Which Binance Alpha events spend your points: airdrops, TGEs, Pre-TGEs, Booster
Every Alpha event asks whether your score clears the line. Only some of them take points for letting you in. Knowing which is what decides where your points go when two events land in the same week.
Binance Alpha Points get used in four kinds of event: Alpha airdrops, exclusive Binance Wallet TGEs, Pre-TGEs and Booster campaigns. All four check that your score clears a threshold. Only the first three take points away when you confirm. Booster, according to Binance's own FAQ, checks the threshold and leaves your score alone.
This page is about the spending side only. How the score is earned in the first place (balance points, volume points, the 15-day window) is covered in how Alpha Points are calculated.
Which Binance Alpha events spend points, and which only check them
Two help-center pages cover this. Frequently Asked Questions on Binance Alpha Points lists where points apply. Frequently Asked Questions on Binance Wallet TGEs, Pre-TGEs, and Booster Campaigns spells out how the last three differ. Put side by side:
| Event | Points spent on confirming? | What else you need | What you get, and when you can move it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha airdrop | Yes, recent notices mostly say 15 | Nothing beyond the score | Tokens after you confirm the claim |
| Exclusive TGE | Yes, the number is in each notice | The subscription token, usually BNB, in your Binance Wallet (Keyless) | A pro-rata allocation, tradable |
| Pre-TGE | Yes, the FAQ says participation consumes points | BNB to subscribe plus gas | Locked tokens; no trading or transfers until the project lifts the lock |
| Booster | No, per the FAQ, though one Booster Earn notice said otherwise | Weekly tasks | Locked rewards you claim by hand after the lock-up |
How many points does claiming a Binance Alpha airdrop cost?
Recent airdrop notices almost always put the cost at 15 points and give you 24 hours to confirm. The Billions Network (BILL) notice that Binance Wallet posted for 4 May 2026 is typical: at least 220 Alpha Points to claim, first come first served; if the event is still running, the threshold drops by 5 points every five minutes; claiming consumes 15 points; confirm on the Alpha Events page within 24 hours or the airdrop counts as forfeited.
The 220 and the 15 do different jobs. 220 decides whether the button works for you. 15 is what pressing it costs. Say you sit at 236. You clear the line, confirm, and drop to 221, which is now below a 225-point airdrop later that week.
For the two-phase airdrops Binance has used since 19 June 2025, the points FAQ adds a rule that saves people some worry: eligibility is based on your score when the event starts, and changes during the event do not affect it. If you qualified at the start and a few points expire mid-event, you still qualify. If you were short at the start, topping up mid-event does not help, unless you are waiting for the lower second-phase line. Each user claims once per airdrop, and both phases pay the same amount.
Missing the 24-hour confirmation is covered in do you have to claim Binance airdrops: Alpha is the one line out of four where doing nothing means losing it.
Binance Wallet TGEs: points became mandatory with the 17th round
Points have not always been part of TGEs. Binance's preview of the 17th exclusive TGE (Alaya AI, AGT, subscription on 16 May 2025) said that from that TGE onward, eligible users must use Binance Alpha Points to participate. Any guide older than that, telling you BNB in the wallet is enough, is describing a rule that no longer exists.
Once you are in, points stop mattering and BNB takes over. The FAQ describes an over-subscription model: a cap per wallet, tokens allocated pro rata to everyone's deposits, a manual claim afterwards, and unused funds refunded.
One thing we could not find anywhere: whether points come back if your allocation turns out tiny. Both FAQ pages promise refunds of unused funds, and neither says a word about points. Until Binance writes otherwise, assume they are gone.
Pre-TGE (Prime Sale): points spent, tokens locked
A Pre-TGE is an early sale ahead of the main TGE. The FAQ draws the line between it and Booster in one answer: for a Pre-TGE you must reach the minimum Alpha Points threshold and participation consumes points; for Booster you only need the threshold. A 2026 Prime Sale notice from Binance Wallet set the bar at 255 points and deducted 15, the same cost as an airdrop.
The catch is the lock-up. Pre-TGE tokens cannot be traded, transferred or used until the project decides otherwise. In the FAQ's words, the exact duration may not be disclosed in advance, and past lock-ups are not indicative of future ones. So those 15 points buy something whose sell date nobody can tell you.
Mechanically it runs like a TGE: deposit BNB in the Pre-TGE section of Binance Wallet up to the per-wallet cap, receive a pro-rata share, claim it from the wallet's [Assets] tab, and get unused funds back. Leave enough in the wallet for gas; the FAQ makes a point of saying so.
Do Binance Wallet Booster campaigns spend Alpha Points?
The help center says no. The wording is direct: all Binance Wallet (Keyless) users who meet the Alpha Points requirement can join, and participation does not consume Binance Alpha Points. The last question on the same page repeats it.
The threshold is also checked only once. You need to meet it the first time you press [Participate] during the campaign; you do not have to hold it every day afterwards. Booster thresholds in public notices have repeatedly been 61 points, far below airdrops and TGEs.
There is at least one exception. Binance Wallet's January 2026 notice for the Unitas Booster Earn program asked for at least 61 points and said participation would cost 5. Booster Earn is a staking-style variant rather than the weekly-task kind, which may explain the difference, but it shows the FAQ answer is a default, not a guarantee. Read the campaign page before you tap.
Booster rewards are locked too, and you claim them yourself in Binance Wallet when the lock ends. They do not arrive on their own.
When does a points deduction show up, and when does it roll off?
The points FAQ says three things about spending. Points are spent immediately when you confirm an Alpha event. The spend is reflected in your total the following day. And your daily balance is a rolling 15-day window that consists of all points earned and spent over the past 15 days.
That last line means a deduction is not taken out of a separate pot. It goes into the window as an entry, the same way a day's earnings do. Binance's own example, condensed:
- 13 May: the window covers 28 April to 12 May. You earned 10 a day for ten days and nothing for five, so 100 points. You spend 5 today, and the balance still reads 100.
- 14 May: the 10 points from 28 April expire, leaving 90, and yesterday's 5-point spend lands. Balance: 85.
- 15 May: 29 April's 10 points expire. Balance: 75.
Two practical points follow. On the day you confirm, your score on the events page will not have moved yet, so do not plan a second event that day off a number that is about to drop. And on 14 May the score fell by 15, of which only 5 was the spend; the other 10 was ordinary expiry. Keep the two apart when you work out what you have left.
The example stops at 15 May and never shows the 5 points leaving the window. If the balance really is everything earned and spent in the last 15 days, that spend should drop out 15 days later, and the score should rise by the same amount then. That is our reading of the definition; Binance does not give a date for it. If the exact day matters to you, note the date whenever you confirm an event.
To see where your score is heading, enter your daily balance tier and buy volume in the Alpha Points simulator and subtract the deduction on the day you take part.
Two events in the same week: where to spend
Airdrops, TGEs and Pre-TGEs draw on the same points. Booster does not. That gives a rough order:
- Join the Booster first. It checks the threshold once and, going by the FAQ, takes nothing. After that your score can do what it likes.
- Among the events that do spend, compare what you get, not just the threshold. Fifteen points on an Alpha airdrop gets you tokens once you confirm. On a TGE you still have to commit BNB. On a Pre-TGE nobody can tell you when the tokens unlock. If you can only afford one, that difference counts for more than which line is lower.
- Work out what remains. Take today's score, subtract this event's cost, subtract whatever expires over the next few days, then compare with the next threshold. A second-phase line is lower, but it is first come first served, not a promise.
Why the threshold moves from round to round, and how to pick a target score, is in why the Alpha TGE score line moves.
Check the cost this round's page states, whether the tokens are locked, and whether what is left after the deduction still clears the next event you care about.
Rules are taken from Binance's FAQ on Alpha Points (updated 2026-07-09) and FAQ on Binance Wallet TGEs, Pre-TGEs and Booster campaigns (updated 2026-04-27), plus event notices from Binance and Binance Wallet's official accounts, checked in October 2026. Each round's notice sets its own threshold and cost; the 220, 255, 61, 15 and 5 above come from specific rounds and are examples, not fixed values.