Solana Mobile to airdrop 2B SKR to Seeker users on Jan. 21

Solana Mobile plans to distribute 2 billion SKR tokens, 20% of the total supply, to Seeker smartphone users and developers in its ecosystem. Claims are set to open January 20th at 9pm EST (January 21 at 2am UTC), based on a company screenshot shared on X. 

Announced Wednesday, the allocation focuses on holders of the second-generation Seeker device and participating developers. The company plans to share instructions on claim steps and allocations.

Under the token plan, 30% of the 10 billion SKR supply is reserved for airdrop incentives over time. The initial 2 billion SKR will be distributed unlocked to Seeker users and developers. A snapshot of Seeker device activity was taken ahead of the token launch to guide allocations.

Seeker Season 1, which began when devices started shipping globally in August, logged more than 9 million transactions and $2.6 billion in transactional volume, the company reported. Season 2 began Wednesday, with more details planned for Thursday.

Beyond the airdrop, 2.7 billion SKR (27% of supply) will unlock at the token generation event on Jan. 20 – 1 billion for liquidity, 1 billion for a community treasury, and 700 million for growth and partnerships. Another 1.8 billion SKR will unlock on a linear schedule to support future growth initiatives, according to the published tokenomics.

“SKR will give all of the people who have gotten us to this point the opportunity to influence the success of this platform: who can participate, what rules they follow, and what economic flows keep it going,” Solana Mobile General Manager Emmett Hollyer wrote on X. “This airdrop is the first step.”

“Our plans haven’t changed: we are building the easiest, most secure way to participate in internet capital markets from the supercomputer in your pocket,” Hollyer added. “SKR is a critical step on the path to an open ecosystem that will bring on more devices, more developers, and more users.”

As we covered previously, Ledger reported a hardware weakness in MediaTek’s Dimensity 7300 (MT6878) used in the Solana Seeker and other smartphones. The flaw can be triggered by electromagnetic pulses during boot, letting an attacker take full control and extract private keys. Ledger’s engineers said the issue is embedded in silicon and cannot be patched.