Drift, the Solana-based on-chain trading platform, plans to offer its Season 2 airdrop in May 2025.
The Drift team revealed the upcoming FUEL airdrop via a post on X, with this coming on the back of several landmark achievements for the platform in 2024. Drift launched its native token DRIFT (DRIFT) in May while FUEL is a rewards program the Drift protocol announced in July 2024.
The program marks the season 2 airdrop for DRIFT and will benefit all users across the decentralized exchange platform. Drift says FUEL will help align incentives as well as drive growth for the protocol.
Among top objectives for the year is to grow Drift into a Super Protocol, with focus across borrowing and lending, derivatives, prediction markets, automated market making and wealth management.
Drift saw significant traction amid real-world assets integrations, with support for Ondo a notable development.
The platform also added the USDe, PayPal USD, and Sky’s USDS stablecoins and introduced liquid staking. Drift Earn has also benefited from vaults, with structured products designed for trading and yield strategies bringing millions of dollars in total value locked to the protocol.
Crypto airdrops were a hot trend once again in 2024, with some of the biggest token distributions seeing early users earn massive handouts.
Over the past year, three of the top airdrops came from Hyperliquid, Starknet and Pudgy Penguins. The Open Network-based and tap-to-earn game Notcoin and Solana DEX protocol Jupiter also dominated the market with their respective airdrops.
In most cases, users earn rewards by bridging assets to layer-2 networks, engaging with protocol features and participating in protocol governance.
For 2025, some of the top airdrops in the Solana (SOL) ecosystem crypto enthusiasts may be eyeig include Jupiter round 2, Solayer, Sanctum season 2, Sonic SVM and DeBridge S2. There’s also expectations around airdrops for Berachain, Karak Network, Linea, Babylon and Hyperliquid S2 among many others.
