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Sonic Points Simplified — How To Qualify for ~200 Million S Airdrop

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Visit the points dashboard to track your points.

We’re excited to share new details about the ~200 million S airdrop and its innovative points system. Designed to boost liquidity on Sonic and strengthen its ecosystem, our points program will help position Sonic as a premier hub for DeFi enthusiasts and users seeking to maximize the potential of their assets.

To qualify for the airdrop, you’ll need to earn Sonic Points by holding and using whitelisted assets across a variety of DeFi apps. These points will be distributed over multiple seasons as NFT positions, ensuring long-term sustainability and preventing sudden shifts in supply. The first season began with Sonic's launch and will conclude in June 2025.

Continue reading to find out how to earn points.

— How To Earn Points
— Whitelisted Assets
— Airdrop Points Dashboard

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TL;DR
Hold or deploy whitelisted assets. Earn points for the airdrop.

How To Earn Points — 3 Methods

1. Passive Points — Hold Whitelisted Assets

Users can earn passive points by holding whitelisted assets directly in their Web3 wallets, such as Rabby or MetaMask, including hardware wallets. Assets held on centralized exchanges are not eligible.

Please note that WETH, SolvBTC, and SolvBTC.BBN earn activity points only, not passive points.

2. Activity Points — Deploy Whitelisted Assets on Apps

By deploying whitelisted assets as liquidity on participating apps, users will earn activity points, which provide 2x the amount of points compared to simply holding assets passively. A list of participating apps is available on the points dashboard.

The first two ways of earning points — passive and activity — are unrelated to which apps you use. As long as you’re holding whitelisted assets or deploying them as liquidity on any participating app, you’ll earn points.

However, there’s a third way you’ll be earning points if you’ve deployed your assets as liquidity on an app: points from the apps themselves.

3. App Points (Gems) — Earn Further Allocation

The S airdrop includes a developer-focused portion, where apps compete for an airdrop allocation known as Sonic Gems. Apps can redeem these Gems for S tokens, which they can then distribute to their users however they want.

To decide how these S tokens are distributed to their users, each app will run its own independent points program, entirely at its discretion. The app may consider various things, such as the amount of liquidity a user has deployed, the duration of deployment, and the specific pools to which a user has added liquidity.

As a user, you’ll be earning passive and activity points regardless, so now your goal is to identify which app has the points program that will offer the highest return for your liquidity. The challenge lies in maximizing your overall rewards by combining the yield earned from providing liquidity with the points earned from the app's points program.

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Follow Sonic Ecosystem to discover apps with their own points programs.

Whitelisted Assets

To qualify for the S airdrop, you must hold or use the whitelisted assets listed in the table below. The multipliers are applied to the passive or activity points you earn.

Please note that WETH, SolvBTC, and SolvBTC.BBN earn activity points only, not passive points.

Some whitelisted assets are boosted in the first 3 months after Sonic’s launch to encourage their usage and attract more liquidity to Sonic. After this period, we may choose to extend or reduce boosts.

Whitelisted assets and their multipliers are subject to change. S tokens staked through MySonic are not eligible for points. Users who wish to stake can instead use stS by Beets, a liquid staking token.

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Disclaimer: Sonic Labs makes no guarantee to the safety or peg of third-party assets. Use them at your own risk.