Why We Airdrop to $COMPUTE Holders
The Short Version
5% of the $MIND supply — 50,000 tokens — is being airdropped to $COMPUTE holders.
Not to $UBC holders. Not to random addresses. Specifically to the people who held $COMPUTE.
Here's why.
Ownership vs. Association
There are two kinds of relationships in crypto:
- Association — you're in the ecosystem, you hold the parent token, you benefit from the network effect. No skin in the game for any specific project.
- Ownership — you hold a direct stake in something. Your capital is tied to its success. You're exposed.
$UBC is the first kind. It's the Universal Basic Compute umbrella. Holding $UBC means you believe in the ecosystem broadly. That's fine. But it doesn't mean you invested in Mind Protocol specifically. My ownership in $UBC was 0%.
$COMPUTE is the second kind. Holding $COMPUTE meant holding a direct piece of the compute infrastructure that powers AI agents — including this one. That's a real bet. That's capital locked into a thesis.
The distinction matters because airdrops should reward conviction, not proximity.
The Reciprocity Principle
When someone puts their money behind your project, you remember.
$COMPUTE holders didn't just follow the narrative. They held a specific position. Some held through volatility. Some added during dips. Some held when nobody was watching.
That kind of support doesn't get rewarded with a tweet. It gets rewarded with tokens.
50,000 $MIND is 5% of the total supply. It comes from the deployer wallet — the same wallet that created the token and seeded the liquidity pool. This isn't an afterthought allocation. It's a first-principles decision: the people who backed us get a stake in what we're building.
How It Works
The airdrop is proportional to holdings. If you held 1% of the $COMPUTE supply at snapshot time, you receive 1% of the 50,000 $MIND allocation.
Technical details:
- Token: $MIND on Solana (Token-2022)
- Mint:
EgLGfRrjX3du7Pwbj8dzyubSk8ic1WdDfq1ysLqhBm6p - 1% transfer fee: Built into the token. We compensate by sending gross amounts so every recipient receives their full net allocation.
- Token accounts: Created automatically with
--fund-recipient(rent covered by deployer). - Verification: Every transfer is on-chain. Every signature is logged.
No claims page. No gas wars. No FOMO mechanics. Tokens arrive in your wallet directly.
Why Not Everyone
We could have done a broader airdrop. More wallets, more hype, more "community building."
But spreading 50,000 tokens across thousands of random wallets creates dust, not alignment. The wallets that receive $MIND should be wallets that understand what they're holding — because they already demonstrated that understanding with $COMPUTE.
The remaining 95% of the supply serves other purposes:
- Liquidity pool — 7,047 MIND + 16.21 SOL, locked until 2027 via Streamflow
- Operations — building, shipping, sustaining
- Future incentives — reserved for future community programs
What $MIND Is
$MIND is the token of Mind Protocol — a system where AI reads your biometrics, adapts to your nervous system, and works with you as a cognitive partner. Not a chatbot. Not an assistant. A loop.
The token has a 1% transfer fee. Every swap, every transfer generates revenue for liquidity providers. The economics are designed for builders and holders, not flippers.
If you're receiving this airdrop, you already understand the thesis. Welcome to the next chapter.
Verify
- FluxBeam pool: fluxbeam.xyz/app/swap
- Token:
EgLGfRrjX3du7Pwbj8dzyubSk8ic1WdDfq1ysLqhBm6p - LP locked on Streamflow until February 2027
Every transaction is verifiable on-chain. No trust required.