A list of 35 potential airdrops compiled by a well-known investor

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Famous blockchain investor and partner at the free information channel The Daily Ape, Darren Lau, summarized projects that may have airdrops on his personal social media platform. Unlike previous compilations, Darren Lau's overview is very detailed and will be helpful for investors. Rhythm BlockBeats has translated and introduced it as follows (click on the project names to access their Twitter):

Swap

ParaSwap

ParaSwap aggregates multiple liquidity networks to solve the inefficiencies in the DEX market and finds the best prices across various decentralized trading platforms.

DeBank

DeBank is a multi-functional DeFi wallet based on a data dashboard that helps users track DeFi applications, compare DeFi rates, manage DeFi assets, discover DeFi projects, and analyze DeFi risks.

Zapper

Zapper is a DeFi asset management platform formed by the merger of DeFiZap and DeFiSnap. It offers multi-asset pool services, allowing users to invest their tokens into different DeFi pools with one click and manage and track their holdings through a dashboard interface.

Zerion

Zerion is also a DeFi asset management platform. According to co-founder and CEO Evgeny Yurtaev, Zerion positions itself as the Coinbase of the DeFi space. Official data reveals that Zerion supports over 60 DeFi protocols. As of June 2021, Zerion had over 200,000 monthly active users and a cumulative trading volume exceeding $750 million.

MetaMask

MetaMask is a browser extension wallet that launched the DEX aggregation service MetaMask Swaps in October 2020.

StableSwaps

Saddle

Saddle is an AMM automated market maker specifically designed for stable-value crypto assets, aimed at facilitating efficient trading between stable-value crypto assets.

Shell Protocol

Shell Protocol is a liquidity pool for Stablecoins, designed for simple smart contracts to trade Stablecoins. It provides an open-source SDK for easy DApp and DeFi integration.

Yield Aggregators

Gro Protocol

Gro Protocol is a stable yield aggregator that diversifies risk and returns. The protocol continuously optimizes a series of market-neutral yield strategies to achieve the best DeFi yields.

Unagii

Unagii is an automated DeFi yield platform that includes staking services, redefining the smart, simple, and fun experience of earning with digital assets.

ApolloDAO

ApolloDAO is a yield aggregator in the Terra ecosystem, a community-driven cross-chain NFT and wrapped asset yield management platform aimed at managing related assets for users and achieving higher returns through DeFi strategies.

Interest Rate Markets

Element Finance

Element Finance is a fixed-rate lending protocol. The CEO of Element Finance is Will Villanueva, who is also the founding research analyst of Quilt. Previously, Will served as co-founder and CTO of Bounties Network. Investors in Element Finance include Aave founder Stani Kulechov, ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin, a16z, and Placeholder.

Horizon Finance

Horizon Finance focuses on building an innovative unique interest rate trading platform for DeFi in the long term, with a dual goal: allowing all DeFi participants to manage yield rates; advancing the decentralized finance world by building key components of the ecosystem.

Solend

Solend is a decentralized algorithmic protocol for lending, allowing any user to earn interest or obtain loans against their assets on Solana, with almost zero costs. Tokens integrated into Solend become more useful, allowing users to earn interest or serve as collateral for loans.

Yield Protocol

Yield Protocol is a fixed-rate lending protocol proposed by Paradigm analyst Dan Robinson. Currently, Yield Protocol offers a 1.42% annual interest rate for lenders and a 1.72% annual interest rate for borrowers, maturing in December 2021.

Liquidity Underwriting

KUU

KUU is an on-chain liquidity underwriter based on Avalanche.

Emerging Market Credit Protocols

Goldfinch

Goldfinch is an on-chain lending protocol co-created by Blake West.

Automated DeFi

DeFi Saver

DeFi Saver, formerly known as CDP Saver, automates CDP liquidation protection and ratio management, providing advanced control over CDP debt, aiming to help users protect their CDPs from liquidation through unique features like elegant liquidations. Users can better manage and protect their CDPs.

DeFi Lending Aggregators

Fuji DAO

Fuji DAO is a DeFi lending aggregator that emerged from the ETHGlobal "MarketMake" hackathon in 2021.

DeFi Structured Products

Ribbon Finance

Ribbon Finance is a DeFi structured product protocol that creates portfolios by combining options, futures, and fixed income. It has launched multi-protocol wide strangle options, where Ribbon seeks the lowest prices for put and call options on Opyn, purchasing and packaging them into smart contracts on behalf of users. Notably, to avoid impacting strategy returns, the maximum amount that can be withdrawn from Ribbon each week is 10% of the pool's funds. Once the withdrawal reaches 10%, further withdrawals will be restricted until the following week, when a new withdrawal limit will be set. Additionally, each withdrawal incurs a fixed fee of 0.1%.

DeFi Derivatives

Beta Finance

Beta Finance aims to create a permissionless currency market for lending and shorting, primarily focusing on long-tail assets.

PsyOptions

PsyOptions is a fully decentralized options protocol.

Zeta Markets

Zeta Markets is the pioneering low-collateral trading platform that provides liquidity derivatives trading for individuals and institutions, aiming to revolutionize the options market in DeFi.

Drift Protocol

Drift Protocol is a decentralized derivatives trading platform in the Solana ecosystem.

01 Protocol

01 Protocol is a decentralized derivatives trading platform in the Solana ecosystem.

Charm

Charm creates liquidity for decentralized options using a distinctly different design approach, employing simple yet profound mathematical models commonly found in prediction markets, applied to DeFi options products.

Opyn

Opyn is an on-chain options platform that allows users to track and manage their long and short positions. Opyn is a non-custodial margin trading platform based on Ethereum, Compound, Uniswap, and DAI, enabling anyone to go long or short on ERC20 tokens.

DeFi Infrastructure

Composable Finance

Composable Finance is creating infrastructure to reduce the barriers faced by DeFi creators and users, targeting a cross-chain, cross-layer future for layer one blockchains like Ethereum and Polkadot.

PoS Asset DeFi

pSTAKE Finance

pSTAKE Finance is a DeFi protocol providing liquidity for PoS staked assets, currently supporting staked ATOM and unlocking stkATOM.

Bridges

Hop Protocol

Hop Protocol is a cross-Rollup transfer application designed for fast, trustless transfers across Rollups and Layer 1 networks.

NFT

BlockArt

BlockArt is an online generative art platform based on the Ethereum chain, similar to ArtBlocks, where users can choose to purchase different series of artworks. However, unlike ArtBlocks, BlockArt allows users to adjust certain parameters of the generative artworks instead of purely generating them randomly.

PartyDAO

PartyDAO is a product for collective bidding on NFTs.

Fractional

Fractional is an NFT fractionalization protocol that allows individual NFT or bundle NFT holders to choose to fractionalize their NFTs, minting ERC-20 ownership tokens and setting parameters such as token supply, token symbol, and initial reserve price.

OpenSea

OpenSea is currently the largest NFT trading platform, encompassing various types of NFTs including artworks, collectibles, gaming assets, virtual land, and domain names. In the first ten days of August 2021, the trading volume reached $627 million, setting a new historical record and approximately doubling the total trading volume for July. OpenSea completed a $100 million Series B funding round in July, led by a16z, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion.

Privacy

Aztec

The Aztec protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable encrypted transactions on Ethereum, allowing transaction logic to be verified while maintaining anonymity and privacy.

Savings

Orion Money

Orion Money aims to become the cross-chain Stablecoin bank, the best place for storing, lending, and spending Stablecoins in the DeFi world.