Bitcoin hit a record high, and Ethereum returned to above $2,600. The market rose steadily, and the interaction of rubbing has gradually entered a new era. In the past, rubbing almost meant a set of processes such as testing online-collecting water-on-chain actions. But now, the meaning of rubbing has gradually changed from low-cost new issuance in the form of interaction to a kind of arbitrage, and can be roughly divided into three directions: classical school, trading platform rubbing and mouth rubbing.
This article will sort out these three directions of hair pulling.
Classical
The classical school, in a broader sense, is the traditional direct interaction with projects, so it will be introduced in this section in the form of a project inventory.
Virtuals
The latest $VIRGEN is a pure meme coin, so the AI Agent Launchpad on this Base may now remove the AI and be more appropriately viewed as a new platform.
Virtuals reward mechanism has undergone a major update. They launched the Virgen Point points system, which encourages long-term holding and staking of diamond hands through four methods: staking $VIRTUAL, participating in Kaito Yap, holding/staking designated AI Agent tokens, and holding new/airdrop projects. Correspondingly, there are also punitive deductions for paper hands.
If you have fewer points, you will get less quota, and may even not be able to keep up with new projects.
Pharos
On November 9, 2024, Pharos announced the completion of an $8 million seed round of financing. Faction, Hack VC, SNZ Holding, Reforge, Dispersion Capital, Hash Global, Generative Ventures, Legend Star, MH Ventures, Zion, and Chorus One Ventures participated in this round of financing.
CEO Alex Zhang was previously the CEO of @zan_team, a Web3 technology company under Ant Group, and also served as CTO of AntChain. CTO Wish Wu was previously the CSO (Chief Security Officer) of @zan_team, a Web3 technology company under Ant Group. CMO Laura Shen was previously the head of marketing for Solana Mobile and also served as the head of Crypto marketing for Paypal. Aliu Musa, head of ecosystem, also worked on ecosystem development at Celo and Arbitrum.
On March 6 this year, the test network for developers was launched, and it was announced that 20 million US dollars of ecological project incentives would be provided for innovative projects such as RWA/payment, DeFi, AI, DeSci, and GameFi.
Although the financing amount of $8 million is not much compared with some public chains that have raised tens of millions of dollars, the $20 million ecological project incentive shows that Pharos is not short of money. From the perspective of partnerships, Pharos announced in April 2024 that it has open-sourced the blockchain virtual machine DTVM jointly developed with AntChain and the Ant Supercomputing Team, and has maintained a cooperative relationship with @zan_team, a Web3 technology company under Ant Group.
The test network is now open. For interactive tutorials, please refer to How to use Pharos, which has deep cooperation with Ant Chain?
Ethos
The success of Kaito has brought the concept of Infofi to the fore. To put it simply, it has made traffic monetization a more direct and reliable channel in the cryptocurrency circle. After Kaito, the more popular project is Ethos.
Ethos is more like the cryptocurrency version of Dianping.com, where users can give positive or negative reviews to projects or individual cryptocurrency players on this on-chain reputation network. In the future, this may become another way for projects to select partners.
Currently, participation requires an invitation code. After successful registration, you only need to complete the daily evaluation tasks and actively evaluate others.
Blackhole
The new DEX ( @BlackholeDex ) supported by the AVAX Foundation has only announced some innovative mechanisms so far, but it has been confirmed that there will be tokens and testing activities.
Oyl Wallet
On March 8, 2024, Bitcoin infrastructure company Oyl completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Arca, with participation from Foresight Ventures, Arthur Hayes family office Maelstrom, Domo, UTXO Management, Taproot Wizards CEO Udi Werthheimer, Kanosei and FlamingoDAO.
This wallet is currently promoting a Bitcoin asset protocol called Alkanes, which can be regarded as the new protocol with the best Bitcoin ecosystem activity. Oyl wallet has an XP system, and XP can be obtained by depositing Bitcoin and related Bitcoin ecosystem assets. This XP may be related to the official airdrop of $DIESEL, the first token deployed by the Alkanes protocol.
MEET 48
On April 4, 2025, MEET 48, the worlds first WEB3.0 AI-Agent and AIGC creator and fan economy ecological community focusing on the entertainment field, announced the completion of its token round of financing. The FDV valuation of the token round was US$100 million. It was led by Fosun Group co-founder Liang Xinjun, Hash Global and HashKey Capital, and followed by Animoca, Infinity Labs, Promontory, Oak Grove and many Web3 professionals. The new funds will be used to develop its team and develop related AI products.
After registering an account, you can just go to the task center and do the daily tasks to experience the product. There is news that they are about to have a TGE.
Trading platform
In the past, the main ways to obtain new coins on Binance were to stake BNB, FDUSD and other tokens for mining, long-term BNB holder benefits, and lock BNB and complete tasks. However, with the expansion of Binance Web3 wallet business, Binance Alpha Points has become a new and important channel for obtaining airdrops. Since the launch of Binance Alpha Points in February this year, if you dont miss a period, the single number income has exceeded 5,000 U.
To learn how to efficiently obtain Binance Alpha points, please refer to Binance Money-Making Effect Guide: BNB Holders vs. Alpha Points Holders, How to Maximize Profits?
In addition, OKXs recent actions are also worth paying attention to. OKXs approach is currently different from Binance. After completing the designated tasks, you will participate in the white ticket draw and then buy new shares on Meteora. The first issue was Doodles $DOOD, which had several times the return. The second issue was @soon_svm , and the quality of the projects in both issues was good. Since the final operation is carried out on Meteora, it is very likely that the process of buying new shares is also a double-scoring of Meteora points.
Mouth
If you don’t know what project to interact with, it is a good idea to look at Kaito’s attention list directly. Especially if you express your opinions on the projects on the list after analyzing them yourself, you may get unexpected results if they become popular.
More and more KOLs are getting more airdrops by deeply participating in Kaito or becoming project ambassadors. It feels a bit like returning to the NFT era as a Discord Mod, but the circle is more open, and it is not like before when a small group of people recommended each other monopolized. Therefore, if you have excellent writing skills and unique ideas, you might as well express them more on Twitter.
