Solana

Where real ones come from

Guides including one from Backpack Learn say legitimate airdrops are announced on a project's official channels and that you should find claim links on its verified X or Discord accounts. No protocol will contact you privately about an airdrop. Real airdrops usually reward past on-chain activity, not a payment to sign up.

The precedent

The best known example is Jupiter's first airdrop in January 2024, which distributed over $700 million in JUP to more than a million wallets, with the largest recipients being active traders and not multi-wallet farmers.

Red flags

The guides agree on a short list. Never share a seed phrase or private key. Treat any request to deposit SOL to claim an airdrop as a scam. Do not sign transactions you do not understand, since malicious approvals drain wallets. Be sceptical of "check eligibility" sites that exist to harvest addresses, and of urgency.

One page that looked like a guide in our results was in fact promoting a "$RESOLV airdrop" with "zero risk" language, a classic pattern.

Habits that help

Use a separate hot wallet for claims and keep main funds in cold storage, stick to well-known wallets such as Phantom, Solflare or Backpack, revoke unnecessary approvals after claiming, and use a block explorer such as Solscan to confirm what a transaction does.