Drift Market Maker Reward Program

Drift launched a Market Maker Rewards Program for qualified participants.

Epoch 1 (September 1-30)

• Reward Pool: 2,000,000 DRIFT
• Epoch Length: 1 calendar month

✅ This epoch has concluded

Epoch 2 (Start: October)

• Reward Pool: 1,000,000 DRIFT
• Epoch Length: 1 calendar month

⚠️ This epoch will start in October.

Reward Allocation

Each listed market receives:

1. Minimum Reward
   • XRP, FARTCOIN, WIF, BONK, PUMP, HYPE, SUI, DOGE, DRIFT, PENGU, and any new listings
     • 20,000 DRIFT (1% of pool)
   • All other markets (~48 markets)
     • 5,000 DRIFT (0.25% of pool)
2. Pro-Rata Volume Bonus
   • Remaining pool (after minimums per market) is distributed across markets based on the share of total maker volume across protocol from the prior epoch.
   • With 10 markets at 1% minimum and remaining 48 active markets at .25% minimum, this leaves 78% of rewards distributed pro-rata on total maker volume.

The set of markets and minimums may change each epoch. A full schedule of trading fees and rebates per market can be found here (opens in a new tab).

Example Calculation

Maker Volumes for Epoch 1:

• Maker 1: 100M SUI-PERP, 5M DOGE-PERP → Total: 105M
• Maker 2: 50M SUI-PERP, 20M DOGE-PERP → Total: 70M
• Total Maker Volume: 175M

Step 1 - Remaining Pro-rata Volume Pool:

2,000,000 – (20,000 × 2) = 1,960,000 DRIFT

Step 2 - Market Rewards:

• DOGE-PERP: 20,000 + (1,960,000 × 25/175) = 300,000 DRIFT
• SUI-PERP: 20,000 + (1,960,000 × 150/175) = 1,700,000 DRIFT

Step 3 - Maker Rewards:

• Maker 1: (300,000 x 5/25) + (1,700,000 x 100/150) = 1,193,333.33 DRIFT
• Maker 2: (300,000 x 20/25) + (1,700,000 x 50/150) = 806,666.67 DRIFT

Leaderboard & Reward Estimates

The live leaderboard (opens in a new tab) displays:

• Current ranking of all qualifying market makers.
• Maker-specific share of market volume.
• Estimated DRIFT rewards earned to date (based on current volumes and allocation formula).

Estimates update in near real-time, giving makers visibility into their performance and potential payout before the epoch ends. Final rewards are calculated at epoch close.