SEI announces it first airdrop details

Sei Network has announced and executed its first major airdrop as part of the launch of its open‑source, permissionless Layer 1 blockchain focused on digital asset exchange. The airdrop, now closed, was positioned as a first-of-its-kind “cross-chain” distribution intended to reward active users across multiple leading ecosystems rather than only native testnet users or a single chain community. According to the Sei Foundation, the goal was to recognize “pioneering users of blockchain technology” and bootstrap a diverse user base for the new chain at mainnet launch. For eligibility, the Sei Foundation worked with ecosystem partners to identify active users on Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Optimism, and Osmosis, reflecting chains that accounted for a large share of on‑chain activity during the campaign period. Whitelisted users were required to bridge qualifying assets—including specific Wormhole-wrapped tokens like USDC, ETH, WBTC and USDT, IBC tokens such as ATOM and OSMO, and Axelar’s axlUSDC—from those source chains into Sei using supported cross‑chain bridges. Each external whitelisted address could claim at most one allocation linked to a Sei wallet, with the Foundation providing only a themed frontend while the underlying bridging protocols (Wormhole and Axelar) operated independently. This structure made the distribution notable as an early example of a broad, multi-chain airdrop designed to onboard users from across Web3 into a newly launched Layer 1 network.

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