How to farm for months and still miss a $1M airdrop I started farming Hyperliquid (@HyperliquidX) on April 1, 2024. No master plan. Just perps, volume, fees. I had big expectations for Hyperliquid, so I went hard on farming. Between fees and activity I spent around $16.5k. Part of that was recovered thanks to the PURR memecoin drop, but most of it was still on the line. By the time the airdrop was announced I had around 38M in volume and brought 6 referrals who traded 80M+ combined. I kept actively farming and ended up with roughly 8k points. At some point my account got flagged as high risk. I contacted support and after checking things out, they removed the flag. Everything worked normally again and I kept trading. I thought that was the end of it. Later, when Genesis Event registration opened, I suddenly found out my account was marked as high risk again and was ineligible. Support told me this was due to an independent blockchain analytics provider. I asked them to investigate further. After several days they replied asking about transactions with Garantex. I had never personally used Garantex or any sanctioned platform. What I did have on that wallet were poker deposits and withdrawals, which I never thought twice about. I explained that, mentioned my wallet had a long history, and that I had even been scammed in the past. Silence again. Some people I talked to with similar issues eventually got unbanned. I didn’t. About a week before Genesis Event registration closed, I tried one last time. I posted my wallet publicly in Discord and asked them to recheck it. I had already run it through multiple tools. Nothing suspicious. Just a normal wallet. No response. Instead, I was banned from Discord and Zendesk. At TGE we finally saw the numbers. 1 point = 5 HYPE. That’s about 40k HYPE. At current prices that’s well over $1M. I got zero. What I took from this. Don’t mix everything on one wallet. Even if it feels harmless. Even if you think nobody cares. Apparently, someone does.
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