ShardDog

ShardDog a platform built on Near Blockchain that facilitates projects to reach a greater audience and increase their userbase using their free NFT or FT drop feature, for a small fee based on project’s scope. An alternative to ShardDog is Bitte Drops, which allows you to create drops without contacting ShardDog, and completely free, but only works with Mintbase Wallet users.

A good thread about ShardDog

How Shard.Dog works

It consists of three parts

  1. Gate (who can access the drop)
  2. Claim (the NFT or FT being dropped)
  3. Handoff (how / where the user finds it)

ShardDog Drop

The most important feature is a button “Share Your Claim!”, which allows you to share your claim on Twitter, making it a good marketing tool.

Let’s Claim a ShardDog NFT Drop:

For this example, we’re going to claim “Content! Content! Content!” NFT Drop.

Creating a ShardDog Drop

To create a sharddog, contact them and provide the details of your drop, most likely, the process is manual.

Some examples

HarvestMoon is probably the most claimed ShardDog, claimed by 100,000 wallet.

Blackdragon is one of the first memes on Near Protocol (after Shitzu and Neko), it airdropped a lot of tokens to accounts that have interacted with popular NFT collections. Some drops cost thousands of dollars, if you didn’t sell them at the beginning.