In short
- The highest 5 crypto airdrops in 2025 paid customers greater than $4.5 billion at their respective peaks.
- Prime airdrops have been led by tokens from new layer-1 networks like Story Protocol and Berachain.
- JUP, the token from Solana DEX aggregator made the record once more, alongside ANIME and LINEA.
Crypto airdrops offered customers a serious stimulus in 2024, granting customers greater than $19 billion at all-time excessive token costs.
However 2025 was a unique story, whilst crypto majors like Bitcoin and Ethereum stampeded to new all-time highs. There have been fewer high-profile token drops over the course of the yr, and the height positive aspects weren’t fairly as eye-popping this time round.
However, the highest 5 crypto airdrops accounted for $4.5 billion in “free cash” for customers, at peak costs. Under are a few of the airdrops that rained funds on neighborhood members and token merchants alike.
Story Protocol
Story Protocol launched its layer-1 community and IP token in February, aiming to disrupt the “rent-seeking intermediaries" that exist within the conventional world of mental property.
As a part of its launch, the protocol offered round 10% of its IP token—about 100 million tokens—to its neighborhood and early customers by way of an airdrop.
These tokens, valued round $171 million as of December 15, peaked at higher than $1.4 billion in September when the IP token reached a brand new all-time excessive of $14.78. Since that point, although, the token has fallen practically 89% to alter arms round $1.71.
The community raised $80 million in 2024 to assist shake up the world of IP within the period of AI.
Berachain
Proof-of-liquidity community Berachain rewarded holders of its cannabis-smoking bear NFTs and different neighborhood members with round 79 million BERA tokens upon the launch of its novel layer-1 community in February.
At its peak, the tokens have been price greater than $1.17 billion, based mostly on an all-time excessive worth of $14.83 per BERA token.
Sadly for BERA token holders, the all-time excessive token worth was achieved proper after launch, and the token has been just about down solely since, falling practically 96% since February to alter arms at $0.67 as of December 15.
The layer-1 community beforehand raised $100 million to construct an EVM-identical competitor to Ethereum and Solana.
Jupiter
Solana-based DEX aggregator Jupiter rewarded customers of its merchandise with one other “Jupuary” airdrop in January. This time round, Jupiter rewarded three completely different consumer teams with a complete of 700 million JUP tokens.
On the peak worth post-airdrop on January 27, customers’ tokens have been price round $791 million, based mostly on a worth of $1.13 per JUP token.
That’s down from final yr’s quantity, when the protocol dropped 1 billion JUP tokens price as a lot as $2 billion at Jupiter’s all-time excessive worth of $2 from January 31, 2024.
Plus, the Jupiter DAO has already granted approval for an additional 700 million JUP tokens to be airdropped to eligible events in January 2026—however that quantities to solely $133 million as of December 15, far beneath its earlier airdrop peaks as JUP traded at $0.19, 90% beneath its all-time excessive.
Animecoin
Animecoin (ANIME), a token from the group behind the Ethereum-based NFT assortment Azuki, launched on Arbitrum in January.
Described as a tradition coin with intentions of aligning incentives for Anime followers worldwide, the token offered 39.5% of the availability, or 3.95 billion tokens, to Azuki ecosystem NFT holders and accomplice communities upon token launch.
At its peak, the tokens have been valued at round $711 million in response to knowledge from CoinGecko, which lists ANIME’s all-time excessive round $0.18.
The airdrop announcement created a brief burst within the worth of the Azuki NFT assortment, sending the ground worth—or worth of the most affordable listed asset—as excessive as $41,505 on January 13. However since that point, the flagship undertaking has fallen to only $2,139 as of December 15 in response to NFT Worth Flooring, a drop of practically 95%.
Equally, ANIME was buying and selling at simply $0.006 on December 15—about 97% off its all-time excessive mark.
Linea
Ethereum layer-2 scaling community Linea earmarked 10% of its native LINEA token provide, or round 7.2 billion tokens, to early contributors.
It added one other 2.1 billion tokens to others as a part of its LINEA token airdrop, in the end granting 9.36 billion LINEA tokens to practically 750,000 eligible addresses.
At a peak, that quantity was price round $437 million based mostly on a LINEA all-time excessive of $0.046, in response to knowledge from CoinGecko.
One other 75% off the token provide is in the end put aside for community members over the approaching years, however LINEA has fallen round 85% from its peak, not too long ago altering arms round $0.0067 on December 15.
(Disclaimer: Linea is incubated by Consensys, one in every of 22 traders in an editorially unbiased Decrypt).
Honorable mentions
InfoFi platform Kaito granted 12%, or round 120 million KAITO tokens, to eligible Binance customers and its early neighborhood as a part of a February airdrop.
That led to a peak airdrop reward of greater than $345 million based mostly on an all-time excessive worth of $2.88 per KAITO token in late February. These tokens can be price simply $64 million as of December 15, as KAITO traded at $0.54—down 81% from its all-time excessive mark.
The extremely anticipated launch of Monad’s layer-1 community and MON token got here in November. The neighborhood airdrop offered 3.3 billion MON tokens, valued at greater than $162 million at a peak worth of $0.048. The community’s token was provided to Coinbase customers as a part of its first token sale, as nicely.
Final however not least, Solana liquidity protocol Meteora put aside 15% of its MET tokens as a part of its token technology occasion and novel airdrop mechanism, which allowed customers to earn tokens as a part of its “LP Stimulus Plan.” At peak, these 150 million tokens have been price round $103 million.
