✳️ dcposch avatar
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Beautiful. We are on the same page. The punchline ofc is that the most important projects in crypto never had an airdrop & never will. Airdrops are a way to buy growth. You can get a bunch of inorganic users to show up & "use" your app by effectively paying them to, creating pretty growth charts, but in most cases there's no way to convert these to actual users. In traditional business this is called... well, let's just say it's frowned upon. There may be exceptions where you *can* convert to real users, in which case the airdrop is a marketing expense. But these are rare. Real revenue. LTV > CAC. Real products solving real problems. Real World Ethereum or bust.
Remember when the Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana teams did their airdrops?
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Oƚƚι🏴‍☠️ avatar
If airdrops were in forms of gratitude to existing users they wouldn’t be a problem, the issue now is that projects think about airdrops before making their product good to attract users.
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Thompson avatar
They did give away tokens for basically free in the beginning though. You could get bitcoin for solving captchas in the past
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Dan Romero avatar
Our recent airdrops are connected to installing a mini app. So moving toward an actual measurable ROI.
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Peter Arogundade avatar
That would be good to see. I believe once good products are shipped by the mini apps. Users would actual have enough ROI and be at peace, such that anything coming would be seen as incentives.Take swirl netting mini app for example, it's users share they placed bets and intending wins, while they win or learn from loss, the leaderboard is there as an incentive for what's to come