But if you think about it, it's the same difference... Except the airdrops prior to them getting more popular rewarded real users as they never announced that there would be an airdrop. Arbitrum was a good example of this. They announced that there would be no token and ETH will be used for gas at launch. But lo and behold they did have plans to have a token and the claiming was announced out of the blue.
That's the right way of doing it.
The airdrops now are like 'hey we'll have an airdrop soon (maybe), use our app'.. Lol.
Yes, I think it's because of the ambiguity about airdrops like that that makes people more excited about telegram projects with TON. Even I'm trying to experience this myself. It's like a trend that is being adopted that looks like binance has to launch Moonbix, Kucoin launches xKucoin to increase interaction, resonance and acceptance of users to expand on telegram, I think that's the purpose and maybe it's becoming a real airdrop platform right now.
Uh no... Lol. It's not the 'ambiguity' that makes people excited. It's the possibility of getting paid 10k USD for using their projects. And ngl, looking for which protocols to try is more fun than trading as there's more research and looking into to be done with it.
As for TON eco, dunno... I heard it mostly pays peanuts. So I'm not even trying.
Anyway Hyperliquid spot market points campaign ended today. Now a lot of guys are selling down everything.

But I'm hearing the devs could do it like Layer Zero tho... So prolly good to leave some USDC there and continue using it.
TON chain is for the farm of accounts only, in my opinion.
And even then you can't be sure you will be rewarded greatly.