Photon ($PTON) is a decentralized, cost-effective, and developer-friendly Layer 2 (L2) solution for Bitcoin. It leverages BVM and Celestia to enhance scalability and support Bitcoin’s evolving on-chain ecosystem. The Photon team have confirmed they will do a Photon ($PTON) token airdrop. Here is our Photon ($PTON) token airdrop guide.
Check out our step by step guide:
What is Photon ($PTON)?
Photon is a decentralized Bitcoin Layer 2 (L2) solution designed to scale the Bitcoin ecosystem with low costs and a builder-friendly environment. Here are the main features of Photon:
- Modular Architecture: Photon uses a modular stack integrating performance, cost-efficiency, security, and interoperability, leveraging Bitcoin’s foundational strengths.
- Bitcoin Virtual Machine (BVM): It runs on BVM for optimistic execution, offering EVM compatibility and high throughput, with plans for parallel transaction execution in Q3 2024.
- Data Availability & Validation: Utilizes Bitcoin and Celestia for data availability and embeds data on Bitcoin for validation, inheriting Bitcoin’s security and decentralization.
- Mission: Aims to create an inclusive Bitcoin cryptoeconomy, enabling developers to build scalable decentralized applications efficiently.
Photon is incubated by SatoshiSync.
How to get the Photon ($PTON) token airdrop?
Here’s how to get the Photon ($PTON) token airdrop?
- Connect to Photon Supernova Incentivised Testnet
Connect your wallet and Twitter to the Photon Supernova Incentivised Testnet.
- Add Photon testnet to wallet
Add the Photon testnet chain to your MetaMask wallet. To add Photon testnet, click the logo on the top left hand side and “+ Add network”. On the pop up window, click “Add a network manually”. Then, input the Network name, RPC URL, Chain ID, Currency Symbol and Block explorer URL as provided on the Photon Supernova Incentivised Tesnet page.
- Claim testnet tokens
On the Photon Supernova Incentivised Tesnet page, click “Claim 10 PTON” to get your testnet tokens. Note you can do this once every 24 hours.
- Stake PTON
Click “Stake 5 PTON” to automatically stake 5 PTON. Note there is a 7 day lockup period. You can return to this page afterwards to claim your PTON rewards.
- Invite friends
Invite friends to Photon, you will get 100 points for referrals and 50 points for sub-referrals.
- Complete Galxe tasks
Connect your wallet to the Photon Galxe page. Complete the social tasks such as following Photon on Twitter and getting the Photonian role on their Discord. You will get the Discord role simply by joining their Discord and verifying. Finally, claim the roles and the points at the bottom of the page.
