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<blockquote>TL;DR:We're celebrating IOTA’s 10th anniversary by distributing 10 million IOTA tokens among our community through airdrops, staking rewards, raffles, and community engagement.
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Just a handful of blockchain projects have lived to celebrate their 10th anniversary. In October, IOTA joins this exclusive circle.
Since its first announcement <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1216479.0&amp;ref=blog.iota.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">on Bitcointalk in October 2015</a>, IOTA has pioneered a distributed ledger architecture designed for scalability, decentralization, and real-world utility.
In just 10 years, the protocol has gone from bold idea to real-world impact — powering digital identity frameworks, unlocking tokenized assets and DeFi, piloting supply chain transparency with global enterprises, shaping the future of digital trade and finance, and rallying a growing ecosystem of builders and partners.
From Africa to Europe, Asia and across the world, IOTA is being adopted as the L1 to provide real-world utility. And none of it would have been possible without you, the IOTA community.
To celebrate this journey, we’re distributing 10 million IOTA tokens &nbsp;as a gift for our loyal community.
<h3 id="how-we-re-giving-away-10-million-iota-tokens">How We’re Giving Away 10 Million IOTA Tokens</h3>
While details are still being kept under wraps, here’s what we can share now:
1. Binance Simple Earn – Locked Product Launch: IOTA: Wednesday, 1 October
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 <li>2 million IOTA tokens distributed via staking rewards on Binance.</li>
 <li>Rewards scale depending on lock-up period of 30, 60 or 120 days</li>
 <li>Full details <a href="https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/5910c03eba8e4374a4a9ae2fc6ac3ed6?utm_source=AnnouncementTG&amp;utm_medium=GlobalCommunity&amp;utm_campaign=AnnouncementBot" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a>.</li>
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2. Anniversary Party in Singapore: Thursday, 2 October
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 <li>250,000 IOTA tokens raffled to 10 winners at the <a href="https://luma.com/IOTA10?ref=blog.iota.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">IOTA 10 Year Anniversary celebration event</a></li>
 <li>Additional prizes: IOTA-branded Keystone wallets and goodie bags.</li>
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3. Community &amp; DeFi Engagement
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 <li>Two groups of recipients:Holders of the <a href="https://iotascan.com/mainnet/collection/0x18b5c940cbe5ca4711944f9fbec1d08d802025a4bb292c449da4eaf19e59b62d::rebased_nft::RebasedNFT/items?ref=blog.iota.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Genesis NFT </a>Contributors ranked on the <a href="https://iota.liquidlink.io/?ref=blog.iota.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LiquidLink DeFi leaderboard</a> (distribution proportional to collected points) </li>
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4. Native IOTA Token Staking Airdrop
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 <li>IOTA tokens distributed to all native IOTA stakers (excluding exchanges and IOTA Foundation, Tangle Ecosystem Association, and IOTA DLT Foundation wallets)</li>
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We’ll be sharing more details about each airdrop closer to their dates – keep an eye out on our socials!
Altogether, 10 million IOTA tokens are being distributed amongst the community: a thank you for the passion, trust, and activity that have carried IOTA through the last decade.
As we celebrate this milestone, the journey continues: IOTA is bringing the real world on-chain, shaping how value flows across people, businesses, and the globe.
Here’s to the next decade of IOTA.
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