The RUNE.GAME x CoinMarketCap airdrop ended in September 2021. Learn how it worked, why it closed, and what happened to the NFTs and tokens. No claims are open anymore.
Play-to-Earn Airdrop: How to Find Legit Rewards and Avoid Scams
When you hear play-to-earn airdrop, a free token distribution tied to playing a blockchain game, you might think it’s free money. But most are traps. Real play-to-earn airdrops don’t ask for your private key. They don’t promise instant riches. They reward actual gameplay—like completing quests, staking NFTs, or joining a community—then drop tokens only after proving you’re a real player. The GameFi, the fusion of gaming and decentralized finance space exploded in 2021, and with it came a wave of fake airdrops. Today, only a handful of projects still offer real value. The rest? They’re just phishing sites dressed up as blockchain games.
Legit play-to-earn airdrops are tied to working ecosystems. Take GamesPad’s GMPD airdrop—it didn’t give away tokens for signing up. It gave NFT holders better access to future token sales. Or the ZAM TrillioHeirs NFT airdrop, which offered real utility: multipliers on launchpad allocations and metaverse entry. These weren’t free coins. They were access passes. Meanwhile, scams like fake Zenith Coin or ORI Orica Token airdrops copy-paste logos, use fake Twitter accounts, and ask you to connect your wallet to claim nothing. They don’t care if you play. They just want your crypto. And if you’ve ever seen a token airdrop, a distribution of free cryptocurrency tokens to wallet addresses that requires you to send ETH or BNB first? That’s not a giveaway. That’s a robbery.
What separates the real from the fake? Time. Real projects have been around for years. They have public teams, documented tokenomics, and active Discord communities. Fake ones appear overnight, vanish in weeks. The best way to spot a legit play-to-earn airdrop? Look at what it gives you—not the price chart, not the hype. Does it give you access? Utility? A real role in the game? Or just a promise? The posts below show you exactly what’s working in 2025, what’s dead, and which ones still pay out. You’ll see real examples of who got paid, who got scammed, and how to protect yourself before you click "Claim Now."