Agree with @toly

~$5-10 airdrops don’t incentivize people who want to use apps with a utility token, they incentivize farmers who dilute the quality of discourse in the network

The degradation to content quality is not worth the DAU bump imo (empty calories)

First Solana token airdrop to @farcaster_xyz users (using zk compression!). We've got 4 more Solana token airdrops lined up totaling $80k. DM me if you're interested in running an airdrop

While it’s awesome to see solana infra used, I think airdrops for growth model isn’t what socialFI should be. You end up with a bunch of airdrop farmers at best, and bots on average.  

Imho, figure out a way to surface DAO asset management into groups and social and charge bips

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Agree with @toly

~$5-10 airdrops don’t incentivize people who want to use apps with a utility token, they incentivize farmers who dilute the quality of discourse in the network

The degradation to content quality is not worth the DAU bump imo (empty calories)

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That assumes the targeting is naive instead of sophisticated. That’s the flaw in this argument.

Only way to grow in crypto is money. Various tactics, but there’s no non-money version that can scale. Believe me, I’ve tried for years.

Have any data points / anecdotes to support the latter argument?

Having trouble seeing a pipeline or new non-natives that will convert to this app for $5 in esoteric coins 

I think anti-crypto and caring about taste are orthogonal — lot of non-natives on the fence that would get polarized away by a circus (pun intended)

Agree the KOLs aren’t incentivized but non-natives like them. The non-natives that think they’re tacky are just anti-crypto.

Agreed on the latter, I think that’s why Toly is proposing going after DAO treasuries. I don’t necessarily agree but the common ground is money games

The problem with $5 a pop airdrops is that you’re not winning reluctant high quality crypto natives (the $$ isn’t enough) nor non-natives (it’s tacky)

Can you say more? I think the rewards model is pretty good because it incentivizes real use of the platform, whereas airdrops incentivize farming. If you need airdrops to grow, you haven't built something enough people want. Very few projects that did an airdrop developed real power.

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Good points here 

I think fc keeps evolving wrt farmers and that shows over time