Crypto airdrops aren’t just free tokens, they reward early supporters, build communities, promote decentralization, boost awareness, and incentivize platform use.
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has described airdrops as an ideal use case for testing blockchain-based identity and credential frameworks. According to Buterin on X (formally Twitter), these frameworks aim to address several key objectives, making airdrops a suitable environment to test their effectiveness in a live setting. Buterin outlined four primary goals for