Since November of last year until now, the issue of leaving Binance Alpha has been repeatedly discussed in Binance Square and X, with comments like, "Binance Alpha can't make money anymore," "It's been blocked, appeals are useless," "Can't grab it, full score turns empty," "No big gains, all small gains of 30u," "LISA/TIMI got caught, this month was in vain," and so on. I'm sure you've seen this🧐
However, I found that I never had the thought of leaving Binance Alpha, not even once, not for a moment. When I realized this issue, I became curious and specifically thought about why I didn't have such thoughts. Thus, this article was born, hoping to provide some reference for you who are confused about the same issue🤔
This article doesn't have many pictures and is mainly text-based, which may seem a bit dry, and the format may not be very aesthetically pleasing. Please forgive me. The estimated reading time for 4000 words is about 15 minutes 🕖
1. Can Binance Alpha really make money?
There are still 200,000 people employed, which is the best answer 😆
Regarding the evaluation of returns, I have written an article before In 2026, the threshold and returns for the first 15-day cycle of Binance Alpha
Some friends feel it's pretty similar, but others think my algorithm is too idealistic. So this time, I answered this question using more intuitive simulation backtesting📋
📅 Simulation period: From December 1 last year to January 7 this year
📑 Extracting data: The required threshold score for airdrops (including TGE)
💸 Transaction costs: Choose coins with 4 times trading volume bonuses, considering occasional squeezes, averaging 2U loss in 15 minutes, and 4U loss in 16 minutes.
💰 Each period's profit: Each period's airdrop return is conservatively calculated at 30U (30 points deducted is calculated at 60U)
💯 Comparison group simulation scores:
1⃣Group: Thousand U account, balance 2 points, trading volume 13 days brushed 15 points, 2 days brushed 16 points
2⃣Group: Thousand U account, balance 2 points, trading volume 15 days brushed 16 points
3⃣Group: Ten thousand U account, balance 3 points, trading volume 13 days brushed 15 points, 2 days brushed 16 points
4⃣Group: Ten thousand U account, balance 3 points, trading volume 15 days brushed 16 points
⚖️ The backtesting simulation results are as follows:
The complete table is too long and not very aesthetically pleasing, so I won't put it here. I will place it at the end of the article; those interested can scroll down to the bottom to see.
🧠 It can be seen that, at least up to now, all four situations are profitable as long as they are not excessively squeezed (for example, encountering LISA waterfalls, TIMI pin needles, etc.).
2. Since it makes money, why do so many people say they want to leave?
Are people saying they want to leave? Actually, are they all still secretly brushing? 🤣
1. Only a hundred U account 😕
🧠 This reason might be the most reasonable, as the current costs and profits for the hundred U account are basically balanced, and the occasionally low-scoring sunshine illuminating TGE projects requires at least several thousand U for the needed BNB or corresponding loans. Therefore, I did not include the hundred U account in my comparison groups.
2. Earning less 😥
🤠 Especially for early participants, comparing the big profit period from May to September last year with the current returns shows a significant drop, as the saying goes, without comparison, there is no harm. It’s easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury to frugality—it's the same principle.
🧠But thinking carefully, is it really so little? According to my calculations above, the annualized return for a thousand U account reaches 80%, while a ten thousand U account reaches 15%. This doesn't even include the interest from daily funds, such as the early USDC with a 12% investment return and the recent USD1 with a 20% investment return, both calculated on the balance. Moreover, these are stablecoins with low risk offered by exchanges. Combined, the minimum guaranteed return is over 30%, while relatively low-risk investments like government bonds, fixed deposits, and US treasury bonds have annualized returns of less than 5%!
3. Full score empty turn 😵
🧠 In fact, the threshold scores for airdrops have generally risen now. The number of shares issued each time is basically similar to the number of eligible users, and the number of airdrops that can be grabbed is basically linked to the balance. As I mentioned in the first part of my article, this is fairer for everyone and generally does not lead to empty turns anymore.
4. Getting squeezed once is like working for nothing 😖
🧠 The risk of getting squeezed indeed exists, but as long as you are patient, it can be largely avoided.
1⃣View stability on Alpha123 website
2⃣ View intraday K-line on the brushing interface
3⃣ Brush during relatively stable fluctuations.
4⃣ Try to avoid peak times (8 AM to 10 AM)
5⃣ Conservatively calculated at 515 per transaction, even lower, up to 1035 per transaction, don’t go any higher.
6⃣ If reverse orders are not sold out immediately, be sure to place a manual limit order to stop loss.
I follow the above principles. Although I have been squeezed at times, I can generally control the average cost within the range of 15 points and 2U 🙂
5. It's purely a waste of time⏰
🤨 Loss of opportunity cost, with that time, it’s better to explore other projects.
🧠 Brushing Alpha does not mean fixing a time to brush, but rather choosing several time slots each day to look, picking stable times to brush. When stable, it can generally be brushed within 5 minutes. If extreme situations occur where no time slots are stable, I believe that half an hour would be sufficient.
🤔 For me, outside of work hours, the 5 minutes I have, I haven't brushed Alpha, nor do I have anything more valuable to do. Even if I did, this task does not conflict with those 5 minutes of brushing Alpha.
🎮 Back then, I was resolutely not investing in a 20-minute King of Glory game, and after ten consecutive losses, I’d charge up to continue playing; brushing Douyin once made my muscles tense up and cramp; watching a novel where just looking at advertisements took 60 minutes. At least my time doesn't seem to be worth only 5 minutes; what about you in front of the screen?
6. If subjected to risk control, brushing becomes pointless 😭
🧠 I don't have much say in this, but so far, it seems that the probability of account bans for ten thousand U accounts is relatively low. Except for using scripts, I don't know much about the current risk control system, but at least among my friends who are brushing Alpha together, it seems none have been subjected to risk control yet.
🧠 It can be seen that among the above five reasons, except for the hundred U account which is a hardware issue caused by activity adjustments, the others are not as severe as imagined.
3. But the most important reason that makes me stick to Binance Alpha is——it has already become my bond in the crypto space. To exaggerate, it’s my white moonlight in the crypto world.
Binance Alpha, the first crypto project for young people 🔥
Binance Alpha is not only an entry point but also a link between exchanges and wallets. During the process of engaging in Alpha activities, you will quickly enter and deepen your understanding of the crypto space through one closed loop after another, from C2C understanding deposits and withdrawals → from brushing Alpha to understanding trading → from participating in Booster events to learn about various chains and wallet transfers → from participating in TGE activities to understand new coin issuance and collateralized borrowing → from Binance Square for social interaction and acquiring information, etc. There is so much more, it is basically a microcosm of the crypto space; everything available in the crypto space is fundamentally here 🌏
The Binance Alpha series of activities started in May last year, going through a budding period from April to May, a bonus period from June to July, a high-speed development period from August to September, and then gradually entering a decline or steady period starting from October. Unfortunately, due to my early prejudice against activities requiring trading, I didn’t participate in an activity my friends mentioned several times and thus missed a very good bonus period, and didn't earn much. The first profit I made was 66U on October 3, and the first big profit was 116U on October 24 🤑
Because I joined late, it seems to me that with just a few points daily, such returns are already very high. At that time, I was also fantasizing about the future, thinking this story could continue. I didn't expect that when I entered in October, it had already peaked. Soon, with a large influx of studios, manual grabbing became very difficult, and even when I did grab, it was slower than those sold by scripts 😭
Then came the later story, which many friends might still remember, where the leader 🥇 cleared many studios using scripts, but upon finding the studios gone, encountered a downturn in the crypto market, with many coins plummeting and new projects decreasing. Then, to make the activities fairer, it was adjusted to eliminate the second phase and instead use a scoring reduction method, ultimately meaning that everyone's profits basically stabilized, just like being linked to their balances 😐
Because I haven't earned very good bonuses, my expectations are not too high. The current returns are still very satisfying for me. Of course, another possible reason is balance; because in the early days, even 100U was enough to be quite happy, now 1000U is standard, and 10000U is needed for better participation 😅
But in my view, the most important thing is that Binance Alpha has completely changed my lifestyle and my understanding. I have always been working, and my work income is acceptable, but the corresponding work pressure is also very high, and overtime is commonplace. So after getting off work or on weekends, I rarely have relaxation time; I basically use it to brush Douyin and play games. Yes, my favorite game is also King of Glory, where I reached the highest 50 stars of Glory King, and I always wanted to reach 100 stars to become a hundred-star king. But just when I had this idea, I encountered Binance Alpha 🤪
After encountering Binance Alpha, my daily work after getting off work is to brush trading volume, then record it in Feishu sheets, and then check X and Binance Square to see if there is any new information or opportunities. I even bought an Apple phone specifically for this and replaced Douyin with X, and Binance with King of Glory. After all, in my view, the achievements gained from making money in the real world far outweigh those gained from achievements in the virtual world. A King of Glory account that I hadn’t successfully uninstalled for many years was suddenly abandoned 😂
During this process, being somewhat of a homebody, I got to know several blogger friends and learned a lot from them, including C, Alpha123, Sheep Brother, Cat, Chicken Brother, North Realm, Director, Longan Sister, Jimmy, etc. They actively share various valuable information and are very patient with me, a novice 😆
In this environment, I slowly🏃♂️
🛵 From brushing KOGE on wallets to learning to choose 4 times new coins on exchanges to pair with reverse orders to reduce costs;
🚗 From directly buying BNB when TGE requires insufficient balance to learning to use U as collateral to borrow BNB to avoid price fluctuations;
✈️ From viewing contracts as ferocious tigers to reasonably using them as tools to lock in profits for Pre-TGE airdrop hedging;
Although I wouldn’t say I've become very capable, I am steadily increasing my knowledge and understanding. I no longer obsess over whether cryptocurrency has value; I only care about whether I can gain actual returns in this Web3 development process and benefit from the dividends of this era. As for whether it will eventually go to zero? I don't know, or rather, everything might go to zero, but I know at least it’s not now. Here, I think there are similar points to the recent popular article by teacher ratsxp on X (the answer Duan Yongping didn’t tell me helped me achieve the most important mental leap in recent years)😀
During my learning process, I also record and share what I learn. In real life, my personality is relatively rational, and it is quite difficult to find like-minded friends, which leads to a sense of loneliness. Additionally, my job requires frequent interaction with clients, so I need to control my emotions well. However, because of this, I often suppressed myself. Many times, when I wanted to post something on social media, I hesitated and deleted it before sending. Since I developed the habit of recording and sharing, not only did I get to know many like-minded blogger friends, but I also transformed my original repressed life into an expression of desire fully outputted into the crypto world.🤣
My first creative content was on 🔶Binance Square, where I posted a basic tutorial about Alpha. Interested parties can check it out 👉Binance Alpha event special strategy丨The strongest ever丨All the details丨Easy to understand丨A must-see for beginners (Part 1)——Three steps to grab airdropped new coins, with an annualized return of up to 600%+. This article received tens of thousands of views, adding over 300 fans to my account 🙂
Since then, I have been continuously engaged on both sides, including Binance Square and X, recording and sharing my learning. Now Binance Square has over 400 fans, and X has also gained over 300 fans. Although for many bloggers, this number is just a fraction, and so far it seems I have only earned about 4U from content mining rewards for the USD1 article on Binance Square, there are no other actual gains. However, for me, seeing my written content recognized by others makes me very happy, and I cherish it. It gives me a sense of accomplishment; for me, it is encouragement and an important source of dopamine 😃
So the reason I don't give up on Binance Alpha is that it is my white moonlight in the crypto space. It is my initial bond with the crypto world. It reminds me every day to interact with the crypto space, to record every day. It continuously reminds me that apart from work, there are many things I need to do in the crypto world. For example, if I hadn’t been brushing Binance Alpha all the time, I might not have gone to check X and Binance Square, and I wouldn't have discovered the 20% annualized activity with USD1. Although I might have earned less through Alpha, I was compensated through USD1. So this is related to my bond with the crypto space, allowing me to keep an eye on various information in the crypto world and have a sensitive source, paying more attention 🔥
4. Summary
For me, at least currently using the ten thousand U account, if there is no reverse roll, I will not give up. I am very grateful to that friend who brought me into the crypto space, and I am also very thankful to Binance Alpha for opening a new world for me. The development space in the crypto space is still very large. Although I missed many opportunities in the past, I believe there are still more opportunities waiting for me in the future! 🚀
For friends who have hesitated in front of the screen, as long as Binance Alpha does not reverse the roll, everything still has a chance. Although profits are indeed much lower compared to before, everything has cycles. As the saying goes, when the mountains are heavy and the waters are blocked, there seems to be no way out; after the willows are dark, there’s another village. From the recent TGE's SENT with a big profit of a hundred U, to regular airdrops like GWEI and FIGHT's 50U middle profit, and also rumored upcoming projects like ZAME, Bitway, Unitas, etc., could they all have the potential for big profits? Is everything getting better? Should I hold on a bit longer? 📚
Is your first crypto project also Binance Alpha? Is it the bond and white moonlight in your heart? Do you still remember the days of happily grabbing airdrops with it? Do you remember that because of it, you entered the crypto space and continuously learned about and engaged with other different projects? If you left it, could you still persist in exploring the crypto space? ❤️
V. A small experiment
This article was sent simultaneously to Binance Square and X on January 22, 2026, at 11:40 PM, allowing me to see the first long article written in 2026, comparing traffic and interaction on both sides and the real data comparison, what is the situation like? 🤣
VI. Appendix (Binance Alpha activity backtesting profit simulation table - complete)
1⃣Group: Thousand U account, balance 2 points, trading volume 13 days brushed 15 points, 2 days brushed 16 points
2⃣Group: Thousand U account, balance 2 points, trading volume 15 days brushed 16 points
3⃣Group: Ten thousand U account, balance 3 points, trading volume 13 days brushed 15 points, 2 days brushed 16 points
4⃣Group: Ten thousand U account, balance 3 points, trading volume 15 days brushed 16 points
