This article was originally published on Bankless. Translated by Odaily Planet Daily Golem (@web3_golem).
The potential of anti-rubbing in Blast may cause many L2 airdrop users to lose confidence, but there are still many airdrop opportunities in the L2 field. Below, Bankless introduces 5 L2s with potential airdrops and why they are worth paying attention to.
Scroll
Introduction
Scroll is the 8th largest L2, and the 3rd largest zkEVM L2, with a TVL of nearly $1 billion, soaring nearly 20% in the past week. Scroll was founded in 2021, valued at $1.8 billion in 2023, and received investments from well-known venture capitalists such as Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Crypto, and Sequoia China. Scroll consists of a settlement layer, a sorting layer, and a verification layer. The settlement layer connects Ethereum and Scroll to ensure data availability and verify the validity proof of zkEVM, the sorting layer executes transactions, processes them, and sends them in batches to Ethereum to ensure data availability and validity proof, and the proof layer generates zkEVM validity proof to ensure the correctness of L2 transactions. Some validators and coordinators handle these proofs and finally confirm them on Ethereum.
Reasons to watch
In April, Scroll announced its “Scroll Sessions” reward activity, where users can earn Scroll Marks, equivalent to points, through these activities. The activity also provides retrospective rewards for users who have deployed assets on Scroll since the mainnet launch in October 2023, indicating that they are tallying all the activities on the chain. Scroll recently concluded Session Zero, where users were rewarded for using the native bridge or LayerZero bridge to bridge assets such as ETH and wstETH. Session One is about to start and may support other assets and ways to earn Marks. Referring to the previous ZKsync airdrop, Scroll is highly likely to be the next top L2 airdrop, with the surge in TVL as evidence.
Zircuit
Introduction
Zircuit is an upcoming zkEVM that uses AI to enhance security and has received support from funds such as Dragonfly, Pantera, and Maelstrom. Founded in mid-2022, Zircuit is currently in the testnet phase. Zircuit stands out for its Sorter-Level Security (SLS) feature. Unlike other rollups that only bundle transactions into blocks, Zircuit’s sorter uses AI to check the security of each transaction before bundling it into a block to see if there are any hacker attacks or exploits. If SLS identifies a transaction as malicious, it isolates it and never includes it in a block.
Reasons to watch
To increase TVL before the mainnet launch, Zircuit launched a points activity where users can deposit ETH, LST, and LRT into its network. It supports multiple assets, including liquidity staking tokens like wstETH and mETH, liquidity restaking tokens like pufETH and ezETH, and the sUSDe synthetic dollar of Ethena. Each token provides a combination of rewards for Zircuit and related projects. Zircuit has accumulated over $2.5 billion in staked assets and attracted over 1,000 applications for the “Build to Earn” program.
Reya
Introduction
The Reya Network is an upcoming L2 for trade optimization, supported by Framework, Coinbase, and Wintermute, aimed at enhancing market depth by providing shared liquidity for all exchanges operating on L2. Users can provide funds to the liquidity pool from private accounts and receive returns from the trading spread, funding rates, protocol fees, and liquidation. The unique feature of this function is that it prevents protocols from competing for liquidity through potential dilutive reward programs and allows them to draw liquidity from the overall liquidity network. Reya’s goal is to achieve a high-performance block confirmation time of 100 milliseconds and process up to 30,000 transactions per second to become the preferred place for on-chain trading.
Reasons to watch
Although the official airdrop has not been announced, Reya has announced a liquidity reward activity where depositors earn points by providing funds to its exchange with stablecoins. Point programs often mean airdrops, although the schedule has not been announced. In addition to deposits, Reya’s flagship perpetual DEX is currently tradable for Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Zora
Introduction
Zora Network is an ETH L2 designed to make NFT circulation more efficient and affordable. Zora uses Optimism’s OP Stack and provides a fast and low-cost network designed for NFTs. As the first NFT-focused L2 using the OP Stack, transactions are confirmed within seconds, minting costs are only a few cents, and Zora refunds protocol fees to creators, resulting in $25 million in rewards for artists who release NFTs on its network. Zora provides creators with a comprehensive toolkit to publish NFTs in various formats, whether open collections, collections, or 1/1 artworks.
Reasons to watch
Although Zora has not announced an airdrop, the launch of its own network indicates the possibility of an airdrop of a governance token in the future. In addition, given their involvement in Superchain, Zora’s creators may once again be eligible for retrospective rewards from Optimism, as they did from Airdrop 4.
