Vibrant cities always attract ambitious people, and Shenzhen is one such city.
Over forty years ago, Shenzhen was still a stretch of rice paddies and a few fishing villages on the eastern bank of the Pearl River Estuary. But in the following forty years, it turned Huaqiangbei into the world's largest distribution center for electronic components, turned Dafen Village into a global oil painting factory, and became the birthplace of Huawei, Tencent, DJI, and BYD. In this city, there are too many people who capitalize on price differences through information, liquidity, and regulatory asymmetries.
Arez is a typical Shenzhen native like that.
He is in his early thirties and runs an airdrop hunting studio with friends in an office building in Nanshan. He once made a lot of money for the team from the Arbitrum, Starknet, and LayerZero airdrops in 2023. At its peak, he maintained thousands of on-chain addresses, running scripts, IP proxies, KYC resources, and fund rotations.
