BNB Chain to airdrop 45 million BNB to memecoin traders after crash

BNB Chain announced a 45 million BNB reload airdrop on Monday to compensate retail traders who lost funds trading memecoins during last week’s market crash. The program, launched in partnership with Four.Meme and supported by PancakeSwap, Binance Wallet and Trust Wallet, will distribute tokens to more than 160,000 eligible addresses in multiple waves beginning in mid October and concluding by early November, the network said.

BNB Chain and its partners said the airdrop is intended to restore liquidity and user confidence in the network’s memecoin ecosystem after a sharp market downturn that produced large-scale liquidations across crypto markets. Recipients will be selected through a randomized verification process rather than by directly matching individual reported losses, and allocations will vary across eligible wallets, the teams said. Project teams are crosschecking trading data with ecosystem partners to confirm eligibility before distribution begins in batches.

The initiative accompanies technical and product integrations aimed at simplifying memecoin launches and trading on BNB Chain. Four.Meme has integrated with PancakeSwap to enable automatic liquidity provision for...