Jupuary Airdrop: A Massive Community Reward
The Jupuary airdrop, an annual event held in January, is Jupiter’s flagship initiative to distribute JUP tokens to its community. The 2025 Jupuary airdrop, valued at $616 million, distributed 700 million JUP tokens across 2 million eligible wallets from January 18 to January 24, 2025, just before the Catstanbul conference (January 25–26), where 30% of the JUP token supply was burnt to reduce the total supply from 10 billion to 7 billion, enhancing token scarcity.
Jupuary 2025 Airdrop Structure
The airdrop is divided into three main categories, with rewards stacking for users eligible in multiple categories:
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Swap Users (340 million JUP):
- Distributed across 2 million wallets based on trading volume from November 2, 2023, to November 2, 2024.
- Tiered allocation based on swap volume:
- Tier 1: 20 million JUP to 1,000 wallets (20,000 JUP/wallet, ~$14 million volume).
- Tier 2: 50 million JUP to 5,000 wallets (10,000 JUP/wallet, ~$3 million volume).
- Tier 3: 75 million JUP to 25,000 wallets (3,000 JUP/wallet, ~$500,000 volume).
- Tier 4: 100 million JUP to 400,000 wallets (250 JUP/wallet, ~$29,000 volume).
- Tier 5: 95 million JUP to 1.9 million wallets (50 JUP/wallet, ~$800 volume).
- Anti-Sybil measures filter out bot activity (e.g., swaps under $5 or spam trades) to ensure rewards go to genuine users.
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Expert Traders (85 million JUP):
- Allocated to 320,000 wallets using advanced features like limit orders, perpetual swaps, dollar-cost averaging (DCA), or the Ape Pro memecoin trading app.
- Spread across seven tiers, rewarding users who contribute to protocol revenue through fee-generating activities.
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Stakers (75 million JUP):
- 37.5 million JUP for regular stakers, with a bonus for “historical consistency” (never unstaking) and “Super Voters” (voting in 13+ of 17 DAO proposals).
- An additional 37.5 million JUP for Super Voters, incentivizing governance participation.
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Carrots (200 million JUP):
- Reserved for mobile app users, long-term holders, and community contributors.
- Encourages staking, holding, and qualitative contributions to the Jupiverse.
Anti-Sybil Protections
To prevent exploitation by airdrop farmers, Jupiter implemented robust anti-Sybil mechanisms, including:
- Analyzing on-chain activities and fee-paying behaviors.
- Requiring users to create a Jupiverse profile to verify eligibility and aggregate activities across wallets (though tier calculations remain wallet-specific).
- Excluding bot-like activity, such as low-value swaps or spam trades.
These measures ensure tokens
