Unlock Protocol Airdrop: 7M $UP Tokens to over 10,000 Community Members

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The Unlock Protocol Foundation is launching its next airdrop to Unlock Protocol community members, distributing over 7 million $UP tokens on Base to over 10,000 community members. The airdrop is starting March 4, 2025.

A previous airdrop, from fall 2024, rewarded Unlock Protocol DAO members who migrated their UDT governance tokens from mainnet to the UP governance token on Base. With the migration from Ethereum mainnet to Base, the Unlock Protocol DAO created a more efficient and scalable governance environment for Unlock DAO members.

The next community airdrop reward goes live today. This next airdrop benefits those who have been active builders, DAO members, and participants in the Unlock Protocol ecosystem.

Rewards are based on a number of criteria, and are allocated to community members who engaged in activities throughout 2023 and 2024 including:

Integrating Unlock Protocol into a third-party platform
Creating paid memberships or subscriptions using Unlock Protocol
Hosting paid events with onchain ticketing through Unlock
Participating in governance votes or delegating voting power
Actively contributing to discussions in the Unlock Protocol Discord
Holding a paid onchain membership or subscription
Attending a paid event that utilized onchain tickets
Demonstrating extensive usage of Unlock Protocol in other capacities

This strategy rewards those who are actively involved in expanding the reach and activity of Unlock Protocol.

Throughout the remainder of 2025 and possibly beyond, additional incentives may be announced, with timing and terms subject to change.

The Unlock community is committed to rewarding its members’ participation.

How the Airdrop Was Done

The Unlock Labs team created a collection of scripts that analyzed ecosystem activity during 2023 and 2024 to calculate reward eligibility. The scripts are here.

The scripts output files containing the eligible transactions and associated reward information for eligible wallets.

For this airdrop, the following rubric was used to calculate a points score for each wallet address. Wallets were given points as follows:

Integrations: 1 point for integrating with unlock (e.g. t2, Hats Protocol)
Paid memberships, subscriptions, and tickets: 10 points for being a lock manager on a paid lock, 1 point for being a holder on a paid lock
Free memberships, subscriptions, and tickets: 3 points for being a lock manager on a free lock
DAO activities: 10 points for each time you vote on a proposal, 1 point for each account that delegates to you
Community engagement: 1 point for being active in the Discord in previous six months

Points multipliers were then given as follows:

100x multiplier: Integrating with Unlock Protocol (e.g. t2, Hats Protocol)
5x multiplier: Using Unlock Protocol in a paid capacity (e.g. setting up a paid event like FarCon or Onchain Summit)
3x multiplier: Active engagement in the Unlock Protocol Discord community

Point totals above 100 were capped to 100 for any individual address.

Once calculated, points were then converted to $UP. Each point was rewarded with 100 $UP. So, for example, an address that earned 73 points would be eligible to claim 7300 $UP in the airdrop.

Here is a link to show all the eligible addresses for the UP airdrop, if you want to dig into the details.

You can click on the link to see all the eligible addresses, and see the total for that address for the activities that qualified for an UP airdrop as calculated by the script.

The file behind that link is a JSON file, and you should be able to do a Ctrl-F search in your browser to find your wallet address and see the rewards-eligible airdrop amount associated with your wallet. Here’s a snippet as an example, searching on the wallet address of 0xD2BC5cb641aE6f7A880c3dD5Aee0450b5210BE23.

In this snippet, you can see the wallet at 0xD2BC5cb641aE6f7A880c3dD5Aee0450b5210BE23 received 100 points, and therefore 10,000 $UP, the maximum amount for the airdrop. (The values are shown with 18 decimal places.)

The output from this activity analysis script was fed into the campaign claim page.

How to Claim Your Reward

Go to the campaign page at https://airdrops.unlock-protocol.com and click into the airdrop site. Connect your wallet if it’s not connected yet.

If eligible, you will see your rewards on your dashboard in the “Claim Your Rewards” sections.

Click “Claim Rewards”

Once you accept the terms of service and sign the transactions, the awards will be transferred to your wallet.

Building with Unlock Protocol and active community participation are cornerstones of the Unlock Protocol's success and ongoing development. By actively building with the protocol and engaging in governance processes, community members grow the ecosystem and shape the future direction of the protocol, ensure its alignment with user needs, and contribute to its overall resilience and adaptability.

The Unlock Protocol DAO deeply appreciates the time, effort, and expertise that each community member brings. Whether through writing code, voting on proposals, contributing ideas, or participating in discussions, every community member plays a vital role in the Unlock Protocol ecosystem.

This collective effort not only strengthens the protocol but also fosters a sense of shared ownership and responsibility. The community recognizes and values these contributions — the strength of the community is what drives Unlock Protocol forward.

Stay tuned for announcements on additional incentives and updates as the Unlock Protocol DAO continues to grow and evolve!