More and more project parties are starting to introduce a point system to encourage users to actively participate in it and improve user retention and loyalty. This is also widely regarded as an effective diversion strategy before the airdrop is released. For users, they can not only get a potentially clear return, but also get a corresponding proportion of incentives according to their contributions.
Of course, attention needs to be paid to balancing incentives and economic sustainability when designing and implementing a points system. Reasonable integration models and strategies are the key to ensure the sustainable development of the integration system in the short and medium term.
Foresight News has put together 20 programs that offer points or rewards for readers to explore.
Blast
Blast is a Layer2 network launched in late November by Blur founder Pacman and is backed by Paradigm, Standard Crypto, and eGirl Capital. Blast (initially) provided yield from Lido and MakerDAO, with Lido yielding from ETH staking yield and MakerDAO yielding from on-chain U.S. bonds. At the time of writing, Blast TVL reached $1.167 billion, with nearly 90,000 engaged users.
Tactics:
- 存入 ETH、USDC、Tether、stETH、WETH、DAI；
- Invite.
Blur
Blur's announcement coincided with the launch of the third season of the airdrop, which will end in May. 50% of Season 3 rewards will be distributed to BLUR holders (Holder Points) and 50% will be distributed to Blur Community members (Blur Points).
In the Holder Points Program, you can earn Holder Points by depositing BLUR, which can be withdrawn at any time. When Blast governance goes live in May 2024, it will be distributed based on the user's total holder score (holder points x multiplier). Holders earn 1 point for each BLUR they hold per hour. In addition, the multiplier starts at 1x and increases by 0.5x per month after the user makes their first deposit.
In the Blur Points program, points can be earned by bidding, listing, and borrowing. Bid and listing credits apply to all collectibles and are issued at the same rate. The bid with the highest "risk" can earn the vast majority of points. Whereas, lending credits are only available for collectibles supported by the Blend protocol. The lending rate is half of the auction and listing points.
Tactics:
- DEPOSIT BLUR;
- Bidding, listing, and borrowing.
Manta Network
Manta Network is a modular L2 protocol that previously closed a $25 million funding round at a valuation of $500 million in July 2023 by its developer, p0x labs, led by Polychain Capital and Qiming Ventures. According to the official website, the campaign to deposit tokens on Manta Network to earn Manta token rewards will end in January 2024.
Tactics:
- Cross-chain
- invite
EigenLayer
In March 2023, EigenLayer, the team behind EigenLayer, an Ethereum re-staking protocol, closed a $50 million Series A funding round led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Electric Capital, IOSG Ventures, and others. EigenLayer has introduced re-staking points to measure user contributions.
Strategy: Re-stake Ethereum's liquid staking tokens.
ether.fi
ether.fi is a liquid staking platform that allows you to mint eETH to earn ETH staking rewards, ether.fi points, and EigenLayer points. In February 2023, ether.fi closed a $5.3 million funding round co-led by North Island Ventures, Chapter One, and Node Capital, with participation from BitMex founder Arthur Hayes.
Loyalty points earned by users = ETH staked * 1000 * number of days staked.
策略：质押 ETH 铸造 eETH
friend.tech
The Web3 social platform friend.tech has sparked a SociaFi craze and will release a v2 version in the spring of 2024.
Strategy: Invite + Engage
Scallop
Scallop is a lending protocol on Sui, Scallop, which launched the airdrop points system in early January and has completed the snapshot by January 1, 2024.
The first phase is designed to support early supporters of Scallop, including Zealy participants, verified Sui Scalloper characters on Discord, lenders and borrowers on the Scallop platform, and roles in specific Scallop programs, where anyone who borrows more than $100 will be eligible for empty investment, and users can earn points based on their activity and engagement in Scallop, and can use the points of the first phase to generate Mysterious Boxes。 Mysterious Boxes are divided into different tiers such as Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Legendary, etc., and the boxes can be opened to claim the airdrop after the token is launched. Information that Scallop is about to launch the second phase of the airdrop.
Grass
In December 2023, Wynd Network, the team behind Grass, a decentralized incentivized web scraping network, closed a $3.5 million seed round led by Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital, with participation from Bitscale, Big Brain, Advisors Anonymous, Typhon V, Mozaik, and others. Wynd's total funding reached $4.5 million.
Grass currently has a referral program and a points program. Grass has said that early adopters will be rewarded, and at the end of the test, those points will be retroactively converted to network ownership.
Tactics:
- download and use;
- Referrals (20% of the Referred User Points);
- When a referred friend sends an invitation to someone else (10% of the points of the second-level referrer);
Rainbow
Rainbow is a Web3 wallet that closed an $18 million Series A funding round in February 2022 led by Seven Seven Six, a venture capital fund set up by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
In December 2023, Rainbow will launch a Rainbow points campaign, and users on the Ethereum network on Rainbow will receive points. In addition, users who switch from MetaMask to Rainbow will earn more points, and loyal Rainbow users will receive more points. In addition, anyone who used MetaMask's redemption feature last year can earn up to 150,000 extra points after importing their MetaMask wallet into Rainbow.
Tactics:
- 将 MetaMask 钱包导入 Rainbow；
- Swap and cross-chain in Rainbow;
- Invite.
Magic Eden
Magic Eden is the largest NFT marketplace platform on the Solana network, with a dedicated rewards hub page.
Tactics:
- Landing every 24 hours will reward you with diamonds.
- Set a Profile username to get a 50 Diamond bonus.
- Shelves;
- Bid.
Sleepless AI
Sleepless AI is a Web3+AI companion gaming platform with investors including Foresight Ventures, Binance Labs, and Folius Ventures, among others. Sleepless AI is also the 42nd project of Binance Launchpool, and the deadline for new coin mining is 08:00 on January 4, and the trading time on Binance is 18:00 on January 4.
Sleepless AI will use 1% of the total token supply as the initial airdrop.
Tactics:
- Daily check-in (UID may be required)
- Voting, Participating in the Auction (Closed)
Zeta Markets
Zeta Markets, a Solana-based DeFi derivatives protocol, launched Z-Score in October 2023, allowing users to earn Z-Scores based on their trading activity on Zeta, in addition, a 24-hour profit and loss ranking also determines the reward multiplier. The first season of Z-Score has now ended, and the second season will be announced in the first week of 2024.
marginfi
marginfi is a lending protocol on the Solana ecosystem, which previously announced the launch of the MRGN points campaign in July 2023.
Tactics:
- Deposit;
- Borrowing;
- Recommend.
Tensor
Tensor is an NFT trading platform on the Solana ecosystem, and the points campaign is currently in its third season, but in order to prevent abuse and cultivate a healthy market, Tensor has hidden the points counter in the third season event.
Tactics:
- Shelves;
- Recommend.
mint.fun
mint.fun is an NFT minting aggregator that has ended in December 2023!fundrop event, which currently allows !fundrop Pass holders to mint !fundrop Finale IDs on Base, ID attributes generated based on points, streaks, tier achievements, and more.
Philand
Philand is a visual on-chain identity that allows land to be built through on-chain activity. Phi closed a $2 million seed round in February 2023, led by Chapter One and Delphi Digital, with participation from Polygon Ventures.
Tactics:
- Claim EXP;
- land for construction;
Orbiter Finance
Layer2 crosses the Rollup Bridge Orbiter Finance introduced O-Points to track user contributions. O-Points consist of base points (rewards for basic contributions to cross-chain transactions made using Orbiter Finance), event points (rewards for participating in tasks related to Orbiter Finance), and ecosystem points.
Tactics:
- Cross-chain
- Participate in missions.
Shell Protocol
Shell Protocol is a DeFi hub on Arbitrum, and the SHELL Token Generation Event (TGE) will be launched in 20 days.
Tactics:
- Encapsulating Toucan NFTs;
- provide liquidity;
- WRAP tokens.
Reiki
Reiki is an AI-native application creation assetization platform powered by Web3Go, a data intelligence network. In July 2023, Web3Go closed a $4 million seed round. Binance Labs led the round, with participation from HashKey Capital, NGC Ventures, and others.
Tactics:
- Check in daily and complete tasks to receive gold leaves.
Dmail
Dmail, a private email system, closed a Pre-A round of funding in July 2023 from Amino Capital, OIG, Draper Dragon, KuCoin Labs, HG Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Vespertine Capital, and others.
Tactics:
- Send emails, invite, subscribe
Over Protocol
Over Protocol, a Layer1 blockchain lightweight node protocol, raised a total of $8 million in two funding deals in July 2023 with participation from SK, Netmarble, DSC, E&Investment, Schmidt, SpringCamp, and NaverZ.
Tactics:
- Download your wallet and complete random daily bonus events, or accumulate bonus points through various quests.