Cryptocurrency Airdrop 101

Airdrops have become a popular term in the realm of crypto. By definition, an airdrop refers to: “a procedure of distributing tokens by awarding them to existing holders of a particular blockchain currency, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.”  Cryptocurrency airdrops are essentially a means of receiving free tokens in a new project by holding the mainchain token it is deploying on. Examples of airdrops include Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold (both of which airdropped from a snapshot of those who held BTC.) As more projects develop, and new protocols emerge, we wanted to discuss a few tokens that could be great to hold in order to benefit from airdrops moving forward.

1. EOS - EOS is a top ten crypto, and the team is building a blockchain platform that is feeless and scalable. The team has already announced they will be airdropping projects that will be going live on the platform such as Everipedia. The EOS mainnet will launch and June and it could pay major dividends moving forward to register and hold EOS for future airdrops as well. It currently trades at $11.48 on Binance.

2. LRC - Loopring protocol is building a decentralized automated execution system that trades across the crypto-token exchanges, shielding users from counterparty risk and reducing the cost of trading. LRC is an ERC20 token(built on Ethereum network), but the team will be airdropping LRN and LRQ to support cross functionality for both NEO and QTUM. As the space becomes more siloed, LRC could be a great connector, and receiving airdrops of future network support tokens could be a big advantage for those that hold Loopring. LRC trades at $0.76 on HitBTC at the moment.

3. PRL - Oyster Pearl is a protocol focused on enhancing web revenue experiences by enabling website owner’s with an anonymous and decentralized user-friendly way to implement both revenue generation (only have to add a line of code), file storage. Recently, PRL holders received a 1 to 1 airdrop of SHL (Oyster Shell), which is essentially the gas of the network they are building. Holding PRL could yield more free tokens if the network expands additional functionality moving forward! PRL trades at $0.74 on Kucoin at the time being.

These are three projects that are not on everyone’s radar, and it is likely that the staple tokens like Bitcoin, Ethereum, NEO will also have a variety of airdrops moving forward. It is important to note that not all airdrops are supported on exchanges, and often the most effective way to receive an airdrop is to store on a personal wallet such as Metamask or a Ledger Wallet.

Always make sure to do extra homework when researching airdrops, and ensure to follow specific instructions given by the project teams themselves!

The opinions expressed on Crypto Bull are in no way financial advice and are only opinions. We are not responsible for any losses incurred as a result of reading our blog.

Top 5 Altcoins to Watch in 2018

As Bitcoin is starting to show signs of life again, we wanted to highlight some Altcoins that could go big in 2018. It’s always important to know Altcoins often are associated with higher risk. Approach these with caution, but understand with higher risk comes higher reward. Here are 5 Altcoins that are positioned well for the future:

1. VEN (VeChain) - VeChain is looking to become the top distributed business ecosystem and is led by CEO Sunny Lu (former CIO of Louis Vuitton China). They are making a compelling case with a power lineup of confirmed partnerships that include PwC, Kuhne + Nagel (Massive Global Freight Company), BMW, and China Unicom. The team is offering varying levels of nodes to those who lock in large portions of VEN, which will enable higher staking bonuses of THOR (similar to NEO/GAS relationship). VEN trades at $3.83 on Binance and is starting to rally after getting beat up the past couple weeks.

2. NANO - NANO (formerly Raiblocks) saw a massive surge around the turn of the year, trading as high as $37 at one point. The price took a big hit with the recent bear market alongside a BitGrail exchange hack (which had nothing to do with NANO tech, but was the fault of an incompetent exchange operator). Recently, the price has been steadily rising and Twitch embraced NANO as a means of donating crypto to streamers on the Twitch platform. Thanks to it’s unique block lattice architecture, NANO already offers feeless, instantaneous transactions, as well as unlimited scalability, making it ideal for peer-to-peer payments. NANO trades at $11.77 on Binance, and offers an extremely diversified holding in block lattice technology that is starting to get the credit it deserves.

3. EOS - EOS is building a blockchain architecture that has the potential to scale to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications. They have been running a unique year long ICO and will release their mainnet in the coming months. Projects such as Everipedia have committed to airdroping tokens that launch on the EOS network for free to those who hold EOS. Currently, EOS trades at $6.13 on Binance and Bithumb and it should be exciting to see how the mainet launch and future airdrops play out heading into June.

4. NEO - NEO has emerged as one of the strongest altcoins due to it’s committed team, large community and its strong positioning as the cryptocurrency of China. They have further solidified that positioning in China with the recent formation of the G3 alliance alongside ONT and ELA, and the country continues to show a strong commitment to innovations in the blockchain space. Holding NEO on Binance receives monthly GAS payouts, which you can calculate here. NEO trades at $91.32 at the moment on Binance and Kucoin.

5. XMR (Monero) - Monero is the leader in private and censorship-resistant transactions and has been for a few years. A team of researchers at Princeton recently found it to be the only truly untraceable coin. Moving towards the future of the space, XMR may prove to be immensely valuable to many who are looking to truly move in silence, and no other coin offers this at the moment(according to Princeton). XMR has a strong dev community and trades at $284 on Bittrex at the time being and is the strongest of the privacy coin holdings available.

The opinions expressed on Crypto Bull are in no way financial advice and are only opinions. We are not responsible for any losses incurred as a result of reading our blog.