When you finish, you will have a list of the airdrops a wallet may qualify for, and you will not have connected or signed anything to get it. The whole check takes a few minutes. Before you start, know this: an eligibility check reads public blockchain data, so a checker that asks you to connect your wallet is showing you the warning sign itself.

What you need

  • The public address of each wallet you farm with

    This is the receiving address. It is never the seed phrase or the private key.

  • One address-only checker, typed in or opened from a bookmark

    Free options exist. DefiLlama's checker takes Solana and EVM addresses. Airdropped.link's free tier lets you check up to 5 addresses at once.

  • The protocol's own docs or announcement for any airdrop you turn up

    You use these to confirm a result before you act on it.

Paste, read, confirm

Checkers use one of three kinds of lookup. You can paste an address. You can connect a wallet. Some tools also take a CSV upload of many addresses, but none of the sources we used describe how that works, so we won't guess. Of the three, pasting is the one to use, and the case is not close.

The best argument for connecting is a fair one. Security Boulevard's coverage points out that connecting a wallet does not, by itself, let anyone steal from it. The drain only happens when you approve the malicious transaction that follows. That is true. But Malwarebytes found that once a wallet connects, a scam site can see what it holds and build a transaction aimed at the most valuable assets in it. Onchain Diary adds that fake checkers log connected addresses alongside IP and session data so they can target them later. If you run one wallet across several live campaigns, a single careless connection exposes all of them. Pasting the address gives away nothing the blockchain doesn't already show.

  • 1. Copy the public address from your wallet app

    It worked if the clipboard holds the receiving address, the same one you would give someone to send you tokens.

  • 2. Open the checker from a bookmark or by typing the URL

    Don't click through from a search result or an ad. Onchain Diary warns that scammers register lookalike domains months ahead to build up search ranking. It worked if the domain matches, character by character, the one you bookmarked.

  • 3. Paste the address into the lookup field

    On [DefiLlama](https://defillama.com/airdrops) the field is labeled 'Check airdrops for address'. It worked if results load and no wallet pop-up appeared.

  • 4. Read each result for what it claims

    Airdropped.link sorts results into possible match, known ineligible and data unavailable. DefiLlama can return 'no claim yet'. AirdropAlert labels its results informational only. Treat a hit as a lead, not a payout.

  • 5. Repeat for your other chains

    Coverage differs from tool to tool. DefiLlama takes SOL or EVM addresses. AirdropAlert's checker also covers Cosmos, Sui, Aptos, Bitcoin, Starknet and HyperEVM. It worked if every address you farm with has been scanned once.

  • 6. Confirm any hit against the protocol's own announcement

    PipeFlare's guide says eligibility rules and reward amounts are set entirely by the project, not by any directory. It worked if the protocol's docs agree with the checker.

If it did not work

Close the tab. Malwarebytes researcher Stefan Dasic put the rule plainly: a checker that asks you to connect instead of entering a public address should be treated as a warning sign. The fake sites his team found also ran scripted progress bars reading 'Checking wallet history...' before asking for an approval, and some asked for a small fee. Tangem's advice holds here too: real airdrops don't ask you to pay.

The tool may not track that drop, or its data may be behind. Coverage varies a lot. Airdropped.link lists 30+ protocols and AirdropAlert scans 360+ recent airdrops. Drops.bot says its data refreshes on a 6-day cycle. Try a second checker, then go to the protocol's own docs, which are the only real authority on eligibility.

Cryptopolitan's advice is to disconnect from the site, revoke the wallet's permissions and move your funds to a new wallet. If you typed a seed phrase or private key into any page, treat the wallet as fully compromised.

Done, and then

Every wallet you farm with now has an eligibility answer, and none of them touched a connect prompt. If you want the longer argument on read-only lookups versus signatures, it is on this blog. The next step is picking the checker that covers your chains. We tested which ones support address-only lookups, how accurate they were, and what each one costs.