The airdrop industry has a measurement problem. Projects report 200,000 claimers, the price dumps 30% in a week, and the post-mortem blames "the market." The real reason is that 180,000 of those claimers were sybils, bots, or sell-on-claim wallets that were never going to stay. ChainPeak runs airdrops as a growth campaign — designed, distributed, and retained — measured in wallets that matter.
How ChainPeak runs an airdrop
Every airdrop campaign runs in three phases, each with its own deliverables and its own metrics.
Design (2–3 weeks). Eligibility rules and allocation tiers. Sybil scoring model configured for your chain and your goals. Claim-page UX with anti-bot measures, captcha, and conversion tracking wired up before the first wallet hits the page.
Distribution (2–6 weeks). A tiered KOL wave calibrated to the audience. Quest-platform distribution across Galxe, Zealy, Layer3 or RabbitHole where it fits. CT campaigns with regional language coverage. Community drops on Telegram and Discord. Each channel has a job in the funnel — top of funnel is awareness, mid is sign-up, bottom is claim.
Retention (ongoing). Trading tasks, governance voting, holding incentives, and ongoing KOL coverage after the claim window closes. Weekly cohort analysis of who came back. The first 30 days decide whether your airdrop is a growth moment or a one-line footnote on the chart.
The sybil problem
A crypto airdrop without sybil filtering is a giveaway to whoever runs the most wallets. ChainPeak's sybil scoring combines four signals:
- Wallet age and activity history — new wallets with no history get penalized
- Funding source clustering — wallets funded from the same CEX withdrawal or address get grouped
- Behavioral fingerprinting — gas patterns, transaction timing, and contract interactions identify bot farms
- Graph-based cluster detection — wallets that interact only with each other in tight loops are flagged
The model is configured per airdrop. A consumer retail airdrop has different thresholds than an L2 ecosystem airdrop, and we tune accordingly. Filtering is not an afterthought — it is the design decision that determines whether your airdrop is a distribution mechanism or a public donation.