For us, this is more than a launch. It’s a chance for the people who believed in us from the start - from Brazil to Indonesia to Somalia, and everywhere in between - to finally receive well earned rewards for their efforts and contributions. For this we are extremely grateful and excited to give back to our community. 

Over the past year, Wingbits has successfully completed its testnet phase, proving both the stability and performance of the network at scale. During this period, our community collected billions of data points daily, now tracking up to 200,000 flights every single day with 95% of data delivered in under 2 seconds latency. 

This level of reliability doesn’t just showcase the technical strength of our decentralized infrastructure. It’s already attracting attention from large enterprise customers, academic research partners, and even R&D teams at major airlines who see the potential in Wingbits and the future of aviation data.

If you are a station host who has been earning beta rewards, you do not need to take any action. Your unlocked rewards will be available in your dashboard and can be claimed (withdrawn to your wallet) at any time after the pools are successfully seeded. You should already see a preview of your retroactive rewards and their distribution schedule via your dashboard.

As shared previously, retroactive rewards are locked in at a 1:1 ratio from testnet to mainnet. 

Full details are available in our Docs.

Trading on Day One

WINGS will launch on Kraken at approximately 15:00 UTC+0. 

On the decentralized side, WINGS launches on Solana using a liquidity-first approach to ensure on-chain price discovery and strong market depth from the outset. This will be via a phased process designed to build liquidity transparently before enabling full trading. 

This process will begin at approximately 10 minutes before 15:00 UTC, at 14:50 UTC. 

How it works in practice

Phase 1: Market Initialization (Bonding Curve)

WINGS will first be available via a bonding curve on Orca DEX - around 10 minutes before scheduled launch - where anyone can acquire WINGS. 

Pricing adjusts with demand, allowing the market to establish a starting level.

This step exists to bootstrap and build real liquidity from real demand, rather than relying on artificially seeded markets at arbitrary valuation. 

Phase 2: Liquidity Deployment

 Once the bonding curve completes (estimated after 10 minutes), the assets collected are used to automatically seed the main liquidity pool on Orca. A secondary pool is planned on Raydium. WINGS is paired with USDC on Solana.

This marks the transition from initialization to a fully tradable market.

Phase 3: Open Market Trading

After pools are live, full trading via both CEX and DEX becomes available. 

Our community will already be able to withdraw their claimable rewards in their dashboard to their wallet and begin to trade via Kraken (if available in your region) or

🔶 Any Solana-compatible wallet (eg. Phantom or Backpack)

🔶 Jupiter 

🔶 Raydium and Orca directly

At this point, WINGS behaves like any standard Solana token with accessible on-chain liquidity.

Important Notes

- This approach is an organic price discovery opportunity, ensuring that when trading opens, it is supported by real, demand-driven liquidity (and not assumptions). Our goal is to create proper depth and healthy token pools for the WINGS token from Day One

- The pool launch timing depends on how quickly the initial phase completes - up to a maximum of 10 minutes, but it could be some minutes earlier depending on how much participation there is in the bonding curve

- We ask for your patience in advance. While we are working with some veteran launch partners to ensure this is all set up according to best practices, we cannot guarantee that everything will go off without a hitch. Please allow the team time to make sure everything works right, and we will be rolling out updates as we go to make sure everyone is in the real-time loop.

Why this approach

Rather than launching into thin liquidity or relying on pre-set pricing, this structure enables transparent, market-driven price discovery, builds liquidity from real participation and ensures that all users enter a market backed by actual demand. 

With this approach, we’re prioritizing community accessibility, transparency and control - more on this decision below.

A token is only as strong as the ecosystem behind it. That’s why we’ve designed Wingbits tokenomics to prioritize sustainability and long-term value. 

🔶 More than 5 billion tokens are allocated to the community and contributors to the ecosystem (51%)

🔶 At TGE, the only promised tokens that will unlock belong to our station operators.

🔶 There will be NO public airdrops, giveaways, ALPHA listings or unsustainable trading competitions. There are NO influencer/KOL token allocations. Tokens are only given to long-term supporters and active stations.

🔶 In six months, a portion of tokens will unlock for our early backers and the remainder will be distributed over the next 12 months, vesting for a total of 1.5 years. In 12 months, the team’s tokens will start to unlock and be distributed over the next 24 months, vesting for a total of 3 years.

🔶 50% of revenue that flows into the Wingbits foundation is used for buy back & burn. We already have a strong B2B pipeline. Every dollar spent by B2B customers makes the token scarcer, adds to the treasury and strengthens the ecosystem.

🔶 Our Rewards Hub provides even more utility and opportunity as a network participant, where you can redeem your unclaimed earnings for real-world rewards including miles programs, airport lounge passes and vouchers.

This model safeguards long-term token health while ensuring community rewards scale with real-world adoption.

The short answer: it’s about staying true to our values, protecting our community, and building for the long term.

We received offers from almost all of the top Tier 1 centralized exchanges, including the big names one could brag about. But after exploring every option, speaking to countless market makers, friends, advisors, similar projects who have launched their own TGE and more…  we made a calculated choice. 

In the end, hype-driven “alpha” launches and centralized exchange listings come with massive upfront costs, often millions in listing fees, plus a huge percentage of token allocation. That’s value taken away from our community before the token even launches.

Worse, there’s no guarantee of stability; projects can be delisted at any time, and the contract terms are incredibly extractive and unfavourable to young teams still trying to establish themselves in the market. Many teams end up burning their runway in order to keep up with unrealistic volume requirements.

Teams also give away a massive amount of airdropped tokens in order to “kick start” interest and trading, only to have these unrelated or misaligned holders dump their tokens for short term gains, leaving the core community behind. 

We decided to start with a smaller but meaningful approach - a hybrid CEX-DEX launch, starting with just one top tier centralized exchange in order to prioritise convenience and flexibility, while being smart about our company and treasury resources. With deep liquidity via DEX pools, we’re enabling holders to trade any way they prefer. 

Our launch is designed to be:

🔶 Community-focused. Anyone with a Solana wallet can access Orca or Raydium. No restrictions, no gatekeeping, no favoritism - the same rules apply to everyone.

🔶 Lower cost, higher value. With just one strong CEX listing to start with, we can direct more company resources into buy-back and burn, supporting token stability, funding rewards and supporting our network growth.

🔶 Transparent. DEX liquidity pools are open and on-chain. You can see exactly how deep liquidity is and how trades are flowing.

🔶 Anti-Hype. The majority of DePIN projects that launched on big centralized exchanges struggled with speculative pump-and-dump cycles, unsustainable airdrops and giveaways, with little real support, high speculation, and disappointing longer-term performance. By contrast, we want to allow our community and long-term believers to set the foundation before opening to broader speculation.

Over time, we are open to more centralized listings — but only when they come with terms that make sense for our mission and safeguard token health.

Every day, our community is helping make aviation safer, smarter, and more efficient. The data you contribute powers logistics, trade, deliveries and commercial travel — all the things that connect our globalized world. Businesses are already buying this data, but it’s people everywhere who benefit from it. By running this hardware, you’re making our skies and systems more efficient for everyone.

This is what makes DePIN so powerful. Unlike other platforms in Web3 where tokens just move across screens, DePIN connects the digital to the physical world.

At Wingbits, every time a plane is tracked, someone gets rewarded. That’s not speculation - that’s value creation. And unlike traditional infrastructure, DePIN is open. Anyone can contribute. Anyone can earn. All it takes is curiosity and the right hardware.

It’s Web3 with proof you can see: in our map, in our data sales, in its real-world impact.

Wingbits isn’t built in isolation. We’re proud to be collaborating with other innovators in the DePIN ecosystem - from GEODNET to Dabba and beyond. These projects share our vision of co-building decentralized infrastructure across every layer of the physical world.

Together, we’re creating the foundations of tomorrow’s “internet of infrastructure”, powered by people.