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About NEWT

Newton Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure layer for verifiable onchain automation and secure agent authorization. Built by Magic Labs and Magic Newton Foundation, it uses trusted execution environments (TEEs) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to enable automated onchain finance that you can trust. Learn more about the agentic future in our litepaper.

Newton Protocol is designed with verifiability, transparency, and security at its core. The NEWT token serves as the backbone of this design by powering staking, permissions, and incentives that protect users and discourage malicious behavior.

Because agent-based automation involves sensitive actions like moving assets, we’ve prioritized security at the base layer. NEWT is deployed as an ERC-20 on Ethereum Mainnet, where the protocol’s staking contracts also reside.

Magic Newton Foundation is proud to set a new standard for transparency with NEWT. From validator economics to governance and distribution, every aspect of NEWT is disclosed and verifiable. Explore the full tokenomics and disclosures here.

Holding NEWT means being aligned with the core purpose of Newton Protocol: to bring programmable, verifiable automation onchain. With NEWT, users, developers, and validators will be able to participate in the Magic Newton ecosystem, whether it’s through securing the protocol, coordinating agent behavior, or governing its evolution. NEWT aligns network participation with protocol integrity, ensuring those who benefit from Newton’s infrastructure are also stewards of its future.

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Community Rewards

We’ve allocated 10% of total NEWT supply for a community airdrop as well as Kaito rewards campaigns. These programs are intended to accomplish two goals:

  1. Reward community: reward the Newton Protocol community for helping grow mindshare, providing valuable feedback, and testing alpha/beta products
  2. Encourage exploration: seed the community with NEWT to first experience and continue supporting the protocol, whether that’s through security via staking or using the tokens to create session keys and transact on Newton Protocol

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Eligibility

To be considered eligible for airdrop, you must have participated in at least one of the four activities listed below:

  1. Newton.xyz
    • Activity through June 12, 2025 at 03:59:59 AM UTC
    • Rewards early adopters of Newton Protocol who used Newton.xyz as the first way to experience verifiable autonomous finance
    • Eligible allocations will be automatically tied to your Newton.xyz account. There is no further action needed
    • Users can claim and receive their airdrop allocation as soon as the 30-day claim window begins on June 24, 2025
  2. Community engagement
    • Activity through June 12, 2025 at 03:59:59 AM UTC
    • Rewards community members who participated in quests and activities in Newton Portal on magicnewton.com, Magic Newton Guild.xyz and Magic Newton Discord
    • If you’ve completed the Newton.xyz quest within the Newton Portal, there is no need to link your Portal account to your Newton Wallet. We have already linked your account
    • If you didn’t complete the quest, or if linking failed, you’ll have an opportunity to connect and delegate your Portal account allocation to your Newton Wallet. Note: this linking is a 1-time, irreversible action
    • Users can claim and receive their airdrop allocation as soon as the 30-day claim window begins on June 24, 2025
  3. Newton’s Kaito yappers campaign
    • Activity through June 19, 2025 at 11:59:59PM UTC
    • Rewards the global community of Kaito yappers with a cumulative 0.9% (90bps) of NEWT supply. More details on allocation distribution can be found here
    • You can check eligibility and claim your rewards through Kaito. Stay tuned for details from Kaito official channels
  4. Magic Labs Partners
    • You may be eligible if you had onchain activity with an active, email-linked embedded wallet on Ethereum mainnet or Polygon mainnet with select partners within the 6-month period between July 1, 2024 and December 21, 2024
    • You will automatically be considered for eligibility by signing up on Newton.xyz with the same exact email as your embedded wallet account before the 30-day airdrop claim window ends on July 24, 2025. Aliases are not eligible
    • Encourages community members to explore automated onchain finance with the same level of trust and security they have come to expect through Magic Labs’ embedded wallets
    • Magic Labs embedded wallet allocations will be available on a first come, first serve basis with a cap of 600,000 wallets
    • Users will receive the airdrop only after the 30-day claim window has ended on July 24, 2025. Stay tuned for more details on how the airdrop will be distributed

We focused on rewarding those who have demonstrated authentic and genuine interest in what Newton Protocol represents and strives to be: a decentralized infrastructure layer for verifiable onchain automation and secure agent authorization. To determine allocation amounts, we evaluated data points from multiple sources including, but not limited to:

  • Newton Protocol engagement on Newton.xyz
  • Community engagement through several channels including Magic Newton Portal, Discord, and Kaito
  • On-chain wallet behavior, activity on Portal and Newton.xyz, and behavioral and engagement signals were analyzed to detect and filter out bots and farming accounts, ensuring a fair and equitable distribution for genuine community members

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Check Your Eligibility

If you are eligible for NEWT airdrop claim through (1) activity on Newton.xyz or (2) community engagement, sign up on Newton.xyz to check and claim within the window of June 24 to July 24, 2025.

Every Newton.xyz account activates two wallets for you. The first is a smart contract wallet that is built for seamless automation through features like chain abstraction and session keys. The second is your Newton Rewards wallet. It is a non-custodial EOA used to claim rewards and to create your smart contract wallet.

Steps:

  1. Sign up or login to Newton.xyz

  2. Navigate to the airdrop claim page

  3. Link your Magic Newton Portal account if you have one and haven’t linked it to Newton.xyz yet. Otherwise, skip this step

  4. Choose to stake immediately for a 25% bonus. If not, toggle the option off

  5. Fund your Newton Rewards EOA wallet with mainnet ETH

  6. Confirm and sign to claim your airdrop

  7. If you’ve chosen to stake immediately, your NEWT tokens will be automatically deposited into the staking contract and you will start to earn staking rewards

  8. If you’ve chosen to claim only (no stake), your NEWT tokens will be sent to your Newton Reward Wallet

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FAQs

  • What is Magic Newton Foundation?

    The Magic Newton Foundation is a nonprofit entity based in the Cayman Islands focused on driving adoption, enabling open development, and supporting the decentralization of Newton Protocol, the verifiable automation layer for onchain finance.

  • What happens to the unclaimed airdrop tokens?

    Any unclaimed airdrop tokens will be returned to the onchain ecosystem growth fund. The tokens will be used for ecosystem growth across various initiatives including, but not limited to, staking reward incentives, any future airdrops, and developer grants.

  • Why do I have 2 wallets?

    Newton primarily uses ERC-4337 smart contract wallets and custom automation modules which must be deployed onchain to enable the vision of automated, verifiable and secure onchain crypto UX. The Newton Reward Wallet is a TEE-secured EOA wallet that allows you to claim NEWT rewards and is needed to deploy your smart contract wallet. You can export this private key at any time. However, keep in mind that assets are not shared across the 2 wallets. You can think of the smart contract wallet as your automation wallet and the EOA as your non-custodial admin wallet.

  • Why is the claim through my Newton EOA?

    We considered requiring the airdrop claim to be done through a smart contract wallet. However, smart contract wallets on Ethereum mainnet are expensive and claiming the airdrop would require a wallet activation fee that we felt would be cost prohibitive for the community. So, to minimize cost, but still allow users the flexibility to explore all of Newton Protocol’s automation agents in the present and future, the claim will go through the Newton EOA.

  • Can I claim with a 3rd party self custodial wallet like MetaMask or Coinbase wallet?

    No. The airdrop can only be claimed using a Newton Account through Newton.xyz. If you’re a Kaito user, there is a separate claim process. Please sign into your Kaito account on their platform to view claim instructions specific to you.

  • What if I linked the wrong Portal account?
    Unfortunately, this is a 1-time, irreversible action. However, if you want to check eligibility on another Portal account, simply create a fresh Newton Wallet and link the Portal account there. You can decide to claim there.

  • Which jurisdictions are ineligible for airdrop claim?

    The airdrop is not available to individuals or organizations in countries or regions subject to international economic sanctions or arms embargos, or if you are located in a restricted country. This includes (but is not limited to) anyone who is:

    • On a sanctions list maintained by the United Nations, U.S. Government, European Union, or other relevant authorities.
    • Located in or a resident/citizen of the following countries or regions:
      • Cuba
      • North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
      • Iran
      • Syria
      • Russia
      • Belarus
      • Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine

  • Will there be more NEWT airdrop campaigns in the future?

    The Magic Newton Foundation has reserved 15.5% of the total NEWT supply for ecosystem growth, which includes future airdrop campaigns.