# The Ultimate Truth About Bear Market Airdrops?
Anti-farming is a done deal. How should ordinary people navigate the airdrop farming path?
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**Airdrop Track:**
The only two-word storyline from last year to now: Anti-farming.
Perps, BTC ecosystem, prediction markets, DePIN, AI……
One hyped track after another that everyone was excited about,
almost all ended with retail investors bleeding out.
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**2026 bear market continues, liquidity dries up, selling pressure goes unabsorbed!**
Project teams have unified their playbook: completely abandon the bull market coin-dumping model, tighten token distribution across the board.
⭐️Core airdrop allocations are systematically shifting away from batch farming bots, pivoting entirely toward Co-Builders and deep, genuine contributors.
▶️The golden era of multiple accounts, scripts, and zero-effort yield may have belonged only to bubble-inflated bull markets and the opening feasts of a handful of leading projects.
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**Will airdrop farming still be the main way out for ordinary people?**
When zhaozhao was traveling around choosing English-learning countries and institutions last year, he visited several airdrop farming players on the side. Many directly shut down their studios and quietly pivoted.
After deep conversations, a few brutal conclusions:
- Multiple accounts still have opportunities, but only for "new track leading" projects.
- Big airdrops still exist, but the bar is extremely high—you must prove real contributions and pass identity verification.
- The optimal solution is deep participation—become a Co-Builder for the project.
- The pure zero-effort era has basically ended; anti-farming is now the industry norm.
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**First look at 2026's biggest anti-farming disaster: Opinion.**
KOLs and community went crazy hyping in advance, shouting about a strong 2026 start.
Retail investors went nuts grinding points, massively increasing trading volume, burning gas fees, and going all-in on a comeback bet.
Result: TGE crashed directly, creating the first anti-farming nightmare scene of 2026.
Yet in this screaming mess, zhaozhao spotted several Co-Builder players making a fortune.
From the Opinion drama, it's crystal clear:
The old routine of volume-grinding farming only worked in bull markets.
It's completely broken in bear markets. If you want to keep playing, you must completely change your thinking!
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**The other day, opening X was all anti-farming complaints about @PerleLabs.**
When Perle's airdrop rules dropped, X exploded, the whole net flooded with criticism—another textbook anti-farming case.
Many players spent months on verification and data annotation. After chatting with micro-influencer @Ethcoin3 the other day, I learned that this micro-influencer's top account costs over 200U per account, with massive time and money invested. Final eligibility check: vast majority of accounts are "Not eligible"—all effort for nothing.
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**Current bear market liquidity is terrible. If project teams dump large allocations, TGE day will inevitably face mass selling, overwhelming dump pressure crushing the market.**
This is perhaps also why the vast majority of projects in this bear market make the same choice:
Prioritize allocating to Co-Builders and deep genuine contributors, paired with linear unlocks, combined with strict multi-dimensional screening based on community activity and valid data contributions, rigorously controlling token distribution.
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**From Opinion to Perle to Backpack BP, retail investors look completely squeezed, while many Co-Builders don't dare post their airdrop allocations on social media!**
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**Written at the end: The bear market airdrop farming path isn't blocked, it just requires transformation!**
Past airdrops were about who had more accounts, faster scripts, and bigger guts—low costs for high returns!
Current airdrops are about early awareness, real contributions, and correct positioning. Only deep co-building gets you a slice of the pie.
Anti-farming isn't targeting retail—it's the bear market forcing industry reshuffling;
The airdrop farming path isn't completely closed, the old bull market playbook is just completely obsolete.
Moving forward, either transform into a deep contributor, follow the main narrative of the phase, bet on track leaders, and abandon FOMO volume inflation!
Or cut losses in time and stop wasting time and capital on phantom airdrops!
After all, in a bear market, surviving and not getting wiped out matters more than anything.
Then work hard to become a Co-Builder for projects you believe in!!!!
