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Most “best airdrops” lists rank projects by how much hype they carry. This one ranks them by what the team has actually committed to and what it costs you to qualify.
Everything below is farmable today. Each entry says whether the token is confirmed or still speculative, what the points program actually measures, and where the real cost sits. Where a program has a deadline or a cap in sight, the date is in the entry.
Points are not tokens, and almost every program below says exactly that in its own documentation. A confirmed allocation with no published formula is still a guess about your share, just a better informed one.
Arcus, the one with a confirmed token and no formula yet
SPECULATIVE on size, confirmed on existence.
dYdX Foundation CEO Charles d’Haussy has confirmed Arcus will launch a token. What has not been published: allocation percentages, distribution mechanics, or a launch date.
Activity splits two ways. Spot trading is live at 0% fees, and the perps waitlist is open. Waitlist position is weighted by referrals and by prior perps volume elsewhere, counting dYdX v3, Hyperliquid and Lighter, plus RWA volume through HIP-3, Cash and TradeXYZ.
The recent change worth knowing: Arcus now counts Lighter trading volume toward your perps waitlist rank automatically. Anyone with prior Lighter activity already moved up without doing anything.
Cost to farm: low. Signing up and climbing the waitlist costs nothing beyond trading you may already be doing.
Variational, the largest confirmed community share on this list
SPECULATIVE on timing, confirmed on allocation.
Variational has confirmed 50% of VAR supply goes to the community. That is the largest committed share of any project here, and the points program has been running since 17 December 2025.
What it measures: cumulative trading volume on the Omni platform, plus referrals. Swap volume currently earns double points, and swaps went live on 1 September 2026. XAU, US100 and US500 markets are open with zero fees and up to 10x leverage.
The friction is real. Omni is in private beta, so you need a whitelisted address or a referral code from the official Discord before you can create an account at all.
Cost to farm: medium. Access gate first, then trading volume.
RISEx, weekly points with weightings nobody publishes
SPECULATIVE. No token announced.
RISEx has not announced a token, and the guide says so plainly. What the team has said is that the points program is a step toward future distribution, and that 100% of RISE Points go to users: traders, LPs and builder code integrators.
Season 1: Ignite went live 20 July 2026. Every Tuesday a 200,000 point pool settles, split by your share of qualifying activity across maker and taker volume, fees paid, slippage, open interest, and how long you hold positions.
The weightings change weekly and are never published. That is deliberate, and it is the most interesting design detail on this list, because it makes wash trading unreliable as a strategy.
Cost to farm: medium. Weekly consistency matters more than size here.
Extended, the one with a visible finish line
SPECULATIVE on conversion, confirmed on intent.
Extended has said roughly 30% of future EXT supply is set aside for the early community. Its own documentation describes points as program units with no guaranteed entitlement to tokens, which is worth reading twice.
The number that makes this urgent: Extended’s docs listed 67,225,227 points distributed as of 8 September 2026, against a 70 million cap. Under 3 million points remain before the program hits its ceiling.
Weekly payouts have already stepped down from 1.2 million to 600,000 as the cap approaches. Points linked to wash trading, self-referrals and multi-account abuse get removed, so what counts is what survives slashing.
Cost to farm: medium, and the window is closing.
Axis Robotics, a task farm rather than a trading farm
SPECULATIVE. Points carry no claim right.
Axis has not confirmed a token. The official docs say Points will be one input into a planned Community Contributor Airdrop, with eligibility, allocation and timing published before any claim event.
This one is different from everything else here because it is free. Five factors set your total: how many valid tasks you complete, their difficulty tier, the quality score of each submission, how widely tasks spread across scenarios and skills, and the output of contributors you invite.
Points settle in two-week epochs, each closing Friday at 00:00 UTC with points landing the following Monday at 12:00 UTC. Totals never reset or expire. Only submissions signed on-chain count.
Tier minimums are published: 100 trajectories for X Axis, 300 for Y Axis, 600 for Z Axis.
Cost to farm: time only, no capital.
BULK, confirmed 30% and an invite wall
SPECULATIVE on formula, confirmed on allocation.
BULK’s co-founder confirmed on X that 30% of supply goes to users through the airdrop. Eligibility criteria, a snapshot date and a points-to-token formula are all unpublished.
Mainnet launched 5 September 2026, which closed the Season 1 pre-deposit campaign. Access is now invite-only: you need an access code from an existing user, or a wallet that took part in the pre-deposit. USDC held through to launch is already usable as trading margin, and SOL staking through BULK pays 5.1% APY.
Cost to farm: high friction. If you missed the pre-deposit, you need someone to let you in.
Nado, live rewards you can claim this week
CONFIRMED on rewards, speculative on token conversion.
Nado runs a weekly trader reward pool worth $100,000, claimable from the Rewards page in the app. Last week’s pool is claimable now and a new round has started.
The platform supports xStocks for spot trading and as collateral, with AAPLx, METAx, GOOGLx, TSLAx and NVDAx live and usable to back positions.
Nado also opened a 48-hour window for usernames tied to a Templars of the Storm NFT draw, limited to accounts older than 7 days with at least $200,000 in 30-day volume. Restricted persons are excluded and Nado’s terms apply.
Cost to farm: you need ETH for Ink gas and USDT0 to trade.
Polymarket, the confirmation everyone quotes
SPECULATIVE on everything except existence.
Polymarket’s CMO Matthew Modabber said it directly on the Degenz Live podcast: “There will be a token, there will be an airdrop.” Nothing else is official. No eligibility criteria, no allocation, no date.
The team has said the token launch follows the completion of its US relaunch, putting regulatory readiness ahead of speed.
Community speculation points at trading volume, market diversity, reinvested winnings and linked social accounts. Polymarket has encouraged users to link X accounts, which may factor into eligibility. Treat that as informed guessing, because it is.
Cost to farm: whatever you were going to bet anyway.
Hyperliquid Season 2, the quiet one
SPECULATIVE. No Season 2 date announced.
Hyperliquid has never telegraphed snapshot timing, and the Genesis Event stayed quiet until it was not. There is no announced Season 2.
What is known: 38.888% of total HYPE supply is reserved for future emissions, and 428 million tokens sit untouched in the community rewards wallet.
HyperEVM launched 18 February 2025 and stays relatively low-competition. Most participants still farm the main DEX, which is where the crowding is.
Cost to farm: trading volume, or building on HyperEVM.
Lighter, and why it is here with a caveat
The $LIT airdrop already happened. It distributed automatically on 30 December 2025, covering 25% of fully diluted supply across two 2025 points seasons, with no claim required.
What is live now is a different thing: a points program for trading routed through Robinhood Chain, in effect since 10 August 2026. Points are calculated weekly on that week’s eligible activity, and Lighter notes the method may change.
Trades through Robinhood Wallet currently earn double the points of trades on Lighter’s own app. Zero-fee retail trading is still live. Staking APR now targets roughly 6%, down from 17.8% in January, as rewards shift to ecosystem funding.
If you see Lighter on a “best airdrops” list with no qualifier, the writer has confused a finished airdrop with a running points program.
Cost to farm: capital, plus LIT if you want staking tiers.
What we left off, and why
Entropy raised $14 million led by Ribbit Capital, announced 24 August 2026, and runs HIP-3 perp markets on Hyperliquid. It appears on plenty of September lists. It has no points program and no announced airdrop, and the page carries MiCA restrictions for EEA users. Interesting project, not a farm.
Pacifica and Ostium both run points programs, and both of our guides are carrying updates old enough that we are not going to rank them until we recheck. Ostium’s page has not been touched since December 2025.
N1 has a live Season 1 points program according to community reporting, and our own page still describes it as testnet. We would rather say that than rank a project off a page we know is stale.
The risks that actually apply here
Points programs with unpublished formulas can change weighting retroactively, and several above say so in their own documentation.
Sybil filtering is now standard. Extended removes points for wash trading, self-referrals and multi-account abuse. Lighter eliminated self-trading and sybil activity across both its seasons. Running multiple wallets is more likely to zero you than to multiply you.
Invite gates on Variational and BULK mean your entry depends on someone else, and a code that works today may not work next week.
Regional restrictions are real. Entropy is restricted under MiCA for EEA users, and Nado excludes restricted persons from its draws.
The largest risk is the ordinary one: most speculative programs here have confirmed neither a formula nor a date, and some will never ship a token at all.
TL;DR
- Arcus: confirmed token, no formula, waitlist counts your Lighter and Hyperliquid volume already
- Variational: 50% to community, private beta gate, double points on swaps
- RISEx: 200,000 points weekly, weightings deliberately unpublished
- Extended: ~30% to community, under 3 million points left before the 70 million cap
- Axis Robotics: free task farm, two-week epochs, published tier minimums
- BULK: confirmed 30%, mainnet live, invite-only entry
- Nado: $100,000 weekly pool claimable now, needs Ink gas and USDT0
- Polymarket: token confirmed in a podcast, nothing else official
- Hyperliquid: no Season 2 date, 428M HYPE still in the rewards wallet
- Lighter: $LIT already distributed, the live thing is the Robinhood Chain points program
NFA, DYOR. Points are not tokens and no program above guarantees a claim. Allocations quoted are what teams have stated publicly, not what anyone has received. Invite gates, regional restrictions and retroactive rule changes all apply. Farm with what you can afford to leave in place.
Last checked: 21 September 2026
