Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)

Author | Azuma (@azuma_eth)

It has been nearly six months since the official launch of the Sonic mainnet (launched on December 18 last year). Recently, the Sonic team has released multiple updates regarding the upcoming end of the first season airdrop and the upcoming second season airdrop. However, due to the fragmented nature of the information, some users still do not fully understand the detailed operation mechanism of the Sonic airdrop.

In the following text, Odaily Planet Daily will detail the airdrop rules of Sonic, hoping to help you deploy corresponding strategies more efficiently.

First Season Airdrop

First, let's discuss Sonic's overall airdrop plan. Sonic plans to distribute 190.5 million S tokens through airdrops, which will span multiple seasons, and the total amount allocated for each season has not yet been determined.

According to disclosures from Sonic team member assistant.sonic, the snapshot for the first season airdrop will be taken on June 18 (exactly six months after the mainnet launch), and the airdrop distribution will begin in the following weeks.

As for claiming the airdrop, there are different unlocking rules for ordinary user shares and Dapps shares.

• Note from Odaily: The Sonic airdrop has three different channels for earning points. The first two channels are aimed at ordinary users: one can earn passive points by holding whitelist assets statically, and the other can earn active points by deploying whitelist assets to designated ecological DApps; the last channel is aimed at Dapps, where various Dapps will compete for airdrop shares known as "Gems," which can be exchanged for S tokens through the final airdrop. Dapps can then redistribute these S tokens to users through customized point programs.

User Airdrop Claiming Rules

For ordinary users, 25% of the first season airdrop can be claimed immediately in the form of S tokens with no circulation restrictions, while the remaining 75% will be released linearly in the form of tradable NFTs over 270 days. This NFT can be traded on the upcoming secondary order book market of Paintswap.

Users holding unclaimed NFTs can choose to claim the remaining allocation at any time, but this will trigger a destruction penalty based on the remaining allocation.

For example, if a user receives a total of 100 S tokens from the airdrop, they can claim 25 S on the first day, while the remaining 75 S will be released linearly over 270 days. If the user forcibly "claims" their NFT portion of the airdrop midway through the release period (around 4.5 months, or 135 days), they will receive 37.5 S while destroying 37.5 S. This means the total number of S tokens the user ultimately receives from the airdrop is: 25 (first-day liquidity airdrop) + 37.5 (linear release portion) = 62.5 (excluding the destroyed portion).

The specific forced claiming and penalty functions are shown in the table below, with the horizontal axis representing time and the vertical axis representing the penalty intensity.

It is worth noting that users will have 6 months to claim their NFTs, and any NFTs and corresponding unclaimed S tokens that are not claimed by the deadline will be destroyed.

Dapps Airdrop Claiming Rules

For Dapps, those that earn S airdrops through "Gems" can immediately claim 50% of the S tokens with no circulation restrictions, while the remaining 50% of S tokens will be released linearly over 90 days through the smart contract claiming frontend.

It is worth mentioning that some Dapps have previously tokenized their "Gems" shares to incentivize users to deposit funds in a more liquid form. These tokenized "Gems" are already circulating in the secondary market and are scattered among many users.

For these Dapps that have tokenized their "Gems," Sonic will provide another frontend for users holding tokenized "Gems" to claim S tokens. Users will have 3 months to use the tokenized "Gems" for airdrop claims, and any unclaimed S tokens after the deadline will be destroyed.

Second Season Airdrop

Last night, Sonic officially published a detailed plan for the second season airdrop.

The second season will start on June 18, seamlessly connecting with the first season. Based on the experience from the first season airdrop, the airdrop details for both the user and Dapps portions have been modified.

User Airdrop

First, looking at the user aspect, the biggest change in the second season airdrop compared to the first season is the cancellation of passive points. This means that users will no longer earn points simply by statically holding whitelist assets in their wallets; instead, they must actively deploy assets in designated applications within the Sonic ecosystem to earn active points, including providing liquidity in DEXs, participating in lending, or engaging in many other qualifying DeFi operations. Clearly, this move aims to further incentivize ecological activity and encourage users to actively explore Sonic ecosystem applications.

Additionally, to reward loyal users, Sonic will launch a loyalty incentive program. A user's performance in the first season airdrop will determine the initial multiplier (1 - 2 times), and the level of continued activity in the second season can increase or decrease this value, with a maximum of 3 times and a minimum returning to 1 time.

Furthermore, Sonic officials emphasize that the distribution method for the second season airdrop may differ from the structure of the first season, but the details are currently unclear. Sonic will announce the specific plan three months after the start of the second season to monitor the effects of the first season distribution model and make corresponding optimizations.

Dapps Airdrop

Compared to the first season airdrop, the biggest change regarding Dapps in the second season airdrop is the clear statement that Dapps are not allowed to tokenize "Gems," or else the Dapps will immediately lose their qualification for the entire season — this is not difficult to understand, as it is to prevent Dapps from using tokenization to bypass the original unlocking restrictions corresponding to "Gems" and S tokens.

To prevent Dapps from hiding their allocations and ensure that more airdrop shares are further distributed to users, Sonic will evaluate how many tokens each Dapp actually distributed to users in the first season. For example, if a Dapp claims to distribute 100% of S tokens to users in the first season, it will receive a 1x "Gem" multiplier in the second season. If it only distributed 80%, the multiplier will be 0.8, and so on.

Additionally, Sonic emphasizes that the "Gem" distribution mechanism in the second season will place greater emphasis on protocol revenue rather than TVL, to reward those Dapps that drive truly sustainable usage.

For different types of Dapps, Sonic has also established different weight multipliers to better reflect the ongoing impact of various protocols on the ecosystem, with specific weights as follows.

Corresponding Strategies

Combining the rule changes for the second season, the core strategy is quite clear — try to use addresses that participated in the first season activities to continue participating in the second season to obtain a higher loyalty multiplier; actively engage in ecological projects to earn active points and internal points from Dapps (corresponding to the airdrop shares of "Gems").

Currently, the Sonic ecosystem is quite complete. Previously, we introduced some Sonic ecosystem scoring strategies in multiple issues of the "Lazy Financial Management Guide." Although the rules have changed somewhat, the overall strategy remains the same.

Considering different risk preferences, it is recommended that users with higher safety requirements only participate in mainstream DeFi protocols like Aave and Pendle. For users with higher efficiency requirements, exploring native protocols like Shadow or protocols with internal point programs like Silo and Rings is advisable.

Additionally, given the special unlocking rules for S airdrops, there may be certain arbitrage opportunities between the prices of unclaimed NFTs in secondary markets like Paintswap and future unlocking shares after the airdrop distribution. We will keep an eye on this and will release relevant strategies if necessary.

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