Nikolas Sargeant
Supra, a fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain equipped with Multi-VM support, in-protocol oracles, VRF, bridges, and automation features, has announced that it successfully verified and qualified over 500,000 users for one of the fairest airdrops in the history of crypto.
This revelation comes ahead of its planned Token Generation Event (TGE). In a press release shared with Cryptowisser, Supra said the KYC checks and the successful qualification of over 500,000 verified human users indicate that its ‘Countdown to Blast Off’ learn-and-earn airdrop campaign succeeded in overcoming the challenge of bot plagues that have caused major controversy in dozens of high-profile airdrops in recent months.
By using a KYC filter provided by Onfido.com, Supra prevented any major issues right from the get-go. The human verification also ensured that Supra’s Blast Off campaign was quite possibly the fairest airdrop ever seen in crypto.
The verification guaranteed that no bots or Sybil accounts were able to hijack the process, and meant that all 500,000+ participants are unique, KYC-verified humans eager to be part of its already vibrant community.
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While commenting on this latest development, CEO Joshua Tobkin said it is likely provable that the figure of 512,332 verified users is a world record for any L1 launch ever. He added that,
“To recruit so many users and have them commit to the KYC process is a significant achievement for us. I’m not sure the industry has ever seen such a large number of KYC’d human users become token holders from day 1 of a new blockchain, and we’re really proud of the support the crypto community has shown us.”
In the next few months, Supra intends to distribute its native $SUPRA token to the more than 500k “Countdown to Blast Off” campaign users. The team will also issue tokens to those who participated in their Public Token Sale back in October 2023.
The CEO added that,
“We’re incredibly excited about distributing the $SUPRA token to over half a million real humans across the world in 190+ countries at our coming launch. Implementing KYC wasn’t easy, it came with its own unique challenges, but it was crucial to protect our community from bots and farmers. Even with liveness and proofs of personhood checks in place, our Project Blast Off has amassed one of the largest user bases in Web3, and soon they’ll all be onboarded to our L1 blockchain.”
Ahead of its TGE, the Supra team also launched the “Super dApp Showdown”, which offers a $100 million ecosystem fund for builders considering the best platform to launch their dApps.
The Supra blockchain enables the full vertical integration of core services, including their industry-leading price feeds, verifiable randomness generator, automation, and bridges into a single, high-performance Layer-1.
Supra’s layer-1 blockchain is powered by the Moonshot consensus mechanism, which promotes blazing-fast performance and robust security. Supra processes 530k transactions per second throughput across 125 nodes globally distributed. The network also has a 500-millisecond optimistic finality and ~1.5 – 2 secs full finality, thanks to Moonshot, making it superior to other competing consensus mechanisms.
Supra is an all-new blockchain that vertically integrates oracles, bridges, automation, and randomness into a powerful Layer-1 with MultiVM compatibility. It's designed to give developers all the tools they need to build on one chain, enabling a new breed of Super dApps.
