Key Takeaways:
- Binance declared Linea (LINEA) as its 37th HODLer Airdrop project and distributed more than 720 million tokens.
- Trading for LINEA pairs (USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, TRY) begins September 10, 2025, at 16:00 UTC.
- Circulating supply at listing will be 15.48B LINEA (21.5% of max supply), with extra marketing allocations to follow.
Binance is keeping its users on edge with yet another major airdrop, this time featuring Linea (LINEA), a high-profile Layer-2 zkEVM project built to scale Ethereum. Investors who staked their BNB in Simple Earn or On-Chain Yields during late August are now reaping unexpected rewards, just as the token prepares for a highly anticipated market debut.
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Binance Pushes LINEA Into Spotlight
Linea, developed as a zkRollup solution with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility, is designed to reduce transaction costs and boost throughput on Ethereum. Binance announced the token as the 37th project on its HODLer Airdrops program, making it one of the largest-scale reward events of 2025.
The airdrop covers 1% of the total supply, translating into 720,099,900 LINEA distributed directly into eligible users’ Spot Accounts. Crucially, these tokens were allocated retroactively meaning users who had subscribed BNB to certain yield products from August 25–28, 2025 automatically qualified.
This is yet another move by Binance to increase the utility of its native token, BNB, which associates it with various streams of rewards such as Launchpool, Megadrop, and most recently, recurring HODLer Airdrops.
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Listing Timeline and Market Debut
It was announced that the deposits of LINEA were opened on September 9 at 14:00 UTC and spot trading was initiated the following day at 16:00 UTC. Binance will offer five of the largest pairs at listing LINEA/USDT, LINEA/USDC, LINEA/BNB, LINEA/FDUSD, and LINEA/TRY.
- Seed Tag Applied: Binance will have LINEA as its Seed defined, a label of more risky and early-stage projects.
- Circulating Supply: 15.48B tokens (21.5% of the total) will be unlocked at listing.
- Future Allocations: In addition to the airdrop, 180M tokens will be allocated to post-listing marketing and another 360M will be issued in six months.
To date, no listing fee is charged, which is in accordance with the policy of Binance to promote the development of the early ecosystem.
Market Sentiment and Price Watch
Listing day LINEA/USDC opened close to $0.02 but dropped sharply by more than 11 percent, in the common airdrop dump fashion. Those who receive the goods early usually scramble to get their profits and this causes a downward pressure before natural demand sets up a price floor.
Nonetheless, the traders with more than 15B tokens unlocked at launch will be keenly monitoring the ability of the Binance support and marketing budgets to counteract the sell-off. Analysts observe that the Seed Tag indicates the presence of greater risk, yet could also be high-reward in the event of an increase in adoption in the wider zk-rollup story.
All the LINEA airdrop participants are not universal. Local regulatory restrictions exclude users in a number of jurisdictions such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, Japan and Australia. Binance emphasized that this list might grow due to the changes in rules.
Moreover, users that at least had 0.01 BNB in supported products at the time of snapshot were also eligible. The rewards were not given to subscribed BNB that were collateralized against loans.
