What are airdrop farming bots?
Short answer: Airdrop farming is the mass creation of wallets and identities that perform minimum qualifying actions to harvest token distributions. Farms run thousands of wallets through scripted interaction patterns, so distributions meant to bootstrap a real community get concentrated into a few operators - who dump, and take the launch's momentum with them.
Why farms out-organize communities
A real user qualifies once. A farm qualifies ten thousand times with rehearsed transaction graphs, aged wallets, and spread funding. Eligibility rules written for humans - hold this, swap that, join the Discord - are checklists to a script.
The dump problem
Concentrated airdrops create concentrated sell pressure. The chart tells the story of the farm, not the product. Teams learn post-launch that their community count was a count of wallets, not people.
Scoring before the snapshot
Wallet behavior has fingerprints: funding sources, gas patterns, interaction timing, graph clustering with sibling wallets. Behavioral sybil scoring before the snapshot lets a distribution reach humans - the entire point of the exercise.