After a three-year wait, the Linea airdrop has finally arrived: a detailed guide to token claiming rules
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After a three-year wait, the Linea airdrop has finally arrived: a detailed guide to token claiming rules
Linea airdrop, victory for high-quality accounts.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: KarenZ, Foresight News
After a 3-year wait! The Linea airdrop has finally arrived. Today, the highly anticipated flagship project Linea opened its airdrop eligibility checker and announced that token claims will officially begin on September 10.
Community reactions to the Linea airdrop have largely echoed a sentiment of "underwhelming." Some users expressed regret over missing thresholds or being reverse-sybilized, ending up with nothing. Others felt their rewards fell short of expectations, while many shared screenshots showing tens of thousands of tokens claimed—highlighting the significant disparities in airdrop outcomes and the clear advantage held by high-quality addresses.
Beneath the emotional responses, it's clear this airdrop applied well-defined rules to identify users who genuinely engaged deeply with the ecosystem—a victory for quality addresses.
Linea Token Distribution Principle: Ecosystem First
Of the total LINEA token supply, Consensys Software will retain 15%, while 85% will be allocated to the ecosystem:
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10% will go to early users and strategic builders, to be fully unlocked and distributed via airdrop;
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The remaining 75% is reserved for the ecosystem fund. The Linea Collective has approved allocating 4% of the total supply to reward liquidity providers in the Linea Surge program (fully unlocked at TGE).
Linea Airdrop Eligibility and Distribution Mechanism
Linea has allocated 9,361,298,700 LINEA in this airdrop, with 749,662 eligible addresses (fully unlocked at TGE). The airdrop primarily targets two groups: LXP (Linea Voyage) participants and LXP-L (Linea Surge liquidity providers).
1. LXP Participant Criteria
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Minimum Threshold: Must accumulate at least 2000 LXP;
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Tiered System: Divided into 7 tiers based on LXP count—higher tiers receive more tokens, with linear growth within each tier. The specific tiers are as follows:
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Tier 1: 2000 LXP
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Tier 2: 3000 LXP
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Tier 3: 4000 LXP
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Tier 4: 4500 LXP
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Tier 5: 5000 LXP
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Tier 6: 6500 LXP
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Tier 7: 8000+ LXP
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Boost Mechanism: Users meeting any of the following criteria receive a 10% boost:
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Early User Boost: Users who interacted with the Linea network before the Dencun upgrade (from Linea mainnet launch to March 27, 2024);
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Ongoing Activity Boost: Users who conducted transactions on the Linea mainnet during any six months (monthly activity) between August 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025;
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MetaMask Product Usage Boost: Users who used MetaMask Swap or Bridge on Linea, or used MetaMask Staking or MetaMask Card before June 30, 2025.
2. LXP-L Participants
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Minimum Threshold: Must accumulate at least 15,000 LXP-L;
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Distribution Method: Linear distribution based on LXP-L amount, with no upper limit;
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Design Purpose: Encourage liquidity providers to concentrate funds in a single address, deterring 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 community contributors.
Sybil Resistance and PoH Verification
To ensure tokens reach real users, the Linea airdrop set minimum activity thresholds and introduced Proof-of-Humanity (PoH) verification to filter out Sybil attacks.
Eligibility Check and Claim Timeline
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Eligibility Check: Available from September 3, 2025, via the Linea Hub;
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Claim Window: September 10 to December 9, 2025 (UTC), lasting 90 days;
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Unclaimed Tokens: Any unclaimed tokens after the deadline will be returned to the ecosystem fund.
A Message to Airdrop Farmers
The design and outcome of the Linea airdrop serve as a "standardized exam" for the crypto airdrop farming ecosystem. Some walked away empty-handed, while others earned tens of thousands of tokens—the difference isn't luck, but depth of participation.
The most important signal from the Linea airdrop is its avoidance of Sybil attacks and its bias toward genuine users. Beyond setting high thresholds (2000 LXP, 15,000 LXP-L), Linea implemented PoH verification and designed rules that encourage concentrating liquidity in a single address—directly countering the common "multi-account farming" strategy.
Key takeaways for airdrop farmers:
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For certain projects (especially Layer 1s and ecosystem projects), abandon the "quantity over quality" mindset—focus on high-quality addresses: Instead of spending time nurturing 10 lightly-interacting accounts, focus on deeply engaging 1-2 quality addresses.
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Prioritize using official or parent-company-related tools to gain hidden advantages: In the Linea airdrop, the "MetaMask product usage boost" was an easily overlooked yet highly indicative rule. Using MetaMask Swap or Bridge on Linea, or using MetaMask Staking or MetaMask Card, grants an extra 10% airdrop boost.
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Embrace "long-termism" over "short-term speculation": Linea’s "ongoing activity boost" explicitly incorporates time as a factor in airdrop rewards. Long-term engagement and the associated time investment form an invisible but effective barrier that filters for high-quality users.
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