Beets Gems: Sonic Points, Gems, Fragments… Oh My!
Sonic is booming — not just as a high-speed DeFi ecosystem, but as the foundation for the next wave of on-chain finance. Since launch, Sonic’s TVL and activity have surged, proving this isn’t just hype — it’s about building a sustainable, high-performance DeFi hub for the future.
To accelerate adoption, Sonic pairs its technical foundation with a targeted 190.5M S airdrop, designed to bootstrap adoption, strengthen liquidity, and reward participation from the ground up.
However, not all rewards are created equal. To make the most of Sonic’s incentives, you need to understand:
- Sonic Points → User-focused rewards for holding assets and interacting with dApps.
- Sonic Gems → Developer-focused incentives for protocols driving liquidity and engagement.
- Gem-Fragments → A strategic claim mechanism, balancing long-term commitment with liquidity.
And most importantly, why Beets is the best place to farm them.
Sonic Points: The Key to Earning S Tokens
At the core of Sonic’s airdrop strategy is Sonic Points — a system designed to reward active participants in the ecosystem. Rather than simply handing out tokens, Sonic incentivizes sustained engagement, ensuring that rewards go to users who help grow the network.
How to Earn Sonic Points
Sonic Points can be earned in three ways:
- Passive Points → Earned simply by holding whitelisted assets in a Web3 wallet.
- Activity Points → Earned by deploying assets in DeFi apps, such as liquidity pools or lending markets.
- App Points (Gem-Fragments) → Earned through protocol-specific programs, where apps (like Beets) reward users for participation.
Seasons: Why Timing Matters
Sonic Points are distributed in seasons, meaning rewards are earned over time rather than all at once. Each season lasts several months, after which users can claim their S tokens based on their accumulated points.
This structure ensures that liquidity and activity remain consistent, preventing airdrops from being farmed and dumped overnight.
Multipliers: Boosting Your Rewards
Not all assets earn points at the same rate — some have multipliers, meaning they generate more points per token held or used. These multipliers make early participation even more rewarding, as users who provide liquidity in boosted assets and pools can amplify their airdrop allocation over time.
For full details on whitelisted assets, point calculations, and reward distribution, check out the official Sonic Points documentation.
What Are Sonic Gems?
While Sonic Points reward users, Sonic Gems are designed to incentivize protocols that drive growth on Sonic. Instead of rewarding individual users, Gems are distributed to protocols that contribute liquidity, user activity, and engagement, ensuring that incentives are directed toward projects that actively expand the ecosystem.
How Do Sonic Gems Work?
At the end of each season, protocols that earn Sonic Gems can redeem them for S tokens, which they can distribute to their users however they see fit. The more a protocol contributes to the network’s growth, the greater its share of Gems, creating a competitive dynamic where sustained adoption and engagement are key.
Unlike Sonic Points, which vest over time, Gems provide immediate liquidity to protocols, allowing them to create incentives, attract users, and sustain long-term growth.
A Competitive Incentive Model
Sonic Gems operate within a fixed supply, with 1.68M Gems allocated for Season 1. Rather than being evenly distributed, Gems are awarded based on performance. Protocols compete for their share through TVL, ensuring that rewards go to those driving real economic activity. Some application types receive higher weighting than others, making competition within each category an essential part of the process.
Because Gems are scarce, protocols must continuously drive adoption to maintain or increase their allocation. This system ensures that Sonic’s incentive model remains performance-driven, rather than a one-time airdrop event.
Sonic Boom: A Head Start for Beets
Sonic Boom, a developer-focused bounty program, rewarded early projects building on Sonic. Out of the total 1.68M Gems for Season 1: 262,500 were pre-allocated to Sonic Boom winners, including Beets.
Because Beets was among the top winners, it secured a guaranteed baseline of 8750 Gems before the season even began. This early allocation puts Beets ahead of protocols that must compete from scratch.
Beyond the Sonic Boom allocation, 1,417,500 Gems remain available for protocols across the ecosystem to earn throughout the season. At the end of the cycle, apps redeem their Gems for S tokens, which they can distribute as incentives to users however they choose.
For a detailed breakdown of how Gems are allocated, refer to the official Sonic Gems Blog Post.
How Beets Distributes Gems to Users
Sonic Gems are earned by protocols, but how do they actually get into the hands of users? This is where Beets Gem-Fragments come in.
Instead of manually distributing rewards, Beets uses Merkl, a reward system that ensures precise, automated, and transparent allocation of incentives. Through Merkl, Beets issues Gem-Fragments — an ERC-20 token that represents a claim on Beets’ earned Sonic Gems.
This model is similar to Rings Points, another mechanism used in Sonic’s ecosystem to distribute rewards. However, while Rings Points function as a fixed points system, Beets Fragments are liquid ERC-20 tokens, making them transferable, tradable, and directly tied to Beets’ incentive strategy.
Earning Fragments: How It Works
Each season, 10 million Beets Fragments are distributed, serving as a liquid representation of Beets’ share of Sonic Gems.
Users can earn Fragments by participating in various campaigns throughout the season, designed to reward engagement, liquidity provision, and strategic participation in the Beets ecosystem. Campaigns may target:
- Liquidity providers supporting key pools
- Governance-related bounties
- Other ecosystem-aligned activities that contribute to Beets’ growth
Each week, 600,000 Fragments are distributed, following Beets’ structured incentive model.
Tracking and Claiming Your Beets Gem-Fragments
Beets Fragments are distributed automatically via Merkl’s on-chain reward system (rewards are distributed every 3 to 12 hours), ensuring transparent and efficient allocation.
Users can track their active positions and rewards through the Merkl user dashboard, which provides a clear overview of earnings and claimable incentives.
Gem-Fragments → $S: How the Conversion Works
At the end of the season, Gem-Fragments convert into $S tokens through Merkl’s automated redemption system. The more Beets Gems earned during the season, the higher the payout per Gem-Fragment.
Because Gem-Fragments are ERC-20 tokens, users don’t have to wait until the end of the season to exchange value — they can trade Gem-Fragments freely, speculating on their future worth or using them as liquidity in potential new pools.
By leveraging Merkl’s infrastructure, Beets ensures a seamless, transparent, and efficient distribution process, allowing users to maximize their share of Sonic Gems with minimal friction.
Why Gem-Fragments Matter
Sonic’s incentives reward real engagement, and Beets is designed to maximize every opportunity.
By aligning liquidity with Sonic Points incentives, leveraging yield-bearing strategies, and optimizing capital efficiency, Beets is positioned to capture a larger share of Sonic Gems each season. That means each Beets Gem-Fragment could represent more value than standard rewards elsewhere.
With stS integration, Boosted Pools, and Balancer v3’s advanced AMM mechanics, Beets is a yield-optimized hub — whether you’re providing liquidity, earning Fragments, or trading them on the open market.
A Liquid Market for Fragments
To offer greater flexibility, Beets is deploying a liquidity pool for Fragments, allowing users to trade, enter, or exit positions before the season ends.
However, trading is highly speculative — Gem-Fragment prices fluctuate based on supply and demand, with no guaranteed redemption value until season’s end. Users should carefully assess risk before participating.
Sonic’s incentive model is more than just an airdrop — it’s a long-term strategy for sustainable liquidity and active participation. Beets sits at the center of this, leveraging tokenized incentives, seamless distribution via Merkl, and a speculative market for Gem-Fragments, to create a dynamic and strategic way to farm Sonic’s incentive program.
Start earning. Start trading. Stay ahead.
