Sonic Airdrop
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The S airdrop will distribute 190,500,000 S tokens to incentivize users of Sonic. The airdrop will be distributed using Sonic Points, Sonic Gems, and Game Gems.
The S airdrop spans multiple seasons, with an undisclosed amount of the total airdrop allocated to each season. The first season ended on June 18, 2025, and the second season began immediately after.
Visit the points dashboard to track your points.
For historical information about previous seasons of the airdrop, find the relevant pages here:
Once claims open for season 1 of the airdrop, 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.
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%
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).
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.
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, 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.
Sonic Points
User-focused airdrop points, earned by deploying assets as liquidity across apps on Sonic.
Sonic Gems
DeFi-focused airdrop points, earned by apps driving user engagement and innovation on Sonic.
Game Gems
Game-focused airdrop points, earned by games driving player engagement and retention.
