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Solana “Chapter 2” smartphone pre-order clients are already realizing advantages forward of the telephone’s anticipated launch in 2025, because of a cat-powered bonus of token airdrops.
The groups behind the Solana meme cash Maneki (MANEKI) and Cat in a Canines World (MEW) airdropped tokens to the wallets of people that pre-ordered the Chapter 2—tokens that would doubtlessly offset your entire $450 price of the telephone, supplied their market worth holds.
On April 1, 37,600 MEW have been airdropped to eligible Solana wallets. On Wednesday, 5,199 MANEKI have been despatched to the identical wallets—and MANEKI’s worth has solely climbed over the previous day.
MANEKI hit its all-time excessive on Thursday, rising 71.6% to $0.02 on the information of the airdrop. MEW hit an all-time excessive of $0.009 on March 31. At the moment, the cat-themed token is down 10.4%.
On Thursday morning, the overall worth of the 2 meme cash gifted to every purchaser was $459—greater than the unique worth introduced with the machine in January. The MEW and MANEKI tokens supplied to pre-order wallets are valued at $359 as of this writing, based on worth information from CoinGecko.
Picture: @SolanaFloor on Twitter
Solana Chapter 2 patrons have additionally acquired 114,858,914.9661 in Wuffi (WUF) tokens price round $24.76; 800,000 iq50 (IQ50) tokens price round $16.29; and 20 million Catwifhat (CWIF) tokens price round $4.96. That provides about $46 to the general haul, bringing the complete whole to only over $405.
In January, Solana Labs introduced the Saga Chapter 2 telephone after the unique Solana Saga bought out, because of the rising worth of included perks, together with airdrops and free NFTs.
Whereas the newest airdrops for Chapter 2 are cat-themed, it was truly a dog-themed token that spurred the unique Saga sellout. BONK, a dog-themed meme coin, supplied 30 million tokens to every Saga purchaser—and by the point December got here round, the coin had gained a lot worth that the airdrop was valued at greater than the value of the telephone itself.
The gross sales frenzy prompted different Solana tasks to supply up free tokens and NFTs to Saga house owners, fueling much more curiosity in Solana Labs’ smartphone efforts and arguably fueling demand for the Chapter 2.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
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