Last week, the Berachain Foundation was formally announced, serving as one of the final steps in the launch sequence for the BERA token. 

The BERA token distribution includes an airdrop of 15.75% to Berachain community members, applications, liquidity providers and more as recognition of their contributions to an incredibly robust pre-launch ecosystem, and their role in helping to make the fake chain real. 

This post serves to provide a breakdown of the eligibility criteria for receiving an airdrop, and a walkthrough of the claims process for different portions of the airdrop. 

Airdrop Summary

Eligibility

Check allocation at: https://checker.berachain.com/

The following users or groups are eligible for the Berachain airdrop

Testnet Users - 8,250,000 $BERA

The Berachain Foundation is excited to allocate 8,250,000 BERA tokens towards its testnet users. 

Over the past year, Berachain released two public testnets, Artio and bArtio, used to evaluate robustness of the network’s architecture and dApp design. Despite Smokey’s self-fud on the timeline, clickers continued to utilize the testnet. You are now officially allowed to post #berascam at full speed!

These testnets became a key part of the ecosystem’s development, and allowed hundreds of applications to prototype their products while building massive userbases.  Despite Smokey’s self-fud on the timeline, clickers continued to utilize the testnet. You are now officially allowed to post #berascam at full speed!

Users were awarded tokens based on interactions with different native or ecosystem dApps and unique activities within the Berachain ecosystem (minting $HONEY, claiming fees, posting incentives for reward vaults, converting $BGT to $BERA, delegating $BGT, etc), with a small boost given to Binance Web3Wallet users.

Request for Brobosal (RFB) - 11,730,000 $BERA

In a similar vein to the testnet allocation, Berachain’s RFB program encouraged dApps and community groups / leaders from the ecosystem to apply to receive portions of the BERA token upon launch, drawing a degree of inspiration from LayerZero’s RFP program. The Berachain Foundation has allocated 11,730,000 BERA tokens to the RFB recipients, split between the recipient teams, and the testnet users of RFA project according to their submitted breakdowns.  

The Request for Applications (RFA) rewarded groups who had deployed apps on one or more of Berachain’s testnets, assessing allocations based on the novelty, Bera-nativeness, token issuance plans and expected use of the allocation. It’s important to note that for RFA, up to 15% of the allocation may be used for the protocol’s treasury, while a minimum of 70% must be used towards initiatives on mainnet, and the remainder (10-15% as determined by the team) was used to reward testnet users, and included in the Berachain genesis file based on CSV’s submitted from teams within the ecosystem. While no extra points were awarded for projects which had a “Bera” somewhere in their name, it’s hilarious to scroll through the RFA blog and see how many project names started with a “B”, in a truly culturally appropriate manner. 

The Request for Community (RFC) rewarded community groups or individual creators for their contributions to the Berachain community over time, which has gained fame for its lively, collaborative and often outright comical nature. RFC allocations were assessed based on their contributions towards the community to date, whether that be in the form of regional hubs, public goods, social network formation, content creation, or anything in between, along with their long term plans around how to continue similar efforts following launch. God bless to anyone who made tutorials or content on how to use Artio because I sure couldn’t figure it out.

RFB airdrop recipients may verify their airdrop using the airdrop checker, then associate a wallet address (a Safe for RFA teams) with their X. The allocation will be claimable by Feb 10th. 

Boyco - 10,000,000 $BERA 

The Berachain Foundation has allocated 10,000,000 BERA tokens to the Boyco launch program, unlocking at the completion of each respective Boyco market following Berachain’s launch (30 or 90 days post launch, depending on the market). 

Boyco is a liquidity acquisition marketplace for applications on Berachain powered by Royco, Enso, LayerZero and Stargate, enabling a subset of Berachain’s leading applications to acquire massive amounts of day 1 liquidity from Ethereum Mainnet. This solves the cold start problem for applications while emphasizing Berachain’s deep focus on the application layer, as seen through Proof of Liquidity. 

25+ bluechip dApps and token issuers including Infrared, Kodiak, Dolomite, EtherFi, Stakestone, Concrete, Lombard, Ethena, Origami and many more collaborated to place incentives on these markets, allowing prospective LPs to gain exposure to not only the BERA token, but a basket of exciting new products living on the Berachain ecosystem. 

Despite a hectic week long deposit period during the Lunar New Year plagued by FE / BE bugs (a slight side effect of a 1000x increase in TVL and userflow on a platform), the Boy Company program reeled in $3B in capital, turbocharging Berachain’s app layer and hopefully providing enough yields to pay for summer camp for our favorite team of child devs. With over 150k depositors across 100+ markets, Boyco served as an exciting opportunities for new users to gain exposure to Berachain at its earliest stages. 

Boyco deposits are rewarded (in the BERA token) based on the market chosen, which is ultimately a combination of the length of time (30/90 days), type of asset (major/third party), and type of pool (single sided, volatile, stablepool etc) that was chosen.  $BERA incentives will be distributed 30 or 90 days post launch, depending on the market chosen by each user. 

Social Airdrop - 1,250,000 $BERA

The Berachain Foundation has allocated 1,250,000 BERA tokens to the social portion of the airdrop, as a token of recognition for the active and vocal community that’s been established on various social platforms. Organizations/dApp accounts and Berachain team members were removed from the drop. 

Some fudders definitely made it in as well - the Foundation advises them to see the error of their ways and learn to love the Chain With A Bear On It. But the Foundation is grateful to everyone that kept the excitement alive as the fake chain remained fake for a little longer than expected. 

Scoring was completed based on a composite index of engagement scoring from KaitoAI, and Cookie3, with a boost applied to users who qualified for the Social Airdrop, but also possessed a Kaito Yaps account. 

Social airdrop recipients may verify their airdrop using the airdrop checker, then associate a wallet address with their X or Discord. The allocation will be claimable by Feb 10th. 

Ecosystem NFTs - 1,250,000 $BERA

In recognition of the long running inside joke of Arbitrum being a secret Berachain L2, the Foundation has awarded 1,250,000 $BERA to the holders of various NFTs associated with the Berachain ecosystem, with scoring based on a composite value derived from the floor value and trading volume of each NFT collection, split amongst 80 NFT collections. 

As people waited for Berachain to launch, the NFT lovers amongst the community simply decided to mint on Arbitrum (or Ethereum) instead, with OpenSea leaderboards often dominated by Berachain NFT collections. In many cases, these NFTs were used as a form of bootstrapping or gaining some form of exclusive access or privilege to an exciting new application, further strengthening the Berachain application layer, and social layer. 

While it is ultimately up to each NFT collection’s creator to figure out how to make their holders happy, the Foundation views the ecosystem’s NFTs as an essential part of Berachain’s growth, and is excited to see them come home in the future. Ecosystem NFTs were snapshotted on January 14, 2025 and distributed in the genesis file.

Binance HODLers Airdrop  - 10,000,000 $BERA 

The Chain with a Bear on it has a lot of respect for the chain with a big yellow B on it. 

The Berachain Foundation has allocated 10,000,000 $BERA to be distributed amongst Binance’s HODLers as part of the subsequent listing process. The Foundation expects to see many collaborations between Binance and Berachain in the future, starting with some of our work on the Web3Wallet side and hopefully culminating in even more ecosystem crosspollination. 

Strategic Partners  - 2,000,000 $BERA

Berachain has often toed the line between a general purpose L1 and an appchain given the presence of inbuilt primitives like a decentralized exchange (BeraSwap), which is expected to expand in the future with the release of a lending platform. 

The Foundation has allocated 2,000,000 $BERA to the strategic partners whose infrastructure was used to build these applications (namely Morpho for lending and Balancer for BeraSwap), or other key services necessary for Berachain’s launch (like Clique, powering Berachain’s airdrop). 

To be explicit, these aren’t tokens given to these applications in exchange for deploying on Berachain. Rather, they’re closer to licensing fees for powering the enshrined Berachain applications which utilize their tech stack. 

Bong Bears and Rebases - 34,500,000 $BERA 

Last but very far from least, the Berachain Foundation has allocated 34,500,000 BERA tokens to the Bong Bear NFTs and rebase collections (Bond Bears, Boo Bears, Baby Bears, Band Bears, Bit Bears, and a future unreleased 7th and final rebase). Honorary Bong Bears (Zeus Bear, Beartull, Bearyphus, Bearmo, Icebeargy and DCF Bear) were excluded from the allocation. 

The 34,500,000 $BERA is split equally across each collection, with 25,000,000 (5%) of the tokens unlocked at launch, and the remaining 9,500,000 (1.9%) vesting on the same schedule as all insiders, consisting of a 1 year cliff followed by a 1/6th unlock, and 24 months of linear vesting. 

Berachain would never have existed without the Bong Bears and their subsequent rebases. The NFTs came before the chain, and the NFT holders have been some of the longest-standing and most supportive members of the Berachain community, with countless holders having progressed to starting their own dApps or community initiatives within the ecosystem.

The chain came from the Bears, and now the Chain Has A Bear On It. As a wise man once said, Ooga Booga Bonga Bera. 

Beardrop allocations may be claimed after bridging one of the Bera NFTs to Berachain using the Bera NFT bridge, to be released in the near future. The allocation is tied to the NFT itself, not a snapshot or an account, so if someone moves their Bear from one account to another, vesting rewards will follow the Bear, not its original account. In the same vein, if a Bera NFTs allocation at launch is unclaimed and the Bear is sold or transferred from one account to another, the allocation will ultimately be claimable by whoever owns the NFT. Each Bear may only have its launch allocation claimed once. 

As for the 7th rebase - it will arrive when Berachain needs it most. 

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