Airdrop/Whitelist Complete Guide — Gitcoin Grants Round 11

5 min readSep 19, 2021

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Gitcoin is a community where developers can earn funding in Web 3 while creating open source decentralized applications. Many early projects use the platform for crowdfunding their project development and operation cost.

Users can use $DAI, $ETH, etc. to donate to different projects on the Gitcoin website. Some projects may provide airdrops and rewards to donors later on. Previous airdrops like $GTC and $MASK have provided a decent return for donors.

Now Gitcoin Grants Round 11 (GR11) is ongoing and will be accepting donations till September 23 (6PM MDT).

Make sure you understand donating does not guarantee any airdrops before continuing. You will need to pay gas fees as well as your donation amount.

To donate, follow the steps below.

Getting started:

Prepare around 0.01 $ETH (for gas fees) and 100 (more if you want to donate more) $DAI/$USDT in your address on the Ethereum network.

You will need a Github account for Gitcoin donation. Visit https://github.com/ to create an account if you do not have one.

Gitcoin is on the Ethereum network where gas fees are very high. To save on gas fees, we will donate through the layer 2 protocol zkSync.

(Side note: As zkSync has not released their token, transacting via zkSync also increases the chance of receiving their airdrop when they launch their token later.)

Visit https://wallet.zksync.io/ and connect your wallet on Ethereum network.

Deposit $DAI/$USDT to zkSync from your address on Ethereum network. (You need to pay normal gas fees here to deposit into zkSync.)

Step 1:

Go to https://gitcoin.co/ and sign in with your Github account.

Step 2:

To maximize your donation impact, you will need to complete a number of verification procedures to bring your verification level up to 150%.

Recommend verification methods:

SMS/Google/Twitter/Facebook (+15% each)

These social media verification methods are relatively easy and should be completed first. (You need 100 followers for the Twitter verification, skip it if you don’t.)

POAP/ENS (+25% each)

You can verify by simply inputting your wallet address if you have a POAP or ENS.

BrightID (+50%)

Only do this if you still don’t have a 150% verification level.

You need to show up in a Zoom meeting with your camera on to get verified with BrightID. If you do not have Zoom, download it at your App store.

1) Download the BrightID app at https://www.brightid.org/.

2) Join a BrightID Verification Meeting at https://meet.brightid.org/#/.

3) After the meeting, link your BrightID with Gitcoin by clicking Verify.

Step 3:

Now you have brought your verification level up to or close to 150%, we can start looking for projects to donate at https://gitcoin.co/grants/explorer/.

Generally you should look for projects that
1. Have a social media presence such as Twitter, Telegram and Discord.

2. Have a whitepaper or at least a detailed description about what they do.

2. Have not yet issued their tokens, with plans to launch one later.

An easier way to filter projects is to simply sort by either Match Estimate/Amount Raised/Contributors.

Add the projects you are interested in to your shopping cart. Aim for around 15–20 projects to donate to. Check out using the shopping cart sign on the top right.