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The first Starknet Provisions round distributed STRK to nearly 1.3 million addresses; claiming ran from 20 February to 20 June 2024 and is closed.
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Starknet airdrops: what happened and what to watch
Starknet's token distribution is finished, but the network keeps running incentive programmes. This page separates the two, and explains the account model that makes Starknet different.
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Where it stands. The Provisions airdrop closed on 20 June 2024. The Foundation marked the programme as discontinued and said nothing about a further round that we could verify. The full record is on our Starknet airdrop page; here we focus on how the network works and how to judge what comes next.
How rewards worked on Starknet
Starknet's community allocation was 1.8 billion STRK, 18% of supply, according to the Foundation FAQ. Of that, 900 million STRK was set aside for Provisions. The first round gave more than 700 million STRK to nearly 1.3 million addresses, and the FAQ puts it at 726 million. Plans for later distributions were left open, with details to be announced in due course.
- Cut-off for StarkEx users, who needed at least 8 transactions before it.
- The Merge, the reference date for Ethereum stakers.
- Snapshot for Starknet users and developers.
- Claiming opens at 12:00 UTC on the official portal.
- Claim deadline; unclaimed tokens returned to the pool for future rounds.
- The Foundation introduces BTCFi Season, an incentive programme with a 100 million STRK budget.
What is unusual about this distribution is its breadth and its thresholds. Starknet users needed more than 5 transactions before the snapshot, activity across at least three months, at least $100 of volume and at least 0.005 ETH held that day. Developers needed at least 3 commits to Starknet-ecosystem repositories. Ethereum Protocol Guild members, EIP authors and stakers up to the Merge could qualify under their own rules, with a cap of 12 validators per address. The Foundation excluded sanctioned jurisdictions and U.S. persons.
The practical lesson, in our judgement: the filters rewarded time and a minimum commitment, so a wave of last-minute transactions would not have helped. For how this compares with points-based drops, see our points guide and the retroactive airdrops list.
A self-check against the published user rule
You cannot claim any more, but it is instructive to test your own history against the criteria. The widget below applies only the rule for Starknet users from the Foundation's page. It does not apply developer, StarkEx or staker rules, so a "no" result is not a verdict on every route.
Accounts are contracts: what that changes
The Starknet accounts documentation says accounts are smart contracts with arbitrary verification logic, not externally owned accounts. A valid account contract defines __validate__ and __execute__. For an invoke transaction, the sequencer calls validation first, then execution with the same arguments.
| Question | Starknet (per docs) | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| What is an account? | A contract with its own validation logic | Wallet quality depends on the account contract it deploys. |
| Deployment | A DEPLOY_ACCOUNT transaction needs no existing account; the deployed account pays fees, starting at nonce 1. The universal deployer contract needs an invoke from an existing account. | A new wallet may have to be deployed before it can act, which costs a fee. |
| Nonces | Sequential; increases by one even if the transaction reverts | A failed transaction still consumes a nonce. |
| Failed validation | The transaction is REJECTED and the account pays no fee | Rejected means it never ran. |
| Failed execution | REVERTED, included in a block, and a fee may be charged | Reverted means it ran and may have cost you. |
The docs also say validation logic has limits, such as at most 1,000,000 Cairo steps and no calls to external contracts. These restrictions exist to keep the network safe from abusive validation code. For a user, the useful consequence is that wallets can add features like different signature schemes or recovery logic, and that you should only use account software from an official site, because the account is code that controls your funds.
Fees and what a failed transaction costs
The fee documentation describes three components: L2 computation, L2 data, and L1 data posted to Ethereum. They are priced in three units: L2 gas, L1 data gas and L1 gas. Fees are charged in STRK, as an atomic STRK transfer from the submitter to the sequencer, and the docs say the fees are not burned. From version 0.14.0, every transaction must set a maximum amount and maximum price per unit for each of the three resources.
- The L2 gas price follows an EIP-1559-style update with a target of 80% of block capacity and a minimum price of 3 gFri (3×10⁻⁹ STRK).
- The L1 gas price and L1 data gas price average the last 60 L1 prices sampled every 60 seconds, plus 1 gwei.
- A transaction enters a block only if its maximum price per unit is at least the block price for each resource.
- Each Cairo step costs 100 Sierra gas, and Sierra gas maps one to one to L2 gas.
The page does not give a typical dollar cost, so we do not either. Use your wallet's estimate or the starknet_estimateFee endpoint it calls. One caution from the docs: sequencers are enforced not to overcharge against your maximum, but are not yet enforced to charge according to the formula. That is a statement about the current protocol state, and the page may change.
Wallets, bridge and explorers
We list only what official documentation or a vendor's own site supports. The Starknet tools page names Starknetkit (built by Ready), Chipi SDK, Cavos and Dynamic as connection and wallet infrastructure, and says Get Starknet supports the Ready, Braavos, MetaMask Snaps and OKX wallets. The Voyager block explorer is named there as the explorer the contract verifier client works with, and Walnut is described as a transaction debugger rather than an explorer.
- Braavos describes itself as a self-custodial wallet for Bitcoin and Starknet, with biometric two-factor authentication on Starknet transactions. These are its own claims, and we have not audited them.
- StarkGate is the bridge on the starknet.io domain. The page we could read gave no further detail, so check its documentation before moving funds.
We could not open an official page for the Ready wallet that identified its Starknet support, so we do not link it. Find wallets from the Starknet documentation, not from a search ad. See custodial versus non-custodial for the principle.
Incentive programmes are not airdrops
The Foundation describes BTCFi Season as an incentive programme. It was introduced on 30 September 2025 with a 100 million STRK budget and pays for eligible activity through participating protocols. We could not confirm whether it is still running. The distinction is important: an incentive pays for actions you take while the programme lasts, it does not reward past activity you did not know would count. That makes the question "what exactly do I have to do, and is it worth it?" far more relevant than "what could I get?".
A practical way to apply this: write down, before you start, the exact action, the programme's stated end condition and the most you will spend on fees. If the Foundation or a participating protocol does not state an end condition, you are being asked to act on faith, and our editorial view is that faith is not a reason to commit capital. Because the programme pays through third-party protocols, you also take on each protocol's own smart contract risk, which the Foundation's announcement cannot remove.
For Bitcoin-linked incentives more generally, see our page on Bitcoin-adjacent airdrops. Check the hot list for anything active that we track.
Scam patterns that fit Starknet
- Clone claim portals
- The Foundation warned participants to use the exact portal URL provisions.starknet.io, and covered claim fees only through it. Any other site, particularly one asking for a seed phrase or payment, was a clone. The deadline has passed, so any "claim now" page today is suspect.
- Fake account upgrade prompts
- Because accounts are contracts, an attacker may ask you to "upgrade" or "migrate" your account. Our judgement: treat any unsolicited upgrade request as hostile and verify it in official wallet channels.
- Bridge look-alikes
- Bridging means sending funds to a contract. Reach StarkGate from the Starknet website, not from a link in a message.
- Rejected-versus-reverted confusion
- A site that says "your claim was rejected, pay a fee to retry" misuses real status names. A rejected transaction pays no fee, according to the docs.
What we would check first
Before acting on a Starknet reward
0/7More background: the airdrop basics guide, the burner wallet guide and the Ethereum ecosystem page, since Starknet settles to Ethereum.
Primary sources
Sources last checked 19 Oct 2026. Links open the project's own pages, not summaries from other sites.
- Starknet blog: Provisions Programstarknet.io
- Starknet FAQsstarknet.io
- Starknet blog: BTCFi Seasonstarknet.io
- Starknet docs: Accountsdocs.starknet.io
- Starknet docs: Feesdocs.starknet.io
- Starknet docs: Tools cheatsheetdocs.starknet.io
- StarkGate bridgestarkgate.starknet.io
- Braavos wallet sitebraavos.app
Frequently asked questions
Is the Starknet airdrop still open?
No. The first Provisions round could be claimed from 20 February to 20 June 2024, and the Foundation marks the programme as discontinued. We found no announcement of a new round. Any site offering to let you claim STRK today should be treated as a clone, so check the Starknet blog instead.
What counts as the Starknet airdrop?
It was called Provisions. It rewarded Starknet users, StarkEx users, developers, Ethereum contributors and stakers under published criteria. The first round covered more than 700 million STRK for nearly 1.3 million addresses. It was a retroactive distribution, not a points scheme, and it is closed.
Does Starknet use ETH or STRK for fees?
The current fee documentation says fees are charged in STRK. From version 0.14.0 each transaction must set STRK-denominated maximum amounts and prices for three resource types. Older material that mentions ETH fees describes earlier versions, so check the date of any tutorial you follow.
What is account abstraction on Starknet?
Every Starknet account is a smart contract with its own validation logic rather than an externally owned account. A transaction goes through validate and then execute, and a failed validation is rejected without a fee. This gives wallets flexibility but also means account code quality matters to your safety.
Is BTCFi Season an airdrop?
The Foundation describes it as an incentive programme, not an airdrop. It was introduced on 30 September 2025 with a 100 million STRK budget, paying for eligible activity through participating protocols. We could not confirm from official pages whether it is still running, so check the Starknet blog.