Another outrageous airdrop has appeared. A leading project's new round of airdrop surprisingly requires paying $3.3 upfront to check if you qualify, which is really quite extreme.

Honestly, I’ve been following this project since early on, and I’ve caught quite a few alpha opportunities. But later, when the project team distributed the allocations, a bunch of accounts that didn’t participate much ended up getting the majority. I was already a bit disappointed back then, and I didn’t follow up closely afterward.

This time, with this airdrop issue, I really gained some new perspective. Charging for eligibility checks is quite rare in the crypto ecosystem. I’m not sure if the project team is trying to filter out bot accounts or has other considerations. But doing it this way really impacts user experience.