# What are Claimable Balances?

For the Initial airdrop, we distributed AQUA tokens using claimable balances on the Stellar network.

Claimable balances are a way for entities to operate a payment in two parts, a sending portion, and a receiving portion. This means somebody can send you a payment of an asset you don't hold a trustline for, and you can decide if you would like to accept it or not.

For more info: Aquarius Medium - [**Claimable Balances**](https://medium.com/aquarius-aqua/claimable-balances-on-the-stellar-network-47c5cdf8a1e)


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