DeFi Kingdoms and Airdrops

6 min readFeb 3, 2022

Disclaimer: Statements in this article relate to current and historical DeFi Kingdoms airdrops and are provided to help new community members understand the history and trend of airdrops for this project. Nothing in this article should be interpreted as an indication or guarantee of future airdrops.

The Hot Air Balloon where most airdrops can be claimed in DeFi Kingdoms

What is an Airdrop?

An “airdrop” is the act of a crypto project sending free tokens to community members, users, stakers or other constituents to encourage adoption and use of the project.

Airdrops are common practice in the blockchain industry, and DeFi Kingdoms has also utilized them since the project’s inception. Continue reading below to learn a little bit about how DeFi Kingdoms has used airdrops in the past and learn about ongoing snapshots for recently announced airdrops.

Past DeFi Kingdoms Airdrops

Since the inception of the project, DeFi Kingdoms has used airdrops to incentivize participation from the community, long-term holding of its governance token (xJEWEL) and active participation by players in the game.

Frisky Fox: We generally have at least one airdrop snapshot period going at any given time to incentivize and reward people who place their faith in the future of the project.

Historical Airdrops:

JEWEL to early Discord members (Aug. 2021)
51 Gen0 Heroes to players staking 5,000 xJEWEL in the bank (Sep. 2021)
“Secret” airdrop of items (tears, potions, eggs and gold) for xJEWEL holders (Sep. 2021)
Daily snapshots for various items to xJEWEL holders (Sep. 2021)
Surprise airdrop of tears for the first people to buy/sell heroes on the beta Tavern (Oct. 2021)
25 land plots to players staking 5,000 xJEWEL in the bank (Oct. — Nov. 2021)
25 land plots to players staking at least 1,000 xJEWEL in the bank (Nov. — Dec. 2021)
Amulets of varying rarity to holders of xJEWEL (tiered based on xJEWEL holdings) (Dec. 2021 — Jan. 2022)
“Atonement Crystals” to to beta users of the Meditation Circle to make up for missing HP/MP due to a contract bug (Dec. 2021)
Crystalvale airdrops (New Gen0s and CRYSTAL) for xJEWEL holders, JEWEL LP providers, hero holders, hero summoners, and those bridging JEWEL to Avalanche (Jan. 2022)

How Snapshots have been taken for airdrops:

DeFi Kingdoms’ methodology for airdrop snapshots has evolved as the project has grown, largely due to the voice of the community. The earliest airdrop was based on early Discord membership, while the next airdrops were all based on xJEWEL holdings, and the most recent airdrops have a wider range of qualifications such as early participation, hero holding, hero summoning and providing liquidity.

While there is no single, perfect method for airdrop snapshots, DeFi Kingdoms has evolved its practices over time to include aspects such as:

providing extra benefit for holding additional amounts in a single wallet;
averaging holdings over a period rather than a single snapshot to discourage moving amounts funds right before and after a snapshot;
removing all of a wallets entries after winning a raffle so that they cannot win multiple times in the same raffle; and
rewarding players and users of the game rather than only the xJEWEL (governance token) holders with various snapshot methods.

As always, these methods for taking snapshots are always subject to change and will likely continue to evolve or may cease entirely as DeFi Kingdoms grows.

Current DeFi Kingdoms Airdrop Snapshots

As of the date of this article, February 3, 2022, there are a few ongoing snapshots, which are detailed below:

Current Airdrops related to Upcoming Crystalvale Launch

Although the Crystalvale launch date has not yet been announced, we do have some awesome airdrops that have been announced for Crystalvale in addition to the snapshots that finished on January 21, 2022.

Secret Snapshots — January 24, 2022 to Unknown (“next couple weeks”)

Holders of xJEWEL will be rewarded with various in-game items. Both the snapshots and the airdropped items are a surprise — this is similar to the secret snapshots that occurred in September 2021.

xJEWEL Holder Snapshots — January 24, 2022 to February 14, 2022

JEWEL/CRYSTAL— Holders of xJEWEL based on average holdings between the period will be eligible to receive 600k CRYSTAL and 400K JEWEL allocated pro rata based on xJEWEL holdings.

25 Crystalvale Gen0 Heroes — Raffle where anyone with at least 100 xJEWEL receives 1 entry and every additional 100 xJEWEL on top of that results in an additional 2 entries (e.g. 500 xJEWEL would equal 9 entries).

Hero Leveling Snapshots — February 14, 2022

5 Crystalvale Gen0 Heroes — the first 5 players to hit the current maximum level (lvl 10) will receive a Crystalvale Gen0 hero. As of the time of this article, the first five have already been accomplished.

100 CRYSTAL & 100 JEWEL— to the next five runners up for hero leveling by February 14, 2022.

50 CRYSTAL & 50 JEWEL— to the next ten runners up for hero leveling by February 14, 2022.

CRYSTAL/JEWEL per hero — for every level above level 1 for every hero, players will receive 1 CRYSTAL and 1 JEWEL (So if you have a level 3 hero and 4 level 2 heroes, you would get 2 + 4 = 6 CRYSTALs and JEWELs).

Hero Leveling Snapshots — February 21, 2022

10 Crystalvale Gen0 Heroes — Raffle where anyone that hits level 10 by February 21 has a chance to win one of 10 Crystalvale Gen0 heroes. The 5 winners from the February 14, 2022 hero leveling snapshot are not eligible to participate in this raffle.

Hero Summoning Snapshots — January 21, 2022 to February 11, 2022

100 CRYSTAL & 100 JEWEL— Raffle with 100 drawings. Each new hero summoned during the period will result in 1 raffle entry. Whoever owns the hero at the end of the snapshot period is the player who gets the raffle entry (i.e. if you summon during this period and sell the hero, the buyer/holder of the hero on February 11 will get the raffle entry).

Current Land Airdrop Snapshot — January 20, 2022 to February 14, 2022

In addition to the previous 50 lands awarded via airdrop, there is another snapshot taking place to incentivize players who summon and level their heroes.

Serendale and the first 100 (of 1000) plots of land.

5 plots of land will be raffled and anyone that holds a hero that was summoned between January 20, 2022 (i.e. anything after hero ID 100,000) and February 14, 2022 will receive one entry. For every level they attain on any such hero by the end of the snapshot they will receive an additional entry.

Current Secret Snapshots — February 1, 2022 to February 21, 2022

Lastly — between February 1, 2022 and February 21, 2022 there will be 7 secret snapshots taken every few days to award xJEWEL holders with items, equipment and more. Prizes will be announced after snapshots are taken and rewards will range in how many items are awarded based on how many xJEWEL were held.

How to Stay Up-to-Date on DeFi Kingdoms Airdrops

As always, the game is under constant change and evolution as it grows and blazes new trails. As such, the best way to stay current on airdrops as details are released is to follow the announcements in the official DeFi Kingdoms Discord.

Happy snapshotting!