Communities define crypto, LAVA is yours

Blockchains have always been about global-scale financial and social coordination. Our vision at Lava is to accelerate crypto adoption and enable the creation of internet-native, decentralized, onchain communities.

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RPC is needed by every blockchain, project, community and user. We see Lava as the convergence point for all these communities - the Vesuvius airdrop reflects this. A significant  55**,000,000 LAVA** (representing 6% of the total token supply) is allocated to this initial airdrop.

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You can claim your airdrop by visiting: https://claims.lavanet.xyz. Please note: https://claims.lavanet.xyz is the only way to access the Vesuvius Airdrop. Neither the claiming site nor any member of the Lava Foundation will ever ask you to enter your private key or transfer tokens of any kind from your wallet.

Our main focus for this initial airdrop is to:

• Invite the community to participate at Mainnet, which aims to increase the decentralization and accessibility of the network
• Reward early community members and users of Lava, who have over the last 2 years tested and built the protocol
• Invite the strongest communities in crypto to join the Lava mission
• Recognise the unsung heroes of blockchains, the node runners who enable this decentralized system

LAVA Supply and Vesuvius Criteria

Total LAVA supply is 1 billion, with 56% allocated to community and ecosystem growth initiatives.

The Vesuvius airdrop will distribute 6% of supply to approximately 70,000 people, a smaller and more focused distribution compared to other airdrops:

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Lava early users

Lava testnet has now been running for 1.5 years and over that time we have been supported by many early adopters and contributors. This portion of the distribution is designed to retroactively reward testnet users across the following criteria, ranging from running an RPC node on testnet, adding new chains to Lava, supporting in our Discord to using Lava-powered RPC through Magma.

Bot and Sybil exclusion

Over 2 months, we made significant efforts to reduce bots on testnet and Magma, and to eliminate sybil from the airdrop after the first snapshot of Magma on 11 June.

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RPC providers were scored across:

• RPC requests served: >5k, >300k, >10m, >122m (1 point per tier met)
• Chains served: <2 chains, <4 chains, <8 chains, 8+ chains (0.5 points for each tier met)

Magma users were assessed with the following criteria:

• Must have made least 1 relay over the duration of Magma
• Must have connected their Twitter or Gmails by snapshot date

After this filtering, tiers for Magma distribution were decided by creating a blended score for each user across:

• Wallet activity: we worked with Flipside and used their onchain scores to check activity across crypto
• Magma activity: days of at least 1 relay made, unique RPC methods used, chains tested, referrees with at least 1 relay
• Social activity e.g. number of tweets, mentions and minimum threshold of activity such as >0 followers

Exclusion criteria:

• Header analysis e.g user agents that only did spam CURL requests and were created at same time as many other users
• Low social activity e.g. 1000 followers and 0 tweets, 0 followers
• Users with similar creation times and similar usage patterns e.g. all used Magma for 25 days exactly and accounts were made at exact same time
• Same emails but using “+” in order to recreate accounts e.g. 1 user had 150 accounts with same email but '+' in different places in the email
• Accounts that DDoS'd to spam Magma - if you bypass a rate limit of certain amount of usage  by distributing usage across different locations

Onchain power users and communities

The Vesuvius Drop rewards onchain power users and communities. This includes active members across:

• Movement Network
• Monad
• Celestine Sloths Society holding at >1 NFT from 1 May and 25 June with at least $1 in wallet
• Bad Kids with >2 NFTs
• The ATOM community pool
• Crypto educators and content creators

Our aim is to reward advocates for blockchain technology, as well as the most active users of this technology. Together, they push this industry ever closer to mainstream adoption.

Researchers and technical contributors

The Vesuvius Drop rewards the innovators driving crypto forwards. This includes codebase contributors for:

• Eigenlayer, for bringing nodes to the mainstream
• CosmosSDK, for making Lava possible
• Flashbots, for countless contributions to MEV and RPC
• Celestia, for unlocking the limitless potential of modular blockchains