Airdrops pay you to use products. Hackathons and grants pay you to BUILD them - and the checks are bigger. Live right now: RevenueCat Shipaton ($1M+, ship an app by Sep 30), Colosseum ($250k pre-seed per winning team), Circle/Arc grants ($5k-$100k USDC), Arbitrum Trailblazer 2.0 ($1M agentic-DeFi), OKX X Layer, MagicBlock Founders Camp in Bangkok (fully sponsored, Sep 21-30), ETHGlobal Tokyo, Algorand ($125k). Most reward AI agents + stablecoins - exactly what you've been farming.

All verified + collected here: Hackathons & grants in the earn portal · deeper: get paid to build