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Building an Airdrop Claim Page: GitHub OAuth + MetaMask + Phantom in Vanilla JS

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I just built a complete airdrop claim interface for the RustChain RIP-305 cross-chain airdrop and wanted to share the technical patterns.

The goal: a zero-dependency claim page that verifies GitHub contributions, connects to both Base L2 (MetaMask) and Solana (Phantom), runs anti-Sybil checks, and lets eligible users claim wrapped RTC tokens.

Here's what I learned.

The Stack

Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. No React. No build step. No bundler.

Why? Airdrop claim pages need to be:

  • Auditable — users need to inspect what runs in their browser
  • Fast — no 3MB React bundle
  • Deployable anywhere — IPFS, GitHub Pages, raw CDN

A single index.html file is the right call.

GitHub OAuth Flow

The eligibility check needs to verify:

  • How many repos the user has starred (Stargazer tier)
  • How many PRs they've had merged (Contributor/Builder/Core tiers)
  • Account age (>30 days anti-Sybil)

In production, this requires a server-side OAuth callback:

// Frontend: redirect to OAuth
window.location.href = '/api/auth/github?redirect=/airdrop';

// Server: exchange code for token, fetch GitHub API
const ghUser = await fetch('https://api.github.com/user', {
  headers: { Authorization: `token ${access_token}` }
}).then(r => r.json());

const prs = await fetch(
  `https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=is:pr+is:merged+author:${ghUser.login}+repo:Scottcjn/Rustchain`,
  { headers: { Authorization: `token ${access_token}` } }
).then(r => r.json());
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The server returns a session with tier data. No GitHub tokens ever touch the client.

MetaMask (Base L2) Connection

Base is EVM-compatible, so MetaMask works with window.ethereum:

async function connectMetaMask() {
  // Request accounts
  const accounts = await window.ethereum.request({ 
    method: 'eth_requestAccounts' 
  });

  // Switch to Base (chain ID 8453 = 0x2105)
  try {
    await window.ethereum.request({
      method: 'wallet_switchEthereumChain',
      params: [{ chainId: '0x2105' }]
    });
  } catch (err) {
    if (err.code === 4902) {
      // Chain not added yet — add it
      await window.ethereum.request({
        method: 'wallet_addEthereumChain',
        params: [{
          chainId: '0x2105',
          chainName: 'Base',
          rpcUrls: ['https://mainnet.base.org'],
          nativeCurrency: { name: 'ETH', symbol: 'ETH', decimals: 18 },
          blockExplorerUrls: ['https://basescan.org']
        }]
      });
    }
  }

  // Get ETH balance
  const balanceHex = await window.ethereum.request({
    method: 'eth_getBalance',
    params: [accounts[0], 'latest']
  });
  const balanceETH = parseInt(balanceHex, 16) / 1e18;
}
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The wallet_switchEthereumChain + wallet_addEthereumChain combo handles both existing and new Base configurations.

Phantom (Solana) Connection

Phantom exposes window.solana:

async function connectPhantom() {
  const phantom = window.solana;
  if (!phantom?.isPhantom) {
    throw new Error('Phantom not installed');
  }

  const resp = await phantom.connect();
  const pubkey = resp.publicKey.toString();

  // Fetch SOL balance via JSON-RPC (no SDK needed)
  const rpcResp = await fetch('https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      jsonrpc: '2.0',
      id: 1,
      method: 'getBalance',
      params: [pubkey, { commitment: 'confirmed' }]
    })
  });

  const data = await rpcResp.json();
  const balanceSOL = data.result.value / 1e9; // lamports → SOL
}
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No @solana/web3.js needed. The JSON-RPC call works directly.

Anti-Sybil Checks

The RIP-305 spec requires:

Check Implementation
Wallet age > 7 days Fetch first tx from Etherscan/Solana RPC
GitHub account > 30 days created_at from GitHub API
Min 0.01 ETH or 0.1 SOL Balance check in wallet connection
One claim per GitHub Session dedup in backend DB
One claim per wallet Wallet address dedup in DB

For wallet age on Base:

// Get first transaction (oldest = wallet creation)
const txResp = await fetch(
  `https://api.basescan.org/api?module=account&action=txlist` +
  `&address=${address}&sort=asc&page=1&offset=1&apikey=${BASESCAN_KEY}`
);
const txData = await txResp.json();
const firstTxTime = txData.result[0]?.timeStamp;
const ageInDays = (Date.now()/1000 - firstTxTime) / 86400;
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For Solana:

// Get oldest confirmed signature
const sigResp = await fetch('https://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({
    jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1,
    method: 'getSignaturesForAddress',
    params: [pubkey, { limit: 1, before: null }]
  })
});
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Eligibility Tiers + Multipliers

The RIP-305 tiering is straightforward to implement:

function computeAllocation(stars, prs, walletBalance, walletType) {
  // Tier determination
  let tier, baseClaim;
  if (prs >= 5)      { tier = 'Core';        baseClaim = 200; }
  else if (prs >= 3) { tier = 'Builder';     baseClaim = 100; }
  else if (prs >= 1) { tier = 'Contributor'; baseClaim = 50;  }
  else if (stars >= 10) { tier = 'Stargazer'; baseClaim = 25; }
  else               { return { tier: 'None', baseClaim: 0, total: 0 }; }

  // Wallet multiplier
  let multiplier = 1.0;
  if (walletType === 'eth') {
    if (walletBalance >= 1)   multiplier = 2.0;
    else if (walletBalance >= 0.1) multiplier = 1.5;
  } else { // SOL
    if (walletBalance >= 10)  multiplier = 2.0;
    else if (walletBalance >= 1) multiplier = 1.5;
  }

  return { tier, baseClaim, multiplier, total: Math.round(baseClaim * multiplier) };
}
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UX Patterns for Multi-Step Flows

The claim flow has 5 steps. I used a simple progressive disclosure pattern:

function unlockStep(n) {
  const num = document.getElementById(`step${n}-num`);
  const content = document.getElementById(`step${n}-content`);
  num.style.opacity = '1';
  content.style.opacity = '1';
  // Enable buttons in this step
  content.querySelectorAll('button, input').forEach(el => el.disabled = false);
}
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Each step completion triggers unlockStep(n+1). No state machine library needed.

Deployment

A single index.html can be:

  • IPFS via Pinata: pinata upload index.html → immutable hash, permanently accessible
  • GitHub Pages: push to gh-pages branch, enable in repo settings
  • Cloudflare Pages: connect repo, auto-deploy on push
  • Vercel: vercel deploy --prod

For IPFS, the GitHub OAuth callback needs to be a separate serverless function (Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, etc.) since IPFS can't run server code.

Full Source

The complete implementation (HTML + README) is in the RustChain PR #678.

Total lines: ~700. Total dependencies: 0.

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