i think Uniswap Airdrop token (uni) is currently the biggest Airdrop in the history of cryptocurrency. to drop a whopping sum of $450,000,000 IS Something so huge. i stand to be corrected if i am wrong. i believe that the every successful project does not care about dumpers that will dump token after sales or distribution. 40% of the successful participants in the Uni airdrop dumped their rewards in the exchange and it is interesting that the price never went below 3usd.
this is to tell you that a successful project needs no market manipulation to drive volume. it is simple. develop a token, have a very good use-case and watch your project thrive in the market.
Yes thats the biggest airdrop in history but only for those who trade on uniswap before sept 1, some do get 1600 uni because he use many accounts when he is trading on uniswap so luckym
Unfortunately, you're right Uni only airdrops to current members but even still having such a generous drop is impressive!
And the fact that despite the dump the token maintained a healthy value indicates more than the fact the project is good and led by a leader company but more than that it points towards the remaining holders seeing value in the token - something rare!
However, a good example of this type of scenario can be applied to
BTC how often people dump their coin because they see a market crush only later to discover that they'd been better of to have kept it as since they sold out it bull-ed several times.