5 Solana airdrops you should be paying attention to

Author: Jack Inabinet, Bankless; Compiler: Deng Tong, Golden Finance

JUPuary has officially ended and we declare it a success. A total of 1B JUP was airdropped to nearly a million personal addresses, with the top recipients eligible for a free $70,000 bonus!

Although Jupiter's November 2 snapshot date excludes many new entrants to the Solana ecosystem from claiming JUP, they do not find themselves without rewards during JUPuary. Last week, every wallet that had interacted with Jupiter in the six months ending January 19 became eligible to receive $60 in WEN, Jupiter’s test token!

Jupiter’s two high-value claim opportunities build on last year’s Solana airdrop momentum and further strengthen the value proposition behind finding Solana airdrops, re-incentivizing airdrop hunters to find the chain’s next big airdrop opportunity.

Fortunately, the Solana ecosystem is uniquely positioned with a wealth of tokenless protocols to provide early adopters with plenty of premium airdrop opportunities! Today, we’re bringing your attention to five of our favorite Solana airdrops so you can start preparing for future airdrops today.

marginfi

Intentionally all lowercase, marginfi is intended to be a set of smart contracts that create a DeFi prime brokerage that facilitates peer-to-peer lending and portfolio management across blockchains. Users can access marginfi via a desktop browser or install it as a PWA on mobile devices!

The platform’s initial (and most popular) product, mrgnlend, is an overcollateralized money market protocol that allows anyone to lend or borrow assets on Solana. In September, marginfi expanded its product line with the launch of LST, a SOL liquid staking token with 0% commissions that provides depositors with network rewards and MEV withdrawal earnings, and the protocol will soon offer its own LST staking Stablecoin YBX.

Why we care:

marginfi has an ongoing points program that rewards early users for lending and recommending others to use the platform! Protocols will often implement a points system as a precursor to airdrops to help identify accounts that contributed to its success.

Maximize your eligibility by:

• Provide margin for lending

• Borrow money from marginfi

• Pledge using marginfi

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Phantom

While the Phantom wallet has long been a cornerstone of the Solana ecosystem, it also Can be used to manage crypto assets and access dApps on Polygon and Ethereum! The wallet is available as a browser extension or as an app for download from the iOS and Android stores.

Phantom offers in-wallet purchasing functionality, allowing users to purchase popular cryptoassets from on-chain supported by a variety of payment partners, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and Moonpay. Users can launch multiple Phantom subaccounts to isolate trading activity and create unique Ethereum and Solana address pairs for each account.

Why we care:

While there is no precedent for wallets airdropping tokens, and Phantom has not provided any indication that they are doing so, using Phantom as a wallet solution on Solana is A simple way to streamline your chain experience while maximizing your potential to receive airdrops!

Maximize your eligibility by:

• Download Phantom Wallet

• Use SOL to top up your Phantom Wallet

• Exchange assets in Phantom

Drift

Drift is an exchange on Solana with a built-in currency market! Users first deposit funds into their Drift account and then unlock the protocol’s perpetual swaps (with up to 10x leverage), floating rate money markets, insurance collateral funds, LP strategies, and spot token swap products.

Drift’s native cross margin functionality combined with its currency markets provides users with numerous benefits. All collateral deposited into Drift itself earns yield, and any deposited assets can be borrowed or used to fund trades, although long-tail assets have lower initial asset weights, limiting leverage to prevent unavailability. A profitable liquidation.

Why we care:

Drift has an active points program that rewards users for trading on the platform! Protocols will often implement a points system as a precursor to airdrops to help identify accounts that contributed to its success.

Maximize your eligibility by:

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• Deposit funds into Drift

• Drift trades perpetual contracts

• Pledge to ensure Drift’s insurance fund

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• Provide Drift liquidity

Tensor

Tensor is an NFT market on Solana and supports Solana inscriptions . The marketplace is primarily aimed at traders of NFTs like Blur, but the team is also working to make its platform more attractive to retail traders.

Tensor’s Price Lock is a novel primitive that enables NFT traders to lock in a buy or sell price for 7 days. Users who fund a lock can earn extremely high yields from the premium paid on each transaction, but will incur losses when the lock is purchased and expires in the currency.

When the long-term lock expires in the currency, the backers of the lock will receive an amount of SOL equal to the price they sold the lock for plus the initial fee paid by the buyer, instead of what they paid as The original NFT provided by the collateral. When the short-term lock expires, the backers of the lock will receive the NFT from the collection they sold the lock for, plus an initial fee paid by the buyer, rather than the SOL they posted as collateral. Backers who did not exercise their lock will receive their initial collateral plus fees paid.

Tensorians are a group of 10,000 NFTs in the Tensor ecosystem. They play a core role in the Tensor ecosystem, providing a 1.5x bonus to its points program and passively 20% point gains!

Why we care:

Tensor has an active points program! Crypto projects use points programs to identify early adopters, often to reward those who contribute to the success of the protocol with tokens, making it likely that Tensor will seek an airdrop! Currently, Tensor’s points program rewards users for locking funds.

Maximize your eligibility by:

• Buy NFTs on Tensor

• List NFTs for sale on Tensor

• Buy Tensor

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• Buy Lock

• Fund Lock

Jupiter

Jupiter's main product is a decentralized trading aggregator on Solana, offering spot and perpetual swap products! While Jupiter has its own front-end, many protocols (such as marginfi) use their aggregator widgets to facilitate in-app exchanges.

Jupiter’s front-end provides functionality for complex limit and DCA orders, and degens can satisfy their desire to trade with Jupiter’s perps, which offer up to 100x leverage for BTC, ETH, and SOL. Jupiter has also developed a token launchpad solution for newly created tokens to be distributed via airdrops.

Why we care:

While the snapshot of the first round of Jupiter airdrops has ended, the project will allocate 40% of its token supply through four separate airdrops. Community. With only a quarter of these tokens allocated, you still have 3 chances to qualify for a JUP drop!

Maximize your eligibility by:

• Exchange assets with Jupiter

• Trade Jupiter Perpetual Contracts

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• Use Jupiter for dispersed investment