I've done two NFT drops that have gone viral. My most recent one is the Base fundraising announcement which has 27k+ mints.

It seems that 99% of minters are in it for an airdrop. They mint off-platform (eg on mint.fun) and don't even visit the website.

Is this true for viral drops in general?

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If do not do proof of liveness checks (i.e. are you a human) you get 100% bots

We did a research piece on airdrops, bot farming and other problems in blockchain ecosystems a while back

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We did a research piece on airdrops, bot farming and other problems in blockchain ecosystems a while back

https://tradingstrategy.ai/blog/desolated-forests-of-defi