Drift Protocol Alpha Mainnet Launch
Today, Drift Protocol stoked to announce that Drift’s closed alpha mainnet is now live.
After several months of grind, hard work, debugging, building security guardrails around their protocol and perfecting their UI — they’ve finally launched their alpha mainnet.
They successfully launched their mainnet at the Solana’s Chicago Hacker House, working with the guidance of Bartosz, Jordan and alongside the rest of the residents (HXRO and Mango teams)!
The feedback they received was critical in swiftly pushing from their first version to the version you see today. To their most active community members, thank you for all the time you spent testing and sharing your notes: your contributions definitely do not go unnoticed! 👾
Drift Alpha Ticket
If any of you have seen one of these flying around on Twitter and wondered what it is — fear not, this post has got you covered.
The Drift Alpha Ticket is a collection of 1,500 NFTs exclusively released by Drift through rewarding early Discord users and its partnership with DeFi and NFT projects on the Solana network.
First and foremost, the tickets are required for access to Drift’s alpha mainnet. The team wanted a smooth technical roll-out of the alpha mainnet by staggering the growth of deposits to scaling volume and open interest (OI) comfortably. They also wanted to reward their early community members with a chance to trade on their protocol before the world does.
Beyond this though, the Drift Alpha Ticket is a way for the team to identify and reward its early adopters and believers.
They’re on a one-way path to being Solana’s top decentralised futures exchange and the Drift Alpha Ticket will let them know who their day ones are.
How do I ape a Drift Alpha Ticket?
There are 1,500 Drift Alpha Tickets in circulation. These will be distributed starting 26 October 2021 until the open mainnet launch. The tickets will be distributed across four main channels:
- Airdrops to OG Discord and Twitter followers;
- Devnet beta testers;
- Partner giveaways; and
- Twitter campaigns.
Please note that there will be no public sale for the purchase of Drift Alpha Tickets.
Discord “Airdrop”
This distribution is focussed on rewarding the community members who have been early to Drift and also those that have been the most active in their Discord.
They will be running raffles for users who have the roles: “Pit Crew”, “Game Winners”, and “Alpha Drifters”. A form will be going out soon on how to receive these.
They will also be continuing to give tickets to those who:
- converse regularly on the Discord;
- attend AMAs; and
- give constructive feedback via Canny on the devnet product.
Devnet Beta Testers
This distribution is focussed on rewarding the participants that interacted with their devnet, tested the platform and returned to review their opened positions. It’s important to the team that they reward those that played an active part in this critical process and this is how they’re going to do that.
Devnet is now closed so if you missed out, be sure to not miss out on the other distribution methods 😉
Partnerships
This distribution is focused on rewarding the Solana communities that have been critical to Drift’s success to date. Beyond all the technical advantages Solana offers over the other layer one blockchains — Drift chose to build on Solana because of their desire to be a part of and grow this tight knit community.
As part of this, they will be teaming up with the biggest NFT and DeFi teams to run separate campaigns with a set number of tickets allocated to each project. There will be many ways to get a ticket and many communities to receive them from, so stay active and lookout for future announcements!
Their first partnerships will be announced on 26 October 2021.
Twitter Campaigns
You may have seen a few of these floating around already as we have started launching some of their Twitter campaigns.
To win a honorary @godsofsolananft and a @DriftProtocol alpha ticket🎟️
👾 Follow @godsofsolananft & @DriftProtocol
👾 Like and Retweet
👾 Comment your favourite God and their favourite trading pairWinner will be announced in 48 hours! gl pic.twitter.com/VnpyofMeC8
— Drift Protocol v2 (@DriftProtocol) October 20, 2021
They’re always keen to support and work with other projects, so if you’d like to be part of the Drift campaign, please reach out to them!
Why else would I want a Drift Alpha Ticket?
Holding a Drift Alpha Ticket makes you a special, early member of their community and they want to reward members of their community who have been there from the beginning of their ride.
You didn’t hear this from them, but holding a Drift Alpha Ticket might make you eligible for:
- Future community rewards,
- Access to trading competitions,
- Ability to burn the tickets into Drift Play Pass NFTs or merchandise, 👀
- Special Discord roles; and/or
- A ton of clout.
When will I get these?
They’ll announce selected winners on Twitter and Discord every two days at roughly 00:00 UTC starting October 26. The current deposit limit is $1k per address, but they’ll be raising this soon. Watch out on their Twitter for updates!
Their airdrops to Discord will be underway and will occur every two days.
They’ll be airdropping tickets in batches, so watch out for surprises in your wallet! 👾
📰 INFO
https://driftprotocol.medium.com/drift-protocol-alpha-mainnet-launch-a6bd1c69e1a2
