Solana Mobile, the mobile ecosystem arm of Solana Labs, has announced that its native token, SKR, will launch in January 2026.
Thus, Solana’s long-planned token launch for its mobile hardware and application ecosystem has become official.
Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, quoting Solana Mobile’s announcement in his post on the X account, said, “It only takes 10 years to build an ecosystem.”
The new token is described as a native asset that will power the control, economics, incentives, and ownership components of the Solana Mobile ecosystem. The developers previously stated that SKR will be distributed directly to users and app developers within the ecosystem.
According to SKR’s tokenization structure, which will have a total supply of 10 billion tokens, 30% of the tokens at launch are reserved for airdrops and unlocks. Solana Mobile’s X account explained that the airdrop is intended for “Seeker users, active dApp users, and similar groups.”
Solana Mobile announced in August that it had received “150,000 pre-orders” for its next-generation smartphone, the Solana Seeker, with “tens of thousands” of devices already shipped to more than 50 countries. The Seeker comes with features like a hardware security solution called Seed Vault, a built-in Solana dApp Store, and an onchain Genesis token that offers early access to new apps and SKR rewards.
*This is not investment advice.
Source: https://en.bitcoinsistemi.com/launch-date-of-the-highly-anticipated-new-altcoin-linked-to-solana-has-been-announced/
