Original title: Did you receive the Linea airdrop?
After waiting for 3 years! The Linea airdrop has finally landed. Today, the highly anticipated top-tier project Linea has opened the airdrop query channel and announced that token claims will officially open on September 10.
Regarding the community feedback on the Linea airdrop, many users' intuitive feeling is that it "did not meet expectations." Some regret not reaching the threshold, being clawed back, or even receiving nothing, while others lament that the returns did not meet their psychological expectations. Additionally, quite a few users have shared screenshots showing tens of thousands of airdropped tokens, highlighting the significant differences in airdrop allocation results and the notable advantage of "quality addresses" in this airdrop.
However, it is not difficult to see beyond the emotional discussions that this airdrop has clearly filtered out users who are truly deeply involved in the ecosystem, marking a victory for quality addresses.
Linea Token Distribution Principle: Ecological Priority
In the LINEA token supply, Consensys Software will retain 15% of the tokens, and the remaining 85% of the token supply will be allocated to the ecosystem:
10% will be allocated to early users and strategic builders, and will be airdropped after being fully unlocked;
The remaining 75% will be allocated to the ecosystem fund. The Linea Alliance has approved 4% to be used for rewarding liquidity providers participating in Linea Surge (fully unlocked at TGE).
Linea Token Allocation and Distribution Mechanism
Linea distributed a total of 9,361,298,700 LINEA in the airdrop, with 749,662 addresses eligible to claim (fully unlocked at TGE). This airdrop primarily targets two types of participants: LXP (Linea Voyage) participants and LXP-L (Linea Surge liquidity providers).
1. LXP Participant Standards
Minimum threshold: At least 2000 LXP must be accumulated;
Tiered System: Divided into 7 levels based on the amount of LXP, with higher levels earning more tokens. Distribution within the same level grows linearly. The specific level divisions are as follows:
Level 1: 2000 LXP
Level 2: 3000 LXP
Level 3: 4000 LXP
Level 4: 4500 LXP
Level 5: 5000 LXP
Level 6: 6500 LXP
Level 7: 8000+ LXP
Boost Mechanism: Users who meet any of the following qualifications can receive a 10% boost.
Early User Bonus: Users interacting with the Linea network before the Dencun upgrade (from the launch of the Linea mainnet until March 27, 2024);
Continuous activity bonus: Users who trade on the Linea mainnet for any six months (monthly) between August 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025.
MetaMask product usage bonus: Users who use MetaMask for exchange or cross-chain functions on Linea, or who stake with MetaMask or use the MetaMask card before June 30, 2025.
2. LXP-L Participants
Minimum threshold: need to accumulate at least 15,000 LXP-L;
Distribution method: Linear distribution based on the quantity of LXP-L, with no upper limit;
Design Purpose: Encourage liquidity providers to concentrate funds in a single address to avoid Sybil attacks.
3. Builder Airdrop
An additional 1% of the token supply is specifically allocated to strategic builders within the Linea ecosystem, including core applications and the community.
Preventing Sybil Attacks and PoH Verification
To ensure that token distribution goes to real users, the Linea airdrop has set a minimum activity threshold and introduced Proof-of-Humanity (PoH) verification to filter out sybil attacks.
Query and Claim Time
Eligibility Check: Available for query on Linea Hub starting September 3, 2025;
Application Window: From September 10, 2025 to December 9, 2025 (UTC), lasting 90 days;
Unclaimed processing: Tokens that are not claimed within the deadline will be returned to the ecosystem fund.
To the Fur Rubbing People
The airdrop rules design and final results of Linea represent a "standardized exam" in the "farming" ecosystem of the cryptocurrency field. Some end up with nothing, while others reap tens of thousands of tokens; the difference behind this is not luck, but rather a fundamental distinction in the depth of participation.
The core signal of the Linea airdrop is to avoid the "witch attack" and to lean towards "real users". The project not only sets high thresholds for LXP (starting from 2000) and LXP-L (starting from 15000), but also introduces PoH verification. At the same time, it directly targets the practice of "multiple accounts to farm" through the rule of "encouraging liquidity to concentrate on a single address."
Inspiration for the hair pullers:
Some projects (especially public chains and ecosystem projects) need to abandon the "quantity over quality" mindset and focus on high-quality addresses: rather than spending time nurturing 10 "shallow interaction accounts," it is better to concentrate efforts on interacting with 1-2 high-quality addresses.
Prioritize using official project / parent company affiliated tools to seize invisible bonus items: In the Linea airdrop, the "MetaMask product usage bonus" is an easily overlooked but highly significant rule. Using MetaMask for exchanges or cross-chain on Linea, or using MetaMask for staking, or the MetaMask card can yield an additional 10% airdrop boost.
"Long-termism" replaces "short-term speculation": Linea's "Continuous Activity Bonus" directly incorporates the "time dimension" into the airdrop bonus criteria. The "time cost" of long-term participation itself serves as an invisible threshold for filtering quality users.
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Linea Airdrop Controversy: Why do some people receive tens of thousands of coins while others get nothing?
Written by: KarenZ, Foresight News
Original title: Did you receive the Linea airdrop?
After waiting for 3 years! The Linea airdrop has finally landed. Today, the highly anticipated top-tier project Linea has opened the airdrop query channel and announced that token claims will officially open on September 10.
Regarding the community feedback on the Linea airdrop, many users' intuitive feeling is that it "did not meet expectations." Some regret not reaching the threshold, being clawed back, or even receiving nothing, while others lament that the returns did not meet their psychological expectations. Additionally, quite a few users have shared screenshots showing tens of thousands of airdropped tokens, highlighting the significant differences in airdrop allocation results and the notable advantage of "quality addresses" in this airdrop.
However, it is not difficult to see beyond the emotional discussions that this airdrop has clearly filtered out users who are truly deeply involved in the ecosystem, marking a victory for quality addresses.
Linea Token Distribution Principle: Ecological Priority
In the LINEA token supply, Consensys Software will retain 15% of the tokens, and the remaining 85% of the token supply will be allocated to the ecosystem:
Linea Token Allocation and Distribution Mechanism
Linea distributed a total of 9,361,298,700 LINEA in the airdrop, with 749,662 addresses eligible to claim (fully unlocked at TGE). This airdrop primarily targets two types of participants: LXP (Linea Voyage) participants and LXP-L (Linea Surge liquidity providers).
1. LXP Participant Standards
Level 1: 2000 LXP
Level 2: 3000 LXP
Level 3: 4000 LXP
Level 4: 4500 LXP
Level 5: 5000 LXP
Level 6: 6500 LXP
Level 7: 8000+ LXP
Early User Bonus: Users interacting with the Linea network before the Dencun upgrade (from the launch of the Linea mainnet until March 27, 2024);
Continuous activity bonus: Users who trade on the Linea mainnet for any six months (monthly) between August 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025.
MetaMask product usage bonus: Users who use MetaMask for exchange or cross-chain functions on Linea, or who stake with MetaMask or use the MetaMask card before June 30, 2025.
2. LXP-L Participants
3. Builder Airdrop
An additional 1% of the token supply is specifically allocated to strategic builders within the Linea ecosystem, including core applications and the community.
Preventing Sybil Attacks and PoH Verification
To ensure that token distribution goes to real users, the Linea airdrop has set a minimum activity threshold and introduced Proof-of-Humanity (PoH) verification to filter out sybil attacks.
Query and Claim Time
To the Fur Rubbing People
The airdrop rules design and final results of Linea represent a "standardized exam" in the "farming" ecosystem of the cryptocurrency field. Some end up with nothing, while others reap tens of thousands of tokens; the difference behind this is not luck, but rather a fundamental distinction in the depth of participation.
The core signal of the Linea airdrop is to avoid the "witch attack" and to lean towards "real users". The project not only sets high thresholds for LXP (starting from 2000) and LXP-L (starting from 15000), but also introduces PoH verification. At the same time, it directly targets the practice of "multiple accounts to farm" through the rule of "encouraging liquidity to concentrate on a single address."
Inspiration for the hair pullers: