Solana Seeker Airdrop Guide: How to Maximize Your $SKR Allocation

An unofficial Solana Seeker $SKR airdrop guide.

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The Solana Seeker is brilliant as a standalone crypto mobile device. Never before has the crypto mobile experience been so seamless, and so secure. However, the handset itself is only one piece of a far more ambitious puzzle. Disrupting the omnipotent mobile duopoly and giving power back to users is no easy task, demanding a drastic reimagining of economic incentives.

$SKR will be the second token launched by Solana Labs, and anyone with a Seeker in their pocket is doing themselves a terrible disservice if they’re not firing off some transactions every single day.

Using the Seeker organically for all your onchain needs is probably the best way to boost your $SKR allocation on TGE-day. Instead of spamming meaningless transactions, boundless curiosity and a desire to try new things will ultimately help you get the most out of your Seeker experience.

We’ve been tinkering with the Solana Seeker for a few weeks now, and while it’s still not an exact science, maxxing out your activity tracker is not as hard as CT might have you believe.

In this unofficial guide, we’ll go over everything we’re doing to get the most out of the Seeker experience, and how you can hopefully boost your $SKR.

The Crypto Mobile Economy

Before getting into the how, let’s start with the why?

It is abundantly clear that mobile devices are the world’s primary method of accessing the internet. Over 61% of all internet traffic is generated via mobile devices, a trend which is expected to continue in the years to come.

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Solana is, in our humble opinion, the future of blockchain. If you’re reading this Seeker airdrop guide, chances are you’re already sufficiently Solana-pilled, so we won’t waste your time explaining why it's the best-suited public blockchain for mass adoption.

Solana Seeker, with its TEEPIN architecture, Seed Vault Wallet, and feeless dApp Store, is the world’s first crypto-native mobile experience, powered by the most performant and accessible blockchain available today.

If you’re bullish on the future of mobile internet, and you’re bullish on Solana, Seeker is the ultimate culmination of the two. Solana Mobile’s governance token, $SKR, powers the Seeker’s circular economy, rewarding contributors and enabling holders to govern the ecosystem.

Turn on Seeker Activity Tracking

Last thing before getting into the nuts and bolts: Make sure you’ve got your Solana Mobile Usage and Diagnostics settings switched on. These are available from within the Seed Vault Wallet.

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If you want to use a VPN to protect your privacy, rest assured that it will not affect your activity. Some apps might have certain geo-blocking restrictions that might make them unavailable in certain countries, but as long as you’ve flipped your Usage & Diagnostics tracking to ‘On’, you’re covered.

Onchain

The “Onchain” section activity tracker is probably the most important section to fill out every single day. Executing transfers, swaps, deposits, mints, and staking transactions on the Solana blockchain using the Seeker is the best way of boosting your activity and building consistent mobile habits.

Fortunately, the Solana Seeker has provided us with plenty of ways to do this. The Solana dApp store includes many of Solana’s favorite DeFi apps, so you can leverage the onchain economy in all the ways you normally would. Trade perps on the Drift, lend $SOL with the Save app, swap memecoins with Vector, or earn yield on stables with Perena.

As far as growing your daily onchain footprint, swap size seems to be more important than swap frequency. I’ve noticed I have larger bubbles on my calendar on days when I make larger swaps. Again, larger, organic transactions are better than high-frequency, spammy behavior.

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For minting NFTs, you have a few options. Classic sites like LaunchmyNFT, or the Magic Eden app, let you mint NFT collections like it's 2021, while Mallow gives you a pretty easy way to turn images from your camera roll into NFTs for as little as 0.015 $SOL.

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Solana’s favorite Store of Value, Ore, has just had its app listed in the dApp Store. Mining Ore is undoubtedly one of the easiest ways to rack up transactions organically, and is a lot more fun than washing meaningless swaps or transferring between your own wallets.

Finally, and most importantly, make sure you're using Seeker’s native wallet when connecting to dApps, and stake $SOL to the Seeker Validator. I know it’s tempting to use old favorites like Phantom and Solflare, but the Seed Vault Wallet (Designed by Solflare, btw) lets you live the Seeker experience as it was intended.

While I don’t think you’d be punished for using other wallets, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some kind of activity multiplier behind the scenes for Seed Vault Wallet users.

Top tips:

Minimum 5-10 organic transactions per day - don’t wash trade for the sake of wash trading. Mining $ORE is the alpha.
Stake natively to the Seeker Validator
Diversify your transactions - make sure you're swapping, sending, depositing, and minting.

Daily Use

Filling up the Daily Use bar is pretty simple. If you’re hitting your minimum 5-10 organic transactions every day, your Daily Use section will take care of itself.

Tapping the info icon in this section tells us that tracking Daily Use refers to “how Seeker fits into your rhythm”. I might be taking this too literally, but I’m also trying to use Seeker for ‘real life’ stuff as much as possible, just in case. This might be overkill, but for me, that means using maps, calls, mobile data, and taking pictures with the camera.

If you don’t want to transfer over your existing SIM card, buy yourself an eSIM through the encryptSIM app in the dApp Store.

dApps

While maxxing out your Onchain Activity and Daily Use are simple and straightforward, maintaining good scores in the “dApps” section is like Seeker’s final boss. Getting a green tick in each category every week is no small feat, and there’s not really any way to game the system other than being genuinely curious.

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New Things

As the name suggests, the best way to tick off doing “New Things” is by, well, doing new things. New apps are hitting the Solana dApp Store pretty much every day, so make sure to check back every day to see if some new game or app has been listed. Otherwise, keep notifications on for the Solana Mobile 𝕏 account so you don’t miss any new apps.

One of the things that has consistently helped us hit green ticks in this category is to spend time using every Featured app. Whenever you see something new in the ‘Featured App’ carousel, download it and spend as much time as you can familiarizing yourself with how it works.

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After downloading Photo Finish, tapping through the app and registering my horse in its first race (it didn’t win, obviously), I came back to the activity tracker and was happy to see that elusive green tick. Photo Finish is also running a matched deposit promo for Seeker users, so make sure you deposit $50 to get up to 4000 DERBY and a free horse.

In the Store

As you’d expect, this section measures how you interact with the Solana dApp Store. If you think you can easily game this section by opening the dApp Store and arbitrarily tapping around every day, guess again.

From what I can gather, the best way to consistently fill out this section is to steadily download and explore apps from a variety of different categories every day. While it’s tempting to install every interesting app the first time you open the store, it might pay to be patient.

Every day, download and explore 3 apps from different categories - and don’t cut corners on the exploring aspect. If you download a trading app, you need to place some trades. If you download, spend some time actually playing and gaining levels. If there’s an onchain element, even better, that’ll help boost your activity in other areas.

Also, don't be afraid to give back. Contribute to the dApp Store by writing quality reviews about the dApps you test and report bugs where necessary.

dApp Usage

Again, self-explanatory. Max out your ‘dApp Usage’ tracking by using dApps. Over time, you’ll come to create your own list of apps you find helpful, meaningful, and genuinely enjoy.

It’s still uncertain exactly how long you need to spend using dApps to fill the meter, so just try to spend as much time as you can with your favorites.

The Daily Routine

The easiest way to get the most out of your Seeker and max out that activity tracker is to form daily, organic habits. Again, don’t waste your time spamming swaps between $USDC and $USDT or sending yourself 0.0001 $SOL. There’s more than enough genuine actions you can take every day to fill out your tracker without resorting to brainless, wasteful behavior.

Here’s what I’m doing every day:

Native stake to the Seeker validator - it’s passive, and it counts as ongoing onchain activity.
Scalp/swing trade $SOL-USD within the Seed Vault Wallet - NFA, but teach yourself how to buy high and sell low by trading $SOL every day.
Use your favorite apps with onchain actions - Mine $ORE, join Moonwalk games, and contribute to DePIN projects.
Check the Solana dApp store for new featured apps, and commit quality time to learning how they work.
Download and use 2-3 new apps every day.
Check SolanaFloor’s Seeker Hub and take advantage of any new exclusive perks.
Use Seeker for ‘normal’ things - take pictures, use maps, and get in mid-curve arguments on 𝕏.

If it sounds like it’s a lot of work, that’s because it is. The $SKR airdrop could end up being one of the biggest in Solana history, so it makes sense that Solana Mobile isn’t going to give you a handout just for sending $1 to yourself every morning over coffee.

Think not what Seeker can do for you, but what you can do for Seeker. Everyone wants the juicy airdrop, but there’s little doubt in my mind that the people who end up with the best allocations are those who contribute to the Seeker experience. If you’re a developer, join a Seeker Hackathon and become a part of one of crypto’s most ambitious experiments of all time.

Instead of trying to game the system and extract as much as you can with minimal effort, let your curiosity run wild and explore everything the Seeker has to offer. Seek, and you will find.