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title: 'Drop Hunting / Retro-Drops: What''s the Point, Risks, Payback, Profit?'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=UHKo_st3zc8'
video_id: 'UHKo_st3zc8'
date: 2026-07-31
duration_sec: 628
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# Drop Hunting / Retro-Drops: What's the Point, Risks, Payback, Profit?

> Source: [Drop Hunting / Retro-Drops: What's the Point, Risks, Payback, Profit?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UHKo_st3zc8)

## Summary

The video explains the retro-drop (retroactive airdrop) niche in crypto: what it is, why projects distribute free tokens, how to estimate risks and profitability, and how the speaker's team is approaching it. It uses recent examples like Arbitrum and Optimism to illustrate return ratios and provides a framework for evaluating projects.

### Key Points

- **Return to YouTube and focus shift** [00:01] — The speaker apologizes for the absence and says the team has moved into the retro-drop niche, previously discussed on Instagram and Telegram. This video explains the mechanics and potential of retro-drops.
- **Markets move in trends** [00:32] — Financial markets live in cycles; the ICO trend made fortunes, and now the retro-drop niche is emerging even during the bear market. One must earn on the current trend rather than clinging to the past.
- **SEC ruling is the catalyst** [01:25] — The SEC said that projects raising funds from unqualified investors before listing at an agreed low price can be considered securities. This leads to fines, project closure, or free token distributions to avoid penalties.
- **Arbitrum airdrop example** [02:08] — Arbitrum distributed about $1.5 billion. A single wallet could receive $800–$2,000 with expenses of $25–$60, a ratio of 1:20.
- **Top projects using retros** [02:40] — Over the past year, all top projects like Optimism, Hashflow, and Arbitrum launched with retro-drops, validating the niche.
- **Risks and retrospective analysis** [03:09] — You cannot know which projects will airdrop. The strategy is to study past behavior of projects and predict future distribution based on retrospectives.
- **Trend duration and Starknet** [04:04] — The trend may last until Starknet (an alpha project) releases. After that, market conditions may shift. The speaker advises using only money you can afford to lose.
- **Project analysis table** [05:28] — The team created a table analyzing projects by drop date, conditions, raised investments, funds, and token economy. It is available for viewers to use.
- **Arbitrum eligibility conditions** [06:12] — To qualify for the Arbitrum airdrop, a wallet needed to be an active user for over 2 months, have at least 4 transactions, $10k+ transaction volume, and $10k+ bridge volume, with costs around $30–$50.
- **Arbitrum per-wallet profit** [07:26] — Arbitrum gave 625 to 10,000 ARB per wallet, worth $850–$14,000. With hundreds of wallets, the profit multiplies significantly.
- **Retro-drops as new ICO** [07:57] — The speaker believes retro-drops may replace ICOs. He emphasizes betting only money you can lose, and notes one account costs $30–$50.
- **Zero-investment project example** [08:27] — A project (likely Aptos) gave 300 tokens for activating a node and 150 tokens for another action, yielding over $1,500 per account without any real money investment.
- **Timing before bull market** [09:26] — Since major projects are using retros, there is still time to enter the trend before the next bull market and make good profits.

### Conclusion

Retro-drops are a high-risk, high-reward trend that may mirror the ICO era. The key is to use only disposable capital, rely on historical data to select projects, and scale wallets while the trend lasts.

## Transcript

Conquest channel. It's been a while since we last saw you. In this video, I'll tell you where I've been, what we've been up to. What our team is doing now, where we're looking, and where we plan to earn money. Where exactly are we earning money? In this video, we'll
retro-drop niche on my Instagram, in the Telegram channel. I actively wrote about this, wrote about Zira, there are simply no shortcuts, and I recommended everyone to spin these projects. I finally have time and can tell you more on YouTube.
What is a retro-drop, how can you earn money here, and how our team is moving in this direction. Let's get started. Let's start with the fact that any financial market lives in cycles, trends, you can call it whatever you like. There is one
can call it whatever you like. There is one trend, one cycle, and while there is a trend, you need to earn money on this trend. Then the trend goes away. A new trend comes, and you also need to earn money on the new trend. That is, at one time, we had the ICO trend, and
many made a fortune on it, and there, on Conlist, I think everyone knows projects like false, Lana, the world, and so on, where you could make money. There are and so on, where you could make money. There are not only tens and hundreds of X's. Sova, for example, is
not only tens and hundreds of X's. Sova, for example, is now a focus.  It's changed, and now we're hyping up the retro-drop niche, despite the fact that we're currently in the deepest hibernation, a so-called bear market, but why am I just going into the
background? It's very simple, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that anyone who goes public with the help of Ideon, raising funds before listing at an agreed-upon low price, can immediately be considered a security. That is, those who
raise funds before listing on the exchange at the initially agreed-upon price are immediately considered a security. What should you do first if a project still wants to go public with the help of raising funds in advance, that is, unqualified
investors, immediately? This will either result in huge fines that not every project can pay, or simply close the project, or distribute tokens for free, and distribute tokens for free, even in fairly large
volumes. For example, the Arbitrum project recently came out, which distributed about one and a half billion dollars. Just think about this figure, and one wallet could receive from 800 to 2 thousand dollars with expenses of 25 or 60 dollars per
wallet, and this is realistic, that is. You invest $50 and even get $1,000, the ratio is 1:20, that is, for one unit, you get 20 units. Over the past year, all the top projects have been released with the help of retros, including
Autos, Optimism, Hashfall, and Arbitrum. Now, while you can really earn money in this niche,
decided to open an office, this whole thing is about scaling up, delegating, and now we are doing all this on a large scale. I decided that I would cover this niche for I decided that I would cover this niche for you so that my subscribers could also
earn money on it. If we have already figured out the ratios of respect and profit, on average, 120, even if one is ten, this is a very good ratio. Then how are we doing with risks? The point is that we cannot know exactly which
project will distribute drops, that is, we can focus on retrospectives, look at which projects behaved in the past, what they distributed, and based on this analysis, we can predict something for the future. How projects
will distribute drops in the future. For example, now we have example, now we have such projects as you prioritize. How not. such projects as you prioritize. How not. Polyhedron was also made by Zoro and left.
paying attention to, again, except for Polyhedron, because in principle it is too late to enter and the risks are also high. I wrote that we were doing back in Yulia, then it was as safe as possible to enter. The next question is how long will
this trend exist. That is, how long can we inject new money, create a new account, create a farm. I think that before the release of Starknet, these are alpha projects that can create accounts. Then we will
see how you manage the market in general, the cryptocurrency market, and in principle, in principle, how you feel about the financial market until then. I again without fanaticism with the money that you are ready to lose because
again, this is a risk. The ratio there is one ten one twenty is really good. The next question is how overvalued the market is. On the one hand, a huge number of people are now coming to this niche because it is a good, good
profit potential. But on the other hand, now we have a fierce bear market and money left, and in order to create a farm of stop projects, really large expenses are needed, that is, 5, 10, 15, 20 thousand dollars if
You have to spend some kind of mini-farm with the expectation that you will someday receive a drop. That is, think about it, you just have to burn 10-15-20 thousand dollars so that in the future you might not
exactly receive your rewards for it. That is, it seems like some kind of nonsense. But this is really true, and those guys who spent 5-10 thousand dollars there were able to earn their 200, 300, 400 thousand dollars. The
next thing we will move on to is tables. Our team made this table in several days. Here is a complete analysis of the project by drop date, again, everything in retrospect, in the past, drop conditions, directions
attracted how much investment the project and funds, dash, then the economy, the general drop, and so on. I put this table. You can use the parcels according to the video clip. I don’t mind. Here you can look at such recent projects.
Again, Arbitrum is the latest project that is very large. Just dollars on all accounts on one wallet, you could easily get 1000 dollars. Date of drops  16.03 here you can see the conditions of the drop, that is, what you had to
do in the past for which you could be given a conditional transfer to the arbitrage network transactions within two 6-9 months. That is, you just needed to be an active user of this network for more than two months, that
is, this is one of the transaction multipliers 4 10 25 100, that is, a minimum of 4 transactions, a transaction volume of at least 10 thousand dollars and a bridge volume of at least 10 thousand dollars, again after spending, it could be around 30-40-50 dollars
direction to R2 solution What is ur0 in r1r2 and ur3 I will also talk about in the following videos attracted investments of 124 million dollars attracted investments of 124 million dollars and the main investors of tier-1 are Panther
and the main investors of tier-1 are Panther Capital and Ribit Capital. If you see in places such funds as Panther Capital, whose field paradigm is Anderson Horvis, then with a high degree of probability we will have a drop.
Binance and Coinbase can also be added to this list, that is, those funds that like to influence the project so that  They gave out the trope, so take this into account. First of all, this is paradigm and Anderson Horowitz drop,
the number of coins, plus on the listing, they gave out from 625 arbitrators to 10 thousand they gave out from 625 arbitrators to 10 thousand arbitrators, this is 850 14 thousand dollars per wallet. And if you have 100 200 500 1000 or 1000 wallets there, then you can
calculate. What kind of profile this could be. Again, just remember the ICO trend, remember the sheets where also. All this could be done by multiplying and there you could earn tens of hundreds of x's on one account. I believe that the retro trend
is the trend that will possibly replace ICO for us, which we had a blast with all of Buran, the previous one, so we bet again on the money
that you don't mind losing. This is very important. You don't need to run there to pawn your apartment, car, or sell some things there, there are essentials, and in terms of costs, one account is 30-50 dollars. The next project is the project
on which I'm making a really big bet. I'm talking about this  I recorded a video about the coin and this project also distributed funds, this will not even be a drop, but rather a specific one. Here you won’t even need to invest real money, you
just needed to jam the book on their platform and basically everything was given away for this. Let's see, they gave away 300 for activating a node and exactly 150 taptos of 50. If you sold for 10 dollars, what
can happen? Calmly, this is more than one and a half thousand dollars for one account and again, this is basically without investments. If you look at the other projects, these are projects that I think that most of you have heard of, there is the UNIS
you have heard of, there is the UNIS wap index, its current status and many other projects, the same hashfall, and so on, soy optimism, and so on. That is, once again, if now all the major projects over the past year
have been released with the help of retros, then before the bull market, I think we have time to get into this trend and make good money on this. Which projects are worth law under great question, under great risk,
because time is already pressing for a couple of accounts. I would do the same.  I left and I think I'll talk about all this in the
next videos. I'll show how our teams do things. What tricks they use, so I'll keep you updated. That's all. I hope it was as brief as possible. It's interesting. If you're waiting for guides on the main projects,
what nuances there are, what tricks there are, what life hacks our teams use, be sure to talk about that. Write, like, and go to our Telegram channel because that's where I publish all the latest valuable information, the
alpha information we use, so I'll leave all the links in the description under this video. Until next time, bye-bye everyone.