Launchpool · HODLer · Megadrop · Alpha
Binance token launches: what each of the four lines actually asks for
One counts your balance hour by hour. One ignores flexible savings entirely. One moves its score line every round. Knowing which is which saves you more than any strategy does.
Whether all four are running at once, and where the thresholds sit, is set by Binance and changes. This table reflects the public rules as of August 2026 — check the current announcement before you act.
Below, one section per line: what the rule says first, then why people who followed it still got nothing.
Find articles by the problem you're stuck on
Articles grouped by topic. Pick the part you are working through, then find the rule or explanation you need.
Account, verification, referral code. Miss any of the three and none of the four lines are open to you. This one walks the real order and flags where people get stuck.
Farming: the Launchpool line
6 pieces hereThe lowest bar of the four, and the one most people try first.
- 01How Binance Launchpool actually splits the tokens
What hourly settlement means, why joining early wins without any priority being involved, and why a bigger pool leaves you with less. The published formula, taken apart.
- 02Where to keep your BNB: spot, flexible, locked, or in the pool
The same coins earn HODLer airdrops in flexible savings, Megadrop score only when locked, and Launchpool rewards only when staked. Four lines competing for one balance.
- 03Sell at listing or hold: what each choice costs you
Sell on day one, watch for a week, or keep it long term. No trading advice here — just what each route asks you to accept.
- 04Your first Launchpool, from announcement to tokens in the account
What the announcement looks like, where the stake button lives, when rewards start, and how to back out mid-round if you need the money.
- 05Is another Binance Megadrop coming? Four rounds, then a long silence
Four rounds on the public record, the last in April 2025. Locking BNB to wait costs liquidity and the coverage of the other three lines.
- 06Can you farm Binance Launchpool with USDC or USD1? Stablecoin pools vs the BNB pool
Some rounds also take USDC, USD1 or FDUSD. Stablecoins have to be locked by hand, each pool has its own share and hourly cap, and none of it counts toward HODLer snapshots.
Points: Alpha and TGE
the points sectionThe fiddliest set of rules here. Most wasted fees come from missing one of them.
- 07How Binance Alpha Points are calculated
Balance points jump by tier, volume points add one per doubling, and every point expires 15 days after it was earned. Only when you connect all three do you know your real daily rate.
- 08Why the Alpha TGE score line moves every round
It isn't a number Binance picks. It's what falls out of the allocation divided by how many qualified people showed up — which is why nobody can tell you in advance.
- 09What farming Alpha Points really costs
Buy and sell instantly, price unchanged, no loss — except fees were charged twice and the spread once. Here's the cost per point, and a break-even line you can apply yourself.
- 10Which Binance Alpha events spend your points: airdrops, TGEs, Pre-TGEs, Booster
Airdrops, TGEs and Pre-TGEs deduct points the moment you confirm; Booster only checks the threshold. What each one costs, and when the deduction shows in your total.
Claiming: snapshots, eligibility, and misses
7 pieces in this sectionDid everything right and still got nothing? It's almost always in this section.
- 11HODLer snapshots: which balances count and which don't
The same BNB counts in savings and doesn't count once it's collateral. Hourly averaging also decides how late you can still join and get something.
- 12Nine reasons people miss an airdrop — and the ones you can still fix
Imported wallet, half-finished quests, verification pending, claim window gone. Read down all nine and see which one you are stuck on.
- 13Binance airdrop region restrictions: why one account qualifies for some rounds and not others
The excluded-country list is only the first layer. The second is which product line you're on — and a missing savings product closes a whole airdrop route.
- 14Do you have to claim Binance airdrops? Only one of the four lines forfeits
The Collect Airdrops button in Launchpool pays out whether you press it or not, and HODLer and Megadrop have no button at all. Only Alpha treats silence as giving up.
- 15The real cost: opportunity, spread, fees, attention
Locked funds have an opportunity cost, farming has a spread, claim windows want your attention. Add them up and you finally know whether a round paid.
- 16Fake airdrops and fake support staff
The "claim here" link, the signature request, the helpful stranger in your DMs. Airdrop season brings all of them back at once.
- 17Binance Web3 Wallet and your exchange account are not the same thing
One is custodied for you; one hands you the seed phrase. Megadrop and Alpha both need the wallet, and its risks are of a different kind entirely.
Account and access
the account sectionWhat all four lines have in common. Three things, no more.
- 18Opening a Binance account and attaching the referral code
Check eligibility first, attach the code at the right moment, finish verification. Plus the nine ways this goes wrong.
- 19Verification keeps failing — what to do, and how it ties to eligibility
Binance lists identity verification as a Launchpool requirement. Document, selfie, address proof and stuck reviews each need a different fix.
- 20Two-factor, withdrawal allowlist, API permissions
Ten minutes of setup, but the order matters — put the allowlist in the wrong place and you lock yourself out instead.
Work it out yourself
all toolsFive small tools. They model the published rules — they don't read your account.
Pick your balance tier, enter what you buy per day, and see the daily rate, where the 15-day rolling total settles, and how many days to your target. Faster than re-reading a guide every time the rules shift.
Work backwards from pool size and reward pot to your own share.
Five questions, then a verdict with the rule that decided it.
Filter by what you can live with, compare requirements side by side.
Spread and fees spread across each point, plus a break-even figure.
Enter your balance tier and daily purchases to see your 15-day total.