Starknet · 2024
A high-school Starknet airdrop hunter
Taiwan's largest crypto publication, BlockTempo, interviewed me about it. I earned STRK by reading the program and tracking the project's insider wallets.
In the pressAirdrops · since 2022
I've earned airdrops with analysis since high school.
I started in high school, built a studio around it, and I still do it now. The method holds every time: read how a token is designed, find the wallets it will pay, and build the on-chain footprint to match. I write the tooling with AI.
How I actually do it
An airdrop rewards a pattern of on-chain activity. The work is figuring out that pattern before it's announced, then going and building it.
1
Read the token design
Work out who a protocol is going to pay, and why, from its incentives and its funding. Most of the edge is here, before anything is public.
2
Follow the wallets
Track team and insider wallets to see where a program is really heading. This is what BlockTempo interviewed me about on Starknet.
3
Build the footprint with AI
Write the Python and Solidity, and the automation that runs the qualifying activity on-chain. I learned to code this way, one problem at a time.
The track record
Four years of it, from the studio era to the ones I'm still running. I've earned the big ones along the way: Starknet, Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, and Lighter. On-chain proof is available on request.
Lighter · 2025
Lighter's first airdrop
Paid straight to me on-chain, sized by how much I traded. Nothing to claim, no vesting. It's the anchor on my home page, and the most recent proof the method still holds.
On-chainArbitrum · 2023
A foundation token reward from Arbitrum
One of the earlier ones, from activity across the ecosystem while I was running the studio.
HistoricalHyperliquid · 2024
Hyperliquid's airdrop
One of the largest airdrops crypto has ever done. I qualified through the trading and on-chain activity it rewarded.
On-chainThe studio
空投浪潮工作室 · Airdrop Wave Studio
I took a gap year in high school and built a studio around this. I raised an angel round, hired two people, and partnered with 50+ crypto companies, working with the projects, not retail. It was an official community partner of Asia Blockchain Summit 2024. It also took a hard loss, and I kept going.
2023 to 2024Recognition and proof
The work was public the whole time. It's checkable.
- Press. Featured by BlockTempo, Taiwan's largest crypto publication, as a high-school Starknet airdrop hunter.
- Audience. Writing crypto research on X since 2022 to ~14K followers: @hank06171. 2,774 posts, 135K views on the ones I pinned.
- Community. I ran a 3,200-member Telegram group across Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and China.
- Teaching. Seven guest lectures on airdrops and on-chain analysis, at NTU CSIE, the Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance, and university blockchain clubs. I taught several with AI.
- Rooms. 40+ industry conferences and 50+ company partnerships, from Taipei Blockchain Week to Korea Blockchain Week and Hong Kong Web3 Festival.
- Podcasts and video. Interviewed on several Taiwanese crypto podcasts and YouTube channels about how the airdrop work actually runs.
Why it still matters
This is where I learned to build. Crypto was the test: real markets, on-chain results, and a clear answer at the end about whether the analysis was right.
The method hasn't changed, only the scale. The studio was me and two people reading token designs by hand. Now it's a fleet of AI agents that reads the designs, writes the tooling, and runs the qualifying activity, and Lighter is the latest sign it still works.