Hey friends. I want to greet you with a welcoming post. I’m part of the NFD Team and hold the position of Community Manager.
If you’re using Combine, there're chances we’ve already interacted.
If you’re still passing by, perhaps this series of posts will influence your decision. My goal is to help newcomers automate their routines to save their time and put it to good use. Everything mentioned below is strictly DYOR and a reflection of my thoughts, knowledge, and actions.
The NFD project was launched more than a year ago, you can read about it in my previous article. Even then it was clear that it was just the beginning, and that Leo had global plans to expand influence in Web3. Combine was announced in the 2023 summer. It’s completely free software with a user-friendly graphical interface. It’s intuitive and has an extensive GitBook describing its full functionality. It was developed for retro airdrop farming. It was developed to eliminate manual activity by 99%. I use it myself every day and only on 1% have to use the UI touch (leave an on-chain touch).
But my words are relevant even for absolutely “newborns” wallets that were just generated in Combine.
Let’s start. You need to download the Combine, register it, and add accounts. The free functionality includes CEX (inputs/outputs, working with subaccounts), Bungee, and Snapshot . This is a great opportunity to “touch the software with your hands” and understand if it does suit you or if manual labor is more valuable to you.
We’re here for costs money — every module is paid. At the end of 2023 the pricing policy was revised and any restrictions were removed.
The prices are user-friendly. If you compare the cost of “running” one account, and how much that account would cost on wholesale purchase — you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Anywhere, I don’t look at the module cost, I look at the deposit I want to spend on one account — proxy + transaction cost * number of transactions + volume + number of interactions with unique contracts, maintaining account's life (active days/weeks/months), and the untouchable deposits amount in the EVM network.
Everyone has different quality requirements for their accounts — someone makes 20–30 transactions and a small volume and continues to maintain the account’s life with weekly transactions generating unique contracts, while someone has already made over 1000 transactions in zkSync and thinks it’s not enough.
We’re not here to curry favor with the project, not to show how loyal and persevering we are. We’re here for the money. And Combine allows you to earn. Statistics from previous airdrops show that quantity > quality. You can make 1000 transactions, generate 100k volume and be active for a year and a half on your main wallet, or you can distribute the deposit spent on working on this account to 30–50 accounts and try to catch base rewards. The profit will be noticeably more enjoyable! Besides you’ll get the farm wallets, which will definitely help you in the future.
If you’re ready to join our ranks, and there’s only one question: «which project should I invest my money in?” — don’t rush. Let me provide you with a summary of those very modules that are presented in Combine at the moment, and which I would recommend working with right now.
This will be relevant at the time of writing the article or at the time you read it, with a little personal analysis added. After all, one small tweet from the project, one hint, can radically change the approach.
I’ll start with my favorite — Scroll. If you missed the very beginning (November 2023) and still wondered whether to start or not, now the team has almost explicitly said: “bring more accounts.” That’s how I interpret their tweet from April 17, 2024, dedicated to Session Zero — it seemed like a green light. An added bonus is that a few days ago Scroll finally supported Dencun. It didn’t become ten times cheaper like with other L2 blockchains, and it took a whopping 2 months for this introduction (T=technology), but now preparing a good account is cheaper, thx. In my opinion, the criteria for a good on-chain account will be the following indicators at the time of the snapshot:
- 3+ months of activity on the network
- 20+ active days
- 30+ transactions
- 10+ smart contracts
- volume > $1000
- balance of 0.01 ETH+ in the native blockchain network
- total balance of 0.01 ETH+ in EVM networks
- 3+ transactions in ERC-20 (work wallet)
The second priority is zkEVM. It’s not so much its own airdrop that’s interesting cross-drops like Avail.
Avail was very well received by Combine users by the way.
It’s another overly technological project that delayed the Dencun update. But now everything is fine, and a ready-made high-quality account can cost you around $30–40. Criteria at the time of the snapshot in my opinion:
- 3+ months of activity on the network
- 20+ active days
- 30+ transactions
- 10+ smart contracts
- volume > $1000
- balance of 0.01 ETH+ in the native blockchain network
- total balance of 0.01 ETH+ in EVM networks
- 3+ transactions in ERC-20 (work wallet)
Let’s welcome Zora. The project revolves around an “immutable” fee of 0.000777 ETH for NFTs minting as stipulated in the contract.
This fee can be avoided by creating NFTs on a third-party service with a standard contract (hello mint.fun).
It’s better to focus on a smaller number of good wallets rather than a large number of weak ones in case of Zora. Based on network statistics I prepare my accounts in Combine as follows:
- Deposit via the official bridge from 0.015 ETH+
- 3+ months of activity on the network
- 20+ active days
- 10+ minted NFTs with fee payment
- 20+ minted NFTs without fee
- Creation of a custom collection
- Balance of 0.005 ETH+ in the native blockchain network
- Total balance of 0.01 ETH+ in EVM networks
- 3+ transactions in ERC-20 (work wallet)
The fourth project I’d like to draw your attention is Base. They constantly affirm that there will be no airdrop, but the risk/reward is so good, and the history is so indicative (hey Arbitrum) that you can’t overlook it.
- 3+ months of activity on the network
- 20+ active days
- 50+ transactions
- 20+ smart contracts
- Volume > $1000
- Balance of 0.05 ETH+ in the native blockchain network
- Total balance of 0.01 ETH+ in EVM networks
- 3+ transactions in ERC-20 (work wallet)
As you can see, the criteria are almost identical and intuitive. Using Combine, it’s very easy to start, very easy to achieve the set goal, and very quick to maintain basic network activity afterward.
I want to reiterate that these are just my thoughts (formed thanks to my extensive presence in NFD) multiplied by personal experience. If you have a larger deposit — use it. If you have spare time — use it. If you want to use more than 1–2 transactions per week to maintain activity — it’s your choice.
If after reading the article you still have doubts about the paid modules cost, take a closer look at function "Max gas price(GWEI) ETH". It’s the only one that will recoup the expenses in just a couple of weeks when it's used correctly.
Everyone likes discounts. Here is one for you. My personal promo code — desh5. It will allow you to buy 5% more accounts (for example 525 instead of 500).
