Backfill entry Dating honesty: Extended's points program has been running since April 29, 2025, and its eToro-led funding round closed on July 2, 2026. We are adding this entry in August 2026 for tracker completeness, because a capped program this far along was a hole in our airdrops board, not because anything new happened this week.

Most points programs on this board are open-ended: farm forever, hope the snapshot lands kindly. Extended is the rare one with a visible ceiling. The Starknet perpetuals exchange has distributed points every Tuesday since April 2025, the community's signaled share is about 30 percent of eventual token supply, and the total points pool is capped at 70 million after slashing. Per Bitrue's guide to the program, cumulative distribution had already reached the high 60 millions by mid July 2026. In plain terms: this farm is in its late innings, and that changes the calculus for anyone arriving now.

What Extended is, and why the backing matters

Extended comes from Revolut alumni and trades like something built by people who shipped consumer finance products. It runs a hybrid central limit order book on Starknet, supports deposits from Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BSC, Avalanche and Polygon, and lists more than 100 markets at up to 100x leverage. The unusual part is what those markets are: alongside the standard crypto perps sit equities, FX, commodities and indices, which puts Extended closer to the everything-exchange thesis than most of its DEX peers. The project has raised about $19 million, and the round that matters came on July 2, 2026, when eToro led a $12.5 million raise with Jump Crypto and Alber Blanc participating. A retail brokerage of eToro's size writing that check is a real signal about where it thinks perp DEXs sit in the stack, and it is also the kind of cap table that makes an eventual token launch more likely to be run carefully, with lawyers, rather than not at all.

Figure 01The Extended program so far, per airdrops.io and Bitrue's guide. The ceiling is the story.

The points mechanics reward two profiles. Traders earn from genuine weekly volume, with distributions landing every Tuesday at 00:00 UTC and airdrops.io listing up to 1.2 million points per week in the current phase. The passive lane runs through Extended's vaults: deposit USDC, receive XVS vault shares, and earn the liquidity side of the program without taking directional risk. Referrals add a smaller stream on top. The enforcement side mirrors what we described on the Pacifica entry: wash trading and mirrored positions get slashed, which on a capped program is doubly painful, because slashed points free up room in a pool your competitors are still filling.

Why expected, not confirmed, and how to size it

The signals here are stronger than a pure maybe. A community allocation near 30 percent is reported consistently across trackers, the points pool has a published ceiling, and the EXT ticker circulates in every guide. But Extended has not published tokenomics or vesting, has named no TGE date beyond a general 2026 target, and its own terms state that points create no entitlement to any particular allocation. That is a project keeping every legal option open, which is exactly what we would expect from a team with eToro on the cap table, and it is why this entry sits at expected rather than confirmed. The distinction is not pedantic; our farming guide exists precisely because programs at this stage attract capital sized for the best case rather than the fine print.

The sizing logic follows from the cap. With the pool nearly full, a newcomer's realistic share of 70 million points is small, and buying it requires paying perps fees and carrying leverage risk on a young venue. If you already trade perps or hold idle USDC you were going to deploy anyway, routing some of that through Extended is a cheap lottery ticket on a program with more structure than most. If you do not, manufacturing volume this late in a capped race is the worst version of the trade. And the endgame reflex applies in full: a program this close to its ceiling will spawn fake claim pages the moment TGE rumors firm up. There is no claim today, no date, and no official tokenomics; until Extended's verified channels say otherwise, every EXT claim link is hostile. Peers like Lighter show how quickly a perp DEX points program can convert into a real, valuable token; nothing about that precedent obligates Extended to match it.

How to position yourself

  1. Trade on Extended only with size and leverage you would use anyway; points follow genuine weekly volume, and perps losses can dwarf any future allocation.
  2. Prefer steady weeks over bursts: distributions land every Tuesday at 00:00 UTC, and with the total pool capped at 70 million points, late heroic volume buys less than early consistent volume did.
  3. If you want the passive route, deposit USDC into Extended's vaults for XVS vault shares, which earn the liquidity side of the program without directional trading.
  4. Do not wash trade or mirror positions; the program slashes artificial volume, and treat any EXT claim page as a scam until Extended's official channels announce a token generation event.

Reality check None of these steps guarantee an allocation. Teams change criteria late, add anti-sybil filters, and sometimes never ship a token at all. Only spend time and gas you are fine writing off.