Grass Stage 2 claim is open to January 22, 2027, paid in USDC

Grass Stage 2 is in its claim phase. Rewards pay in USDC, not GRASS, through a non-custodial wallet in the Grass Dashboard. The claim opened on July 22 at 1:00 PM EST and runs to January 22, 2027, or until all claims are made, whichever comes first. Unclaimed rewards are retained by Grass.

Where it stands

Grass is a decentralized physical infrastructure network, or DePIN, on Solana. Users run a small app that shares unused internet bandwidth, and the network resells it to companies that collect web data at scale, largely to train AI models. The project reports over two million active nodes across 190 countries. Season 1 already paid out, so Stage 2 is a dated, documented distribution rather than a promise.

Anyone awarded more than 0 Network Points between October 14, 2024 and June 8, 2026 is eligible. That span covers epochs 1 to 19. Participants in restricted jurisdictions named in Grass's rewards program terms are excluded, and holding GRASS has no bearing on eligibility.

The rewards checker at app.grass.io/dashboard shows your estimate, and the dashboard wallet is the only claim path. It is managed by Turnkey, Grass says it has no custody of the assets, and you can export the wallet. Using the in-app wallet costs a $0.15 Turnkey fee per transaction plus a variable Solana network fee. MoonPay and Jupiter integrations handle off-ramps and swaps.

The claim has stayed open since our August 24 check. Cryptoticker's September 28 list called Grass the only entry with a clean closing date published from the outset. On the token side, Coinbase added GRASS to its listing roadmap on August 21 and opened GRASS-USD trading on August 26, Crypto Briefing reported. Our listing fiche tracks that thread. GRASS had slid from around $0.60 into the mid-$0.30s after the July 7 holder call, and CoinMarketCap showed it near $0.64 on October 7.

How your reward is calculated

Grass's post sets two conversion rates, both in USDC.

Grass said 1 million Network Points were awarded across the network each day. It also said 150,000 users received about 90 percent of network traffic, because the network prioritized bandwidth from stable, updated nodes in high-demand locations. Android was the highest-earning device type, followed by desktop, then the Chrome extension.

The official post gives no total for the USDC pool. Community reporting sized it in the low millions of dollars, funded from network revenue, and we cite that as reporting, not fact.

Paying in USDC rather than GRASS, with no new emissions, de-risks the claim for recipients and sidesteps securities friction across jurisdictions, as coverage of the July 7 holder call framed it. Grass said it chose USDC so that users in all eligible jurisdictions could claim in good time. The choice also means the airdrop adds no direct buy pressure. Holders who expected it to create demand got the opposite trade.

Risks and what to watch

The scam surface is the real risk. A confirmed date plus a new wallet flow is the best social-engineering setup an attacker could ask for. The official dashboard is the only claim path that exists, so every DM, ad, sponsored result and lookalike domain saying otherwise is hostile, including the well-made ones. The checklist in our scam guide applies at full strength.

Nothing rewards claiming early, so you can skip the opening-day crowd. Do not leave it, though: unclaimed rewards are retained by Grass after the deadline. Our news desk covered the announcement and claim day itself, and this page is the standing record. For a documented program that still has no date, see OpenSea's SEA entry.

What to watch:

• January 22, 2027: the claim deadline.
• Any Grass post that changes the window or the claim rules.
• Fake claim pages timed to token news.