Series · Web3 Safety
Airdrop Safety: The Complete Guide
Fake airdrops are an industry — rented drainer kits, stockpiled domains, hijacked channels — and it harvests one thing: signatures. This series maps the whole machine and builds the workflow that survives it. Start with the checklist, or read top to bottom.
Start here
If you only read three pieces, read these.
The Airdrop Safety Checklist: 12 Checks Before You Connect a Wallet
Every check from the series in one printable list. Any single failed check is a stop.
Aug 16, 2026How to Claim an Airdrop Safely: The Burner Wallet Workflow
The five-stage operational workflow: verify sources, bookmark the URL, claim with a dedicated wallet, read the signature, revoke after.
Aug 12, 2026Airdrop Scam Checker: Verify Any Airdrop On-Chain in 5 Steps
Contract age, deployer history, holder distribution, approval permissions, domain verification — the on-chain inspection workflow.
Attack map
How fake airdrops are built, delivered, and found.
Anatomy of the Biggest Airdrop Scams
The drainer supply chain — kits, domains, traffic, cash-out — through documented operations: Inferno Drainer, the Polygon NFT wave, and the Cointelegraph compromise.
Aug 8, 2026How Fake Airdrops Reach You
Five proven distribution channels: hijacked X accounts, Discord and Telegram bots, paid search ads, fake streams, and compromised media sites.
Aug 9, 2026Unsolicited Airdrop Tokens: The Claim Trap
Tokens that appear uninvited are bait, not gifts. Claim links, import-token scams, dusting, and address poisoning — and why the correct response is nothing.
Aug 10, 2026Airdrop Eligibility Checker Phishing
Why checkers are the ideal phishing format, the infrastructure-registered-before-hype trick, and how to verify eligibility without connecting anything.
Signatures
Where the theft actually happens.
Airdrop Signature Scams: Why the Claim Button Is Dangerous
The four signature types a claim site can request — approvals, Permit2, permits, eth_sign — and what each lets an attacker do.
Aug 14, 2026EIP-7702 Airdrop Phishing: One Signature, Total Wallet Control
Pectra delegation lets one signature hand an EOA to attacker code. First documented victim lost ~$147K in May 2025.
Field guides
Adjacent safety guides worth the detour.
Crypto Airdrop Scams Explained
The base-rate guide: how fake claim sites, permit phishing, and malicious token airdrops work, and how to verify the real ones.
Aug 13, 2026Testnet Airdrop Safety
Testnet farming is low-risk; the sites around it are not. Seed harvesters, network bait-and-switch, and the burner-wallet rule.
Go deeper on adjacent vectors
The same mechanics, one level down.
Key concepts in the glossary: wallet drainer, airdrop, Permit2, permit sign phishing, fake token, dusting attack, phishing.