PANews reported on January 4 that according to News.bitcoin, according to the on-chain analysis of the crypto aggregator Dropstab, in 2024, various projects distributed $14.91 billion to crypto users through a series of airdrop activities. The top of the airdrop distribution list is Hyperliquid, whose more than 90,000 users received an airdrop of $1.34 billion. It was followed by Starknet, where 1.3 million addresses received an airdrop of 700 million tokens worth $1.33 billion. Pengu's $1.15 billion airdrop, Wormhole's $896 million airdrop, and Jupiter's $891 million airdrop became the top five airdrop projects with the highest returns in 2024.
Of the $14.91 billion distributed through airdrops, $4.22 billion (28.3%) was distributed in the L2 sector, $3.31 billion (22.2%) was distributed in the DeFi sector, and $2.63 billion (17.6%) was distributed in the L1 sector. Games and memes, liquid staking, and artificial intelligence (AI) projects distributed tokens worth $2.28 billion, $1.27 billion, and $373 million, respectively.
