Event Timeline
About Paradex
Paradex is a perpetuals exchange built on Starknet, and DIME is more than a governance token for it. The token is the gas asset for Paradex Chain, a Cairo powered smart contract platform that shares state with the exchange itself, so the trading venue and the chain around it are one system rather than two.
The distribution is among the most generous in this archive. 250 million DIME, a full quarter of the one billion supply, went out in the genesis airdrop, and all of it was unlocked at the token generation event. No cliff, no vesting schedule, no auto staking. The split ran 20% of supply to Season 2 XP participants with 5% reserved for Pre Season and Season 1 holders, so the earliest users kept a dedicated share rather than being diluted by the most recent season.
What makes it notable is the direction of travel. Paradex raised the airdrop from 20% to 25% after Season 2 concluded, increasing the Season 2 share from 15% to 20%. Allocations far more often shrink between announcement and delivery, or get quietly restructured into vesting. This one went the other way.
Airdrop Stats
How it worked to get the Paradex airdrop
Trade on Paradex to earn XP
XP was the scoring unit across every season. Activity on the perpetuals exchange accrued it, so this rewarded genuine trading rather than deposits left idle.
Farm Season 2 hardest
Season 2 carried 20% of total supply, the largest slice, and that share was raised from 15% once the season concluded.
Earlier seasons kept their own share
5% of supply was reserved specifically for Pre Season and Season 1 XP holders, so early users were not diluted out by later activity.
Claim within two weeks
Genesis was at 07:00 UTC on 5 March 2026 with the listing at 14:00 UTC the same day. Claims ran through the Paradex interface for two weeks afterwards.
Use DIME as gas
DIME is the gas token for Paradex Chain, so holding it had a function beyond governance or speculation once the chain was live.
Was the Paradex airdrop worth it?
- 25% of supply, fully unlocked. No cliff, no vesting, no auto staking. Against the 2026 pattern of locking most of an allocation, Paradex simply handed it over.
- The allocation went up, not down. Raised from 20% to 25% after Season 2 ended, with the Season 2 share lifted from 15% to 20%. Almost every other project in this archive moved in the opposite direction.
- Early users were protected. Reserving 5% for Pre Season and Season 1 holders meant the people who showed up first were not diluted by the largest and latest season.
- It rewarded trading, not parking capital. XP came from exchange activity, so this favoured people actually using the perp DEX over those depositing and waiting.
- Two weeks is short. The one real criticism. A fully unlocked allocation with a fortnight to collect will still strand tokens belonging to anyone not watching that window.
Paradex Official Links
Official channels, documentation and community for this airdrop:
This airdrop has concluded. It is kept for research rather than participation.
