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Users eligible for the JUP and Sonic projects within the Solana ecosystem will receive token airdrops in the coming weeks.
Solana ecosystem users will benefit from at least two major airdrops in January, with eligible users receiving hundreds of millions of tokens.
The first airdrop planned for the New Year will come from Solana’s layer-2 gaming network, Sonic. On January 7, Sonic will airdrop 7% of its native SONIC tokens to users.
According to a post on X from January 1, Sonic stated that only 15% of the total supply of 2.4 billion SONIC tokens would be available for trading on the airdrop day.
Approximately 8% of the tokens will be pre-allocated to “early supporters,” while 7% will be airdropped to the first claimants. A notable detail is that the only way to qualify for the SONIC airdrop is by signing up through the TikTok social media platform.
Similar to Telegram mini-games, Sonic developed its SonicX game natively within TikTok and chose to reward those users directly.
Sonic raised $12 million in a Series A funding round in June 2024. Additionally, the protocol partnered with the Solana staking layer Solayer, and in November, it staked $50 million worth of SOL in its delegation pool.
Jupiter Prepares for $625 Million “JUPuary” Airdrop
Jupiter, a decentralized exchange aggregator on Solana, is preparing to airdrop approximately $625 million worth of its native JUP (JUP) tokens to eligible users in January.
In a post on X on December 27, Jupiter Uplink announced that 700 million JUP tokens (worth $625 million at current prices) would be airdropped to users.
Jupiter stated that around 2.3 million wallet addresses would be eligible for the “JUPuary” airdrop, and users could earn more JUP tokens based on different qualifying actions.
Jupiter will distribute tokens to users with high trading volumes on the exchange through a tiered system. Users who accumulate over $800 in trading volume will receive 50 JUP, while users who reach $14 million in trading volume will receive 20,000 JUP tokens.
Additionally, Jupiter users who interact with features such as Perps, dollar-cost averaging (DCA), or limit orders will also receive extra JUP tokens.
The Jupiter and Sonic airdrops will be the second and third airdrops on Solana in the past month. The Pudgy Penguins airdrop, for example, distributed over $1 billion in PENGU tokens to eligible users on Solana, mostly to Pudgy Penguins holders.
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