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Plan the airdrop
- Decide the rule. Who qualifies, and how much each wallet gets: equal, proportional or custom. Fixed lists are simplest to send.
- Build the recipient list. For holders of an existing token, take a snapshot of every holder at one moment. Jumpbit's Token Snapshot lists every holder of a token at a single time.
- Clean it. Remove duplicates, program-owned and exchange addresses.
Pick how to send
- Standard transfers. Each recipient receives tokens directly. A new token account costs about 0.002 SOL of rent per recipient unless the tool pays it.
- ZK-compressed transfers. Compressed accounts do not need a rent-exempt balance, so sending is much cheaper. Light Protocol lists about 2,000,000 lamports for a regular token account against about 5,000 for a compressed one. Recipients must decompress to hold a regular token, and compression adds extra compute and tooling limits. See ZK-compressed airdrops.
Send it
Use a multisender, see how to send tokens to multiple wallets and the tool comparison. Jumpbit's Multisender sends SOL, SPL and Token-2022 tokens and offers a compressed mode.
Check before you press send
- Does the token have a freeze or mint authority? Recipients will check, see the rug checkers page.
- Is liquidity in place so recipients can sell? See lockers and launchpads.
- Do you have a plan for taxes? An airdrop can be taxable for recipients, see the tax tools page.