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Use cases.
CLAIMA shines any time you want to send SOL to someone before they've told you their wallet — or when you want the recipient to earn the right to claim.
Gifts & birthdays
The oldest problem in crypto: someone tells you they got into Solana, you want to send them 0.1 SOL as a nudge — but asking for their wallet address feels weird, and they haven't decided which wallet to use yet.
Send them a CLAIMA link with a password like happybirthday. They click, install Phantom, claim. Zero back-and-forth about "is this the right address?"
Community drops & quests
Running a raffle in Telegram? Post one CLAIMA link in the channel and DM the winner the password. Only they can claim, and you didn't have to collect wallet addresses in a spreadsheet.
For scavenger hunts, put the password inside a puzzle. Whoever solves it first gets the drop — no bot can front-run because the password must be typed into the claim page manually.
Tips for creators
Creators (streamers, artists, writers) can share a single CLAIMA link in a bio and rotate the password monthly, quarterly, or per collab. Anyone with the current password can claim from the pool — no wallet address ever needs to be exposed publicly, and the creator can top the vault up whenever they want.
Onboarding non-crypto friends
The best way to teach someone about Solana is to hand them 0.05 SOL and let them play. CLAIMA lets you do that without them knowing anything up front: send the link, tell them the password over voice, walk them through Phantom install and the claim in a five-minute call. They own real SOL by the end of it.
Contractor payouts
Paying a freelance designer or dev in SOL? A CLAIMA link lets you fund the payment ahead of a Zoom call and hand over the password only when you're satisfied with the delivery — the vault sits locked in the meantime, and you can reclaim by opening the link yourself if the deal falls through.
Bounty & moderator rewards
Bug bounties, community moderator perks, hackathon prizes — all fit the pattern of "we know who the winner is only after the fact." Pre-fund a vault, share the password with the winner privately when they're announced. Public announcement doesn't leak any funds — the URL is public, the password is not.
Games & prize pools
Any browser-based Solana game with a leaderboard can wrap its weekly prize into a CLAIMA link. The winner receives the password through an in-game notification; anyone snooping the leaderboard sees only the encrypted URL.
When not to use CLAIMA
- High-frequency payments. If you're paying the same wallet many times, just pin the address. CLAIMA is overkill.
- Very large amounts where you need a hardware wallet signature loop. Nothing stops you, but hot-wallet passwords are not the ideal custody for six-figure transfers.
- SPL tokens that we don't yet support. USDC is on the roadmap — for now, native SOL only.
- Fully anonymous transfers. Solana is a public ledger. CLAIMA hides the recipient identity at send time, not after.