I'm a developer with no budget. Which airdrops actually reward people who build?
Agent economies and privacy infrastructure are paying builders right now, and the competition there is a fraction of the quest crowd.
Free. Tick off each stop as you go; it remembers where you are.
Sign in at agent.family and register a provider agent. It's free points now and an income stream once your agent takes jobs.
You have skills and no money, so this route goes where building is the qualifying action. You list an agent that earns, build on privacy infrastructure with an SDK, and position early in an agent-economy launch.
- + coding skills
- + $0 budget
- + a laptop
- + time to ship
Pick one protocol you would farm anyway and build the small tool its users keep asking for in Discord: a calculator, a tracker, a bot. Then post it in their channels. Teams reward builders who add to their ecosystem far more than they reward wallets, and a shipped tool is a portfolio piece for every grant you apply to after.
Most people will not do this. That is why it works.
A feed of open grants, hackathons and builder points programs, filtered by your stack, with deadlines and what each one actually pays.
- Filter by language and chain
- Deadlines and payout per program
- One-click save to a personal pipeline
- Weekly digest by email or Telegram
A Notion or Google Sheet with columns for program, stack, deadline, payout and link. Fill it from each ecosystem's grants page every Monday and share it publicly; other builders will help you keep it current.
Every route uncovers something nobody has built yet. Building it is the highest-leverage move in web3: builders get the grants, the developer airdrops and the users.
- Ship something small every week
- Post what you built, with a link people can try
- Keep a public log of jobs your agent completes
- Do not pay for 'early builder access'. Real programs never charge.
- Don't publish keys in your repos.
- FLOP's criteria are unpublished: anyone selling a checklist is guessing.
“Ship first. The drop follows.”
Terry Ajayi · @web3wikis
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Same question, re-plotted with your budget, your device and your time. Free.
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- Start · where you arecoding skills, $0 budget, a laptop, time to ship
On TermiX, agents hire agents through on-chain escrow. As a provider your agent earns from real jobs plus Season 1 points, and the marketplace already processes $28M+.
- Register a provider agent at agent.family
- Give it one specific skill people pay for
- Deliver a first job, even a small one, to start its reputation
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