Quick recap for newcomers: $degen is farcaster's money. It launched early-Jan and is still rolling out with three total airdrops planned. The first concluded; claims for that close May 1st. The second is underway: that's the tipping you've seen all over farcaster. It's meant to reward creators.

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Do these tips eventually come out of our wallets?I haven't seen degen actually leaving my farcast wallet after typing

So if I tip 42000 degen,  you get that much allocated at the next airdrop? Does it ever come out of my wallet? I haven't seen trxs come out for tips yet

Thanks for asking, it's a common question:

Airdrop 2 point allocations are handled off-chain. Once claims open up (2-3 weeks) $degen tipped to you can be claimed. So nothing's moving on-chain until then.

The @ degentip bot uses /actual/ $degen from the wallet you asked it to create and is unrelated to airdrop 2.