Drift, the chain commerce platform based in Solana, plans to offer its Season 2 airspace in May 2025.
The Drift team revealed the upcoming FUEL airfield via a post on Xwith this coming on the back of several notable achievements for the platform in 2024. Drift launched the native token DRIFT (DRIFT) in May while FUEL is a reward program announced the Drift protocol 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 the main goals of the year is to grow Drift into a Super Protocol, with a focus on loans and borrowings, derivatives, prediction marketsautomated market making and wealth management.
Drift has seen great traction among real-world asset integrations, with support for Ondo being a notable development.
The platform also added the USDe, PayPal USD, and Sky's USDS stable and introduced a liquid stake. Drift Earn has also benefited from vaults, with structured products designed for trading and product strategies bringing millions of dollars in total value locked into the protocol.
Crypto airdrops were a hot trend again in 2024, with some of the biggest token releases seeing early adopters earn huge handouts.
Over the past year, three of the main airspaces have come from Hyperliquid, Starknet and Pudgy Penguins. The Open Network based game and tap-to-earn Notcoin and Solana DEX Jupiter protocol dominated the market by their own horns.
In most cases, users earn rewards by transferring assets to layer-2 networks, engaging with protocol features and participating in protocol management.
For 2025, some of the major airfields in the Solana (SOL) crypto ecosystem enthusiasts may include Jupiter round 2, Solayer, Sanctum season 2, Sonic SVM and DeBridge S2. There are also expectations about airdrops for BerachainKarak Network, Linea, Babylon and Hyperliquid S2 among many others.
