"Still grinding tasks at 3 a.m., only to find out the airdrop claim page says your score isn’t high enough?" "Everyone else is aping in, so I followed and lost a bunch, didn’t even get a scrap of rewards"—I’m honestly sick of seeing these complaints lately. After three years in crypto, I have to say it: airdrops aren’t about who’s fastest, but about who keeps a clear head. Too many people get the basics of claiming new airdrop formats wrong from the very start.

Last week, a newbie came to vent. A certain platform’s airdrop had just launched, and he rushed in, trading like crazy to farm points without checking anything. The token price suddenly crashed, he didn’t get enough points, and lost a chunk of his principal. I checked his transaction history and was speechless—he blindly aped in during high-volatility periods, hitting every trap in the platform’s rules. This kind of disaster happens every year, and at its core, it’s because people don’t understand the real strategy.

Today, I’m going to share the hard-earned insights my team has gathered from over a dozen rounds of real testing. If you’re a beginner, follow this and you’ll avoid at least 80% of the pitfalls. Remember the most important rule: for the vast majority of airdrops, the actual claim threshold drops by around 10 points before the real rush begins. This isn’t just talk—we tracked 12 major events over six months, and it’s hard data.

Here’s a real example. A popular airdrop listed an initial threshold of 240 points—don’t just roll up your sleeves and dive in at first sight. In these events, ten minutes after launch, the threshold almost always drops to around 230 points, and that’s when the real claim window opens. The 240-point phase is basically just