When we published our Grass tracker entry on July 8, the honest summary was uncomfortable: a real program, a documented allocation, and two open questions that mattered more than everything else combined, the date and the currency. Both are now closed. In an official post on its own site dated July 10, Grass laid out the full Stage 2 rewards mechanics, and the follow-through has landed since: the claim opens Tuesday, July 22 at 1:00 PM EST, the payout is in USDC rather than GRASS, and the rewards checker is already live on the dashboard. We have upgraded the tracker entry accordingly, and this piece is the heads-up ahead of the date, because a confirmed claim window is exactly when the scam traffic peaks.
What the official post settles
The mechanics are unusually specific for this industry, which is welcome. Stage 2 covers epochs 1 through 19, the stretch from October 14, 2024 to June 8, 2026, and anyone who earned at least 1 Network Point in that window qualifies for something. 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. The claim window runs six months, from July 22 to January 22, 2027, and rewards left on the table after that revert to Grass rather than being redistributed.
The currency decision is the bigger call. Rewards pay in USDC, with no new GRASS emissions involved, which resolves the conflict we flagged between the foundation's GRASS-denominated documentation and community reports of a stablecoin payout. Reporting around the July 7 holder call framed the choice as regulatory pragmatism, letting users in more jurisdictions claim without securities friction, and the same reporting put the pool in the low millions of dollars funded from network revenue. Treat the pool-size figure as unofficial; the currency and dates come straight from Grass. Claims route through a new non-custodial wallet built into the dashboard, managed by Turnkey and secured by passkey or email OTP, with MoonPay and Jupiter integrations for moving value out afterward.
USDC payout, epochs 1 to 19 confirmed.
Non-custodial, passkey or email OTP.
Via app.grass.io/dashboard only.
Unclaimed rewards revert to Grass.
How to play the next six days
The practical read is mostly about restraint. The checker is live now at app.grass.io/dashboard, so eligibility and estimated allocation can be verified today, from the dashboard you already use, without signing anything new. That is the only address that matters. A dated, confirmed claim is the single best phishing setup in crypto, because urgency does the attacker's work: expect sponsored search results, lookalike domains and DM links to multiply between now and Tuesday, all of them following the patterns in our scam checklist. The six-month window is the antidote. Nothing about this claim rewards being first, so there is no reason to click anything in the opening-day noise.
Two footnotes for context. Community reporting after the July 7 call had GRASS selling off hard, from around $0.60 toward the mid-$0.30s before a partial recovery, a reminder that a USDC payout removes the airdrop as a source of token demand even as it de-risks the claim itself. And reporting also points to a token unlock in the neighborhood of $10 million landing around the same July 22 date, which is worth knowing if you hold the token rather than just the claim. Neither changes the farmer's math: bandwidth already shared between October 2024 and June 2026 is now worth a defined amount of stablecoin, claimable from one official page, with half a year to collect it. By the low standards of airdrop communication, that is about as clean as these things get.
