Solana Mobile has set January 21 as the launch date for the highly anticipated SKR token that will function as the economic backbone and coordination layer of its Seeker smartphone series.
Summary
- Solana Mobile will launch its SKR token on January 21 as the core coordination and utility layer for the Seeker smartphone ecosystem.
- 30% of the SKR 10 billion supply will be reserved for airdrops, with the majority allocated to Seeker users and developers.
SKR will function as the foundational utility and governance token that is expected to give crypto-native mobile users greater control over platform policies and economic flows compared to traditional mobile ecosystems, as Solana Mobile Managing Director Emmett Hollyer said. say have limited both developers and users.
As part of the launch, 30% of the 10 billion SKR tokens have been supplied earmarked for community airdrops, and two-thirds of the initial airdrop allocation is reserved for Solana Seeker users and developers.
In addition, an additional 2.7 billion SKR will be made available during the token generation event, of which 1 billion tokens will be allocated to the community treasury, and another 1 billion will be used to provide liquidity. The remaining 700 million will be used for growth and partnerships.
“SKR will give all the people who got us to this point the opportunity to influence the success of this platform: who can participate, what rules they follow and what economic flows keep it going,” Hollyer said in a Jan. 7 interview. X message.
Seeker is the second-generation device in Solana Mobile’s crypto-integrated smartphone series that started with the Saga, which launched in April 2023. Initially, the Saga struggled to gain traction, but the devices gained popularity during the 2023 holiday season after meme coins like BONK became so profitable for users that they surpassed the phone’s retail price of $1,000.
With Seekers come Guardians
Seeker was announced in late 2024 to replace the Saga and refine the concept with a more affordable price and better hardware. Solana Mobile started shipping the new devices to more than 50 countries in August last year after securing more than 150,000 pre-orders.
The phone’s TEEPIN architecture decentralizes device-level security and app distribution through a multi-layer trust network, with Solana node operators called Guardians responsible for authenticating devices, managing dApps, and enforcing community rules.
Seeker users can stake and delegate their tokens to these Guardians in exchange for various exclusive in-app features and staking rewards.
Solana Mobile has already confirmed that many of its key infrastructure partners, such as Anza, Helius, Jito, DoubleZero and Triton One, will serve as Guardians that will be introduced at the launch of the SKR token.
As Solana Mobile focuses on scaling its next-generation ecosystem, in October last year it pulled the plug on software support for the Saga devices, which sold in significantly lower numbers compared to the Seeker.
