How My Partner and I Made $10M+ Farming Blur's Airdrop
It was early January when a friend approached me with an interesting opportunity. He told me about a new NFT platform called Blur that was rewarding liquidity providers with an airdrop. The platform used a point-based system — essentially, the more and riskier liquidity you provided through bids and listings, the more points you earned. The more points you earned, the more airdrop rewards you received. Knowing I was a programmer, he asked if I could build a bot to automate the liquidity provision process. It sounded promising, so I agreed and immediately started working on it.
Cracking Blur’s API & the First Attempt at a Public Bot
One of the first challenges I ran into was Blur’s API protection. It was secured behind Cloudflare, preventing direct API calls. This could have been a dealbreaker, but I quickly found a workaround. Once I bypassed the restriction, the development of our Blur bot moved fast. At first, we decided to sell the bot to the public. We thought it could be a profitable business model, but it didn’t work out as expected. Maintaining a public bot required constant bug fixes, user support, documentation, and making the interface more user-friendly — all of which slowed down development. The profit from selling the bot wasn’t worth the effort. So, we pivoted. Instead of selling it, we decided to keep the bot private — just for me and my partner.
How the Bot Worked
Our bot placed bids on NFT collections and specific traits, allowing NFT holders to accept the bids if they wanted to sell. The key challenge was that actually having bids accepted was bad for us — because it almost always resulted in a loss. Our goal wasn’t to buy NFTs; it was to maximize points while minimizing the risk of getting bids accepted. The bot constantly optimized bid placement, balancing between high enough offers to earn points but low enough to reduce the likelihood of someone accepting the bid. Despite our best efforts, we were still losing around $2,000 every day, but we believed the points we gained in return would be worth far more.
Going All-In & Adapting to Competition
With the public version discontinued, I could focus entirely on improving the bot for our personal use. Development accelerated, and the bot became significantly more efficient. We started earning more points, increasing our share of the airdrop rewards. However, this wasn’t a set-it-and-forget-it system. Competition was fierce, and we had to constantly refine our liquidity provision strategies to stay ahead. Every day, we had to adjust the bot’s behavior to maximize points while reducing losses. It was a never-ending cycle of iteration — tweaking algorithms, finding new bidding strategies, and reacting to shifts in the market. My partner had so much conviction in both the bot and the airdrop’s potential that he took out a loan — over a million dollars — to provide more liquidity. That meant if this failed, we weren’t just losing some capital — we were doomed. The stakes were massive. But sometimes, in high-risk environments, you have to take the leap, or you risk missing out entirely. With the additional liquidity and constant refinements to the bot, our results skyrocketed. At certain points, we were earning over 50% of all distributed points, completely dominating the leaderboard. We were grinding non-stop, tweaking strategies, optimizing performance, and maximizing our gains.
The Uncertainty of the Grind
One of the hardest parts of this entire process was that Blur never revealed the airdrop date. We had no idea how long we would have to keep grinding. Every day, we were burning money, adjusting strategies, and hoping the eventual payout would be worth it. The grind lasted about a year. A full year of continuously improving the bot, competing against other farmers, and fine-tuning every aspect of our strategy — all without knowing when, or if, the airdrop would finally happen.
The Payoff
When the time finally came to claim the airdrop, our efforts paid off in a way we hadn’t fully grasped until that moment — we received over $10 million worth of $BLUR tokens. From a simple idea in January to a high-stakes, all-in bet, we turned an opportunity into life-changing money. Looking back, it was a mix of skill, risk-taking, and conviction. In crypto, the biggest rewards often go to those willing to take the boldest steps.