The usual benefit is a discount on trading fees, with some platforms also offering a staged signup bonus. The critical detail is timing: the code must be present in the signup form before you submit it, because no exchange can attach a referrer to an account that already exists.

Major exchanges have not suffered a catastrophic loss of user funds of the kind that destroyed Mt. Gox or FTX, which is a meaningful baseline but not a guarantee. Most losses attributed to exchanges are actually phishing, malware, or a user approving a malicious contract rather than a breach. Two-factor authentication stops the first category; keeping only working capital on the platform and withdrawing the rest to a wallet you control removes most of the exposure.

Impermanent loss is the difference between holding a token and providing liquidity for it in an automated market maker pool. When the price of one side of the pair rises relative to the other, the pool rebalances by selling the winner and buying the loser, and you end up with less of the token that performed. It is called impermanent because it reverses if prices return, but it becomes permanent the moment you withdraw after a large divergence.

After a project takes a snapshot, the distribution typically takes weeks to a few months. The gap is announcement, then an eligibility check, then claim. Projects that run multiple seasons may release across rounds, so a single airdrop can arrive in instalments. Projects that never announce their token mean the tokens may never arrive, so treat a speculative programme as worth nothing until the token is distributed.

The seed phrase is the master key that generates every address and private key in a wallet. Whoever has it controls the funds, which is why it should never be typed into a website, sent in a message, or stored in cloud notes. Back it up on paper or steel, keep two copies in separate physical locations, and verify a restore from the backup before depositing anything meaningful.

In most countries yes, and the rules vary substantially by jurisdiction. Generally, disposing of crypto is a taxable event, disposals can offset gains against losses within the allowed period, and airdrops are usually treated as income at receipt with a cost basis equal to the value received. Rates and thresholds differ by country and change, so treat this as a general framework rather than advice, and check the specific rules where you are tax resident.

A rug pull is when a token team removes the liquidity backing the pair or drains the contract, leaving holders unable to sell. The signals are usually visible beforehand: a small number of wallets holding most of the supply, shallow liquidity relative to the headline valuation, an unlock schedule dumping supply soon, or a contract that gained transfer-restriction functions. Checking holder concentration and book depth rules out most of the worst cases in under a minute.

Referral attribution is written to the account at creation. Once the account exists, there is no setting and no support process that will attach a referrer afterwards. This is why creating the account first and hunting for a code field afterwards permanently loses the discount, and why applying a code costs nothing at registration while missing it costs money for the life of the account.

A maker order adds liquidity to the order book by resting as a limit order, and a taker order removes liquidity by filling immediately. Exchanges charge less for makers because they improve the book for everyone. The gap between the two rates is usually the largest fee saving available to a retail trader, so defaulting to limit orders where your strategy tolerates unfilled orders is often worth more than any referral discount.

It depends entirely on the network and the timing. On a Layer 2, an interaction can cost cents; on mainnet Ethereum at a busy period it can cost several dollars. Set a monthly gas budget and route interactions through cheap periods. The relevant number is not the cost per interaction but the total cost across every interaction before the snapshot, which is what determines whether farming was worth doing.

Not always, but it should make you ask where the yield comes from. A yield farm paying triple-digit APY is usually paying in an inflationary token whose price depends on new deposits continuing to arrive, which means later participants fund earlier ones. Where the source is visible on-chain as real trading fees, real borrowing demand or real staking rewards, a high rate can be legitimate. If you cannot point to the source, that is the answer.