Solbox
A gift in Solana — by link and by code
You put tokens into a gift, hand the recipient the link, and the code separately: on a card, in another messenger, out loud. Only somebody who has both can open the gift.
Were you sent a gift? Open the link you were sent — or press “Claim a gift” and paste it there. The code is asked for later, on the page of the gift itself.
How it works
- You connect a wallet and pick a token and an amount. The browser invents the code and shows it to you once.
- You sign one funding transaction. After that the gift waits for its recipient — it has no expiry date.
- The recipient opens the link and connects their own wallet: the gift arrives straight onto it, and there is no field for an address on the page.
- Then they enter the code from the card — the same code the sender wrote down.
- And only now do they scratch the card off: the amount is under it, and the gift goes straight to the connected wallet, in one transaction.
What is worth knowing
- Non-custodial: the service does not store the key that opens a gift, and cannot take the tokens for itself.
- Half of the key lives only in your browser and in the code on the card. It never goes to the server — not when the gift is created, and not when it is claimed.
- A lost code cannot be restored by anybody — not by us and not by you. Without the code nobody can claim the gift: getting it back to yourself is the same claim with the same code. That is what “non-custodial” means: the service has no key to the gift.
- So write the code down the moment you see it: onto a card, into a note, into a password manager. Until then it sits in your browser, and that is not the place to leave it.
- The link, on the other hand, is not a secret: the sender has it in “My gifts” and will send it again if it was lost or arrived cut in half. The gift is not spent by that and goes nowhere.
- The service fee is 0.5% of the amount of the gift. The sender pays the network cost.
- The smallest gift is $10. The tokens and the rate are the ones the network gives at the moment the gift is created.