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GRAND AIRDROP SHRINE

2024 · AIRDROP · SOURCED

GRAND AIRDROP SHRINE landmark artwork

One of the largest community airdrops in Solana history landed JUP in nearly a million wallets.

What happened

On January 31, 2024, Jupiter opened claims for the first round of its JUP token airdrop, distributing roughly $700M worth of tokens to nearly a million wallets that had routed swaps through its service. The chain's consensus layer stayed online through the surge, though RPC nodes struggled for the first 30–45 minutes. It was round one of four planned community distributions, with half of JUP's supply earmarked for the community.

Why Solana remembers it

The airdrop became a stress test that Solana's base layer passed, signaling the network had matured past its 2021–2022 outage era, and set a template for large, community-weighted token launches.

On the map

A vast shrine where a sudden rain falls evenly across a million open hands.

Evidence · sources last verified 2026-07