The SEI mainnet has come and a lot of people are extremely disappointed in them, this is because, a lot of us had extremely high hopes in the SEI airdrop. Turns out that the SUI airdrop was some how better than the SEI airdrop even though only half of the SUI participant got the airdrop. On the bright side, SEI was testnet which means that it was totally free to use the platform, so it didn鈥檛 cost anything. Testnet has to do with testing the blockchain before it goes mainnet, testnet involves doing a lot of activities to know the strength and weakness of the chain so the devs can work on it properly before they go live. Testnets in the past have been known for handsomely rewarding testers, which is why a lot of people started taking them seriously. But lately it seems like these crypto projects are beginning to take testers for granted. When SUI launched their mainnet and disappointed their community, a lot of people relied on SEI and hoped they dont disappoint like SUI.
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SEI launched its mainnet 2 days ago, after assuring the community they would be getting airdrop, hopes got high, but the community was expecting airdrop claim a day before the airdrop, unfortunately the airdrop claim didn鈥檛 come when the community expected it, but it came today. A lot of people were so disappointed when they got gas fees as airdrop, for a project where testers spent over 10 months testing, doing tasks, spending their time to make sure they were eligible for any airdrop, it is disappointing to realise that they got reward minimum of $1 for testing. Especially crypto influencers who spend months making twitter threads and teaching people how to interact on the SEI testnet only to see their $1 reward. This has made a lot of people including me lose the little hope we have on testnet.
The other way to get airdrops is to focus on retro active airdrops, but this is very risky, retroactive airdrop is when you interact with the mainnet, this interaction could be making transactions, meaningful multiple transactions, making sure you are utilising the chain. But this involves using your real money for gas fees and also for interaction, but the risk here is that, interacting with your money for the sole purpose of getting airdrop doesn鈥檛 mean that you will get the airdrop especially when the project never announced airdrop so interacting is based on speculations. But if you love the space and you dont mind interacting, then do that at your own risk.
