The wait is over. Radix Rewards Season 1 is officially live!

Radix Rewards is one of the biggest incentive campaigns in DeFi, with up to 1 billion XRD on the line. Swapping, lending/borrowing, and adding liquidity to supported pools on Radix can now earn you points, and those points unlock your share of the rewards.

This is the beginning of a new era for Radix DeFi. The question is simple: how much of it will you claim?

Quick start guide:

1. Download the Radix Wallet and use the Radix onboarding dApp, RadQuest, if needed.
   
2. Get your first XRD here. You need at least $50 in XRD or LSUs across linked accounts to start earning points. More XRD earns you a higher points multiplier.
3. Bridge assets like USDC, ETH, and wBTC into Radix with Hyperlane.
4. Enroll and link your wallet at incentives.radixdlt.com.

From there, you’ll start earning points automatically for using Radix DeFi apps, providing liquidity, and other activities listed on the Radix Rewards Earn Page.

The Radix Rewards Difference

DeFi doesn’t grow on speculation alone. It grows with real usage, deep liquidity, and communities that show up. That’s exactly what Radix Rewards is built to support.

Forget the one-off airdrops that hand tokens to passive whales or drive short-term hype. Radix Rewards is designed to fuel sustainable growth. It rewards the actions that matter most: providing liquidity, trading, staking, and using dApps. The more you participate, the more you earn.

And the timing couldn’t be better. With Hyperlane now live, Radix now has a fully permissionless, decentralized bridge that provides an easy route to bridge in assets from other networks. Bringing assets like USDC, ETH, and wBTC onto Radix is now just a few clicks away. That means liquidity can flow in, new users can join easily, and every dollar of activity is amplified by Radix Rewards.

Season 1 starts with a 100 million XRD reward pool, but if the community hits key adoption milestones, it can double to 200 million XRD. Growth benefits everyone, and your activity helps unlock more rewards for the entire ecosystem.

How to Earn Points (ELI5 Edition)

Here’s the simple breakdown of how Radix Rewards works:

• Activity Points (AP): Think of these as “daily points.” Every time you swap tokens, provide liquidity on a DEX, lend assets on money markets, or interact with supported dApps/pools, you earn AP. The more you use Radix, and the more liquidity you provide to the DeFi ecosystem, the more AP you collect.
• Weekly Season Points (SP): At the end of each week, your AP is totalled and converted into SP. SP is the key number because it determines your share of the reward pool at the end of the season.
• XRD/LSU Multiplier: Holding or staking XRD boosts any SP you earn. The more XRD or liquid staking units (LSUs) you hold (or deploy into supported pools), the higher your multiplier, up to 3x. This means active users who also hold Radix are rewarded the most, but passive XRD whales don’t get rewards.
  

Put simply: More activity + More XRD = Bigger rewards.

The full ELI5 guide to earning points can be found here.

How to Get Started

Joining Radix Rewards is simple and takes just a few minutes:

1. Download the Radix Wallet.
2. (optional) Learn how to use Radix with RadQuest.
3. Buy or swap into your first XRD here.
4. Bridge USDC, ETH, wBTC, USDT, and more from Ethereum, Arbitrum, or Base using the Astrolescent frontend for Hyperlane.
5. Enroll and link your wallet at incentives.radixdlt.com.

From there, just start using Radix and the supported activities listed on the Radix Rewards Earn Page. The more you do, the more points you earn, and every point brings you closer to your share of the XRD rewards pool.

The Radix Rebirth Starts Now

Season 1 of Radix Rewards is the start of a rebirth for Radix DeFi. After years of building, testing, and proving what’s possible, the ecosystem now has the tools, liquidity, and incentives to grow at scale. With Hyperlane bridging live and billions in assets now within reach, Radix is entering a new era of opportunity.

This campaign gives both new and existing users a chance to earn airdrop rewards while experiencing the benefits of Radix’s full-stack approach, from industry-leading security to intuitive UX. More than that, it’s about kickstarting a cycle of growth that rewards everyone who takes part. Each swap, each liquidity position, and every dApp used strengthens the network, making it more resilient and ready to stand out in DeFi.

For those who have been here from the start, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for. For those just joining, it’s a chance to step into Radix at the dawn of something new. 

The rebirth starts today, and the earlier you join, the bigger your rewards.