$YALA Season 1 Airdrop: Rules & Overview

The time has come. The moment we’ve all been waiting for.

We’re thrilled to announce our Season 1 Airdrop, intricately designed to reward real and meaningful contributions across Yala testnet and mainnet. 

If you missed out this time, don’t worry, this is just the beginning. Airdrop Season 2 is coming. 

A heartfelt thank you to our contributors, ecosystem partners, backers, liquidity providers, and community members, none of this would be possible without you.

Since our mainnet launch on May 16th, 2025, Yala has reached $211.86m TVL, with $122.5m $YU minted, all within just two months. This would not have been possible without your contributions, and for this we’re extremely grateful. 

The Season 1 Airdrop marks our first major value distribution, designed to recognize those who build, test, provide liquidity, and show up early, and to all Yetis who helped bring Yala’s vision to life.

Season 1 Airdrop TLDR

Total Allocation: 34,000,000 $YALA (3.4%)

Claim Window: Opens at Token Generation Event (TGE) day, and remains open for 1 month.

• 30,000,000 $YALA: Mainnet Berries earners
• 618,180 $YALA: Mainnet Ice Berries earners
• 321,820 $YALA: Testnet Berries earners
• 3,000,000 $YALA: Yeti Footprints community members
• 60,000 $YALA: Yala Bonus Rewards Pool

Snapshot & Eligibility Sources

The snapshot for Season 1 $YALA token airdrop was taken on July 8th, 2025.

Season 1 eligibility includes the following contribution categories:

• Mainnet Berries
• Mainnet Ice Berries
• Testnet Berries
• Yeti Footprints Program
• Yala Bonus Rewards Pool for Early Supporters

1. Mainnet Berries:

The Mainnet Berries rewards are based on user activity between May 16 and July 8, 2025, with a total allocation of 30,000,000 $YALA dedicated to this category. 

Participants earned Berries through a range of on-chain actions including opening vaults with YBTC, minting $YU via MetaMint, holding or staking $YU, and providing liquidity across supported platforms like AMMs, Pendle, and money markets. Each action generated Berries at a specific hourly rate and multiplier, with higher-impact activities earning more.

To ensure fairness and scalability, rewards were distributed according to tiered Berries brackets:

2. Mainnet Ice Berries

The Mainnet Ice Berries category focuses on off-chain and community engagement, with a total of 618,180 $YALA allocated based on activity between May 16 and July 8, 2025. 

Users earned Ice Berries by linking their wallets and social accounts, retweeting content, submitting feedback, participating in referral programs, completing daily check-ins, and joining limited-time campaigns like Team Box Draws.

Ice Berries Rules: https://docs.yala.org/user-guide-mainnet/berries-rule-yalas-reward-system#earning-ice-berries

The rewards scale with engagement:

3. Testnet Berries 

The Testnet Berries program recognizes early experimentation and feedback during Yala’s testnet phase from October 15, 2024 to May 16, 2025, with a total of 321,820 $YALA allocated. 

Users earned Berries by testing core protocol features, including vaults, MetaMinting, LP staking, stability pool participation, bridging, and social actions, all with reward caps to prevent farming abuse.

Testnet Berries rules: https://docs.yala.org/user-guide-v3/berries-rule-yalas-reward-system 

Reward conversion is based on Berries tiers, ensuring Yala could refine its product and UX through real user feedback, while early adopters earned their stake in Yala’s future.

See below for the conversion for Testnet Berries:

4. Yeti Footprints Program

The Yeti Footprints program incentivizes high-signal contributions across content, research, feedback, and technical ideation, with 3,000,000 $YALA allocated between October 10, 2024 and July 13, 2025.

Unlike Berries programs focused on usage, Footprints rewards creators, thinkers, and community builders who shaped the protocol narrative and helped Yala grow its mindshare and ecosystem growth with real insights.

Using a mix of machine learning tools and internal review pipelines, Yala surfaced impactful content, whether it was tutorials, deep dives, creative ideas, or constructive pushback, and rewarded them accordingly. The deeper and more thoughtful the contribution, the greater the reward.

Yala leverages machine learning tools, data scraping, and custom internal pipelines to surface high-signal content efficiently and at scale. 

5. Yala Bonus Rewards Pool

A total of 60,000 $YALA has been allocated to reward early Yala supporters as of July 15, 2025, through a special bonus pool.  

This pool recognizes those who showed early support through special on-chain actions and will continue to be rewarded with future surprises and utilities.

Claiming $YALA

To claim your $YALA airdrop, follow the steps below: 

1. Check Your Eligibility: Visit claim.yala.org today and check your eligibility.
2. Claim $YALA: Eligible Ethereum, Solana wallet and X accounts can claim tokens during the Claim Window.* Unclaimed airdrops will automatically be reallocated to future airdrops.* The Ice Berries for Lite Mode Phase 1 (5x Berries and 16x Referral for 1-Month Strategy) are fully reflected in this snapshot calculator.

Final Note

As we said above, this is just the beginning. The more you contribute, the more you earn. 

Whether you’re stacking Berries and Ice Berries or shaping narratives through the Yeti Footprints program, you are making a meaningful step to shape Yala’s future.

Season 2 starts now. Keep building.

Follow @yalaorg on X for real-time updates - and as always, be aware of scams.

Join the Yala Community

Yala is a native Bitcoin liquidity protocol that channels BTC into yield opportunities across DeFi and RWAs. 

Bitcoin holders unlock capital through self-custodial, liquidation-free borrowing by minting $YU, a BTC-backed liquidity asset. In this process, they pay a stability fee directly to $YU depositors, effectively exchanging BTC-backed exposure for portable, capital-efficient liquidity and access to yield without giving up ownership.

Yala’s SmartVault module manages system risk and ensures efficient yield distribution.

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