The countdown to the second season of Grass Airdrop claims begins: How do USDC rewards work?

Grass Season 2 Airdrop Collection and Wallet Launch Dates and Reward Guide

The network's second phase of rewards covers 19 cycles, but the currency issued is not what most airdrop hunters expect. If you contributed bandwidth between October 2024 and June 2026, your final allocation may depend on a metric that is rarely tracked. Here are details about how the pickup window actually works that are not mentioned in most summary articles.

What happened to Grass's second-quarter airdrop rewards

On July 7, token holders and network participants held a meeting to discuss the situation in the first half of 2026. At the meeting, the team announced the allocation mechanism for the second-quarter rewards. Unlike early expectations, this round of rewards will be issued in the form of USDC (U.S. dollar stablecoins) rather than tokens.

The eligibility range covers the 1st to 19th cycles, which run from October 14, 2024 to June 8, 2026-this is actually the deadline for points accumulation. During this period, any user with network points greater than zero will be eligible to participate, provided that the user is not located in a restricted jurisdiction.

The project has made it clear that this distribution will not result in any new token issuance because it is funded entirely from network revenue, not negotiated inflation.

Why the Grass reward structure is important to traders

The holders 'meeting was held against the backdrop of widespread disappointment in the community. Airdrop trackers like CryptoLakhan have pointed out that many participants gained nothing after SoSoValue's second season distribution, which itself attracted complaints that the reward amount was lower than expected in the early stages.

This background is crucial here. The network reported revenue of $17 million in the first half of 2026, almost seven times the figure for the first half of 2025, and said it was profitable at a monthly cost of approximately $2 million to $3 million. For the full year of 2026, revenue from training data sales alone is expected to reach $65 million to $75 million, and the company is also preparing to launch its "real-time context retrieval" product late this summer-a shift that means moving from purely training data to real-time reasoning.

For those who follow the news, this revenue-supported structure is a noteworthy detail: unlike inflation-based token rewards, this payment method does not dilute the circulating supply. It is also a signal for the broader ecosystem, because sustainable, income-supported rewards are rarer than inflationary rewards.

Key details: collection steps, dates and wallet launch

Collection opening hours: July 22, 2026, 1:00 pm EST, via the dashboard.
Season 2 Airdrop Collection Date Window: lasts for six months, or until all rewards are collected.
Deadline for collection: January 22, 2027-Unclaimed rewards will be retained.
Payment assets: USDC, calculated based on a comprehensive calculation of network points and online duration points.

At the same time as the distribution, the wallet's launch message confirmed that an unmanaged, application-embedded wallet will be launched in mid-July. The wallet is built on Turnkey's back-end infrastructure and integrates MoonPay and Jupiter for funds transfer and redemption. If users choose to use an in-app wallet, they will pay a Turnkey fee of $0.15 per transaction, plus dynamic Solana network fees; users can export the key to an external wallet at any time.

Device type can also affect earnings. Android devices receive the highest reward multiple (10x network points, 3x online time points), followed by desktop devices (5x and 2x), while using the Chrome extension gets the standard multiple.

How are USDC rewards calculated?

Combining the two credit types:
Internet credits (contributed bandwidth) are exchanged for US$0.0049 each, and desktop devices receive 5x rewards and Android devices receive 10x rewards, both higher than the standard magnification of the Chrome extension.
Online duration points (connection quality, geographical location, recommendations) are only redeemed for US$0.00000007 each, and desktop devices receive 2 times rewards and Android devices receive 3 times rewards. However, the biggest factor is the actual bandwidth used-weighted based on real-time network needs.

This is why 150,000 users with high online hours and high demand geographical locations captured approximately 90% of the total traffic and rewards in the second phase.

Next things to watch on the timeline

In the second phase, approximately 150,000 users captured approximately 90% of total network traffic, mainly due to online duration, connection stability and the needs of specific geographical areas-a signal that rewards are centralized, rather than total participants, are likely to recur in a future phase.

In addition, the platform has confirmed that its "Grasshopper" hardware device project will no longer advance and resources will be reallocated to the launch of the LCR (Real-Time Context Retrieval) product.

In terms of online exchanges, since late October 2024, the token has been traded on multiple exchanges including Kraken, Bitget, MEXC and Crypto.com. As for today's Grass coin price, its trading price is in the range of US$0.38 to US$0.40, and its market value is close to US$250 million-although it is far below the historical high of more than US$3.80 in November 2024, it has risen significantly from its 2026 low.

In terms of token economics, the network has only raised funds through tokens since its creation, has not made any equity financing, and has no intention of introducing such financing-a structure the team said retains value within the network rather than in a separate corporate entity.

Conclusion

The collection window that will open on July 22 marks a shift in the reward mechanism to an income-supported, stablecoin-based payment model rather than additional issuance of new tokens. The collection window is open for six months and has a deadline of January 2027. For holders, the real question is not only the size of the reward amount-but also whether advancing reasoning data can make this pattern continue beyond the second quarter.