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There are a few faucets now for Solana, and faucets play a key role in the Solana ecosystem as they help onboard users and cover the costs of fees, especially when users accidentally stake all their Solana or trade it all for an SPL token and are stuck without any Solana to pay for the fees to unstake or trade back. I suggested in my PR #247 which was recently merged that a faucets category be added. Please let me know if there is anything I need to do on my end, as the GitHub Actions bot flagged my PR after it got merged for having the faucets category which was not yet present on the website.
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Our faucet is built primarily as a way to give small amounts of Solana to users, enough to cover a transaction fee. This is especially useful for a few key use-cases:
Onboarding users to the Solana ecosystem - some people like to play around with a small amount of a cryptocurrency in their wallet just to try out the UX and test that everything is working for them
Helping users who accidentally stake their entire balance - to unstake, users need to pay a small transaction fee in Solana (unfortunately, they don't have any Solana left if they stake it all), so a faucet provides a way to cover this fee
Helping users who accidentally trade their entire balance to an SPL token - to trade back to Solana, users need to pay a small transaction fee in Solana (unfortunately, they don't have any Solana left if they trade it all), so a faucet provides a way to cover this fee
However, we are building a system to allow other projects to airdrop tokens to users. Basically, users would go to the token project's website and click a button to claim their tokens, and we take care of the backend to process the airdrop transactions and all of the infrastructure to manage everything.
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There are a few faucets now for Solana, and faucets play a key role in the Solana ecosystem as they help onboard users and cover the costs of fees, especially when users accidentally stake all their Solana or trade it all for an SPL token and are stuck without any Solana to pay for the fees to unstake or trade back. I suggested in my PR #247 which was recently merged that a
faucets
category be added. Please let me know if there is anything I need to do on my end, as the GitHub Actions bot flagged my PR after it got merged for having thefaucets
category which was not yet present on the website.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: