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Degen airdrop step by step tutorial
The Degen airdrop gave 15% of the DEGEN supply to early Farcaster users, and tipping let people pass DEGEN to creators. It has ended as of 7 November 2026: the project's roadmap lists both under its first phase and shows no open campaign. Taking part meant being an early user of Farcaster, the social protocol where the token began.
This airdrop has ended · checked 7 November 2026
As of 7 November 2026, the DEGEN site's roadmap lists the airdrop to early Farcaster users and the start of tipping under the token's first phase, and it shows no open campaign.
Degen airdrop ended: 15% of DEGEN went to early Farcaster users and tipping rewarded creators. See how it worked and what the project does now.
What is Degen?
Degen is a meme token on Base that began in a Farcaster channel when the protocol was still young. The project's site calls it the social coin of Base, and its FAQ describes DEGEN as the native token of Degen Chain and of a new app the team is building.
Around the token sit a few products. Degen NFT is a collection the site presents as your identity within the DEGEN ecosystem. POV is a product for taking a position on the ideas, events and narratives shaping the world, and the site pitches it at believers who want conviction to turn into reward. The site also addresses collectors, builders and people who simply want to be part of the culture.
According to the roadmap, 1Confirmation invested $1M and is the only official investor to date. The same roadmap says DEGEN was the first Base-native token listed on Coinbase and later added listings on Bybit and Binance Futures.
How Degen works
DEGEN is a token on Base that holders can send to one another as tips. The roadmap says tipping was introduced as a new way to share Degen and reward creators, and the project's FAQ calls the token the native token of Degen Chain and of the app the team is building.
POV is the product the site pairs with the token. It lets you take a position on ideas, events and narratives, and the site describes the idea as turning opinions into positions and conviction into reward.
The launch campaign was a distribution rather than a task program. The roadmap says 15% of the supply was airdropped to early Farcaster users and another 15% was added to liquidity pools, with tipping arriving in the same phase. The roadmap gives no snapshot date, no per-wallet amounts and no claim steps, so how an individual early user received their share is not described there.
The DEGEN airdrop
DEGEN was the payout: the roadmap says 15% of the supply was airdropped to early Farcaster users, and tipping let people share the token and reward creators. Both sit in the first phase, and the site shows no open campaign as of 7 November 2026. No snapshot date or per-user amount is given there.
Step by step: how to get the DEGEN airdrop
Kept for reference: this is how the campaign worked while it ran.
Stay safe: a real airdrop never asks for your seed phrase or private key. Use only the official links on this page, and treat any message that offers help with a claim as a scam.
Step 1: Be an early Farcaster user
The roadmap says the token was born in a Farcaster channel and that 15% of the supply went to early Farcaster users, so the qualifying activity was being on the protocol early. The roadmap lists no further requirements.
Step 2: Receive the airdropped DEGEN
Early users were allocated a share of the 15% airdrop. The roadmap gives no claim steps, claim date or per-wallet amount.
Step 3: Tip creators with DEGEN
Tipping was introduced in the same phase as a way to share DEGEN and reward creators, so received tokens could be passed on.
Step 4: Check the current roadmap
The DEGEN site shows the project's phases today. As of 7 November 2026 it lists no open airdrop to join.
Degen airdrop FAQ
Is the Degen airdrop still live?
- No, it has ended as of 7 November 2026. The DEGEN site's roadmap describes the airdrop of 15% of the supply to early Farcaster users and the introduction of tipping as past events, and it shows no open campaign to join today.
What is the DEGEN token?
- DEGEN is a meme token on Base that the project's site calls the social coin of Base. Its FAQ says it is also the native token of Degen Chain and of the new app the team is building, and the roadmap says it began in a Farcaster channel.
Which chain does Degen run on?
- The DEGEN token is on Base, which the site names in its headline. The roadmap also says the project launched Degen Chain to expand utility beyond a meme, but it does not say which chain carried the airdrop to early Farcaster users.
Where can you buy DEGEN?
- The project's FAQ says it is on most of the big exchanges and names Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, Revolut and OpenSea. The roadmap adds that it was the first Base-native token listed on Coinbase and later gained Bybit and Binance Futures listings.
Sources for this listing
- 01DEGEN - The most popular meme token on basedegen.tips · read 7 November 2026
