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The Optimism Foundation’s Airdrop #1 rewards those who have been instrumental as early adopters and active users of projects in the Optimism ecosystem. To celebrate our Ethereum roots, The Optimism Foundation also want to welcome active L1 participants who can help scale Ethereum’s innovations, culture, and values to Layer 2. In total, 248,699 addresses are eligible to claim OP in this initial airdrop.
Our airdrop has six sets of criteria. Two for Optimism users that target early adopters and active project users, and four for L1 Ethereum, which target active contribution, positive-sum behaviors, and active participation. Each set is distinct, meaning that an address can be eligible for multiple and allocated a sum of tokens accordingly. A snapshot of addresses was taken on 03-25-2022 0:00 UTC. The allocations and criteria break down as follows:
#Airdrop #1 Allocations
What’s Next?
To check your eligibility for Airdrop #1 and claim your tokens visit the airdrop app (opens new window).
We made our best effort to make Airdrop #1 as fair as possible. However, there’s always a chance some great community members may have slipped through the cracks. Don’t worry! This is Airdrop #1, and 14% of the total initial token supply is reserved for future airdrops. The best way to earn OP is to get involved in the Optimism Collective:
- If you want to build on Optimism, visit our developer documentation or jump in to Discord (opens new window).
- If your talents are non-technical, jump in to Discord (opens new window)to find other builders, apply to be a Support NERD, or just make some memes 🍉
- Bridge your assets to Optimism here (opens new window)and explore projects on OP
As always: stay safe and stay Optimistic.
#References
- Application Transaction: Any transaction, excluding token transfer and approval transactions.
- Detailed Protocol Metrics: https://dune.com/optimismfnd/Optimism(opens new window)
- OP Token Address: 0x4200000000000000000000000000000000000042(opens new window)
- Optimism on Twitter: https://twitter.com/optimismFND(opens new window)
- Join the Optimism Discord: https://discord-gateway.optimism.io/(opens new window)
- CSV with the list of airdropped addresses: publish_op_airdrop1.csv
Changes in the number of remaining claimers and remaining ops on a daily basis from June 1 are shown in the above charts.
If you want to know the users who have claimed, then what action they have taken in terms of delegating, these charts will provide you with useful information. 76% of them were first time delegators. 11% first time delegator are self delegate type.
Also, the number of delegating transactions is shown separately.
On the other hand, you can see this information on a monthly basis in the graphs below, that the most delegating transactions were from May 1 to June 1, that is, in the first month.
Regarding the price of the op token, it should be said that after the airdrop, its price decreased and the price of this token was at its highest level at the beginning of Aug at 1.9 and now it is around 1.1.
let's see
After receiving airdrop tokens, most of the users have used them in what activities:
41% have transferred
20% have swapped
16% have approved.
Because swapping has a significant percentage among users, we have analyzed swapping with sushiswap and velodrome and shown the results. The number of users who have swapped with the velodrome platform is much more than sushi.
Also, the tokens with which the swap was done are stated separately on a daily basis.
Methodology
in this dashboard we will analyze the optimism airdrop and its parameters . at first lets take a look at the general informations about the airdrop .
out of 250 k users who were eligible , 148k claimed their airdrop and 158.7 m op was claimed by them . 149 k claim transactions done by users and
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In the following, more complete information about airdrop is provided, which includes the minimum and median, average and maximum tokens claimed by users in both usd and op.
You can also see the distribution of the amount of tokens in the pie charts. The left chart shows that 776.8 op were paid to 56,406 users who claimed, and 20,475 people were paid the equivalent of 409 op.
The graph on the right also shows the same distribution in usd. As you can see, 48% received 0-1000 usd and another 48% received 1000-5000 usd.
4% have claimed more than 10k usd. This airdrop is really attractive and profitable and its users should be congratulated.
In the first part, we have provided general information about this airdrop. As you can see, this information includes all tokens provided as airdrop, which is equivalent to 215M op, of which 234M usd (equivalent to 159.8M op) was taken by users.
This amount of tokens has been received by 150.6k users, on the other hand, 99.4k eligible users have not received Airdrop tokens yet.
In the diagram above, you can see schematically the difference between claimers and those who failed to claim.
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The above graphs show the monthly changes of tokens offered and claimed between May 1st and Nov 1st. remaining Tokens drop sharply from May 1 to Jun 1 and then decrease very slowly.
The amount of claimed tokens was high in the first month and decreased very much in the second month, which causes the graph to decline.
> Also, the value of these tokens is shown in usd and op in this period, as you can see, the highest price of these tokens was 128.5K at the beginning of the period and 6900 on Nov 1.
Also, you can see the growth of claimers and claimed ops during this period, which had a large growth in the first month and a small growth in the rest of the days.


Our finding
- all tokens provided as airdrop, which is equivalent to 215M op, of which 234M usd (equivalent to 159.8M op) was taken by users.
This amount of tokens has been received by 150.6k users, on the other hand, 99.4k eligible users have not received Airdrop tokens yet.
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48% of claimers received 0-1000 usd and another 48% received 1000-5000 usd. 4% have claimed more than 10k usd.
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remaining Tokens drop sharply from May 1 to Jun 1 and then decrease very slowly.
The amount of claimed tokens was high in the first month and decreased very much in the second month, which causes the graph to decline.
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the highest price of these tokens was 128.5K at the beginning of the period and 6900 on Nov 1.
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76% of them were first time delegator . 11% first time delegator are self delegate type.
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the most delegating transactions were from May 1 to June 1, that is, in the first month.
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most of the users have used airdrop tokens in these activities mostly:
41% have transferred
20% have swapped
16% have approved.