# Airdrop

The airdrop was conducted under the Botto team's belief of fair launches, and that the majority of token recipients had some affinity with NFT and art communities, or otherwise could contribute to Botto's ecosystem.

**A total of 16,407,473 $BOTTO tokens were airdropped to eligible participants.** This event is often cited as one of the most successful airdrops in crypto history – not bad :dizzy:

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The airdrop claim period ended on January 6, 2022 and [13,592,527 BOTTO was returned to the treasury](https://etherscan.io/tx/0x1c31629800741a6742f6bf17c5df5b8d38d9c46d0ef4791e828766e310b4223e).
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### Qualifying projects + Snapshot Date (DD/MM/YYYY)

* Artblocks Curated - 12/07/2021
* Artblocks Playground + Factory - 12/07/2021
* Async Art - 22/06/2021
* BAYC - 22/06/2021
* Cryptopunks - 05/07/2021
* Meebits - 21/06/2021
* SuperRare - 21/06/2021
* Hashmasks - 21/06/2021

### Tiered System

The Botto airdrop was conducted in 4 tiers. Each tier was progressively rewarded with a higher amount of $BOTTO depending on how many projects they interacted with. Tier 3 included additional early contributors (testing, consulting, advising, supporting). The 4th tier was added for initial team members to redistribute tokens at their own discretion.

The total quantity of recipients eligible for this airdrop was **22,066.** Each qualifying recipient could receive:

* **Tier 1:** 646 $BOTTO
* **Tier 2:** 1,893 $BOTTO
* **Tier 3:** 4,576 $BOTTO
* **Tier 4:** 26,666 $BOTTO

### Project Interactions

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**\*Snapshots of each project were taken individually between 21/06/2021 and 12/07/2021 (DD/MM/YYYY).**

Some qualifying addresses may have been omitted from the pulled data due to job failures. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Qualified recipients had to have interacted with at least 1 qualifying project. Interactions were defined as minting or holding an NFT from the qualifying project at the time that data was pulled via Etherscan API. No distinction was made between holding or minting when counting an interaction.

* **Tier 1** required interactions with at least 1 qualifying project
* **Tier 2** required interactions with at least 2 qualifying projects
* **Tier 3** required interactions with at least 5 qualifying projects. Early contributors were injected into this tier.

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**Clarification**

If you held **and** minted from a qualifying project, this still counts as 1 interaction. 

If you minted 50 NFTs from a qualifying project, this still counts as 1 interaction. 

If you minted 1 NFT from Project 1, and minted 1 NFT from Project 2, this counts as 2 interactions (1 for each project).

If you minted 10 NFTs from Project 1, and held 2 NFTs from Project 2, this counts as 2 interactions (1 for each project).

If you minted and held an NFT before 21/06/2021 and sold it data was pulled, this counts as 1 interaction (due to the mint).
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### Claiming Period

The cutoff date for eligible recipients to claim their $BOTTO tokens was January 6, 2022. Unclaimed tokens were returned to the treasury.