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Jupiter, the Solana-based decentralized exchange aggregator, launched an airdrop checker allowing users of its products to view their eligibility ahead of the upcoming “Jupuary” airdrop.
Designed to “grow the pie” and bring more users into the Jupiter ecosystem, the Jupuary airdrop event will reward the community with 700 million JUP tokens, more than $575 million worth at current prices.
The 700 million JUP tokens are broken into three categories of recipients, led by “users,” a category defined by those gaining value from Jupiter products, most notably token swaps. This category of community members will receive 440 million of the JUP tokens set aside for the airdrop.
An additional 60 million JUP will be claimable for stakers of the Jupiter token, with the final 200 million JUP tokens set aside for “carrots”—an allocation of tokens reserved for growth initiatives, and incentives for those who decide to hold or stake their JUP tokens.
Approximately 2 million wallets will be eligible to claim JUP tokens, according to a Jupiter Research post by Kash Dhanda, a representative for the platform.
“To put it bluntly: Not everyone is going to get an airdrop this year, and many qualified wallets will get a smaller drop as compared to last year,” wrote Danda. “But the ~2 million wallets that do receive the airdrop will be more likely to be real cats, more likely to participate in DAO governance, and more likely to help us accelerate towards a decentralized future.”
The JUP token claim is expected to be live sometime next week, though a formal date was not provided.
The platform held its first airdrop in January 2024, providing 1 billion JUP tokens to nearly 1 million wallets. It will host another Jupuary event in January 2026, pursuant to the most recently passed Jupiter DAO proposal that grants another airdrop of 700 million tokens.
Edited by Andrew Hayward