Crypto Airdrops in Week 40: The Deadlines Running Right Now Week 40 opens with one deadline already under way and one that decides everything in a good two weeks. Since today, September 28, 2
Week 40 opens with one deadline already under way and one that decides everything in a good two weeks. Since today, September 28, 2026, the crypto exchange Kraken has been liquidating the residual holdings of the Beldex and Humanity tokens whose payout deadline expired on September 25, and it runs until October 2. Anyone affected can no longer withdraw anything, but does have to document. The one deadline this week where acting still changes something is October 15: on that date 32.69 million unclaimed Sonic tokens will be burned. That is 17 days from today.
This overview lists the airdrops that either have a claim window open this week or a fixed date. Every figure comes from the source linked in each case, retrieved on September 28, 2026. Where a project has published no end date, that is stated explicitly; there are no estimated deadlines here. The state of play from the previous week is in our piece on the airdrops of week 39.
One correction to previous weeks belongs right at the front, because it concerns a widespread misconception: the stage 2 rewards from Grass are, according to the project, paid out in USDC and not in GRASS. There are expressly no new token issues behind them. Anyone who has been waiting there for an allocation of the project token is waiting for something that is not coming.
This is the most important entry of the week, because it has the rare feature this format is actually looking for: a hard end date, published for months, with an unambiguous consequence. Sonic Labs announced on April 2, 2026 that all unclaimed airdrop shares from season 1 and season 2 would be released for burning after October 15, 2026. According to the project, around 32,690,000 S are affected. When the announcement was retrieved again on September 28, 2026, it carried no indication of any extension or change.
The mechanism is the reason nothing gets renegotiated here: once the deadline passes, the contract allows any address at all to trigger the burning of the remaining holdings. No further decision by the team is needed and no second announcement. The date is October 15, and after that it can happen at any moment; anyone hoping for a quiet extension of the kind many claim portals grant is hoping for something the technology does not provide for.
Two different start dates for the discount-free claim matter for context: for season 1 it has been running since April 18, 2026, for season 2 since May 24, 2026, both up to October 15, 2026. Before that, claiming came with a reduction. Anyone who held off out of fear of the discount is by now waiting for no reason. Claims go through the project's portal at my.soniclabs.com/airdrop, and for positions held as fNFTs additionally through the marketplace set up for that purpose. The announcement with all the details is in the Sonic Labs blog.
A word on expectations: that so many tokens remain unclaimed after a year and a half is not an oversight by a few individuals but the rule. A substantial share of every allocation is never collected, because the wallet was forgotten, the amount was small or the announcement went unnoticed. If you were active on Sonic in 2024 or 2025, a look at the portal is due now, rather than in the week before October 15, when gas fees and portal load typically pick up.
This entry is no longer a claim this week but a documentation task, and it appears here because the liquidation window falls squarely in these days. Both projects were attacked in June 2026, both rolled out a new token contract in response and distributed the replacement one for one to holders as at the record date. Kraken handled the distribution for its customers and credited it automatically. An airdrop you did not have to claim can expire all the same.
The key data differ by project. For Humanity, the snapshot was on June 8, 2026 at 17:25 UTC, and the new $HUMANITY was credited on July 1, 2026 at 14:00 UTC. For Beldex, the snapshot was on June 10, 2026 at 23:36 UTC, and the new $BELDEX was credited on July 10, 2026 at 14:00 UTC. Four tickers are affected at Kraken rather than two: the old $H and $BDX and the new $HUMANITY and $BELDEX.
The payout was closed on September 25, 2026 at 14:00 UTC. Whatever was still in the account after that goes into the liquidation running from September 28 to October 2, 2026. The exchange itself sets out the expectation unusually plainly: liquidation prices could come in considerably below the reference prices last seen, and with thin liquidity at the moment of execution the proceeds could be minimal or zero. Nor can it commit in advance to the currency any proceeds arrive in. When the notices were retrieved again on September 28, 2026, both dates were unchanged; nothing had been extended.
In practice, for those affected: secure the account statement and the transaction overview now, before the positions disappear from the interface. A forced liquidation by the exchange is an event subject to tax documentation, even though you did not trigger it. The details are in the exchange's notices on Humanity (H) and on the Beldex migration.
Grass remains the only entry on this list with a clean closing date published from the outset. The claim has been running since July 22, 2026 at 13:00 EST, and the window ends on January 22, 2027. Whatever has not been claimed by then stays with Grass, according to the project. A good two of the six months have passed, leaving just under four.
The most important clarification relative to our previous weeks concerns the form of payment: the stage 2 rewards are distributed in USDC, and the project states expressly that this distribution creates no new GRASS tokens and leaves the circulating supply unchanged. Anyone who expected the allocation as a token airdrop in the narrower sense should know this, because for tax classification the difference between a stablecoin payment and a token allocation is not immaterial.
Eligible are wallets that contributed bandwidth between October 14, 2024 and June 8, 2026, epochs 1 to 19 of stage 2. The allocation is visible after signing in to the dashboard; no separate application is needed. The only legitimate place to look and to claim is the dashboard at app.grass.io/dashboard. The project points out expressly that it never contacts anyone unprompted, never asks for a seed phrase or private key and offers no verification through other sites. The terms are in the project documentation on the stage 2 distribution.
The derivatives exchange GRVT held its token generation event on July 30, 2026 and is distributing 280 million GRVT in total. The distribution runs in tranches over twelve months, and every unlocked tranche has a claim window of 30 days. If it expires, the tranche is permanently lost according to the project's account; it does not roll into the next one, and the project says it makes no exceptions.
This is the most awkward entry on the list, because there is no published unlock schedule. When the help page was retrieved again on September 28, 2026, it carried no date for any coming tranche either. For allocation and timing the project refers solely to the reward portal in your own account. The calendar is therefore individual, and there is no public place where you could look it up.
Two dates are easy to confuse here. Only the first tranche due is paid out automatically, and even that only with a TGE registration before July 17, 2026. Anyone who signed up later, and registration was possible until July 27, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, has to claim every tranche themselves according to the wording of the help page, each within 30 days. Practical advice: look into the reward portal once, put the end date given there in your calendar, with a reminder a few days ahead. The rules are on the GRVT help page.
Two entries carry over unchanged from previous weeks, and both share the same problem. At Plume (season 2), the points programme ended on March 31, 2026 and registration ran until May 27, 2026; anyone who missed it is excluded, and there is no way to catch up. The claim has been running through the official portal since the end of May, and Plume has at no point named an end date. Secondary reports circulate a period of around three months that would have expired at the end of August; that figure does not come from the project, and we carry it here only because it is circulating, expressly not as a deadline.
At dappOS, phase 2 has been running since August 11, 2026, in which eligible wallets can claim transferable DOS. A phase 3 has been announced, though without a date, and the project has published no end for the phases so far either. The only correct route is the claim portal on the project domain.
The conclusion is the same for both, and it matters more than any assessment of token value: a claim with no published end date is not a claim with unlimited time. It is one whose closure does not have to be announced. Anyone eligible claims rather than waits.
This section is the more important part of the research. The following candidates were checked this week and deliberately left out:
Alongside that, the standing rule of this format: projects listed as "live" on aggregator sites but naming neither a snapshot nor a claim window at the project source do not get in. "Airdrop confirmed, date open" is not a deadline. And a second principle joins it this week: an offer that the provider itself excludes for the EU is no candidate for this list, however large the headline figure sounds.
Airdrops are the preferred hunting ground for wallet drainers, and the patterns repeat:
The question that follows every successful claim is a practical one: what to do with an allocation that is not listed on any large exchange? Most freshly distributed tokens are low-cap assets with a thin order book. The first step is therefore stocktaking rather than selling: where is there any liquidity at all, and what does getting there cost you? Tools such as Dexscreener or TradingView show prices, trading volume and liquidity, but they execute no orders themselves; they answer whether a sale makes sense, not how it runs. Anyone selling through an exchange will find the differences in fees and withdrawals in our comparison of crypto exchanges; anyone wanting to hold the tokens for longer should not leave them sitting in the claim wallet. And the necessary warning belongs right beside it: trading meme and low-cap tokens is highly risky, volatility is extreme, and a total loss is possible at any time. Commit nothing here whose loss would hurt you.
If you want to read into the subject rather than just working through deadlines: how airdrops work, who is typically eligible and how to spot a disreputable campaign is set out in our guide to crypto airdrops. Current quotes for the tokens concerned are in our crypto price overview.
An airdrop is not by definition a tax-free gift. Whether the allocation is to be treated as other income under Section 22 number 3 of the German Income Tax Act depends above all on whether you provided something in return, which is also how the still authoritative Federal Ministry of Finance circular of March 6, 2025 draws the line, and nothing about it has changed to this day. Three cases from this week show why that is more than theory. In the Kraken case, the inflow of the replacement token in July and the liquidation now under way have to be kept apart, and a forced liquidation by the exchange is an event subject to documentation even though you did not trigger it yourself. In the Sonic case the question runs the other way: a burn of unclaimed tokens is neither a sale nor a loss you could claim. And with Grass, the payout in USDC is not a token swap for a project token but an inflow in a stablecoin, and that too needs to be recorded correctly from the start.
So when you claim, save the time, quantity, market value, price source, transaction hash and the terms of participation right away. Experience shows the terms are the first thing to vanish when a campaign page is switched off. The LAPTOP case in this piece is the object lesson: the project domain is a domain sales page today, and the original terms went with it. Which details count individually is set out in our guide on the data to save immediately after receiving an airdrop. That unsold tokens can trigger a tax liability too is explained in our piece on unsold airdrops and tax liability without a sale.
Week 40 has one task that counts and one that is only bookkeeping now. The one that counts: October 15. After that, 32.69 million unclaimed Sonic tokens are released for burning, triggerable by any address at all. This is not a portal you can still reach later if it comes to it, and it affects considerably more people than are aware of it. A look into the Sonic portal costs five minutes and is the most worthwhile action on this list if you were active there in 2024 or 2025; 17 days remain.
The other one: at Kraken, the liquidation of the Beldex and Humanity remnants runs from today until October 2. Acting is no longer possible, documenting is, and the exchange says itself that little or nothing may come of it. Anyone affected should secure the account statement now.
The remaining entries are for watching: Grass with the only clean closing date on January 22, 2027 and a payout in USDC instead of project tokens, GRVT with a 30-day window per tranche whose calendar sits only in your own account, plus Plume and dappOS with open windows and no published end.
The methodological finding of the week sits in the "not included" section and comes in two parts this time. The most widely shared claim date of the week was a year old. And the most prominent new airdrop is excluded for the European Union by its own provider, as stated in that provider's own notice rather than in the advertising around it. A date that appears only in reports about the date is not a documented date; and an offer that is not open to you is not an opportunity.
Disclosure: some of the providers named in this article work with us through partner programmes. This has no influence on the editorial assessment.
(As of September 28, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Deadlines and terms of participation change; check them with the provider before taking part.)
