🚀 Airdrop Main Battlefield 2026 · Perp DEX Usage Checklist!!!🪂

The Perp DEX ecosystem has changed rapidly over the past six months, and I have also adjusted my focus accordingly.
Below are platforms that are actively being used and have “airdrop expectations + ROI logic,” not just “listed projects,” sorted by my current level of participation 👇

🔥 Core Holdings (High Frequency Use)
1️⃣ Ethereal
👉 The collateral directly offers 27% APR, earning interest while trading
👉 Invitation-only + capital threshold, inherently has a “filtering effect”
👉 A typical “high-quality address airdrop model”
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2️⃣ Extended
👉 Vault + dual trading routes running in parallel
👉 Very suitable for those who “don’t want high-frequency operations but want to earn airdrops”
👉 Similar to early GMX / Hyperliquid transitional forms
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3️⃣ edgeX
👉 During the Pre-TGE phase, official activities are intensive
👉 Clearly “actively screening real trading users”
👉 Currently the platform I trade the most aggressively
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🧠 Strategic Layout (Multiple Revenue Streams)
4️⃣ Backpack
👉 In Japan, only lending is available, but Points can still be earned
👉 With ecosystem gameplay, there is room for “multi-layered point stacking”
👉 Belongs to “slow but highly certain” airdrops
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5️⃣ Aster
👉 Currently Stage 5
👉 Focus is not on trading volume, but on team boost + activity structure
👉 Very similar to early dYdX stages
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🧩 Secondary but worth lurking
6️⃣ StandX
👉 Currently only doing Vault, not pursuing trading rankings
👉 More focused on “long-term address behavior”
👉 Suitable for laid-back trading
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7️⃣ NADO
👉 Targeting INK ecosystem airdrop
👉 Trading logic is professional, invitation-only
👉 Not for beginners, but highly valuable
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8️⃣
👉 Focused on the Equity concept
👉 Completely different narrative from traditional Perp DEX
👉 If tokens are issued, valuation potential is significant
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🪙 Laid out and maintained at low frequency
9️⃣ Based
👉 Basic interactions completed
👉 Occasionally add trades to prevent address “cooling off”
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🔟 Pacifica
👉 Also an early lurking phase
👉 Waiting for the next round of official incentives
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💡 Core Judgment
Perp DEX is not lacking projects; what’s missing are “real trading users.”
The big airdrop in 2026 leans more towards “quality screening” rather than volume boosting.
Only platforms that can provide you with APR / Vault / Points / Rights are worth holding funds long-term.