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.
Airdrops · 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. It's basically the same thing every time: I work out how a token is designed and which wallets it'll pay, then build the on-chain footprint to match. I write the tooling with AI.
How I do it
An airdrop rewards a pattern of on-chain activity. The hard part is spotting that pattern before it's announced, then actually 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. The big ones were Starknet, Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, and Lighter.
Lighter · 2025
Lighter's first airdrop
0.92% of Lighter's entire first airdrop landed in my wallet, sized by how much I traded. I didn't have to claim it, and none of it was locked in vesting. It's the anchor on my home page.
Arbitrum · 2023
A foundation token reward from Arbitrum
One of the earlier ones. I earned it from on-chain activity across Arbitrum while I was running the studio.
Hyperliquid · 2024
Hyperliquid's airdrop
One of the largest airdrops in crypto. I qualified through the trading and on-chain activity it rewarded.
The 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 and hired two people. We partnered with 50+ crypto companies and worked with the project teams directly. It was an official community partner of Asia Blockchain Summit 2024. It also took a hard loss, and I kept going.
Recognition and proof
All of it was public while it happened.
- Press. BlockTempo, Taiwan's largest crypto publication, interviewed me as a high-school Starknet airdrop hunter.
- Audience. I've written crypto research on X since 2022. About 14K people follow me at @hank06171. 2,774 posts, and 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. I've given seven guest lectures on airdrops and on-chain analysis. Places like NTU CSIE, the Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance, and university blockchain clubs. I taught several of them with AI.
- Rooms. I've been to 40+ industry conferences and built 50+ company partnerships. Taipei Blockchain Week, Korea Blockchain Week, Hong Kong Web3 Festival.
- Podcasts and video. I've gone on several Taiwanese crypto podcasts and YouTube channels to talk about how the airdrop work actually runs.
Why it still matters
This is where I learned to build. Crypto made me be right. I traded live markets, everything showed up on-chain, and I found out fast when my read was wrong.
What I do hasn't really changed since the studio. Back then it was me and two people reading token designs by hand. Now AI helps me read the designs and write the tooling. Lighter is the most recent one I've earned.