 Hi everyone it's MJ the fellow actuary and in this video I want to show you how you can get some airdrops in 2022. And the reason for this is because in 2021 I made over $200,000 in airdrops and I want to share with you how you too can get in of this. Now the majority of this occurred naturally. It was only the $6000 that I made from the ENS token that I actively went after. And also the majority of this is coming from one crypto address although I did make $3,000 in the pain token where I had had multiple addresses creating different little things. But essentially this occurred by mistake. It was natural. I wasn't out there looking for this stuff. Whereas now in 2022 I'm like if I made $200,000 by not being conscious of it how much more can we make by actively seeking these things in the new year. So what I want to do is I want to share my journey and I'm going to be doing a lot of the updates on Twitter so feel free to follow me at Bayman 1991. Bayman is my middle name full names Michael Bayman Jordan 1991 is the year I was born. And essentially there are two main methods to get airdrops. The one is by completing micro transactions on decentralized applications and the other one is by holding specific NFTs. So let's jump into this video. What is an airdrop? Well when a Web3 application becomes decentralized it will create a governance token. Now a large percentage of the token will be airdropped or distributed to either existing users and this is why we want to complete micro transactions on DApps or to potential users and normally they identify them as people holding specific NFTs. Now why do applications do this? I mean from a weird way it's almost as if things have value only if other people perceive them to have value and the way to get that is by giving it out to a whole bunch of people. Look the actual reasoning you can get into Hegelian philosophy or try and understand network effect but essentially the action of distribution creates wealth. Empirically this is what has happened in 2021. I mean there's been this new token SOS which does nothing. It does nothing and it's got a market cap of 250 million dollars and I basically received a thousand dollars of it which I sold on Christmas which wasn't that that long ago. So maybe don't worry about how these things or why they have value just know that empirically they're due and you know this video is going to show you how to get in on it. So in a nutshell what an airdrop is it's a distribution of a governance token to existing and potential users. You can think of these tokens as equity share because it's going to give you some sort of governance power one token equals one vote maybe that's why there's utility that's why these things have have value because people want power in order to control online organizations. But you can also think of them as loyalty rewards so they're going to say to the people who are using their application especially in the beginning days thank you so much here is a reward for being so loyal but they can also use it as a marketing tactic to try and get potential users and they normally identify potential users people who are holding specific NFTs. But airdrops are also a currency you can buy you can sell you can trade with it and it's essentially a form of money in its own right look they can also be used for liquidity mining but maybe that's a topic that I should save for another video but it is another way to earn an additional sometimes they refer to it as yield farming but like I said that's maybe a topic for another video let's maybe do a very very quick case study there were these art NFTs essentially super rare it's this online gallery they create one billion tokens they give 150 million to existing users who had purchased an NFT from their site from this I got 175,000 tokens as an existing user because remember we made those videos last year of me buying and selling a whole bunch of these little things and the token starts trading between one two three dollars that means the team the investors the treasury the people who hold the rest of it have got a new asset of 700 million dollars so it's like why are they giving our free money well it's because by giving our free money they're creating a lot of wealth for themselves not only that but because super rare has become so popular a lot of third parties are using it to base their distribution or their airdrops on it so I got a further $2,000 from something called the Bottle token simply for holding a super rare NFT and this was a sense you know so super rare we're doing it as a loyalty thing Bottle was doing it as a marketing way to get potential users I've got another video on my channel where we talk about Bottle's this AI that generates art and it's selling for millions and millions of of rands it's quite a fun thing now you could have bought a super rare NFT for $50 at the start of the year I know that because that's how much I was selling them for at the beginning of the year we're now the floor price of super rare NFTs are between $750 to $1,000 now there have been some super rare NFTs that have sold for over $2 million each so purchasing this NFT not only did it go up in value not only did you get an airdrop for purchasing it from super rare but you also potentially got tokens from other companies and if you continue to hold the super rare NFT you might have exposure to even future airdrops so I would encourage you to try and buy a super rare NFT off their website or even off open seas for try and get the cheapest one you can just to get a little bit of that exposure but let's maybe talk about risk because of course if you're going to buy a super rare token for $750 there is quite a bit of risk and there are some other risks that I want you guys to be aware of first off are scam coins so if you just get given coins a legit airdrop normally you have to claim but a scam coin you'll just look one day in your address and you've got a whole bunch of tokens and there's normally a website in the token name and these things pretend to be swap exchanges so sometimes you'll get like a hundred scam coins and they'll give a website address and then you go to the website they'll ask if they can access the coins in your wallet and if you click sign yes all of your tokens could get drained so just be careful of scam coins if you're not claiming an airdrop if you're not aware of the airdrop be very cautious of what it is there's also transaction fees okay ethereum transaction fees are expensive especially when it comes to smart contracts buying entities sometimes you can pay up to a hundred dollars just to trade the NFT when the market congestion gets quite high now this can get quite dangerous because you might do many many transactions with many many different wallets and get no airdrops because airdrops at the end of the day they're not guaranteed so please be aware of the risks when you come and become an airdrop hunter fortunately there are some solutions or risk management techniques with regards to the scam coins if something feels fishy ask me on twitter i'll be tweeting about airdrops that i've done successfully and i'll let you know if i come across any scams on my twitter feed and as far as transaction fees this is why i'm going to recommend that you use the polygon blockchain you use matik instead of eth there still is a transaction cost but it's now it's going to be a few cents rather than a few hundred dollars and now this will make it feasible to have multiple wallets because if you're going to become an airdrop hunter you don't just do it with one address you do it with multiple addresses so if there is a a drop of a thousand dollars per address you can make quite a considerable amount so what we're going to do now is i'm going to go through some of the steps i'm going to talk about them and then i'm going to actually show you them or me doing them and then we're going to conclude the video so the 10 steps to basically get started in airdrops is if you're a complete beginner is go download the metamask extension for chrome you then want to follow the security steps to set up your metamask account okay you can then go to a website called openc where you can actually purchase some ethereum on the polygon network and i know that's confusing it's like we're not using ethereum ethereum we're using ethereum on the polygon network i know that's confusing but when you watch me do it hopefully it'll make a little bit more sense and you can purchase openc using your credit card you then want to go and purchase an nft it can be any nft i just went and i made a really really cheap one i made the cheapest one that you could just for the airdrop hunters so this nft is for the airdrop hunters i'll also maybe take the list of people who buy it and if i ever create future nfts or my own coin i'm going to be airdropping it to this list of people so this maybe gets it a little bit of a bonus over another super super cheap nft but essentially you can buy anyone once you then purchase that you then want to go to a website called zappa.fi and enable the polygon network in your metamask account of course in the video i'll show you the actual steps on how to do that you can also then go to wallet.polygon.technology gas swap in order to change a little bit of your ethereum on the polygon network to matik and the reason why you want to do this is because you then want to create a few more accounts and using that matik you can now send some ethereum to each of these other accounts and each of these other accounts can then go and purchase more nfts remember you want it so that if an airdrop happens you've got 10 addresses that you're getting exposed to what you then want to do is go back to the zappa website and complete some of the quests because i'm going to show you how zappa itself is very much eligible for an airdrop it's not guaranteed but there's a high possibility that zappa could be doing an airdrop within the next five days so it's worth getting in and yeah we're going to jump to the video and then we're going to conclude but all this stuff will be in the description as well as the links so guys best of luck okay so step one will be to download the metamask extension so we just type in metamask we then go to chrome.google and we click on that we're going to say add to chrome and we're then going to add the extension hopefully i'm not going too quickly maybe let me just slow down a little bit um but it will download there metamask will then pop up in the top corner and fantastic we now have metamask cute little fox you're going to click get started we're going to click create a wallet then you just want to read that you click agree you want to create a new password for this one we're just going to call it password um one two three uh password one two three i've read the terms click okay then they're going to have this little seed phrase where they'll explain to you how to do it um you guys can yeah do this i think on your own look at the whole seed phrase so let's just click remind me later and now we have our wallet over here so once we have our metamask account you'll see that i don't have anything in it um but what we're going to do is we're going to go to open c in order to purchase an nft so let's go to open c the largest nft marketplace and what we're going to do is i have created an nft for this exercise so let's just go to mj the fellow actuary uh let's see if it pops up mj the super fast actually that's that's a crypto kitten that i bought back in the day i think i have to type it in like this mj fellow actuary there we go and it'll come to to my page over here and what i want to talk about is this airdrop one because you can just see it is the cheapest one i make a whole bunch of nfts and have a lot of fun with this whole space but yeah we will now click on mj's airdrop club we can see there's 20 owners and we've made it really really cheap i mean it's it's under it's under two dollars now if you've got crypto if you've got a way to buy crypto fantastic you click buy now but if you'll look here with my wallet we don't really have any funding fortunately we can buy with a credit card so let's click buy with the credit card oh sorry we first have to connect our our little thing here so we're connecting metamask to open c we're then going to click next we then click connect and we're connecting feel free to rewatch this video or the segment if you do need some some help uh but you'll see we have a zero balance so what we can do is we can either click here buy with card or i think even if we were to click here add funds we can do it with the credit card so this may be here go buy with a credit card and what we're going to do is select the currency that we want to purchase now this is where it gets very very important we want to purchase this ethereum polygon here i want to see if you can purchase matik though they won't let you purchase matik okay we will swap because we do need matik a little bit later but let's go we want to get the ethereum on the polygon chain so not that one ethereum polygon so click that there and of course we do not need to buy um gosh how much is that 300 oh this is this is the pounds that they're wanting us to buy we only need like a very very small amount okay the minimum transaction is 30 pounds so just go with the minimum okay and you're going to get 0.01 that's more than enough so just click continue and then we're going to click next we're going to click connect again and it's going to come to this address which is our address here we click continue enter an email address to create your moon pay account okay we have to create a moon pay account okay so once we've managed to purchase some crypto we're going to go to our wallet we're going to click refresh funds and we might just have to sign another little transaction over here and then hopefully we're going to see some polygon money which is not popping up oh no wait there it is there it is okay so our money has has come through um like I say quite a lot of the times you need to sign transactions and that's not going to cost you any transaction fees it's just signing on your metamask account so now that we've got some ETH on the polygon network and we'll note because it's purple we can come here and we can purchase this one now with the buy now button so you always want to just see this is an unreviewed collection of course because I only created it yesterday already got 25 sales a lot of that is being well about six or seven of that is with my own accounts just purchasing it to get exposure to airdrops in the future but also I shared it on twitter and on some whatsapp groups and people have have already purchased it as well so we'll click confirm then you have to click unlock this is something that you only need to really do in the first time and then we're going to sign the message and we should be able now to have purchased this NFT so if we click sign it'll be like your purchase is processing and what should have happened now is yeah you're getting MJ's airdrop club NFT and you can come here you can see like the owners um yeah you can see all the different people who who have purchased it um I mean you can come and click on them and check out all the other stuff that they have have got going on as as well um but we're getting distracted we're getting distracted so let's come back to our profile and if we're going to look on our profile we now have got this NFT now why this is important is because there was this website chat called the open dial um sos and this just gave tokens to people who had purchased on open sea so if you had purchased on open sea you would then be able to get this airdrop this is saying that I managed to get and yeah you can see 50 airdrop to open sea users I got a thousand dollars simply for having a transaction on open sea it's not the only one there's been other tokens also paint as well rewarded people for having a transaction on open sea so that's the reason why you want to purchase it now the next thing you want to do is you want to find a matic faucet okay so now let's try and find a matic faucet okay I was editing this video and I realized that I was going on for way way too long so what we're going to do is or what you're seeing now is actually going to be the second video so in the second video I'm going to explain how you can turn your ethereum on the polygon into matic and how you can start getting some other airdrops exposure but I thought let's just do one step at a time so for the first video what we've done is we've shown you how to start up Metamask how to buy some polygon ethereum and how to get your very first NFT in the second video I'm going to show you how to exchange it into matic and start getting exposure to all the other types of airdrops so yeah we're going to make it as a part two video just so that this one is not ridiculously long but please feel free to leave your thoughts and questions in the comment section of this video and I'll use that and incorporate in the next video that I'll release either tomorrow or the day after but as always thanks so much for watching and I will see you guys soon Cheers