In the NFT space, there are many different options for making money. Some of them work flawlessly, such as steaking blue-chip collections, which not only have floor prices that don't drop, but their utility-token is so liquid that some cryptocurrencies would be jealous. There is also a primary lottery, as I call it - mines. Now it has become the most actual: you sit, something, puffing, knocking out a place in the whitelist, minting for overpriced, because for some reason the project founders decided to be tied to the Solana rate, and not to the generally accepted 1 $Sol = 1 $Sol, well it is understandable, absolutely everyone is here because they want to earn. But there is another lottery - the secondary lottery. This is already a lottery in the familiar to all of us from childhood: you buy a ticket and hope to win the lottery. And this has become not just some kind of entertainment or utility-token application, but a real standalone-feature of projects. This article will talk about such projects and sites.
I've already told many times about FFF collection and what opportunities it offers to its holders. But it's one thing for those who support the project from the early stages or have already come in with a mid-bank at an average price of 35 $Sol, and another thing for us, ordinary users, what do we get? I've talked about free tools in this article, and now we'll talk about a relatively new raffle platform from the famous chanterelles.
Basically it's a open source marketplace where anyone can create their own NFT raffle and moreover, put absolutely any token as payment for tickets. It can be $DUST, $FOXY or, as you can see in the picture above, even $IDOLZ (I bet that many of you haven't even heard of this collection, but it was one of the big pioneers of NSFW content on Solan). That is, even you, possessing some mildly interesting NFT can put it out there, put up the number of tickets you deem objective, price and currency. That's it, you've created your own raffle that you can promote on your social networks, but remember the economics. Putting in God knows what tokens you risk to be left with nothing, because the token can simply depreciate, so I will write a list of liquid coins with a rate in which you can be more or less sure (the rate is given at the time of writing, namely 07.06, 13:00 UTC):
In general, these are the two main tokens that are quoted on the Raffle site from the Famous Fox Federation. And I would even put $DUST at the top of the list, but you have to give credit to the creators of the platform.
Unlike FFF, all the following raffle sites are private, in the sense that all raffles there are initiated by the founders of the projects to which they belong. As a consequence, the raffles there are also held exclusively in their utility-tokens.
The first of such sites is Mercury from the BlockSmith Labs project, which I also told you about earlier. The drawings here are of two types: private, for the holders, and public. Mostly to encourage their holders, the private draws are of a higher quality than the public ones, but sometimes quite good lots are put on public display.
BlockSmith Labs' utility-token is the $FORGE token. I think you already understand how to get it: steaking or swap. For the first option you will have to shell out +/- 100 $Sol and get 10 $FORGE per day. Considering the cost of tokens on swapals and lottery tickets, it is much easier and more profitable, if you only aim for that, to buy a token for $Sol or $USDC on Radiume or Orca. Currently, the price of a single $FORGE token is $1.1 $USDC.
One of the largest collections on Solana Taiyo Robotics also has its own raffle site. It already belongs to the not so popular ones, so there are more chances, although who am I kidding, everywhere the chances are the same (spoiler: minuscule), but he who doesn't take risks doesn't drink champagne, right?