Manual vs Auto — What's the Difference?

• You sign and send the transaction from your wallet (EOA)
• You pay gas
• tx.from is your address
• Shows up in your wallet's transaction history
• Most universally recognized by airdrops and analytics that require "activity from your EOA"

• A relayer sends the transaction; the service pays gas
• Your address is passed to the contract and recorded as the user/owner
• tx.from is the relayer, but on-chain state and events reference your address
• Does not show up in your wallet's sent transactions
• Counts where projects look at contract events, ownership, or state — not where they require EOA-sent txs

Manual and Auto are just two ways to execute the same kind of action. With Manual, you are the transaction sender. With Auto, the relayer is the sender but your address is stored in contract storage and emitted in events. Indexers and block explorers see your address either way; the difference is who sent the transaction and who paid gas.

Use Manual when you want the strongest, most widely accepted signal (e.g. for airdrops that require EOA activity) or when you want the action to appear in your wallet history.

Use Auto when you want consistent daily activity without sending transactions yourself; accept that some strict criteria may not count it. Many users use both.