Current airdrop farming has basically become a standardized cash extraction machine. You swap tokens? Pay fees. You mint NFTs to qualify? More fees. You keep trading to maintain activity? Fees keep stacking. The whole game translates to one simple truth: keep spending money to chase points that may never materialize. Projects measure engagement purely by transaction volume—the more you trade, the more "active" you become. Points climb while your wallet depletes. And just when you think you've earned something, the snapshot hits, often favoring whoever moved money around most aggressively. It's a cycle that benefits only the protocol and the liquidity providers, leaving retail participants wondering if those points were ever worth the gas fees.