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BNB Chain and Four Meme launch $45 million reload airdrop for memecoin traders
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Changpeng Zhao, Founder of Binance | X

BNB Chain has announced a $45 million airdrop in BNB tokens for over 160,000 recent memecoin traders. The distribution is set to begin this week and will continue through early November 2025. This announcement was shared on the social media platform X.

The campaign coincides with BNB Chain's efforts to capitalize on the growing interest in memecoins and retail liquidity. Major Binance-affiliated platforms such as PancakeSwap, Binance Wallet, and Trust Wallet are involved in amplifying the campaign's reach. The initiative aims to reward recent on-chain activity, minimize fees, and enhance user participation within Binance’s ecosystem. Previous airdrop initiatives on BNB Chain have reportedly created positive feedback loops for discovery and usage, bolstering Binance’s reputation among retail users and creators who appreciate simple onboarding processes.

According to the announcement on X, the Reload Airdrop amounts to $45 million in BNB and targets more than 160,000 addresses that traded BNB Chain memecoins over the past week. The allocations will be randomized. The backing from PancakeSwap, Binance Wallet, and Trust Wallet connects the airdrop to Binance’s highest-traffic user surfaces and core liquidity venues, maximizing discoverability for eligible wallets.

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Messari’s Q2 2025 report highlights BNB Chain’s performance, noting an average of 9.9 million daily transactions—an increase of approximately 102% quarter over quarter—and 1.6 million daily active addresses, up around 33%. This level of activity supports Binance's strategy of leveraging scale to boost engagement through promotions like this airdrop.

BNB Chain is described as a community-driven blockchain ecosystem that evolved from Binance Smart Chain and was rebranded in 2022. It includes the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible BNB Smart Chain and the Layer-2 network opBNB. Originating from Binance in 2017, the network focuses on high throughput, low fees, and consumer-ready decentralized applications (dApps) across various sectors such as decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, and social platforms. Rather than operating from a single corporate headquarters, BNB Chain functions as a globally distributed open infrastructure aligned with Binance’s mission to lower barriers to Web3 adoption.

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