Jupuary 2025 Checker Is Live!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year Jupuary is just around the corner! 🎉

Jupuary, our annual airdrop event, is designed to Grow the Pie by welcoming qualified users, empowering them to contribute through governance, and fueling the expansion of the best DAO in crypto.

This year’s Jupuary is particularly special, as it follows a historic governance process and incorporates exciting updates. Let’s dive into everything you need to know about Jupuary 2025!

How We Got Here: A Historic Governance Process

Jupuary is meant to be a unifying event, so we raised the bar this year, requiring a 70% supermajority to move forward. Although the first vote fell short, our Verified Feedback system enabled us to refine the proposal based on real voter insights. In the second round of voting, an incredible 87% of the community approved the plan—a true testament to meaningful governance.

With a unified community, thousands of pieces of feedback, and hundreds of hours of discussion, we’re now ready to share the structure of Jupuary 2025.

New Year, New Approach

Last year’s Jupuary laid the foundation for the JUP DAO, with 1 billion tokens airdropped to 955,000 wallets. However, the Jupiter ecosystem has since grown exponentially:

We’ve expanded from a single product (Swap) to a full portfolio of industry-leading tools.
Our user base has grown more than 10x, and total volume has increased more than 50x.

To adapt, this year’s Jupuary introduces qualifying thresholds, stronger anti-sybil measures, and Swap Scores to ensure meaningful rewards for active participants.

The Big Changes:

Not everyone will receive an airdrop this year.
Airdrop sizes will be smaller for many qualified wallets.
The ~2 million wallets receiving the airdrop will include real cats users likely to contribute to the DAO and accelerate its growth.

This will be the largest qualified user airdrop in history.

Jupuary 2025: High-Level Structure

This year’s airdrop is divided into three main categories:

1. Users

Our core community of users fuels the Jupiverse. They’ve experienced the value of Jupiter products and are the foundation of Jupuary. Users will receive the majority of the airdrop: 440m JUP out of 700m.

2. Stakers

Long-term supporters who form the heart of the Jupiverse. Stakers will receive 60m JUP, recognizing their contributions to governance and alignment with the DAO’s mission.

3. Carrots

Based on community feedback, we’re reserving 200m JUP to incentivize staking, attract new users, and fuel future growth campaigns. These tokens will be allocated throughout the year.

Let’s break it down further.

1. Users: Swap Users & Expert Traders

The Users category is split into two sub-groups:

Swap Users who interact with Jupiter Swaps via Jup.ag or API integrations.
Expert Traders who use advanced Jupiter tools like Perps, Limit Orders, DCA, VA, and Ape.

Swap Users

This year, we’ve introduced tiers to account for power laws in trading volume. Here’s why:

The top 10% of Swap Users generate 99% of total swap volume.
The top 1% generate 97% of the total volume.

A linear distribution would heavily favor a small group, so tiers ensure we reward a broader base.

Anti-Sybil Measures

We’ve also implemented robust anti-sybil protections, removing 750,000+ wallets that:

Traded for less than 3 weeks.
Had a 50%+ transaction failure rate (bots!).
Exclusively conducted rapid, circular trades.

If you’re a real user mistakenly flagged, you’ll have 3 months to appeal and claim your allocation.

Swap Score

To further refine rewards, we’ve introduced a Swap Score. Key considerations:

Only transactions above $5 are counted.
Sol-to-sol and stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps are heavily discounted.
All other trades are fully counted.

The result? A fair, data-driven system that rewards real cats.

Bonus: Consistent Swappers who traded in at least 8 months of the year will receive an additional 25–500 JUP, based on their tier.

Expert Traders

This smaller but vital group of 270,000 wallets drives advanced product usage and high-value transactions. Expert Traders will receive 70m JUP, with tiers determined by volume and trade size.

Pro Tip: If you’re both a Swap User and an Expert Trader, you’ll receive rewards from both categories. Lucky you!

2. Stakers: Long-Term Supporters

Stakers are the backbone of the Jupiverse, and their loyalty deserves recognition. This year, we used a time-weighted stake method, averaging stake levels from two snapshots per month.

Staking Bonuses

Two special groups of stakers will receive bonus allocations:

Super Voters (top 10% most active voters)
Super Stakers (never attempted to unstake as of Jan 11th)

Combined bonuses mean these groups could receive up to .313 JUP per 1 time-weighted staked JUP.

3. Carrots: Fueling Growth

The Carrots pool will deploy 200m JUP throughout the year to:

Encourage staking and product usage.
Reward Good Cats who contributed to the DAO.
Support appeals and future growth programs.

Carrots won’t appear in the Checker just yet—stay tuned for updates.

Claiming Your Airdrop: Jupiverse Profiles

For the first time, we’re introducing Jupiverse Profiles, a unified identity system for Jupiter. With a profile, you can:

Link your wallets and email.
View and manage all your airdrop allocations in one place.

Your profile is more than just convenience; it’s a step toward deeper community engagement, connecting the Jupiverse like never before.

What’s Next?

Starting today, you can create your profile and check your allocations at jupuary.jup.ag. The airdrop launches next week, just in time for Catstanbul.

This Jupuary promises to be the biggest yet, solidifying $JUP as a cornerstone of crypto and the Jupiverse as a cultural force.

Don’t miss out—check your allocation today!

Create Your Jupiverse Profile Now

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