Taiko Announces Airdrop Ahead of Mainnet Launch

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Taiko, a Layer 2 rollup project on Ethereum, has announced an airdrop for its community members prior to the official mainnet launch. The project plans to distribute 5% of its total supply of 1 billion tokens through this airdrop.

Details of the Taiko Airdrop

The first phase of the airdrop program has arrived. Taiko will distribute 5% of the initial TKO token supply to contributing community members. You can check your eligibility for the airdrop today if you fall into one of the following categories:

Block Proposer for Taiko
Prover for Taiko
Relayer for Taiko
Active Taiko users (including Galxe point holders)
Developers who have contributed to Taiko
Eligible contributors on GitHub
Qualified Loopring community members

Taiko Tokenomics

Taiko allocates its tokens as follows:

48.5% to key stakeholders:
- 20% for Taiko Labs and the core team
- 16.88% as reserves for the Taiko Foundation
- 11.62% for investors
Additionally, 20% is allocated to the DAO Fund

The team has also set aside 5% for Grants and RetroPGF, another 5% for liquidity and market creation, and 10% for the Trailblazer airdrop, separate from this airdrop.

User contributions are evaluated and ranked. If you meet a certain point threshold based on your level of participation and contribution, you will qualify for the airdrop.

Visit claim.taiko.xyz to check your eligibility.

Users have 7 days to verify their eligibility. Once the airdrop window opens, you will have 1 month to claim your TKO tokens. The official airdrop date has not been announced yet.

About Taiko

Taiko is a fully open-source, decentralized ZK-Rollup project equivalent to Ethereum. Using Taiko is akin to using Ethereum, with no centralized entity operating the network—everything is managed by the community.

Two months ago, the project raised an additional $15 million, bringing the total raised to $37 million. Since its launch in 2022, Taiko has made a significant impact with 6 testnets involving over 1.1 million unique wallets, 30,000 block proposers, and 14,000 provers. The community is robust with over 100 live applications and more than 850,000 members on Discord.