Sonic Gems

This page is specific to season 2 of the airdrop.

Sonic Gems are developer-focused airdrop points designed to reward apps for driving user engagement and innovation. These Gems can be redeemed for S tokens, which apps can then distribute as rewards to their users.

This system helps apps grow by driving consistent user activity and maintaining long-term engagement.

What are Sonic Gems? ‎‎‎‏— Distribution of GemsGems Revocation Policy

What are Sonic Gems?

Sonic Gems are airdrop points exclusively designed for apps. Each season, a fixed supply of Gems is allocated to apps based on performance metrics. Apps can track their progress through the points dashboard.

To distribute the S tokens earned through Gems to their users, apps must manage the process independently. For example, an app could:

  • Run their own internal points programs

  • Claim Gems and distribute S to users in season 3

  • Join Sonic Builders on Telegram for further support

While there’s no strict requirement for apps to share a specific percentage of their claimed S tokens with their users, the design of Gems incentivizes generosity. Apps that share a larger portion of their claimed S with their communities are rewarded more favorably compared to those that do not.

Tokenizing Gems is strictly prohibited. Any app that does so will be instantly disqualified from the entire season.

Distribution of Gems

Sonic Gems are distributed by considering factors such as category type, Sonic exclusivity, revenue generation, and effective reward distribution, promoting fairness and incentivizing active participation.

The competitive PvP nature and fixed supply of Gems mean that an app's Gem balance may fluctuate daily, influenced by the performance of other apps on the platform.

Below are the key criteria that will determine an app's share of Gems in season 1.

Apps are assessed across several weighted categories, with each app assigned a weight based on its primary category. For season 1, the specific weights are detailed below. If an app falls into multiple categories, the weight of its dominant category will be applied.

Category
Weight

Yield Tokenization

4

Isolated / Modular Lending

4

Spot / CLOB DEX

3

Pooled Lending / CDPs

3

Perps

3

Options / Derivatives

2

Yield Aggregators

2

GambleFi

2

Bridges

2

Final Gems Calculation

Apps will receive a pro-rata share of Sonic Gems based on their final weights, determined by the calculations below.

Step A — Gem Score

App Gem Score=Category Weight×Sonic Native Weight×Incentive Weight(N/A in Season 1)Total Gem Score\text{App Gem Score} = \frac{\text{Category Weight} \times \text{Sonic Native Weight} \times \text{Incentive Weight} \, (\text{N/A in Season 1})}{\text{Total Gem Score}}

Step B — Point Score

App Point Score=Points Generated by App for Users\text{App Point Score} = \text{Points Generated by App for Users}

Step C — Revenue Score

App Revenue Score=Revenue Generated b App\text{App Revenue Score} = \text{Revenue Generated b App}

Step D — Final Score

App Final Score=AWa×BWb×CWc\text{App Final Score} = A_{\text{W}a} \times B_{\text{W}b} \times C_{\text{W}c}

Step E — Share of Gems

Share of Gems=App Final ScoreTotal Final Score×Total Season 2 Gems\text{Share of Gems} = \frac{\text{App Final Score}}{\text{Total Final Score}} \times \text{Total Season 2 Gems}

In the calculations above, the Total Gem Score is the sum of the App Gem Scores for all apps, and the same applies to the Total Final Score.

Gems Revocation Policy

The following actions by the app can cause their Sonic Gems to be revoked.

  1. Incentivizing Project Tokens or NFTs with Gems Allocating Gems as rewards for activities like holding, staking, or providing liquidity (LPing) for a project’s token or NFT. For apps that have a voting mechanism to direct emissions, Gems can be used as vote incentives for any pool other than those that contain the project's token.

  2. Suspicious Distribution Practices Distributing large quantities of Gems non-transparently, such as allocating them disproportionately to insiders or KOLs without clear disclosure.

  3. Misrepresenting Gem Redistribution Providing false information about the amount of claimed S being distributed to users during any season.

  4. Failure to Integrate OpenBlock Failing to integrate with OpenBlock or adhere to its guidelines.

  5. Tokenization Tokenizing Gems in any way.

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