Airdrops Glossary

A 50-term glossary for airdrops, airdrop farming, and safe Web3 coins-farm concepts.

Liquidity mining rewards users for providing liquidity to a protocol. In exchange for depositing assets into a pool, users may receive …

A Merkle proof is the set of hashes that proves your wallet’s address and allocation exist inside the published Merkle tree. …

Game airdrops blend gameplay with token distribution, often using pre-token points or “virtual coins” to track progress. A …

A cliff is a vesting feature where nothing unlocks until a certain date, after which tokens begin unlocking (sometimes gradually, sometimes …

A non-custodial wallet is a wallet where you control the private keys. This is the default in Web3: you own your keys, so you own your …

An optimistic rollup is an Ethereum L2 that assumes transactions are valid by default and allows challenges during a dispute window. This …

An allowlist is a list of accounts or wallets permitted to claim an airdrop (or participate in an event). Allowlists can be derived from …

Cross-chain messaging is the ability to send data and instructions between chains, not just move tokens. Protocols like Wormhole and …

Proof of humanity (and similar identity proofs) are methods to show a participant is a real person rather than a bot farm. In airdrops, …

A liquidity pool (LP) is a shared set of assets used by an automated market maker (AMM) to enable trading. Liquidity providers deposit …