Evmos Airdrop Review: Everybody Wins.

About Evmos Airdrop

Evmos Airdrop is a scalable, high-throughput Proof-of-Stake blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum. It’s built using the Cosmos SDK (opens new window)which runs on top of Tendermint Core (opens new window)consensus engine.

Evmos is airdropping a total of 100,000,000 EVMOS to various EVM and Cosmos users. ATOM stakers, OSMO stakers & LPs, various Ethereum dApps users like Uniswap, OpenSea, DyDx, SushiSwap, AAVE etc, EVM bridge users such as Arbitrum, Polygon, Hop Protocol etc, users who got rugged like Poly Network, MEV Victims etc, and early EVMOS individual contributors by the snapshot date are eligible to claim the airdrop. The snapshot was taken on November 25th, 2021 at 19:00 UTC.

Step-by-Step Guide:

Step-by-Step Guide:

1. Visit the Evmos airdrop claim page.
2. If you’re eligible as an EVM user, then connect your Metamask wallet and follow the steps below or if you’re eligible as a Cosmos ecosystem user, then connect your Keplr wallet and follow this Keplr airdrop claim guide.
3. ATOM stakers, OSMO stakers & LPs, various Ethereum dApps users like Uniswap, OpenSea, DyDx, SushiSwap, AAVE etc, EVM bridge users such as Arbitrum, Polygon, Hop Protocol etc, users who got rugged like Poly Network, MEV Victims etc, and early EVMOS individual contributors by November 25th, 2021 at 19:00 UTC are eligible to claim the airdrop. The complete eligible lists can be found in this Medium article.
4. The claimable amount will be displayed after connecting your wallet.
5. Now add Evmos mainnet to Metamask through Chainlist.
6. You need to perform certain tasks to claim your full airdrop amount.
7. Vote on a Governance Proposal to unlock 25% of the claimable amount, stake EVMOS to a validator to unlock another 25%, execute a cross-chain transfer to unlock another 25% and use the EVM (i.e. swapping via Diffusion) to unlock the final 25%. Only the first two tasks are available for now and the rest will be available at a later date.
8. Airdrop can be claimed for 44 days from the launch and then the claimable amount will decay linearly for 60 days and thereafter all the unclaimed EVMOS will be burned.
9. For more information regarding the airdrop, see this Medium article and for information related to claiming, see this article.

The New Fronter

Evmos is bringing the world of Ethereum-based applications and assets to the interoperable networks of the Cosmos ecosystem, all while aligning developer and user incentives. Let’s adventure together into the world of innovation where EVM meets interchain composability.

EVM & Cosmos

We’re in it for the long haul.

The long game is about two things: Aligning the interests of all the players and making blockchain easier for everyone to use.

Rewards making. Not taking.

The Evmos Tokenomics are designed to incentivize and reward the most inspired developers and the most active users.

Easier by design.

With modular EVM authoring, they make it easy to develop and deploy apps across both Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems.

Everybody wins.

Devs can build for the depth of Ethereum and the breadth of Cosmos, creating DeFi and diverse apps to benefit all users.

Features

Here’s a glance at some of the key features of Evmos:

• Web3 and EVM compatibility
• High throughput via Tendermint Core(opens new window)
• Horizontal scalability via IBC(opens new window)
• Fast transaction finality

Evmos enables these key features by:

• Implementing Tendermint Core’s Application Blockchain Interface (ABCI (opens new window)) to manage the blockchain
• Leveraging modules (opens new window)and other mechanisms implemented by the Cosmos SDK (opens new window).
• Utilizing geth (opens new window)as a library to promote code reuse and improve maintainability.
• Exposing a fully compatible Web3 JSON-RPC layer for interacting with existing Ethereum clients and tooling (Metamask, Remix, Truffle, etc).

Use Cases

The Evmos blockchain provides Ethereum developers to deploy their smart contracts to the Evmos EVM and get the benefits of a fast-finality Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain. Developers will also benefit from highly-reliable clients from testnets can be used to test and deploy their contracts.

Evmos also offers built-in interoperability functionalities with other Cosmos and BFT chains by using IBC (opens new window). Developers can also benefit from using a bridge network to enable interoperability between mainnet Ethereum and Evmos.

List of Resources

Please find the following resources for in-depth information:

• Quick Connect: List of publicly available endpoints.
• Evmos Clients: Description of available clients.
• Block Explorers: List of block explorers available for Evmos.
• Testnet Faucet: Explaination of faucet use to obtain testnet tokens.
• Localnet: Instructions on how to configure a local instance of the Evmos blockchain.

Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)

As Evmos lives at the crossroads of Cosmos and Ethereum, there are RPC connections available for all corresponding interfaces:

• JSON-RPC Server: General information about the JSON-RPC server provided by Evmos.
• Running The Server: Instructions on how to set up the server when running a node.
• Namespaces: Description of the available JSON-RPC namespaces.
• JSON-RPC Methods: List of supported JSON-RPC endpoints and methods.
• Events: Information about the available events and instructions to subscribe to them.
• Cosmos gRPC & REST (opens new window): Documentation of the available gRPC implementation on Evmos.
• Tendermint RPC (opens new window): Documentation for the RPC protocols supported by Tendermint.