Sonic Labs, the team behind the high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 Sonic blockchain reimagined from the Fantom network, has launched a points-based rewards program designed to bootstrap liquidity and broader DeFi activity on its new chain. The program underpins an airdrop of roughly ~190–200 million S tokens (around 6% of total supply), distributed to users based on their on-chain behavior and participation in the Sonic ecosystem. Sonic positions this framework as a key mechanism to attract users and capital, and to establish itself as a DeFi-focused hub with high throughput and low fees. The points system is structured in multiple layers to incentivize different types of participation. Sonic Points are user-focused airdrop points earned by holding or using whitelisted assets on Sonic, with rewards split into passive points for simply holding assets in self-custodial Web3 wallets and activity points for deploying those assets as liquidity or interacting with supported DeFi apps; activity points earn roughly 2x the rate of passive points. In parallel, a developer-oriented track called Sonic Gems allocates a portion of the airdrop to DeFi applications themselves, which then decide how to redistribute S tokens to their users, effectively creating competitive incentives among apps to drive engagement. Points are distributed over multiple seasons and represented as NFT positions, a design intended to avoid abrupt supply shocks while sustaining long-term ecosystem growth. This launch ties Sonic’s token incentives directly to on-chain usage, reflecting the broader trend of points-based airdrops as a growth and retention tool in DeFi.

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