The $DIS Alpha Airdrop: Rewarding Verifiable Contributors

In the rapidly growing ecosystem of distribute.ai, one principle has remained at the core of everything we do: real work deserves real rewards. As we embark on the next chapter of building the world’s distributed AI supercomputer, we're proud to announce the $DIS Airdrop — a major step forward in recognizing and rewarding the users who have truly contributed to the network’s foundation.

This airdrop isn't just a token giveaway. It's a carefully crafted redistribution of value to those who powered the early stages of the distribute.ai network with genuine, verifiable participation. By rewarding real compute providers who carried out actual AI workloads, we are cementing our vision of a decentralized AI economy where meaningful contributions are recognized and incentivized

From Idle Compute to Tangible Rewards

The distribute.ai network is unique. Instead of relying on centralized data centers, we harness the power of everyday contributors — users who run provider nodes either via our desktop client or browser extension to complete AI workloads. Each successful job helps fuel the network, making AI faster, cheaper, and more accessible to everyone.

As our early growth exploded to over 3 million registered users, we knew we needed a way to reward those who truly pushed the network forward. Thus, the $DIS Airdrop was designed to identify and thank the ecosystem’s most impactful participants.

Evaluating Verifiable Participation

To ensure the airdrop went to genuine contributors, we used a transparent and rigorous eligibility process focused on rewarding quality and effort. Only users who had completed at least one job were eligible — a clear and provable marker of real participation. Simply installing the desktop or extension provider was not enough. Users had to activate their provider and complete an actual job to demonstrate that their machine was online, functional, and contributing.

This decision was driven by a commitment to integrity. Scripts and automation bots were unable to fake this process, as our task routing and inference engines required active participation and feedback loops. This method establishes a reliable proxy for real contribution.

Cleaning Up The Data: Preventing Sybil Attacks

To further ensure fairness, we implemented a rigorous filtering system designed to eliminate sybil attacks and artificial scaling attempts. While users were free to participate using both the desktop and extension versions, only real, independent contributors who provided verifiable value to the network remained eligible.

Recognizing Top-Tier Compute

To reward the highest quality compute, we segmented users into two distinct groups:

• Group 1: Users with qualifying high-performance GPUs (NVIDIA 30, 40, or 50 series or Apple M-series chips) who met the minimum contribution threshold.

• Group 2: All other eligible users who did not meet the high-performance GPU criteria.

This grouping allowed us to both reward widespread participation and direct the majority of value to those whose compute materially strengthened the network. Group 1 was allocated 80% of the total airdrop pool, while Group 2 received 20%. This weighting is simple in principle: higher quality compute does more to advance the goals of distribute.ai, and therefore should be rewarded accordingly. Still, every eligible user received tokens — because every contribution mattered.

A Compressed Allocation Curve

Within each group, allocations were based on each user’s unique contributions. To ensure fairness and avoid outsized distributions to a few top participants, we used a compression function to shape the allocation curve. This function gave proportionally more weight to top contributors, but still granted meaningful rewards to those with lower contributions. The idea was simple: amplify value for power users without creating an uneven, winner-take-all structure. Everyone who contributed value to the network received a real share of $DIS.

Aligning Incentives with Ecosystem Growth

At its heart, the $DIS Airdrop is about pushing the decentralized AI revolution forward. By distributing tokens to those who provided compute and ran verifiable workloads, we are rewarding the same people who make the distribute.ai network possible. These are not passive users. They are builders, contributors, and participants who share in our mission to democratize access to intelligence and decentralize the compute layer of AI.

Token rewards serve multiple purposes:

• Recognize contributions from the earliest network participants.

• Bootstrap the token economy with real utility and decentralized distribution.

• Encourage long-term alignment by putting $DIS in the hands of real users.

As these users continue to participate — running nodes, earning rewards, using the API, and advocating for the platform — they help drive distribute.ai toward its goal of being the most scalable and resilient AI infrastructure in the world.

In Closing: A Reward, A Thank You, and A New Beginning

The $DIS Airdrop represents a major milestone in the evolution of distribute.ai. It’s a thank you to the community that made this possible, and a promise that as we grow, we’ll continue to reward real, high-quality participation If you ran a provider, completed workloads, or helped lay the groundwork for our distributed AI future, this airdrop is for you.

Together, we're not just imagining a new way to run AI. We're building it.