I'm good at making videos and posting on X. How do I turn that into airdrops and paid work?
Most people chase airdrops with money. You can chase them with attention. Creator campaigns pay for content and reputation scores track your track record, so one video can feed several of these at once.
Free. Tick off each stop as you go; it remembers where you are.
Open Kaito, connect your X account, and check whether you have an AURA score to claim.
You make videos and post on X, and you want paid work as well as airdrops. So we skip anything that needs capital and stack routes that reward content and credibility. The first two steps are the nearest to paid work, and the last two build your name for the long run.
- + video making skill
- + an X account you post on
- + no budget stated, so free routes only
- + time not stated, so I built this for about an hour a day
Pick one project from this route and make the clearest public walkthrough of it that exists. Post it, tag the team, and show your own results honestly, wins and misses. Disclose any referral links. A public record of good explainers is what turns campaign work into steady paid work.
Most people will not do this. That is why it works.
A personal dashboard that tracks every open creator campaign, its deadline, what it pays or scores, and which of your posts earned what.
- Lists open campaigns from Kaito, Mimix and RallyOnChain
- Deadline reminders sent to your Telegram
- Logs each post link with its points or payout
- Shows which content format performs best
- Weekly summary of time spent versus results
Build a Google Sheet with columns for campaign, platform, deadline, post link, result and hours spent. Then save an AI prompt that turns your weekly rows into a short 'what to do more of' summary.
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.
- 10 minutes: check Kaito and Mimix for new campaigns
- 40 minutes: make or edit one piece of content for an open campaign
- 10 minutes: post it, reply to comments, log the link in your tracker
- Once a week: review which campaign paid or scored best and do more of that
- Fake campaign DMs and 'claim your airdrop' links. Only use the official sites and never sign a transaction you did not start.
- Posting spammy or copied content to farm points. AI scoring and vetting are built to catch it and it can burn your account's reputation.
- Buying followers or engagement. It wrecks the track record these platforms score.
- Paying anyone to 'unlock' a campaign or a creator slot. Real ones do not charge you.
“You do not need more money. You need more shipped videos. Go make one.”
Terry Ajayi · @web3wikis
Research, not financial advice. Some links are referral links. Only use money you can afford to lose.
Same question, re-plotted with your budget, your device and your time. Free.
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- Start · where you arevideo making skill, an X account you post on, no budget stated, so free routes only, time not stated, so I built this for about an hour a day
Kaito scores your real track record on X and pays creators through month-long Katalyst campaigns. You already post, so your history may be worth something. AURA is retroactive but you have to claim it.
- Connect your X account on Kaito and claim your AURA
- Look at the open Katalyst campaigns and pick one that fits your niche
- Make one video or thread built for that campaign and post it from your main account
- Skip the staker route unless you already hold KAITO. It needs 5,000+ KAITO-equivalent staked.
Cost: $0 · Time: 20 minutes to claim, then 1 to 2 hours per campaign post- Destination: positioned