Question 1

What is BERA?

Accepted Answer

BERA is Berachain's native gas token and the foundational asset on which security at its consensus layer relies. Users use BERA to pay the execution fees required to send transactions or call smart contracts on the chain; it is not a claim on an off-chain asset.

Question 2

Why is BERA called a gas token?

Accepted Answer

BERA's direct use is to pay gas fees for transactions and smart-contract interactions on Berachain. Gas fees are costs users pay for the network to process operations; fee demand varies with the type of operation and prevailing network conditions, and holding BERA does not mean that any application will pay its holder a fixed return.

Question 3

What do Berachain's PoL and EVM compatibility respectively mean?

Accepted Answer

Berachain is an EVM-compatible chain using Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) consensus. EVM compatibility allows it to execute Ethereum-style smart contracts; PoL seeks to connect validators' network-security incentives with liquidity incentives in the application ecosystem, rather than separating the two completely.

Question 4

How does PoL link liquidity with network incentives?

Accepted Answer

The basic idea of PoL is to direct rewards to vaults or incentive routes that can provide liquidity for applications: deeper liquidity can bring richer emissions incentives, thereby linking the incentives of applications, users, and validators. This mechanism is intended to guide incentives and does not guarantee that any pool's liquidity, trading volume, or returns will increase.

Question 5

How do the roles of BERA and BGT differ?

Accepted Answer

In the PoL v2 announcement's explanation of the existing system, BERA serves gas and consensus-security roles; BGT and liquidity-pool derivative positions are important components of ecosystem liquidity incentives. They are not the same asset: participating in a BGT-related incentive must not be equated with holding BERA, and vice versa.

Question 6

How much BERA was allocated in the 2025 airdrop?

Accepted Answer

The official February 2025 airdrop overview states that 15.75% of BERA allocations were designated for the airdrop, recognizing contributions to the pre-launch ecosystem by community members, applications, liquidity providers, and others. This is a historical allocation description, not a commitment to future airdrops, token-holding ratios, or continuing rewards.

Question 7

What types of participants were covered by the 2025 BERA airdrop?

Accepted Answer

That airdrop covered several defined categories, including Artio and bArtio testnet users, RFB-program participants, Boyco participants, social contributors, ecosystem NFT holders, Binance HODLers, strategic partners, and holders of Bong Bears-related NFTs. Category names did not confer automatic eligibility; each category also had official activity, snapshot, holding, or participation conditions.

Question 8

How did testnet users qualify for BERA airdrops at the time?

Accepted Answer

The testnet category allocated 8.25 million BERA, representing 1.65% of the allocation listed in that announcement. According to the official explanation, rewards were determined by users' different interactions and unique activities with native or ecosystem applications, such as minting HONEY, claiming fees, publishing incentives for reward vaults, converting or delegating BGT; therefore, merely having an address did not necessarily mean receiving an equal allocation.

Question 9

When did Boyco-related BERA allocations unlock, and what were they based on?

Accepted Answer

The Boyco category allocated 10 million BERA. The official explanation states that unlocking depended on completion of the Boyco market in which a user participated: different markets completed 30 or 90 days after chain launch; rewards also depended on the selected market, term, asset type, and pool type. This shows that “participating in Boyco” and “when and how much can be obtained” are two different questions.

Question 10

What use constraints applied to BERA allocations in the RFB/RFA category?

Accepted Answer

Within the RFB allocation, RFA teams' use was constrained: the announcement states that up to 15% could be used for the protocol treasury, at least 70% had to be used for mainnet initiatives, and the remaining 10% to 15% was at the team's discretion for rewarding testnet users. Therefore, an amount allocated to a project was not equivalent to all BERA being freely available for the project team to dispose of unconditionally.

Question 11

Has PoL v2 already enabled all BERA to automatically earn native yield?

Accepted Answer

The PoL v2 article proposes that approximately one-third of future PoL emissions will flow to a new BERA Yield Module, and mentions a 7-day unbonding window and a concept of delegating to obtain protocol rewards. However, the article uses future-oriented language such as “will” and “coming soon,” and states that this is a planned upgrade; the module, yield rate, or unbonding rules therefore cannot be treated as currently available features at the time of the announcement based on this alone.

Question 12

How should the relationship between the PoL mechanism and BERA's value or price be understood?

Accepted Answer

To understand BERA, three layers should be kept separate: as a gas asset, it determines how transactions are paid for; at the consensus layer, it participates in network security; and PoL designs how incentives are transmitted between validators and application liquidity. Announcement content about yield modules, circulating-supply contraction, or demand effects represents mechanism expectations; actual effects still depend on subsequent implementation, adoption, and market conditions, and cannot be directly inferred as price outcomes.

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