Get Free Money for Using Crypto Services….
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
– Thomas Jefferson
Our topic for today is free money.
Which means you likely know we’re venturing into the digital side of life.
I’ve written to you a number of times about so-called “airdrops”—events unique to the cryptosphere in which a crypto project digitally drops a pile of some particular cryptocurrency into your crypto wallet.
Some of these airdrops are meaningless fluff—digital lint worth pennies, or fractions thereof.
But then there are those that deliver real money.
I was a part of four such airdrops recently and picked up a nice chunk of dinero for zero effort on my part. I’ll detail them in a moment.
First, though, I tell you about these four airdrops to underscore yet again just how much free money is flowing through the crypto space these days. Some people are pocketing huge sums from these airdrops—tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes hundreds of thousands.
Others, like me, aren’t pulling in life-changing wealth, but we’re gathering up a wad of digital wealth from these airdrops that no one would scoff at.
Moreover, my goal with today’s dispatch is to highlight a trend that is already shaping our future, and not always in a good way.
We’re moving into a world where technology—specifically robotics and AI—is rapidly changing the workforce. And by “changing” I mean threatening the very existence of so many jobs that humans do today, but which technology will do tomorrow.
And tomorrow is worryingly closer than you might imagine.
Just this week, for instance, the stock and crypto markets soiled their britches because of a Chinese AI program called DeepSeek. I’ve tried it. It’s glaringly superior to ChatGPT, and it’s apparently far more cost-effective than AI tech currently building out on chips that US tech giant Nvidia makes.
DeepSeek isn’t going to displace any jobs (yet) at scale. Still, based on the tech, we’re not too far removed from a day in which better and more robust versions of AI are implanted inside robots and other machines that then do the work of scores of cubicle workers… or assembly line workers… or burger flippers… or x-ray technicians… or paralegals… or courtroom stenographers…
You no doubt see where I’m going.
The upshot is that humanity is going to need to generate sources of income to survive.
Some of that will, almost assuredly, come by way of a “universal basic income.” (That’s a whole different barrel of monkeys with all kinds of social, corporate, and governmental ramifications, so not for this dispatch.)
The other source of income will emerge on the blockchain in the form of crypto projects tied to gaming, and those that distribute a portion of their profits in the form of airdrops, which you can think of as digital dividends.
Which neatly brings us back ‘round to those four recent airdrops that plunked into my crypto wallet in the last few weeks.
For months now, I’ve been telling my Frontier Fortunes subscribers to own a project I call the “Fidelity of the Blockchain” and to stake (deposit) those tokens at a particular crypto website—because it would help set them up for annual airdrops of free crypto tokens (worth real money)…
Well, 1,210 of those tokens popped up in my crypto wallet earlier this month. As I write this, those tokens are worth more than $1,200.
A few weeks before that, a crypto project called Pudgy Penguins (a hugely popular project on Ethereum) airdropped its new $PENGU token to people who owned other projects, including those who had staked the “Fidelity of the Blockchain.” My various wallets received a combined 32,000 $PENGU, which is currently valued at about $700.
And just before that, a project called Meteora airdropped the M3M3 token. About 8,000 of those arrived in my wallet, also worth about $700 right now. An airdrop from a project called Sonic, by way of my holdings in a meme coin called Bonk!, plopped another $200 into my wallet. (And I will note that I’m writing this on a deeply red, down day in crypto. Had I written this the day before, those values would be $1,500, $850, $900, and $550 respectively.)
So, we’re talking about free money worth between $2,800 and $3,800.
Like I said, none of that is life-changing wealth. But who’s gonna shrug off a few grand that you picked up for free?
I know a lot of people still don’t understand crypto. They scoff at crypto as a fad, or a scam. They question its use case. They wonder why the world needs crypto when we already have fiat currencies.
I won’t answer all those questions here. I’ve done that in many, many dispatches over the last several years. All I will say is that the airdrops that land in my wallet convert into very real US dollars… and the only reason a project like Jupiter can regularly drop tokens of value into wallets is because the company is earning real money.
A few days before I wrote this, Jupiter bought back and burned 30% of its token supply—a purchase worth roughly $3 billion. So there’s clearly real money flowing through Jupiter’s business operations.
My point is this: You don’t have to understand everything about crypto to make money in crypto.
All you need to do is realize that these are real businesses. They just operate in a very different way. But they’re earning real money from real operations, and they’re turning around and sharing that money with token holders in a way that is far more egalitarian than traditional Wall Street companies.
All you need to do, honestly, is just hold the right tokens, stake them at the right websites, and then go about your daily life. You don’t need to trade them or manage them in any way, other than maybe voting on the proposals they put forth (they want to see engagement).
Do that, and free money flows into your crypto wallet regularly.
And the sooner you do that, the farther you will be ahead of the mainstream investors and savers who have not yet realized the opportunities in crypto. Because when they do realize those opportunities and they start flooding in, crypto prices are going to be much higher than they are today.
