Midnight's NIGHT airdrop thaw ends December 4. The last 25% installments are landing now
NIGHT claimed in the Glacier Drop and Scavenger Mine unlocks in four 25% steps, and Midnight says the whole thaw ends December 4, 2026. NIGHT trades 64% below its record.
2026's biggest airdrops: $809 million claimed, 9 of 11 tokens below first close
On-chain data compiled by Bitquery puts 51 large EVM airdrops this year at $809.4 million and 2.02 million claiming wallets. Most claimers moved their tokens within a day, and CoinGecko prices show only Backpack and Espresso above their first daily close.
Backpack gave users 25% of BP and insiders nothing. BP is up 285% from its first close
Backpack airdropped 250 million BP to points holders and Mad Lads owners on March 23, 2026, worth about $57 million at CoinGecko's first daily close. No team or investor tokens unlocked, and the next 37.5% of supply unlocks only when the company hits growth milestones.
MegaETH's MEGA is down 73% since launch. Who really got the 15% 'community' share?
MegaETH launched MEGA on April 30, 2026, after hitting the first of four network milestones. At least a third of its 15% community allocation was sold at auction, MegaETH has not said how much was given away free, and 53% of supply still waits on future milestones.
82,671 wallets claimed Brevis' BREV airdrop. 45% of the claim pot was never collected
Brevis opened its BREV claim on January 6, 2026, after a points campaign, a Kaito leaderboard and a Binance HODLer drop. The Ethereum claim contract still holds 45% of its 20 million BREV, and the token trades about 77% below its first daily close.
Jupuary 2026 never landed: 75% of JUP votes shelved a 700 million JUP airdrop
Jupiter's yearly airdrop was due to start with 200 million JUP in early 2026. Stakers voted on February 22 to park all 700 million tokens in a locked community wallet instead. No new vote has been called since, and JUP now trades about 41% above its close that day.
Polymarket has no POLY token. So why is it still pursuing a POLY trademark?
Polymarket's help center says it has announced no airdrop and no token launch, and that all rewards are paid in pUSD. Meanwhile a February application to trademark "POLY" for crypto token services is still alive, with a reply filed on November 2.
MetaMask's points season ended in LINEA allocations. It has "no plans" for a MASK token
MetaMask Rewards Season 1, from October 28, 2025, to January 23, 2026, gave users above 1,000 points a LINEA allocation. LINEA now trades about 28% below its price on February 23, when MetaMask said the claim window had closed, and the help center says there is no $MASK token plan and no next season, only short campaigns paid in mUSD.
FDV vs market cap: how to read a token's supply, with HYPE's 4x gap as a guide
Market cap is price times the tokens circulating today. Fully diluted valuation (FDV) is price times the whole supply, including locked tokens. The gap between them shows how much supply is still to come.
Token unlocks explained: cliffs, vesting and why unlocked does not mean sold
A token unlock is when tokens locked at launch, usually for the team, investors or a treasury, become free to move. Unlocks add to circulating supply and dilute holders, but an unlocked token is not a sold one: Hyperliquid insiders claimed far less HYPE than they could.
Binance Launchpool and HODLer Airdrops explained: how BNB holders earn new tokens
Launchpool pays a new token hour by hour to people who lock BNB or stablecoins; HODLer Airdrops pay one after the fact to people who held BNB in Simple Earn during a past window. Both depend on your share of a pool, and both carry price risk.
What is a TGE? Token launch day explained, and why most supply stays locked
A TGE, or token generation event, is the moment a crypto project creates its token and the first slice starts to circulate. Airdrop claims and trading usually begin then, while team and investor tokens stay locked for months or years.
What are points programs in crypto? How they work and why points are not tokens
A points program scores what users do on a crypto product, such as deposits, trades or referrals, and usually hints that points will later become tokens. Points are not tokens: the project decides if, when and how they convert.
How crypto airdrops work, and how to spot the scams that copy them
An airdrop is a free drop of tokens to wallets, usually as a reward for early users. Real airdrops never ask for your seed phrase. Most scams instead trick you into signing a transaction on a fake claim site.
StandX cancels its token and shuts down. Users get one DUSD payout of unknown size
The perpetuals exchange on BNB Chain and Solana dropped its token plans, switched trading to close-only and opened a one-time DUSD airdrop claim on October 31, 2026. It has not said how big the pool is, and the claim closes on December 31.
PREDICT sale done, trading on hold: Binance postpones Predict.fun's launch, no new date
The BNB Chain prediction market sold PREDICT on Binance Wallet on October 29, then Binance Alpha and spot trading were postponed hours before launch. The airdrop claim is frozen too, and nobody has said why.
Pharos' PROS airdrop is closed. Unclaimed tokens go to the foundation, not a burn
The 180-day claim window ended on October 25, 2026. Unclaimed PROS returns to the Pharos Foundation, only 13.6% of the 1 billion supply circulates, and Pharos has not said how many tokens came back.
Variational will give users 32% of VAR, fully unlocked. Why did the launch slip to Q4?
The derivatives protocol behind the zero-fee Omni app, backed by a $50 million Dragonfly-led round, pushed its token launch to Q4 2026, citing unnamed partnerships. Points farmers are still earning 150,000 points a week.