GET READY! Biggest Airdrops For 2022 Are Incoming!! Most Valuable EVER!!? - YouTube

Channel: Chico Crypto

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Airdrops
who doesn’t like a good crypto airdrop.
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It’s like free money raining from the sky and gently dropping into your lap, just for
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using the world of crypto applications and defi.
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We have called out some of the biggest airdrops in the space, and we are going to do it again
because
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it’s time for Chico Crypto!!
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Airdrop fever has kind of died down but let me tell you it always picks back up.
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Uniswap started the trend during DeFi summer of 2020.
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400 tokens per wallet if you had made a swap through their AMM which at Uniswap’s peak
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was worth almost $18000 dollars.
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Airdrop fever died down but then it started once again last year with DyDx and ENS
dydx
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banked some people over 100 hundred thousand dollars, while ENS was banking many people
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between 10 to 20 thousand dollars.
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Wouldn’t it be nice to snag some airdrops of that size?
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Well there still is a chance
I have a feeling Airdrop season is going to kick off real soon
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with once again big Ethereum names doing their drops!!
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So let’s begin with me reiterating airdrops I’ve already covered but haven’t happened
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yet.
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#1 is Optimism.
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I covered this airdrop all the way back in September of 2020 and gave the reasons I think
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it will airdrop, including the large VC Paradigm being an investor in Optimism,but also an
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investor in already airdropped projects, the one who kicked off Uniswap and one of the
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most valuable dydx, and another one reflexer!!
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But the biggest piece of evidence to me
is total value locked up
as we can see back
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in September, TVL on optimism was $214 million, and they were in 3rd place behind dydx who
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had 447 million, and arbitrum who had 1.5 billion.
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Well let’s look at TVL today, optimism has fallen to #4 with another optimistic rollup
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who has a token, Metis dethroning them from the #3 spot.
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They are barely growing and actually losing layer 2 market share.
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DyDX has grown to nearly 1 billion TVL, and arbitrum is at 3.5 billion.
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Optimism is obviously falling behind and they are going to need to incentivize people to
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use their rollup.
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The best incentivization strategy in crypto?
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An airdrop

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Now in that video I showed how to use Optimism to possibly be eligible for their airdrop
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, that video is down in the description if you want to check it out.
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The 2nd possible coming airdrop I need to reiterate is zksync another layer 2 for ethereum,
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based on zk, zero-knowledge rollups.
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I first covered this one back in October
well it’s confirmed zksync will have a token,
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within their docs they say that yes it will have a token.
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How do we know it could be an airdrop.
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Well back in November a spencer noon tweeted “It’s a damn shame there aren’t more
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community-owned $ETH L2s, of which a chris burniske replied “zksync will be community
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owned” and the official zk sync twitter replied to that “True to the core.”
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Community ownership means those who have contributed to the layer's success will be owners of the
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tokens.
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Aka in my opinion, confirmation of an airdrop!
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And once again in that video I showed how to use zksync to possibly be eligible for
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a coming airdrop, link for that is also down below!
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But now it’s time to get into the new airdrops!!
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Including an oh so important one to Ethereum!!
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Are you talking about metmask and it’s mask airdrop?
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Well that is going to happen, as Joe Lubin basically confirmed it in a tweet
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no no, I’m talking about the project who is the Kusama of Ethereum.
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Kusama of Ethereum?
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Well everyone should know about Polkadot and it’s canary network Polkadot
Kusama is
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a testing ground for dapps to make sure everything works, and to try new and experimental features
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before going on top of Pollkadot.
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What sets Kusama apart from Ethereum test networks like Ropsten and Rinkeby, is there’s
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monetary consequences on Kusmama
it has a token that powers the network that has value
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creating a ture test environment.
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Ethereum testnets do not.
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But that is about to change for Ethereum with it’s coming switch to ETH 2 and the merge!!
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Yes, ethereum is transferring to full proof of stake this quarter
if we go to ethmerge.com
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and their FAQ about when is the merge happening they say “The best current (non-official)
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estimate is sometime in Q1 2022.”
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Now this is a big transition and it could lead to a ton of hiccups for dapps o Ethereum
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in how they operate.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a Kusama they could deploy on first
to test, before
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the merge happens?
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Well they are going to have a Kusama and that is Gnosis chain!
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Martin Koppelmann, founder of Gnosis tweeted this about Gnosis chain “So what is Gnosis
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Chain?
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Follow the Ethereum roadmap as closely as possible: This means the highest compatibility
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with Ethereum will be a priority.
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From trying to bring the Gnosis Safe to other EVM chains we know firsthand how many issues
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even deviations from Ethereum can cause.
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They can cause nasty special case handling or even threaten the security assumptions
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of contracts.
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Gnosis Chain aims to replicate Ethereum as much as possible so that ideally all infrastructure
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for Ethereum (including) clients will work with Gnosis chain as well.
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Generally, we want to activate hard forks first on Gnosis Chain - the big first opportunity
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will be "the merge".
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We are aiming to do it exactly 1 week before Ethereum.
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As we are "taking" a lot from Ethereum this is one small opportunity of "giving back"
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- in this case - acting as a "guinea pig" for Ethereum.
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If e.g. unexpected problems would occur a week would still be enough to react or worst
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case delay a hard fork on Ethereum.
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Ideally, we can have a symbiotic relationship with Ethereum where GC stands on the shoulders
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of the giant but pays back.
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They were planning to do the merge on Gnosis chain, 1 week before Ethereum does
and there
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are talks now even 2 weeks before, so dapps can test before going live on ETH2!!
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Now what about that airdrop?
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Well if we go back to Martin’s tweet he talks about bringing Gnosis Safe to other
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EVM chains.
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Well Stefan George co-founder and CTO of Gnosis tweeted “The lock will potentially make
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you eligible for future airdrops (e.g. Gnosis Safe) and allow an opt-in for liquid staking
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on Gnosis Chain, once liquid staking becomes available minimizing opportunity costs.
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Lock your GNO here with a link to the locking contract.
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Although the lock date has passed it was set to February 15th
but I think they just might
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re-open it for a short amount of time, if they get enough interest
but there is another
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way
even if that doesn’t happen a re-opeing
above where Stefan talk about the date he says “GBC
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validators are eligible too.”
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Yes validators for the chain will be eligible for the safe airdrop too!!
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So I just might think about spinning up a validator node for Gnosis chain
if you didn’t
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know Gnosis Safe has over 100 billion TVL!
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But there is more to come regarding airdrops, and possibly this mont including ones that
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have been paying out those big bucks like DYDX and ENS..but before we get into that
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Now back to those high value airdrops that could be coming very soon aka this month!!
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Now the Cosmos ecosystem has been paying out BIG on airdrops lately.
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The Big recent ones were JUNO and OSMO.
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A stargaze chad on twitter explained it pretty well back Janaury 9th.
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He said “My OSMO juno airdrop alone is worth 34k on top of at least another $50k in rewards
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 from staking an original $1200 in $ATOM 
. Dump all you want because you win , we
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win 
 trading is fun but feasting forever on money printers is so much better imo.
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Atom in infinity”
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Now he had a combined value of OSMO and Juno of $34 thousand dollars for only staking 1200
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dollars worth of cosmos atom!!
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How much is that today, well let’s assume the 34k was equal of osmo and Juno
so 17k
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of each.
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OSMO is the same price today as it was back then, but Juno has doubled in price.
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So Juno alone is worth 34k!!
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Plus another 17k for OSMO!!
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Now is there more of these coming?
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Well a Mr. Hyde on twitter tweeted “$EVMOS to be claimed 28th Feb, $SHD to be claimed
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on 21st Feb, $STARS(40%) to be claimed on 28th feb, $RAC to be claimed on 28th feb!!
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Below a Jgorzki asked “if I buy $atom and stake it now, would I be eligible to receive
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an airdrop?”
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of which a cosmos coffehouse tweeted “Yes, there's 20+ Airdrops coming and more announced
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almost daily”
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Now the dates to have Cosmos staked may have passed for some of the above, but like coffehouse
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said, there is 20 more coming.
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So, personally I would stake cosmos, stake juno, and stake osmos to be the most eligible
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for the coming cosmos airdrops comets.
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Cheers!
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I'll see you next time!!