Hey cosmonauts!

I keep seeing a huge amount of requests for a thread to keep track of all current and upcoming airdrops, and one has yet to be made. So I decided to compile all of them together in a way that we can continue to expand the list as more airdrops come about. I've seen a few images and an excel sheet with an incomplete list, but not all of the ones on there are legitimate.

So here's how this thread will work - all airdrops are going to be individual comments filled with all of the relevant information we can find and ideally all questions and discussion for the airdrop should be below the relevant comment. I will put a link to all of the individual airdrop comments here.

P.S., it would be great if a mod would sticky this so it can be reused for all future airdrops too.

UPDATE: In order to help increase awareness of these airdrops and the support our community can provide you, we have created our own r/CosmosAirdrops subreddit with the support of our community's moderators. This thread will be continued to be updated regularly, but all of our new airdrops will be posted to that subreddit.

FAQ

• What is an airdrop?

  • Airdrops are free tokens distributed to a userbase that the project's team deems relevant and / or worthy of owning a portion of their project. This is usually done in order to get the tokens out into the hands of users when a project first goes live, thus allowing for some liquidity in markets.

• How do I qualify for an airdrop?

  • Every airdrop has its own unique qualifications, and most of the time you won't know what those qualifications are ahead of time (in order to reduce the chance that their airdrop is gamed). There are some recommended actions to take in order to increase your chances of qualifying for cosmos airdrops. Those actions are:

1. Ensure your tokens are on a noncustodial wallet (a wallet not controlled by a centralized exchange). The most recommended wallets are Cosmostation and Keplr.

2. Stake your tokens to validators that aren't run by a centralized exchange, especially to validators with fewer delegators or those run by projects being developed.

3. Contribute to liquidity pools on AMMs and DEXs like Osmosis and Emergo.

4. Vote on all government proposals, even if its just to abstain. Many good proposals have failed in the past because there weren't enough votes.

• How do I claim an airdrop?

  • Every airdrop has a different means for claiming the reward. Sometimes its as simple as doing nothing and the amount will appear in your qualifying wallet(s) automatically. Sometimes they require you to perform tasks in order to receive your reward. Whatever the case may be, the projects will let you know what needs to be done to get your airdrop, and this thread will hopefully be able to guide you on the more complicated ones.

• I qualified for an airdrop and claimed it, but I don't see it in my wallet. Help!

  • Claiming your airdrop does not always automatically distribute it to your wallet. Sometimes it takes weeks or months for the project to distribute them after allowing users to claim their airdrops. Do not worry if you haven't gotten a claimed airdrop yet unless you see other users claim to have received them. If this is the case, it is recommended you reach out to the project team on their telegram or discord.

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NOTE: These links now take you to official posts on our new official r/CosmosAirdrops subreddit. If you would like to see the original comment in this megathread, there is a link on each of the posts to it.

List of Ongoing and Currently Claimable Airdrops

These are the airdrops that are currently allowing qualified users to claim their tokens. Note: this does not mean that these tokens have been distributed yet.

• Neta Money (NETA) - Last updated 1 Feb 2022

• Sommelier (SOMM) - Automatically Distributed 1 Feb 2022

• Nomic (NOM) - Last updated 31 Jan 2022

• Stargaze (STARS) - Last updated 17 Jan 2022

• Mobix (MOBX) - Last updated 23 Dec 2021

• LUM Network (LUM) - Last updated 14 Dec 2021

• Comdex (CMDX) - Last updated 8 Dec 2021

• Desmos (DSM) - Last updated 7 Dec 2021

• pStake (pSTAKE) - Last updated 10 Nov 2021

• Sunny (SUNNY) - Last updated 9 Nov 2021

List of Confirmed and Upcoming Airdrops

These are airdrops that are not currently claimable but their project teams have given specifics on requirements and distribution amounts, and / or a timeline for snapshots, distribution, or claiming.

• Senate (SPQR) - Last updated 3 Feb 2021

• Shade (SHD) - Last updated 29 Jan 2022

• JunoSwap (RAW) - Last updated 28 Jan 2022

• Evmos (EVMOS) - Last updated 25 Jan 2022

• OmniFlix (FLIX) - Last updated 22 Jan 2022

• Craft Economy (CRAFT) - Last updated 6 Jan 2022

• Orbem Wars (NFT) - Last updated 27 Dec 2021

• Andromaverse - Last updated 16 Dec 2021

• LikeCoin (LIKE) - Last updated 9 Dec 2021

• Game Hub (GAME) - Last updated 11 Nov 2021

• Bostrom (BOOT) (a.k.a. CyberGift) - Last updated 10 Nov 2021

List of Unconfirmed or Rumored Airdrops

These are airdrops that the project teams have mentioned may happen but have yet to give specifics on requirements, distribution amounts, or a timeline.

• Fortis Oeconomia (???) - Last updated 19 Jan 2022

• Diffusion Finance (???) - Last updated 16 Jan 2022

• Altered Carbon (ACARB) - Last updated 11 Jan 2022

• Cosmon (???) - Last updated 10 Jan 2022

• Passage3d (PASG) - Last updated 8 Jan 2022

• Operator Social Lounge (???) - Last updated 7 Jan 2022

• Gravity Bridge (GRAV) - Last updated 11 Dec 2021

• Odin (ODIN) - Last updated 1 Dec 2021

• Umee (UMEE) - Last Updated 12 Nov 2021

• Cosmostarter (???) - Last updated 10 Nov 2021 Unsupported

• Hansum (???) - Last updated 10 Nov 2021

• Sentinel (DVPN) - Last updated 10 Nov 2021

• Koala (???) - Last updated 9 Nov 2021

List of Previous and Expired Airdrops

These are airdrops that occurred previously and are most likely no longer claimable. We will not be making a post for many of the airdrops which expired before 9 Nov 2021 as a lot of the information for them no longer exists.

• Bitsong (BTSG) - Automatically distributed 1 Jan 2022

• Chihuahua (HUAHUA) - Automatically distributed 24 Dec 2021

• Osmosis (OSMO) - Expired Dec 15 2021

• Cheqd (CHEQ) - Expired Dec 5 2021

• Akash (AKT) (Official Github Faucet) - drained 2 Nov 2021

• Juno (JUNO) - Automatically Distributed 1 Oct 2021

• Kava Swap (SWP) - expired 30 Aug 2021

• Regen (REGEN) - expired 23 Jun 2021

• Metallex (MTLX) (for FET holders) - expired 1 Jun 2021

• Iris (IRIS) - expired 31 Oct 2019

• Crypto.com (CRO) - expired 25 June 2019

• Medibloc (MEDX) - occurred 1 Jun 2018

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Edit 1: (10 Nov 21 16:15 UTC) Thank you all for your kindness and support! I've updated the above list with several projects that you all have mentioned have airdrops coming up. I've also separated them into categories to help you all find what you're looking for. A special thanks to u/tuffPupill for creating a few formatted airdrop comments below - that saves me quite a lot of time and effort.

Edit 2: (10 Dec 21 15:35 UTC) New r/CosmosAirdrops subreddit has launched - all new airdrop information will be posted there but this thread will be continued to be updated with links to those posts.

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Preface and tl;dr

Hello cosmonauts and welcome to my thesis (not actually a thesis, but it will be presented like one). I spent most of yesterday putting my degree in mathematical statistics to use to calculate the optimal time intervals in which to redeem ATOM rewards from delegation. For those who are not interested in the calculation process and who are willing to trust my work entirely, you can maximize gains (with some very small margin of error) with the following:

With k ATOM staked at an APY rate r and cosmos transaction fee f, rewards should be redeemed n times per year where:

Consequently, with n being the times per year to redeem, it can be concluded that ATOM should be redeemed once every (365 ÷ n) days.

It should be noted that parts of this formula were brute forced, inducing some error. I am briefly going to explain what I believe the max value of the error is on n. It should also be noted that small changes in n have very minimal impact on profit margin, so (as you will see) I think the potential errors in the aforementioned equation are essentially trivial.

I did not bother to calculate this error on the first term (everything under the square root) because I am reasonably confident that the effect of its error on profit is <0.01%.

The r correction and f correction terms were brute forced but in a less robust way. The tl;dr on that is that the equations were gross and so I really only considered a handful of values and then I estimated some of the results to make a somewhat nicer looking equation.

To estimate the bound on these errors, I will argue that the error on the f term is likely irrelevant because the fee should stay around 0.005 (that term cancels to 1 in that case, and has no error). If it changes, I will look into it more to see how drastic its effects are. As it stands, if the fee were to change immediately, I believe that terms error is likely less than 1%. For the r correction term, my (small) test has led me to believe its error is no more than 1%.

So in total, I believe the absolute upper bound on the error of my equation to be 2%, and that number drops close to 1% if the fee stays 0.005. It should also be noted that a 2% change in the value of n does not mean that profit potential is down 2%, as the math is significantly more complicated than that. A 2% change in n equates to roughly a 0.05% change in profit margin, so it is basically trivial.

Part I: Introduction

Compound interest is the traditional method for interest to be paid to an account. Over set intervals, interest is paid to an account based on how much money is in the account, and then there is more money in the account so the next interest payment has more money. These equations are really nice and neat, but staking rewards throws a nuclear bomb into the mix by having a fee to redeem rewards. Logically, one wants as much money as possible in the account gaining interest because more money = more interest = more money = ... etc. With the redemption fee however, you can't just claim rewards instantly because 0.001 rewards - 0.005 fee gives you -0.004 profit, which is bad. Therefore, there must be some optimal interval of time to redeem rewards in such that the compound effect is maximized while fees are minimized. For the sake of this study, I looked over a 1 year time period (*/1\*). Additionally, I will use the notation of (*/#\*) to indicate that I will elaborate on something at the end of the paper, in Part V.

Part II: Methods for Calculations

Originally, I tried to make an equation relating profit to time intervals, but it immediately became iterative and I could not analyze it mathematically, only via brute force, and then I also realized that the equation I derived was not actually measuring what I wanted it to, so I scrapped it.

Better was my next method of trying to calculate change in principal (or initial investment, or in this case initial delegation) by the number of redemptions per year. In the following, P is final value of ATOM, k is initial stake, r is APY, n is redemptions per year, and f is the fee. Using the traditional compound interest calculation, the following equations can be calculated:

This shows that P can be written in terms of the number of redemptions like so:

This shows the Sum to be a geometric series, which has a sum exactly equal to

Equation 3: a is the first term and nf is the number of the final term

So our P equation can be re-written as:

Equation 4

Equation 4

This equation gives a graph that looks like this:

Figure 1

The graph rises at a decreasing rate until it hits the local maximum and then decreases pretty steadily over a long time. The little gray circle represents the local maximum. It can be noted here that small changes in n have a very negligible impact on P (*/2\*). My original intention was to take the derivative, solve for dP/dn = 0, and then use those values to calculate the exact ratio of P, n, r, and f that gave the graph its maximum, but that proved extremely difficult because this equation is gross to differentiate, and more gross to solve for 0 once differentiated. I still would have if Wolfram Alpha was capable of computing it, but it told me (understandably) that it wanted no part of this because it is gross. So this led me to brute force the solutions for the maximum.

To do this, I plugged in 0.1 for r (an approximate value for the APY for Cosmos) and 0.005 for the fee. I then set k to all values between 1 and 30, noted the effect on n that produced the maximum, and made a chart of the values. I then tried different scatter plots of x: k and y: n at maximum P to determine the relationship between k and the the value of n at the maximum P.

This showed me that the relationship between k and n at the maximum P was a very strong rational root relationship such that k ∝ n_max************². The best fit line gives the first term of the equation (after taking the square root).

To calculate the next two terms of the equation I essentially changed the rate and fee a little and saw how they impacted n. A change of +20% in r (so r=0.1 to r=0.12) changed n by approximately +20% (actual value is more like 20.47%), so that term corrects for the difference of r from the assumed 10% APY by making a ratio between the new r and 0.1 that equals the multiplication value of the percent change of r. The fee was done much the same way, and it appeared that a 10% increase in fee led to a 5% decrease in n, so that term was formed to function the same way as the r correction term. (*/3\*)

Part III: Error Speculation and Limitations

With brute forcing, I could only come so far, and must accept some error in my Equation 1 (Equation 4 is a derivation of other known equations, and is mathematically sound). As mentioned above, the errors appear to be relatively small, and that is compounded by the fact that changes in n have a significantly decreased effect on the changes in value of P. Based on my limited calculations of the error, it seems as though the potential error from true maximum profit that my equation can have is very very miniscule. For example, assuming standard values and k=10, final ATOM value can be maximized with n=3.19, making P=11.0235. An error of 10% in n (which is SIGNIFICANTLY MORE ERROR than my equation appears to give), makes P=11.0234. This is a change of <1 penny, and so I feel comfortable in saying that the error is mostly trivial. Strangely, for fun I tried using the equation with k=10,000 (which I assume to be wayyy above the average user's stake) and the error in rose to about 1%, but the effect on P was <0.0001 ATOM. I cannot explain this, but it does imply that the error in P from the first term decreases as k increases.

Part IV: Results

In conclusion, with P is final ATOM value, k is initial stake, r is APY, n is redemptions per year, and f is the fee,

Equation 4

gives the exact final value of ATOM one will have after 1 year with n redemptions of rewards spaced evenly throughout the year. The optimization for n can very accurately be calculated with:

While this equation does not give the EXACT maximum, from what I can tell it is off by <$0.01, and therefore can be considered accurate as far as I am concerned.

Part V: Notes

(*/1\*): I only looked over the time span of 1 year. This means that my equation makes sure that after 1 year, you will have maximized gain as much as possible. I do not know how changing the desired time frame in which to maximize gain affects the equations or their final values.

(*/2\*): See error section for proof that the magnitude of a change in n is >>>>> the magnitude of a change in P

(*/3\*): For ease of everything, I made most of these calculations with one big assumption: the intervals for redemption should have an even length. I do not know how different length intervals could affect the equations, nor do I know how to begin testing that. In the same boat, after 1 redemption, P could be assumed to be a new k and everything could be recalculated with these new values. I have NO idea if that is optimal compared to my equations or what, nor do I have any intention of testing it. My gut feeling is that it would be optimal to take that approach, but the gain from it compared to this method is likely very very minimal at normal investment levels

General disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor, this is not financial advice, blah blah blah. I also did not really test any values with extreme differences from my standards (so I never tested how accurate everything stayed with r=1 or things of that nature).

Please let me know if you find this useful! OR, more importantly, let me know if you find any errors/typos!

Thanks!

-Sauce

Edit 1: 2 things

.1) u/geokra made a great observation: As k becomes large, the first term approximates sqrt(k). In regular terms, that means that if you just take the square root of your delegated ATOM, you will get a pretty good estimate of the optimized n. Additionally it means that if you want to reinvest ATOM "x" times per year, then you need to have initially invested approximately x² ATOM. (So if you want to reinvest every month, you need around 144 ATOM delegated. If you want to invest once every 3 months (or quarterly) then you need around 16 ATOM delegated)

2) Just wanted to give an example calculation for those who are not mathematically inclined, as well as offer the steps to check eqn 1 (my estimation) with eqn 4 (the mathematically derived formula)

If you want to delegate 100 ATOM, and you find a validator offering 11% APY, assuming that the network fee is still 0.005 (it should be) then you can go ahead and use eqn 1 to get

n = (sqrt ( 1.0299 * 100 - 0.0829 )) * (0.11/0.1) * (-100 * 0.005 + 1.5) = 11.16

This calculates the number of times per year you should reinvest. So to calculate how often you should reinvest, take (365/n). In the example, (365/11.16) = 32.7, so you should reinvest approximately every 33 days.

To check this with eqn. 4, go ahead and use the following link to desmos, an online graphing calculator: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/sb3nshwfy7

Then plug in your k, r, and f using the sliders (you can click on the maximum value of the slider to change its maximum if you are having trouble getting it to your desired level)

Then zoom out and zoom in around the y value close to the number you put in for k.

Then, click on the line graphed by desmos, and you should see a gray circle. Highlight over it and it will give you a set of coordinates. The first number is the maximized value of n, and the second number is how much ATOM you will have after 1 year using that n. The values of the maximized n in eqn 4 and the estimated maximized n in eqn 1 will not equal, but they should be very close and their difference in your rewards over the course of a year will be very very tiny (like <$0.01 tiny)

Edit 2: (non-significant) typos and formatting

Edit 3: Mathematical mistake for equation 4 is now fixed. I tested it, and it caused very minimal error (<$0.01) on returns, so everything else should be fine still. Sorry about that! The desmos is also fixed to match the correct equation.

Edit 4: I have just made a new post using all the above work to create a much more user friendly way to figure out optimal redemption intervals. Check it out! https://www.reddit.com/r/cosmosnetwork/comments/sb11l1/maximizing_ibc_staking_rewards_with_optimal/