This article was first published on
You may have been disappointed by the airdrops of Sei or Sui Network, and you are doing your utmost to get some valuable airdrops by making all the tasks on Galxe, Layer3 or whatever. However, it consumes a lot of time and gas fees, and you do not even know whether or not you will earn anything. Therefore, friend.tech airdrop might be for you, because at least it is fun, it does not require much time or gas fees and you will get points every Friday.
What is friend.tech?
Before talking about the airdrop, let’s start by talking about friend.tech. To keep it simple, it is a social media platform that has been built on top of Base, the Ethereum layer-2 chain created by Coinbase. Its particularity is that to communicate with the other people that are on the platform, you need to buy some shares of their profile. When people buy the shares of a profile, the price increases. When they sell the shares, the price decrease. In fact, it transforms each profile into a kind of meme coin, whose price varies according to demand. As your profile on friend.tech is linked to your profile on Twitter, the most expensive profiles are those from the most well-known crypto influencers with a high influencer count — e.g., Cobie.
How to use friend.tech?
To use friend.tech, it is quite simple, you simply type friend.tech in Google and install your shortcut on your mobile (not laptop), and then you will need an invite. An easy way to get it is through by clicking here you will go to my profile, just follow me and send me a dm and I will reply to you via dm with an invite code, as long as I have some remaining ones…
Then you need to fund your wallet. So you need a bit of ETH that you can buy through an exchange like COINBASE or Binance, and that you can then withdraw to an Ethereum layer-2 network like Arbitrum or Optimism. Once you are there, you can bridge a part of the ETH to Base network, for instance by using orbiter.finance, and then you can fund your friend.tech wallet from Base by following the instructions on the application.
Concretely, to start, you need at least the equivalent of $20 in ETH. Once you have that, you can click on the search icon to see the transactions between profiles or on the home icon to see the most active profiles. There are two possible strategies:
- The least expensive one: You buy shares of the profiles freshly created, and cross fingers since price will increase only if others buy them too.
- The most expensive one: You buy shares of the most active profiles, and cross fingers since price can continue to increase, but it can dump too.
What about the airdrop?
On August 15th, the friend.tech team announced on Twitter that there will be an airdrop of “points” every Friday, that will have “a special purpose”:
Although the value of these points cannot be guaranteed, it can make sense to try to get these points, for at least two reasons:
- By using the application smartly, it is easy to get at least a little profit, which will not be overshaded by the gas fees since they are quite low.
- It is a good way to have some fun since once you got shares of a profile you can communicate with the person in a different way than usually.
It might be worthwhile to try friend.tech, by connecting on if you need an invite code. This could allow to get a few airdrop points every Friday, as well as a little profit and some fun in the meantime.
Disclaimer: This is my own opinion and not financial advice. Please invest only the money you can afford to lose.
Join me on Medium for more insights on crypto, DeFi and airdrops!
