Airdrop

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The S airdrop will distribute 190,500,000 S tokens to incentivize users of both Opera and the Sonic chain. The airdrop will be distributed using two main approaches, Sonic Points and Sonic Gems.

Sonic Points

User-focused airdrop points, earned by interacting with various tokens and apps on Sonic.

Sonic Gems

Developer-focused airdrop points, earned by driving user engagement and innovation on Sonic.

The airdrop will also reward historical activity on Opera, participation on Sonic Arcade, and minters of the exclusive Shard NFT.

Distribution

The first season of the S airdrop becomes claimable six months after Sonic’s launch, around June 2025. At that time, 25% of your allocation is immediately available, while the remaining 75% vests over 270 days as NFT positions.

A linear decay mechanism applies to the vested portion, allowing you to claim early at the cost of a penalty that burns a portion of your tokens. This approach prevents sudden surges in circulating supply by burning tokens from users who choose to claim early. It also incentivizes recipients to stay active on-chain while waiting for an optimal time to claim the remainder of their allocation.

The chart below illustrates how many tokens will be burned based on when users choose to claim their vested airdrop allocation.

Burn amount of the vested airdrop allocation if claimed early

Burn Amount and Examples

Day	Burn Amount
0–30	100%–88.9%
31–60	88.9%–77.8%
61–90	77.8%–66.7%
91–120	66.7%–55.6%
121–150	55.6%–44.4%
151–180	44.4%–33.4%
180–210	33.4%–22.3%
211–240	22.3%–11.2%
241–270	11.2%–0%

Example A

Andrew earns 1,000 S in the Sonic airdrop. Andrew can claim his 25% liquid allocation immediately and receive 250 S in his wallet. 90 days pass and Andrew returns to the claim portal, deciding he would like the rest of his airdrop. As 90 days have passed by, he can claim 249.75 S tokens (33.3 of the remaining 750 token allocation) but must burn 500.25 S (66.7% of his locked allocation).

Example B

Bob earns 10,000 S in the Sonic airdrop. Bob can claim his 25% liquid allocation immediately and receive 2,500 S. Bob is excited to use his S in the ecosystem and decides he would like all of his eligible airdrop allocation after day 30. Bob claims again (the final 75% portion), receiving 1,110 S and burning 6,667.5 S (88.9% of the final portion).

For users who prefer not to wait or participate in the airdrop, there will be a speculative NFT marketplace where they can trade their airdrop allocation.

Data Collection

We are working with OpenBlock and Sentio to manage and oversee our points and airdrop designs through data-backed decision-making.

OpenBlock’s data-driven incentive modeling platform powers over $2B in annual incentive spend and has been a leading provider of rewards design and efficacy analysis for leading protocols in the space including EigenLayer, Lido, Linea, Mode, Arbitrum, Solana, Sui, and many others. To initiate and sustain its ecosystem, Sonic will utilize OpenBlock’s incentive modeling frameworks, ensuring continuous and balanced growth for all actors in the system.

Sentio is an industry-leading indexing service that aids in streamlining continuous point tracking, helping retrieve historical states of all user positions to update user points upon every interaction. With its high-performance database infrastructure, engineered to handle queries at unprecedented speeds, Sentio enables the onboarding of tens of thousands of new users easily and efficiently.

Legal Provisions

As part of the Sonic Foundation’s research and commitment to this airdrop, we have sought legal opinions to ensure its success.

The program will likely need to exclude any sanctioned country or person including all those who are citizens or residents of or residing in (the “Restricted Countries”): Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Cuba, DPRK (North Korea), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar (Burma), Republic of South Sudan, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United States of America, Ukraine, the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, or Zimbabwe.

These potential provisions may include:

• Geoblocking: Implementing geo-blocking measures for all restricted countries

• Self-declaration: Requiring participants to say they are not from one of the restricted countries

• Discretionary exclusion: The Sonic Foundation reserves the right to exclude any wallet address at its sole discretion

There will be a comprehensive set of terms and conditions provided at the program’s launch.