#IOST After releasing the details of the 【IOST Community Long-term Reward】 airdrop of over 1.7 billion tokens, a full chain asset snapshot was completed at block height #3760105463 (around March 15, 2025, 00:00 UTC). If you held at least 1,000 IOST tokens on the original L1 chain at the time of the snapshot, you meet the airdrop eligibility criteria and can claim your share in the airdrop allocation.
Currently, IOST has officially launched the L1 (IOST chain) Airdrop on April 9, 2025. Many global exchanges including Binance have also completed the initial distribution of IOST airdrop. (Note: The IOST airdrop on exchanges like Binance does not require users to manually claim; please refer to official announcements for the distribution status of all exchanges supporting the airdrop.)
1. Tools required for IOST L1 users to claim airdrop:
Desktop browsers: such as Google Chrome, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc, etc.;
IOST Plugin Wallet: iWallet Pro;
Plugin wallets that support the BSC chain, such as: Metamask, MathWallet, Trust Wallet, etc.
2. The steps for IOST L1 users to claim the airdrop are as follows:
Connect to iWallet Pro to read the amount of airdrop available for this account
Go to the airdrop claiming page: https://iost.io/airdrop — Click 'CONNECT IOST L1 Wallet' below to download, install, and log in to iWallet Pro to view the airdrop allocation for this IOST account.
2. Connect to a plugin wallet that supports the BSC chain
Click 'CONNECT WALLET' to connect MetaMask, MathWallet, or Trust Wallet and log in.
If you have never used the BSC chain plugin wallet, you can follow the steps below to create/import it. Here, we take adding MetaMask for the first time in Google Chrome as an example:
Search for MetaMask in the Google Chrome App Store — 'Add to Chrome' — 'Add Extension' — Click 'I agree to MetaMask's terms of use' — Choose 'Create New Wallet' or 'Import Existing Wallet' — Enter a password — Remember the mnemonic phrase and enter the corresponding mnemonic to successfully import the created account.
3. Claim IOST airdrop
Click 'CLAIM TO BNB WALLET' — Confirm the transaction request — Complete the transaction.
Please ensure that your BSC wallet has a small amount of BNB to serve as GAS fees to successfully complete the transaction; if not, please check your BSC wallet address and transfer a small amount of BNB before claiming.
After completing the transaction, you can click 'View Transaction' to enter the details page of the transaction.
4. Add the IOST contract address to view and confirm the airdrop arrival
Click 'Add Token' — Enter the IOST contract address on the BSC chain: 0xAf48B7e315a52518CfBF7d96C455D9dFAD94cB48 — Check the amount of IOST in this wallet on the BSC chain.
For more details on the airdrop, please check the official IOST documentation: https://docs.iost.io/tokenomics/proposal/airdrop.
Introduction to IOST
IOST was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Singapore, supported by top global investment institutions such as Sequoia, Matrix, and ZhenFund.
IOST 3.0 is an innovative high-performance blockchain platform (composed of a compliant L1 mainnet and a BSC-based L2 mainnet), focusing on real-world assets and multi-chain ecology, aiming to bring institutional-level financial infrastructure to the Web3 field and build a bridge connecting TradFi and DeFi.
IOST 3.0 deeply integrates Layer 2 scaling technology, RWA tokenization solutions, DID verification systems, and PayFi ecosystem, committed to solving the challenges of scalability, security, and usability in mainstream blockchain technology's large-scale applications.
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IOST Chinese Community Medium: medium.com/iost-cn
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