USDSolana Mobile Launches SKR Token Airdrop, Triggers 38% Price Jump as 2 Billion Tokens Go Live for Seeker Users
SKR Goes Live With 90-Day Claim Window, $26.6M Distribution and Immediate Staking as Seeker Season 2 Opens
TL;DR
- Solana Mobile launched nearly 2 billion SKR tokens on Jan. 21, 2026, opening a 90-day airdrop claim for 100,000 Seeker users and 188 developers.
- SKR rose about 38% after launch, trading near $0.013, valuing the initial distribution at roughly $26.6 million.
- The token features a 10% starting inflation rate with issuance events every 48 hours and a long-term decline toward 2%.
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Solana Mobile launched its native SKR token on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, distributing almost 2 billion tokens through an airdrop tied to its Android-based Seeker smartphone, with claims available for a 90-day period. The launch made SKR immediately tradable and stakeable, with rewards beginning at inception. The airdrop targets at least 100,000 Seeker users and 188 developers, with the distributed supply valued at about $26.6 million at the time of publication, based on the prevailing crypto price.
SKR, the utility and governance token of the Solana Mobile ecosystem, went live at around 02:00 UTC and climbed roughly 38% shortly after launch, trading near $0.013 during early market activity. The move placed SKR among the more actively tracked new assets across crypto price index dashboards, as traders assessed its circulating supply against the broader coin market cap landscape and short-term crypto price movements.
Solana Mobile framed the launch as a shift toward user ownership in its official announcement, stating, “Seeker and SKR are a bet that there’s another way for mobile: that the people who use the network should own the network. Today, over 100,000 of you can claim your stake in that future.” The company confirmed that Seeker users can claim SKR directly through the device’s built-in wallet, while developers who deployed a “quality app” to the Seeker dApp Store during Season 1 are also eligible.
Unclaimed allocations will be returned to the airdrop pool after the 90-day window closes. SKR has a fixed total supply of 10 billion tokens, issued as a Solana Program Library asset, with 30% allocated to airdrops and launch-related unlocks. The token is designed to support governance participation, incentives, platform access, and alignment among users, developers, researchers, and protocols within the Solana Mobile ecosystem.
Staking was enabled at launch, with Solana Mobile encouraging recipients to lock tokens to participate in emissions. The project follows a linear inflation model, with inflation events occurring every 48 hours. Annual inflation starts at 10% and declines by 25% each year until it reaches 2%, where it stabilizes permanently, according to the project’s disclosures.
The SKR rollout coincided with the opening of Seeker Season 2 on Wednesday, introducing new apps, rewards, and early-access programs focused on DeFi, gaming, payments, trading, and decentralized physical infrastructure networks. Seeker, launched in August 2025 as the successor to the Solana Saga from 2022, is preloaded with crypto-native features such as a Solana dApp Store and Seed Vault hardware-backed key storage. Solana Mobile previously reported receiving about 150,000 preorders for the device, with shipments planned to more than 50 countries.
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