The date we have been pointing at for two weeks is finally today. The Grass Stage 2 claim opens this afternoon, July 22 at 1:00 PM EST, through the non-custodial wallet built into the official dashboard, and it pays USDC to anyone who earned at least one Network Point between October 14, 2024 and June 8, 2026. Nothing about the mechanics has changed since Grass published them on its own site earlier this month, which is itself worth saying out loud: no last-minute date slip, no currency surprise, no new conditions. In a niche where confirmed claims routinely wobble at the finish line, a distribution that arrives exactly as documented is the exception, and Grass has earned the small credit that comes with it.

The practical facts fit in a paragraph. Eligibility covers epochs 1 through 19, and the rewards checker at app.grass.io/dashboard has been live for over a week, so your allocation estimate is already visible in the Allocation tab. Claims route exclusively through the dashboard wallet, which is managed via Turnkey and secured by a passkey or an email one-time code, with MoonPay and Jupiter integrations available for moving value onward once the USDC lands. The window stays open six months, until January 22, 2027, and whatever is left unclaimed after that reverts to Grass. Community reporting around the launch sizes the pool at roughly $3 million in USDC, funded from network revenue; the official post never states a total, so we carry that number as indicative rather than gospel.

Figure 01The only legitimate claim path, per Grass's official Stage 2 post. Every other route is hostile.

Why waiting a week is the sharp move

Opening day is the worst day to claim, and not because of the usual gas-war logic. Allocations are fixed by the snapshot, the payout is a stablecoin, and the window is six months long, so there is literally nothing to gain from being early. What opening day does concentrate is risk. A dated, confirmed, widely publicized claim is the single best setup phishing operators get all year, and the hours around 1:00 PM EST today are their harvest window: sponsored search results imitating the dashboard, lookalike domains, DMs offering to help you claim, fake support accounts responding to anyone who complains about congestion. Every one of those is hostile, including the polished ones. The defenses in our scam checklist apply at full strength today, and the shortest version is this: the dashboard you type by hand is the entire universe of legitimate claim pages, and anyone who contacts you about your claim is an attacker by definition.

There is also a second-order reason patience costs nothing. First-day claim flows occasionally hit congestion or teething bugs, and the people who get burned in those windows are the ones improvising under time pressure, approving prompts they did not read carefully. Letting the first wave crest, then claiming into a quiet dashboard on a random Tuesday in August, produces the same USDC with a fraction of the exposure.

What claim day means for the token

Holding a Stage 2 allocation and holding GRASS are now two fully separate positions, and today mostly matters for the second one. The USDC payout adds no direct buy pressure for the token, a repricing the market worked through violently after the July 7 holder call, when GRASS slid from around $0.60 into the mid-$0.30s before recovering part of the loss. Reporting around the launch also flags a token unlock in the neighborhood of $10 million landing around the same July 22 date, which stacks fresh supply on a day the airdrop narrative delivers no offsetting demand. None of that touches claimants, whose rewards are denominated in a stablecoin precisely so they would not have to care. Our standing record for the program lives in the Grass Stage 2 tracker entry, now marked live, and the next scheduled beat is simple: six months of open window, then a January deadline that will matter only to people who forgot today happened.