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10 Years, 10 Million Tokens, Our Thanks
TL;DR:
We’re celebrating $IOTA’s 10th anniversary by distributing 10 million $IOTA tokens among our community through airdrops, staking rewards, raffles, and community engagement.
Just a handful of blockchain projects have lived to celebrate their 10th anniversary. In October, $IOTA joins this exclusive circle.
Since its first announcement on Bitcointalk in October 2015, $IOTA has pioneered a distributed ledger architecture designed for scalability, decentralization, and real-world utility.
In just 10 years, the protocol has gone from bold idea to real-world impact — powering digital identity frameworks, unlocking tokenized assets and DeFi, piloting supply chain transparency with global enterprises, shaping the future of digital trade and finance, and rallying a growing ecosystem of builders and partners.
From Africa to Europe, Asia and across the world, $IOTA is being adopted as the L1 to provide real-world utility. And none of it would have been possible without you, the $IOTA community.
To celebrate this journey, we’re distributing 10 million $IOTA tokens as a gift for our loyal community.
How We’re Giving Away 10 Million $IOTA Tokens
While details are still being kept under wraps, here’s what we can share now:
1. Binance Simple Earn – Locked Product Launch: $IOTA: Wednesday, 1 October
- 2 million $IOTA tokens distributed via staking rewards on Binance.
- Rewards scale depending on lock-up period of 30, 60 or 120 days
- Fulldetailshere.
2. Anniversary Party in Singapore: Thursday, 2 October
- 250,000 $IOTA tokens raffled to 10 winners at the $IOTA 10 Year Anniversary celebration event
- Additional prizes: $IOTA-branded Keystone wallets and goodie bags.
3. Community & DeFi Engagement
- Two groups of recipients:
- Holders of the Genesis NFT
- Contributors ranked on the LiquidLink DeFi leaderboard (distribution proportional to collected points)
4. Native $IOTA Token Staking Airdrop
- $IOTA tokens distributed to all native $IOTA stakers (excluding exchanges and $IOTA Foundation, Tangle Ecosystem Association, and $IOTA DLT Foundation wallets)
Altogether, 10 million $IOTA tokens are being distributed amongst the community: a thank you for the passion, trust, and activity that have carried $IOTA through the last decade.
As we celebrate this milestone, the journey continues: $IOTA is bringing the real world on-chain, shaping how value flows across people, businesses, and the globe.