Airdrop guide · updated July 2026
How the $ANSEM (The Black Bull) creator-fee airdrop works, how your slice is scored, how to boost it on Bullpen — and what it really costs.
$ANSEM ("The Black Bull") is a Solana token tied to Ansem (@blknoiz06), one of the most-followed traders in crypto. Instead of its creator fees piling up in a deployer wallet, they're airdropped back to holders — roughly $200K per week — through a claim dashboard on Bullpen, the trading terminal Ansem co-founded.
Bullpen itself is a multi-chain terminal backed by serious names — 6th Man Ventures, Delphi Digital, Manifold, Spartan Group, and angels including Solana's co-founders. It routes Hyperliquid perps and spot plus Solana memecoins, and it's where your claim lives: hold $ANSEM, connect your wallet and X on the dashboard, and your share of the weekly pool accrues automatically.
The exact weightings and pool size aren't officially published, the weekly pool moves with trading activity, and $ANSEM itself is a memecoin — full price risk. Treat every estimate as an estimate, not a promise.
Your cut of the weekly pool isn't just "how many tokens you hold." Four factors feed it — the same four the calculator scores:
Each factor has diminishing returns, so whales, wash volume, and bought impressions can't fully dominate the pool. Botted wallets and dust farms get filtered — it has to look like organic activity from a real person.
Enter your four dashboard numbers and get your 0–100 score plus a dollar estimate.
Any amount starts your holding clock — the duration weighting rewards being early far more than being big later. It trades on Solana, and you can buy it directly on Bullpen.
New accounts via referral get reduced trading fees — which matters once you're trading volume for score. Use this link to start with the discount baked in.
Bullpen is self-custody — your keys stay yours. Connecting both is what makes your holdings, volume, and social reach count toward the weekly claim.
Small, regular trades beat one big session. Consistency across weekly epochs is the whole game.
Impressions on your $ANSEM posts feed the social factor. A real, established account beats a fresh burner.
Plug your numbers into the calculator before you commit capital.
Once you're set up, everything reduces to four levers — in rough order of impact:
Holdings carry the heaviest weight, and the duration clock multiplies them. A medium bag held from week one can out-earn a bigger bag that shows up late.
Volume is what separates you from purely passive holders. Spreading trades across the week beats one big clip, and maker orders keep the cost of that volume down.
Impressions on your $ANSEM posts feed the social factor. Verified, established accounts get anti-sybil credit; throwaway accounts get discounted.
The same activity also earns Bullpen's own points program ($BULL, Season 3) and referral rewards on traders you bring in — you're effectively farming two airdrops with one set of actions.
Consistency beats bursts. The scoring rewards showing up every weekly epoch far more than one big session. Small, steady, real.
Three different tokens get mixed up constantly. Here's the clean version:
| Token | What it is | Why you care |
|---|---|---|
| $ANSEM | "The Black Bull" — the Solana token tied to Ansem. Its creator fees (~$200K/week) are airdropped back to holders weekly. | The live airdrop this guide (and the calculator) is about. |
| $BULL | Bullpen's own future airdrop token, earned as points (Season 3) for trading and activity. No token, supply, or TGE date announced yet. | A bonus that stacks automatically while you trade $ANSEM on Bullpen. |
| $BULLPEN | A separate memecoin. Hold a large bag (currently ≥$100K) → earn $ANSEM. | Niche, big-bag play. Most people should skip it. |
For 95% of people the plan is simple: hold $ANSEM early and claim weekly, and let the $BULL points stack as a side effect of volume you were doing anyway.
Bullpen is a Hyperliquid builder — your trades execute on Hyperliquid's order book, and Bullpen adds a builder fee on top of Hyperliquid's normal fees (capped at 10 bps). So trading volume for score isn't free: every round-trip costs you the spread + fees.
That's why two things matter enormously:
Volume-for-score is only +EV if the extra $ANSEM claim (plus the $BULL points you stack on the side) exceeds the fees you burn generating it. Run your numbers through the calculator first, size your fee budget to what you can afford to lose, and don't wash-trade blindly.
Farm the cheap, low-risk legs hard: hold early, connect X, post occasionally, and route volume you'd trade anyway through the discounted link. Only scale paid volume-farming after you've done the fee math on the calculator.
Get your $ANSEM airdrop score and dollar estimate, then sign up with reduced fees.