Grass Stage 2: USDC Rewards, Claim Open Through January 22, 2027

This entry has completed the full arc: expected, then confirmed on July 10 when Grass published the Stage 2 mechanics on its own site, and now live, with the claim window open as of July 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM EST. Rewards pay in USDC. The window runs six months, to January 22, 2027. The checker and the claim both route through the official dashboard and nowhere else. Our news desk covered the announcement and claim day itself; this page is the tracker's standing record. One token-side update since: Coinbase Markets added GRASS to its listing roadmap on August 21, 2026, the usual prelude to a US spot listing, and our listing fiche tracks that thread separately. It changes nothing about the USDC claim documented here.

What Grass actually is

Grass is a decentralized physical infrastructure network, or DePIN, built on Solana. The pitch is simple: you install a small app, it shares the internet bandwidth you are not using, and the network resells that bandwidth to companies that need to collect web data at scale, largely to train AI models. In return you earn network points that have historically converted into rewards. The project reports over two million active nodes across 190 countries and millions of registered participants, which puts it among the most widely run consumer DePIN apps in the space. Season 1 already paid out, so the mechanism is proven rather than promised, and Stage 2 is now dated rather than dangling.

The confirmed mechanics

The official post is specific in ways this industry rarely is. Eligibility covers epochs 1 through 19, the stretch from October 14, 2024 to June 8, 2026, and the bar is earning at least 1 Network Point in that window. Allocations are computed from five factors, with actual bandwidth usage weighted most heavily, followed by application uptime, bandwidth quality, geographic location, and bonuses including referrals. Claims route exclusively through a non-custodial wallet built into the Grass Dashboard, managed via Turnkey and secured by passkey or email OTP, with MoonPay and Jupiter integrations for moving value onward after the claim.

The currency call is the consequential one. Paying in USDC rather than GRASS, with no new emissions, de-risks the claim for recipients and sidesteps securities friction across jurisdictions, per the reporting around the July 7 holder call. It also quietly rewrites the token story: the long-discussed 170 million GRASS earmark no longer describes what Stage 2 distributes, and community reporting sized the USDC pool in the low millions, funded from network revenue. We cite that pool figure as reporting, not gospel, since the official post does not state a total. Anyone who held GRASS expecting the airdrop to create demand got the opposite trade, and the token's slide from around $0.60 into the mid-$0.30s after the call reflected exactly that repricing before a partial recovery.

How to collect without getting burned

The playbook is short because the design is clean. Check your estimate now at app.grass.io/dashboard, set up the dashboard wallet, and claim any time in the six months after July 22. Nothing rewards being early, so the smart move is to skip opening day entirely and let the phishing wave crest without you. The scam surface is the real risk here: a confirmed date plus a new wallet flow is the best social-engineering setup an attacker could ask for, and the defenses in our scam checklist apply at full strength. The official dashboard is the only claim path that exists. Every DM, ad, sponsored result and lookalike domain saying otherwise is hostile, including the well-made ones. And per reporting, a token unlock in the neighborhood of $10 million lands around the same July 22 date, which matters if you hold GRASS itself rather than just a USDC claim. For the contrast case where a documented program still has no date, see OpenSea's SEA entry, which is where this page lived until last week.