Gone are those days when airdrop was only an information for a small circle, if you knew, you knew. Now airdrop hunting has turned into a job and become public knowledge that people are getting and dispensing anyhow and every time. This is so nice because it is giving everyone the opportunity to participate, earn money and get the head start needed in their crypto journey. I have learnt a lot about crypto from airdrop hunting, just when you think you know a lot about crypto, you find yourself in a position where you start learning new things all over again, and the best part about all these is how exciting they are.
When I started testing protocols, I was shocked to realise there was something called test tokens, tokens that are mirror tokens of real tokens with value but can鈥檛 be spent. That was something new, but exciting to learn and know how it works. I have been wanting to go into active testing of crypto platforms to know how they work, not just reading about them, but hunting for airdrops gave me the opportunity for free without the need to pay money. It was nice, it felt nice. There are lots of testnet tokens, that you use to test new upcoming platforms based on the blockchain they are launching. The first testnet token I got to interact with was the Goerli ETH. To get the Goerli ETH token you need to request for it every 24 hours in the faucet site, but the rate at which people are participating on airdrops and also testing new protocols is getting really high. This means that the demand for these tokens are getting high.
Some people are greedy with the faucet they use different accounts to request for the faucets, congesting the network, now the token is becoming more valuable as more people are demanding for it. To reduce the way people demand for it, liquidity has been added to the test token, so you can just pay for it, buy as much as you want instead of sticking to the faucet daily limits. So would you pay to get these faucet tokens? As a core developer you will definitely need the test tokens to test whatever you want to test. But as a tester like me, I am not sure I will be paying for the test token, I will always find my way around a faucet that will give me token for free. You can get other Testnet tokens like the optmism Goerli ETH and bridge it to Goerli ETH.