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What preparations should be made for receiving ARB airdrops?

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Tonight, the ARB airdrop distribution is about to begin. Due to the large number of users participating, there may be some network congestion or other unexpected situations. Therefore, you need to be well prepared to ensure the successful receipt/trade of your airdrop. The following are the preparations and follow-up work required for the ARB airdrop distribution, for your reference.

Countdown to Claim

You can check the countdown for claiming on this website.

Custom RPC, Gas Storage

Previously, when claiming the Optimism #1 airdrop, the network collapsed under immense pressure. This situation may also occur tonight, so it is important to learn how to create your own RPC node:

Through Alchemy, fill in the relevant information and create an account (preferably free, you can skip the credit card payment process);

Fill in the relevant information, select Arbitrum Mainnet, and click "CREATE APP" to create the application.

Complete the creation (as shown below), the highlighted area is the new RPC URL;

Open MetaMask with ARB eligibility and click on Add Network - Manual Add.

Enter the relevant information in order, including Alchemy URL, Chain ID 42161, ETH as token, and Arbiscan as the block explorer, to complete the creation.

Deposit some ETH as Gas into Arbitrum, which can be bridged from the mainnet to Arbitrum through platforms such as Bungee, Jumper, Orbiter.

BlockBeats Note: Some bridging tools have a minimum bridging amount, please consider this on your own.

Approve ARB Contract in Advance

Approve ARB contract in advance, please refer to "How to Approve ARB Contract in Advance and Be Ahead of the Game?"

Trading Method

DEX

Before trading, there are two great websites that allow users to monitor the funds pool on each chain: GeckoTerminal and DexScreener. These websites display all the pools, liquidity, and price information for trading tokens in DeFi.

CEX

Here are the CEXs that have confirmed the online launch of ARB:

Binance, Bitfinex, Kucoin, ByBit, OKX, Gate, Bitmart, Huobi, Bitget, Bitrue, MEXC, choose the appropriate CEX according to your own situation.

Provide Liquidity

You can do LP through Uniswap. Uniswap V3 allows single-sided LP, and you can use your ARB airdrop to provide liquidity. According to data, the TVL of ARB pool in Uniswap has exceeded $16 million.