Sonic Blockchain, previously known as Fantom, has launched a significant airdrop campaign offering 190.5 million of its native $S tokens.
What is Sonic Blockchain?
Sonic is a layer-one blockchain fully compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This compatibility allows decentralized application (dApp) developers familiar with Ethereum to seamlessly migrate or build new projects on Sonic without extensive code modifications.
Sonic appeals to developers by promising 90% of the revenue generated from their project’s transaction fees. Additionally, Sonic established an “Innovator Fund” with 200 million $S tokens reserved to support developers building on its platform.
Sonic Gateway: Bridging Ethereum and Sonic
The Sonic Gateway is Sonic’s core bridging solution facilitating secure token transfers between Ethereum and Sonic, providing seamless liquidity access with enhanced security features.
As of March 2025, Sonic reports scalability with speeds up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS).
About the $S Token
The total supply of the $S token is 3.175 billion, designed for transaction fees, staking, governance, and running validators. Former $FTM token holders from Fantom Opera can exchange their tokens for $S at a 1:1 ratio.
How to Join the Sonic Airdrop
How to Join
- Step 1: Go to https://my.soniclabs.com/points.
- Step 2: Collect a web3 wallet. Recommended wallets are Rainbow, Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, and WalletConnect.
- Step 3: Collect PP, AP, and GEMS.
- Step 4: Invite friends and earn 10% of their points. Connecting an X account is just for verification of the participant.
- Step 5: Consistently do steps three and four to earn points.
Claiming Airdrop Rewards
Sonic’s first airdrop season rewards become claimable around June 2025, six months after the initial token launch. Participants can immediately claim 25% of their earned tokens, with the remaining 75% vesting gradually over the subsequent 270 days.
For instance, if Andrew earns 1,000 $S tokens, he immediately receives 250 tokens, while the remaining tokens vest over time. A speculative NFT marketplace will allow trading of vested airdrop allocations.
Three Ways to Earn Sonic Points
Passive Points
Users can earn passive points by holding whitelisted assets directly in their web3 wallets, such as Rabby or MetaMask, including hardware wallets—wallets that are connected to the Sonic Points page.
However, assets held on centralized exchanges are not eligible, Sonic Labs clarified.
These are called passive points because for every whitelisted asset that a participant holds, they will earn multipliers.
These whitelisted assets are (multiplier):
- scUSD, stkscUSD, wstkscUSD (6x)
- USDC.e (5x)
- s, wS, stS, OS, scETH, stkscETH, wstkscETH, scBTC, stkscBTC, wstkscBTC (4x)
- WETH, LBTC, SolvBTC, SolvBTC.BBN, x33 (2x)
Activity Points
Activity points are earned by deploying whitelisted assets as liquidity on participating apps, which provide 2x the amount of points compared to simply holding assets passively.
These whitelisted assets for activity points are WETH, scUSD, scETH, scBTC, LBTC, SolvBTC, and SolvBTC.BBN.
App Points, a.k.a. Gems
This is a “developer-focused portion,” where apps compete for an airdrop allocation known as Sonic Gems.
Technically, dApps built on top of Sonic should attract more users during the campaign by hosting their own points program. After the campaign, they will earn $S, and they will decide how they will distribute these rewards to their participants.
For participants, Sonic Labs advised that they should use their instincts to join the points program that they think will reward them the most $S.
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.
Sonic’s Own Testnet Campaign
There are also dApps within Sonic’s testnet that are currently having their own points system.
These dApps can be seen on “The Sonic Arcade,” a digital playground that features three play-to-earn games: Plinko, Mines, and Wheel.
Airdrop hunters can also try these games to earn airdrop rewards. This points system on the Sonic testnet will be until the end of the first season.
Sonic DApps With Own Points Campaign
Again, these are the dApps that are built on top of the Soinc blockchain and are trying to attract more users to earn their own $S.
After earning $S rewards, they will distribute these to the participants of their own points campaign.
Out of the 140 Sonic-based dApps, there are 44 known dApps that will let participants farm activity points and app points.
But here are the 10 dApps that are on the top list of Sonic Labs:
Vicuna Finance
- What is it? Vicuna Finance is a lending protocol offering automated strategies for leveraged concentrated liquidity.
- Category: Yield Farming
- DApp Link: https://vicunafinance.com/
Curve
- What is it? Curve is a stableswap automated market maker (AMM) that offers efficient trading of stablecoins and volatile assets.
- Category: Spot DEX
- DApp Link:https://curve.fi/dex/#/ethereum/pools
Yearn
- What is it? Yearn is a DeFi yield aggregator, allowing users to earn risk-adjusted yields on their assets.
- Category: Yield Farming
- DApp Link: https://yearn.fi/
Silo Finance
- What is it? Silo Finance is a lending protocol that offers risk-isolated markets for a wide range of assets.
- Category: Lending
- DApp Link: https://app.silo.finance/
Stryke
- What is it? Stryke is a concentrated liquidity AMM that offers options trading while maximizing capital efficiency for LPs.
- Category: Derivatives
- DApp Link:https://www.stryke.xyz/en/dashboard
Rings
- What is it? Rings is a scalable yield-bearing stablecoin inspired by Solidly, powered by Veda strategies.
- Category: Yield Farming
- DApp Link:https://rings.money/
MachFi
- What is it? MachFi is a user-centric DeFi protocol that combines lending, liquidity, and leverage into a unified, secure product suite. It enables users to borrow and lend assets, offering a seamless experience for optimizing their financial strategies.
- Category: Lending
- DApp Link: https://www.machfi.xyz/
SilverSwap
- What is it? SilverSwap is a DeFi hub and DEX for trading, investing regularly, farming, and reward sharing.
- Category: Spot DEX
- DApp Link: https://silverswap.io/
Yel Finance
- What is it? Yel Finance is a DeFi R&D laboratory that focuses on generating smart and real yield for users.
- Category: Yield Farming
- DApp Link:https://yel.finance/
Margin Zero
- What is it? MarginZero is a trade perps/options, oracle-free, without upfront margins or price-based liquidation.
- Category: Derivatives
- DApp Link: https://www.marginzero.xyz/
This article is published on BitPinas: Sonic Blockchain Airdrop and Ecosystem Guide
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