Airdrops are one of the best ways to earn passive income with crypto because it requires little to no investment upfront. In fact, Airdrops was one of the ways that I covered in my video on how to make over $1000/month in passive income. So if you’re not familiar with what it is, definitely watch this video here:

And now that we’re in sync, let’s get into the zkSync airdrop.

ZkSync is a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, and many people are anticipating an upcoming airdrop once their long awaited token finally goes live.

They have one of the biggest treasuries in all of crypto, raising over $450 Million dollars in the bull market. So I personally don't expect them to sell more tokens to raise money. Instead I think they will choose the route of a big airdrop to release the token, in order to attract as many early users as possible.

Now let’s get into what you need to do qualify for the zkSync airdrop.

Step 1: Setup a MetaMask wallet and fund it with some ETH

We will assume you have this step covered. If you don't know how, check out my YouTube channel for a full guide

Step 2: Bridge to zkSync 1.0 Mainnet

The zkSync 1.0 Mainnet is the older version of zkSync that has been running live since 2020. Interacting with it now could still qualify you as an early adopter for the zkSync 2.0 Airdrop, which is what we are looking for.

Connect your MetaMask to the zkSync wallet website, then use the official zkSync bridge to send some Ether from Ethereum mainnet to zkSync 1.0.

https://wallet.zksync.io

Step 3: Mint an NFT and trade on ZigZag exchange

On the same zkSync wallet website, mint an NFT.

Then go to ZigZag exchange, and do a trade with any small amount: https://trade.zigzag.exchange

Remember to use the ZigZag exchange on the zkSync 1.0 network, instead of Arbitrum.

Step 4: Get some free tokens from the zkSync 2.0 faucet

Now we are trying the new version of zkSync 2.0, but it is only on testnet so the tokens have no real value

Go to https://portal.zksync.io/, then request some funds on the faucet page.

Step 5: Try the top applications on zkSync 2.0 testnet

You can find all the live applications on this zkSync 2.0 testnet apps list

Trying all of these will give you the best chance to receive the airdrop. However I would focus on the ones that are the easiest to try and the most established to have high chances of receiving the airdrop.

My picks are:

• Onchain.trade

• MES Protocol

• Mute

• SyncSwap

• Trustless.fi

• Mint Square

• Kreatorland

• Orbiter Bridge

Step 6: Join the zkSync discord and complete the crew3 tasks to level up

The zkSync discord is here:

https://join.zksync.dev

Once you're in, connect your wallet, discord, and twitter accounts to the crew3 dashboard of zkSync here:

https://crew3.xyz/c/zksync

This is an official campaign dashboard that gives you various tasks to complete in order to level up and receive roles in the zkSync discord. Usually these discord roles are considered when project decide how much airdrop to give to each user, so make sure to use the same wallet that you used to complete the tasks in the previous steps.

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We all know that Arbitrum will be one of the biggest airdrop that will come in the future. Let’s talk on how to have a chance to be eligible to it.

First we need some funds on Arbitrum, i suggest using the Official Bridge, may be a criteria to the eligibility https://bridge.arbitrum.io/

Now we have to use some of the best Dapps built on it, i think the safe and smart way is to use those that have a high TVL and don’t have a token yet.

We start using Kromatika protocol https://app.kromatika.finance/#/pool, we can make some trades between Eth and Usdc so we can create $ Volume, i suggest using also the Limit function, Kromatika may airdrop in the future and using this function can pay off in the future.

Now we go to Aboard Exchange https://aboard.exchange/, and we can make some trades to create Volume and number of transactions, we can close immediately those positions if we don’t want exposure to the volatility of the crypto market. (Aboard also doesn’t have a token yet :))

Now i think is smart to have a footprint on Arbitrum Nova Ecosystem, first we should add the chain, we can find it simply by going to https://chainlist.org/, after that, we can use Orbiter Finance https://www.orbiter.finance/ to bridge our Eth to Arbitrum Nova. (Orbiter doesn’t have a token yet :))

Now i suggest coming back again to Arbitrum One, again using Orbiter Finance, in this way we also create some Volume for the bridge.

Now i think is smart to let some funds here on Arbitrum chain, earning some yields on safe protocols, i suggest to put 33% of our stables on Uniswap pools https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap, will do it 50/50 with Usdc/Usdt

Another 33% on Stargate Finance https://stargate.finance/, farming Stg token (i think Stargate may airdrop some Layer zero token to the users that provided liquidity on his dapp)

And the last 34% on Radiant https://app.radiant.capital/#/markets, that pays the yield in both ways (Usdc and Rdnt token, same as Aave)

Now i think that the next move to make is to partecipate in the Odyssey, that right now is paused, i suggest following Arbitrum official page on twitter for announcements on the new start.

And finally l i suggest making the Guild tasks https://guild.xyz/arbitrum

(Alpha here, i also suggest making a Donation on Gitcoin Round 15 donating some $ to the protocols that we more like https://gitcoin.co/grants/, i suggest using the Ethereum chain)

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