Backfill entry Dating honesty: Pacifica's points program has been running since September 4, 2025, long before this tracker existed. We are adding it in August 2026 for completeness, because a program this large was a hole in our airdrops board, not because anything new happened this week.
Pacifica is the closest thing this cycle has to a Hyperliquid sequel, and the market is farming it like one. Founded in January 2025 by former FTX COO Constance Wang with a team drawn from Binance, Coinbase, Jane Street, NFTperp, OpenAI and DeepMind, it launched its Solana mainnet in June 2025 and needed roughly three months to pass Jupiter as the chain's top perp DEX by daily volume. By January 2026 cumulative trading volume had crossed $100 billion, per MEXC's program guide, with TVL above $40 million. In July 2026 the team shipped an Android app to move the same trading experience to mobile. Everything about the operation says token incoming. Nothing from the team actually does.
A points machine with no confirmed payout
The mechanics are simple and deliberately Hyperliquid-shaped. Every Thursday, Pacifica distributes 500,000 points, split proportionally by the trading volume each account generated that week. Referrals, bug reports and trading competitions add smaller streams on top. There was even a retroactive gesture built in at the start: a snapshot taken on September 3, 2025 covered all activity before the program began, so the earliest users were not zeroed out by the formal launch a day later.
The enforcement side deserves equal billing, because it changes how the farm should be played. Pacifica slashes points retroactively for wash trading, and the guides tracking the program describe penalties for coordinated volume between controlled wallets and identical patterns across accounts. On a venue where points follow volume, the obvious exploit is to trade with yourself; Pacifica's answer is to let you do it, then delete the profile later. That asymmetry is why our steps above keep repeating the same boring advice: real trades, real size, steady weeks.
Top Solana perp DEX, $100B+ cumulative.
The Hyperliquid precedent everyone cites.
No announcement, no snapshot, no date.
Liquidations can dwarf any future drop.
The Hyperliquid comparison is the entire bull case, so it is worth stating precisely. Hyperliquid ran a points program on a self-funded perp DEX with no venture allocations, then converted points into one of the largest airdrops ever distributed. Pacifica matches the structure: self-funded, no VC round to feed, points instead of a token, dominance in its niche. The market's assumption that history repeats is rational pattern-matching. It is also exactly that, an assumption. As of our August 2 check, Pacifica has not confirmed a token, published tokenomics, or named a snapshot, and the only allocation figure in circulation, a possible 25 percent community share, is community speculation rather than anything the team has said. Our Hyperliquid season 2 entry shows how the original handled its sequel; nothing obligates Pacifica to follow either script.
How to hold a maybe that charges fees
Pacifica differs from most entries on this board in one uncomfortable way: the farm is not free. Perpetual futures carry fees, funding and liquidation risk, and a trader who loses money chasing points has paid a very real price for a very hypothetical reward. The sane framing is the one from our farming guide: if you already trade perps, routing that existing activity through Pacifica costs you little and buys a lottery ticket; if you do not, learning leveraged trading to farm points is backwards, because the expected loss from bad trades can exceed any plausible allocation. The wallets that did well out of Hyperliquid were overwhelmingly traders first and farmers second.
The usual endgame reflexes apply with extra force here because expectations are so loaded. A program this watched will attract fake claim pages the moment any token rumor firms up, and probably before. There is nothing to claim today, no official token, and no date; any page, DM or ad saying otherwise is hostile until Pacifica's verified channels say it first. When that changes, this entry will change with it.
How to position yourself
- Trade on Pacifica only with size and leverage you would use anyway; points accrue weekly in proportion to your genuine volume, and perps losses can dwarf any airdrop.
- Show up consistently rather than in bursts: points land every Thursday, so steady weekly activity builds a cleaner profile than one heroic week.
- Do not wash trade or mirror positions across wallets; Pacifica slashes points retroactively for artificial volume, and a slashed profile is worse than a small one.
- Treat any Pacifica token claim page as a scam until the team confirms a token on its official channels; as of our last check there is no token, no snapshot date and nothing to claim.
Reality check None of these steps guarantee an allocation. Teams change criteria late, add anti-sybil filters, and sometimes never ship a token at all. Only spend time and gas you are fine writing off.
