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Linea Airdrop: The Triumph of Quality Accounts.

Written by: KarenZ, Foresight News

After a long wait of three years, the Linea airdrop has finally arrived. Today, the highly anticipated top-tier project Linea opened its airdrop eligibility check portal and announced that token claims will officially open on September 10.

Regarding the Linea airdrop, many in the community have voiced that it was "below expectations." Some users regret not meeting the threshold, being counter-farmed, or receiving nothing at all; others lament that their rewards fell short of expectations. Meanwhile, many users have shared screenshots of receiving tens of thousands of tokens, highlighting the significant differences in airdrop allocation and the clear advantage of "quality addresses" in this airdrop.

However, setting aside emotional reactions, it’s clear that this airdrop used transparent rules to select users who truly engaged deeply with the ecosystem—making it a victory for quality addresses.

Linea Token Distribution Principles: Ecosystem First

Of the LINEA token supply, Consensys Software will retain 15% of the tokens. The remaining 85% will be allocated to the ecosystem:

• 10% will be distributed to early users and strategic builders, and will be fully unlocked for the airdrop;
• The remaining 75% will go to the ecosystem fund. The Linea Alliance has approved 4% to reward liquidity providers who participated in Linea Surge (fully unlocked at TGE).

Linea Airdrop Eligibility and Distribution Mechanism

A total of 9,361,298,700 LINEA will be distributed in the airdrop, with 749,662 addresses eligible to claim (fully unlocked at TGE). This airdrop mainly targets two types of participants: LXP (Linea Voyage) participants and LXP-L (Linea Surge liquidity providers).

1. LXP Participant Criteria

• Minimum Threshold: At least 2,000 LXP must be accumulated;
• Tiered System: There are 7 tiers based on the amount of LXP, with higher tiers receiving more tokens. Distribution within each tier increases linearly. The specific tiers are as follows:
• Tier 1: 2,000 LXP
• Tier 2: 3,000 LXP
• Tier 3: 4,000 LXP
• Tier 4: 4,500 LXP
• Tier 5: 5,000 LXP
• Tier 6: 6,500 LXP
• Tier 7: 8,000+ LXP

• Boost Mechanism: Users who meet any of the following criteria can receive a 10% boost.
• Early User Boost: Users who interacted with the Linea network before the Dencun upgrade (from Linea mainnet launch to March 27, 2024);
• Continuous Activity Boost: Users who made transactions on the Linea mainnet in any six months (monthly) between August 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025.
• MetaMask Product Usage Boost: Users who used MetaMask swap or bridge functions on Linea, or who used MetaMask staking or MetaMask Card before June 30, 2025.

2. LXP-L Participants

• Minimum threshold: At least 15,000 LXP-L must be accumulated;
• Distribution method: Linear distribution based on the amount of LXP-L, with no upper limit;
• Design purpose: To encourage liquidity providers to concentrate funds in a single address and prevent 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.

Sybil Attack Prevention and PoH Verification

To ensure tokens are distributed to 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 Period

• Eligibility check: Available on Linea Hub starting September 3, 2025;
• Claim window: September 10 to December 9, 2025 (UTC), lasting 90 days;
• Unclaimed tokens: Tokens not claimed within the period will be returned to the ecosystem fund.

To the Airdrop Farmers

The design and outcome of the Linea airdrop rules serve as a "standardized test" for the "airdrop farming" ecosystem in crypto. Some received nothing, while others harvested tens of thousands of tokens. The difference is not luck, but the fundamental distinction in the depth of participation.

The core signal from the Linea airdrop is its avoidance of "Sybil attacks" and its preference for "real users." The project not only set high thresholds for LXP (starting at 2,000) and LXP-L (starting at 15,000), but also introduced PoH verification. Additionally, by encouraging liquidity to be concentrated in a single address, it directly combats the "multi-account farming" strategy.

Insights for airdrop farmers:

• Some projects (especially public chains and ecosystem projects) require abandoning the "quantity over quality" mindset and focusing on quality addresses: Instead of spending time managing 10 "shallow interaction accounts," it’s better to focus on interacting deeply with 1-2 quality addresses.
• Prioritize using official project or parent company tools to capture hidden bonus points: In the Linea airdrop, the "MetaMask Product Usage Boost" is an easily overlooked but highly significant rule. Using MetaMask for swaps, bridging on Linea, staking, or using the MetaMask Card can earn an extra 10% airdrop boost.
• "Long-termism" over "short-term speculation": Linea’s "Continuous Activity Boost" directly incorporates the "time dimension" into the airdrop bonus criteria. The "time cost" of long-term participation itself serves as a hidden threshold for screening quality users.