Event Timeline
About DOGS
DOGS is a TON token built around Spotty, a dog character Pavel Durov drew years before Telegram had anything to do with crypto. It exists mostly as a distribution event rather than a protocol, and on that measure it is the largest thing in this archive by a wide margin.
Eligibility was almost nothing. A Telegram account had to be at least a month old and active in the previous thirty days. That was the bar. Allocation scaled with how old the account was and how much it had been used, so long standing Telegram users received more, but there was no deposit, no transaction history, no quest and no points dashboard. Over 400 billion DOGS went out to 42.2 million people, from 53 million who opened the bot.
Reaching 42.2 million recipients is worth sitting with. Most airdrops in this catalogue paid between a few thousand and a few hundred thousand wallets. DOGS paid more people than most countries have citizens, and the arithmetic follows: split across that many recipients, individual allocations were small. The community share was genuinely large at 81.5% of a 550 billion supply, with 73% of it going to Telegram veterans.
Airdrop Stats
How it worked to get the DOGS airdrop
Have an older Telegram account
The account needed to be at least one month old at the point of checking. Account age was the main driver of allocation size, so genuinely long standing users received the most.
Be active in the last 30 days
Dormant accounts did not qualify. Activity within the previous month was required alongside the age condition.
Open the official bot
53 million people joined the bot to check. That checking step was the only action required, and 42.2 million of them turned out to be eligible.
Claim from 16 August
Claims ran through the Telegram Wallet or through selected centralised exchanges, with the exchange listing following later in the month.
Was the DOGS airdrop worth it?
- It is the widest distribution in this archive. 42.2 million recipients is an order of magnitude beyond anything else catalogued here, and it was achieved by asking for essentially nothing.
- No capital, no transactions, no farming. Account age and recent activity were the whole criteria. People who had used Telegram since long before they owned any crypto were the ones rewarded most.
- Per person amounts were small. That follows arithmetically from the recipient count. Over 400 billion tokens sounds enormous until it is divided 42.2 million ways.
- Sybil resistance came for free. Requiring an aged, active Telegram account did more to stop multi account farming than most points systems manage, because the accounts could not be manufactured retroactively.
- It was a distribution event, not a protocol. There was no product to use before or after. Judge it as a Telegram user acquisition exercise rather than as a reward for using something.
DOGS Official Links
Official channels, documentation and community for this airdrop:
This airdrop has concluded. It is kept for research rather than participation.
