# Megapot gave 14,000 lottery tickets to credible Ethos users

Published 2026-05-19 by Ethos · https://www.ethos.network/post/megapot-exclusive-access-lottery-tickets

> Megapot ran an Ethos Exclusive Access activation that gave out 14,000 free lottery tickets on Base, gated by Ethos score, with no agency fee.

Megapot, a provably fair onchain lottery on Base, gave out **14,000 free tickets** through an Ethos Exclusive Access activation. Every claim came from a user with an Ethos score of **1400 or higher**, and Megapot paid **$0** in agency fees.

Exclusive Access, which gives users with strong scores perks from partners, launched with Megapot among its first partners. This case study shows how the Megapot campaign was set up and what it cost. For any team launching a product to crypto users, the hard part is getting it in front of real people instead of farmers running throwaway wallets. Megapot’s answer was to let credibility decide who could claim.

## Why Megapot gated by credibility

A lottery is a product that lives on trust. To launch to the right audience, Megapot gated its tickets entirely by onchain credibility score. There was no paid reach, no airdrop mechanics and no agency involved.

Patrick Lung, co-founder of Megapot, explained the thinking:

> “For a product built on trust, who shows up matters as much as how many. Exclusive Access put our tickets in front of people who had already earned a reputation onchain, not farmers. We funded the prize, Ethos handled the reach, and it cost us nothing on top.”

## How the activation worked

The campaign ran in three parts:

1.  **Gate**: Ethos surfaced the perk to users above a credibility threshold. Users scoring 1600+ could claim 2 tickets per day, and users scoring 1400 to 1599 could claim 1 per day.
2.  **Return**: Claims were daily with no rollover, which brought high credibility users back across the full campaign window.
3.  **Amplify**: Megapot’s co-founder joined the Ethos launch livestream on X, while Ethos channels pushed the campaign to its most credible users.

The setup at a glance:

-   **1600+ score**: 2 tickets a day
-   **1400 to 1599 score**: 1 ticket a day
-   **Claim window**: daily, no rollover
-   **Chain**: Base
-   **API key needed**: no
-   **Second activation**: planned

## Why farmers couldn’t game it

An Ethos score is earned over time and can’t be bought, and a farmer running throwaway wallets can’t fake it at scale. Combining that gate with daily claims and no rollover meant farming the drop stopped being worth anyone’s time.

By design, **100%** of claims cleared the 1400+ credibility gate.

## What it cost

Megapot funded the tickets. Everything else came at no cost:

-   The targeting
-   The gating
-   The founder livestream
-   The amplification across Ethos channels

The case study compares Exclusive Access with the two usual ways of reaching new users:

-   **Paid ads**: unfiltered audience, low sybil resistance, agency fees, days of setup, no co-marketing
-   **Airdrop farm**: an audience of farmers, low sybil resistance, campaign management fees, days of setup, no co-marketing
-   **Exclusive Access**: a credibility-gated audience, high sybil resistance, no fee, minutes of setup, co-marketing built in

## Where else this approach fits

The Megapot format isn’t limited to lotteries. The case study lists other ways a team could use score-gated access:

-   **Product launches**: put a new consumer product in front of credible, onchain native users from the start
-   **Token sales and allowlists**: gate early access by score so a project’s best community gets in first
-   **Points and rewards**: tier perks by score, the way Megapot tiered daily claims
-   **Beta access**: reach high credibility users who will actually give feedback
-   **Community curation**: find the most trusted supporters for ambassador and governance roles

For Megapot, the result was 14,000 tickets in the hands of users who had already built a reputation onchain, with a second activation planned.

*This article is adapted from the [Ethos case study](https://casestudies.ethos.network/megapot).*