Unfortunately not all answers given here are correct. There was no airdrop, but the people who hold bitshares, whaleshares, or brownie tokens on Aug 1st 2018 could claim an account and start of with a some whalestake that reflects the amount of the tokens they hold.

This claiming an account action is not possible all the time, different claim periods have already passed. It is unsure if and when another claim period will happen.

Whaleshares wants people to engage, to connect. Whaleshares is not for quick money. Therefore you can powerdown but only like 10% at the moment. We started off with 6.25% this will increase over the years.

On powerdown you get liquid WLS, this can be converted by using the rudex gateway for example. And it works the other way too. You can powerup by buying WLS on the exchange and moving it to your wallet.

Other differences, no 7 day payout period, but 14 days. All payout is vested, you get 100% whalestake. We use reward or upshare. Every post you reward is automatically shared. This is done to have people only reward what they really want to share with their friends.

Selfrewarding on comments will cost you 3x mana of a regular reward, and only results in 1/3 of the reward value of a regular reward. The same goes for flagging.

On whaleshares you can earn whaletokens. These tokens can be used to increase your post reward. Whaleshares does not use delegation.

If there is anything else you want to know, DM me on discord