Market Intelligence · Calendar Sep 21 – 27, 2026 ~12 min read

Airdrop Calendar & Tracker — Week of September 21 – 27, 2026

By Marcus Hale · Editor, AirdropStat · Published Sep 28, 2026

Every project tracked this week, sorted by status. A project appears under Confirmed only when the project itself has published a commitment to distribute to users — a stated airdrop, or a supply allocation reserved for them; once a claim date is published, it moves to Upcoming. Items under Rumored are market speculation and are marked unverified. Each row links to the source we checked — not to a claim page, which is where most phishing happens. The week's hardest date: Sonic's claim window closes October 15, and after it the contract enforces the burn itself.

1. Live — claim windows open now

Project	Ecosystem	Eligibility essentials	Deadline	Source
Kraken: Beldex ($BDX) / Humanity replacement tokens	CEX custody	Withdrawal window closed Sep 25, 14:00 UTC as scheduled; liquidation of remaining balances is now the only process running, and no action can change it	Liquidation Sep 28 – Oct 2, 2026 (proceeds may be minimal or zero)	CryptoTicker W40 (Kraken notice)
Sonic (S), seasons 1–2	Layer 1	fNFT holders from the earlier distribution at full unlock; claim via the official portal	Oct 15, 2026 (hard) — ~32.69M unclaimed S burnable by anyone after the date	CryptoTicker W40
Binance USD1 → WLFI	CEX promotion	Net USD1 across Spot/Funding/Margin/Futures; 1.2× boost at $300+ USD1 futures OI; hourly lowest-balance snapshots	Fourth and final payout due Oct 2; first three values unpublished at our Sep 28 check	Binance
Binance RLUSD → XRP	CEX promotion	Hold ≥0.01 RLUSD across Spot/Funding/Earn/Margin; hourly lowest-balance snapshots; 1.2× incremental and 1.1× Simple Earn multipliers stack to 1.3×; 60% haircut on margin-borrowed RLUSD	Campaign runs to Oct 23; XRP payouts Fridays Oct 2, 9, 16, 23 by 18:00 UTC	Binance
Grass (Stage 2)	Solana / AI data	Bandwidth-sharing epochs; claim via official dashboard; rewards paid in USDC, not GRASS	Jan 22, 2027 (hard)	CryptoTicker W40
Plume (Season 2)	Ethereum L2 / RWA	Season 2 activity-based eligibility; registration closed May 27, 2026	None published	CryptoTicker W40
dappOS (DOS)	Intent-centric infra	Phase 2 claim; DOS listed on OKX Sep 5	None published	CryptoTicker W40
GRVT	Derivatives exchange	Season 1 + 2 points; 280M GRVT over 12 tranches; users registered after Jul 17 claim manually via the Reward Portal	30 days per tranche; next date unpublished	CryptoTicker W40
Midnight (NIGHT)	Cardano sidechain	Glacier Drop claim closed Oct 2025; the thawing phase releases tokens on a schedule and accepts no new claims	Thawing runs to Dec 4, 2026 + 90-day grace (not a claim window)	CryptoTicker W38

Within the protocol-only set we count separately — six rows this week — two carry a printed end date (Sonic, Grass); the Kraken row is closed to action and running to liquidation; the rest run on clocks or without any published end date. Midnight sits outside that count: its Glacier Drop claim closed in October 2025. The WLFI and RLUSD campaigns are exchange promotions and are counted separately from the protocol rows.

2. Upcoming — confirmed dates ahead

This table is not capped at the covered week or the week after it: any date a project has officially published lands here the week we verify it, however far out it sits. Oct 15 sits eighteen days out — it appears now because that is when the date became checkable in this week's sources, and a calendar that hid it would cost you the claim window that remains open until then.

Project	Ecosystem	What is confirmed	Date	Source
City Protocol (CT)	AI / DeFi / gaming / RWA	TGE scheduled; ~$18M raised across three rounds; airdrop and listing status unpublished	Sep 28, 2026	Bitrue
Ethos Network (WHUF)	Reputation / Base	TGE completed Sep 8 after a ~$8.4M auction (1,560 participants, 20% of supply); all tokens locked 30 days; 85–90% price guarantee for vouched tokens	Tokens transferable Oct 8, 2026	TokenPost
InterLink	Identity / mobile	First-10M-Linkers reward claim live: 1 ITL, exclusive NFTs and a badge, subject to KYC, registration-date and ITLG requirements	Claim closes Oct 12, 2026	AirdropBuzz

3. Confirmed — allocation committed, no claim date yet

Project	Ecosystem	What is confirmed	Source
Variational (VAR) — new this week	Derivatives / Arbitrum	Genesis airdrop of 32% of supply, fully unlocked at TGE (Q4 2026), points-proportional, ≥1 point + signed ToS, unclaimed portions burned; ecosystem reserve 18%; team/investors 50% locked 12 months then ≥3-year linear; treasury revenue earmarked for buyback-and-burn; points program extended with 150,000 points weekly until TGE	PANews, CoinGabbar
Propr (PROPR)	Hyperliquid prop trading	Genesis airdrop of 20% supply, fully unlocked at Aug 24 TGE; claim mechanics still pending — no change found in tracked sources this week	CryptoCompass
Hyperliquid (HYPE) Season 2?	Perps L1	38.888% of supply reserved for future emissions and community rewards; no Season 2 airdrop confirmed	HiperWire

4. Rumored — market speculation, unverified

Project	Ecosystem	The rumor	Verification status
Lighter	Ethereum L2 / perps	Community expects a points-based airdrop at mainnet graduation	No official announcement; listed as "points farming" by Alpha Drops

Reminder. Rumored entries are not confirmed by the projects involved. Nothing on these rows should be treated as a fact about timing, size, or eligibility. The tier shrinks this week: both refuted year-old items (Meteora, BARD) left as their circulation faded — their debunks remain archived in the September 14 – 20 editions.

5. How to read this tracker

Statuses move in one direction: Rumored → Confirmed → Upcoming → Live → Closed. A project only advances when the team itself publishes the news. Dates shown are the ones each source published; where a deadline is derived by arithmetic (like GRVT's 30-day tranche clocks), we say so. Every external link is nofollow and points to the source we checked, never to a claim page. For claiming, always go through the project's official domain.

Changes this week: NEAR's Drop 1 converted on September 21; the CYS Alpha claim opened and completed September 23; SOON's 20.24M unlock landed September 23 and the XPL (~1.76B) and H (~266M) unlocks landed September 25, all as previously scheduled; the Kraken withdrawal window closed September 25 at 14:00 UTC with liquidation running to October 2; the Binance RLUSD-to-XRP campaign entered at Live on September 25; Sonic's claim entered at Live with its October 15 hard close; Variational $VAR entered at Confirmed on September 24; Meteora and BARD left the Rumored tier as their circulation faded; and the Week 40 source edition corrected the Grass denomination (stage 2 pays in USDC, not GRASS).

Reading across three weeks, the live-protocol set has turned over at the top while holding at the bottom: the hard-deadline slot has passed from Kraken (withdrawal, closed Sep 25) to Sonic (contract burn, Oct 15), while the undated trio has not moved in five weeks. The claim landscape is not generating new hard dates — the new hard date this week (Sonic) is an old one verified in a fresh edition — and the week's genuine additions came from two other layers: exchange promotions (RLUSD/XRP) and the Confirmed tier (Variational's 32%).

6. Tracker change log — what moved this week

Project	From	To	Trigger	Source
NEAR (NEAR@3.33 Drop 1)	—	Completed	333,333 milestone tokens converted Sep 21 after the three-day VWAP held at or above $3.33	CoinDCX
Cysic (CYS) Alpha claim	—	Completed	Third round opened Sep 23 at 250 points for 180 CYS; 24h window ran its course; pool-exhaustion data unpublished	cnyes/BlockBeats
KiiChain (KII) Alpha competition	Live	Completed	Closed Sep 25, 21:00 (UTC+8) as scheduled; top 2,000 buyers split 1,250,000 KII; payout data unpublished	Binance
Kraken Beldex / Humanity	Live (final week)	Closed (liquidating)	Withdrawal window closed Sep 25, 14:00 UTC on schedule; liquidation runs Sep 28 – Oct 2	CryptoTicker W40
Sonic (S)	—	Live	Season 1–2 claim open with a hard Oct 15 close; ~32.69M unclaimed tokens burnable by anyone afterwards	CryptoTicker W40
Binance RLUSD → XRP	—	Live	Campaign announced Sep 24, started Sep 25; $800,000 in XRP across four weekly payouts to Oct 23	Binance
Variational (VAR)	—	Confirmed	Tokenomics published Sep 24: 32% genesis airdrop, fully unlocked at TGE (Q4 2026), burn clause and lockups specified	PANews
SOON (SOON)	Upcoming	Completed	Scheduled 20.24M unlock landed Sep 23 (3.62% of circulating)	CoinMarketCap
Plasma (XPL) / Humanity (H)	Upcoming	Completed	Scheduled unlocks landed Sep 25 (~1.76B XPL, ~$158M; ~266M H, ~$19.2M)	PANews
Grass (Stage 2)	Live	Live (denomination corrected)	Week 40 edition clarifies stage 2 pays in USDC, not GRASS; claim unchanged to Jan 22, 2027	CryptoTicker W40
Meteora (MET)	Rumored (refuted)	Removed	Year-old item no longer prominent in this week's tracked sources; debunk archived in the Sep 14–20 editions	—
Lombard (BARD)	Rumored (refuted)	Removed	Year-old item no longer prominent in this week's tracked sources; debunk archived in the Sep 14–20 editions	—

7. How we verify a Rumored entry

Rumored rows are the only place on this site where no project confirmation exists, so the standard for inclusion is deliberately narrow. A project reaches Rumored when (1) the market is actively discussing it, and (2) no official source has confirmed timing, size, or eligibility. We do not add rumors based on price action, anonymous posts alone, or "will probably airdrop" heuristics. When a project publishes something, it leaves this tier — upward if confirmed, downward if refuted.

The tier's reverse also runs on evidence: Meteora and BARD leave this week not because their debunks were wrong but because neither appeared prominently in this week's tracked sources. Removal is not deletion — both refutations stay documented in the archived editions, and the pattern they represent (year-old announcements recirculating without the year) remains a standing check in our weekly process.

Sources

FAQ

1. What moved in or out of the tracker this week?

In: the Binance RLUSD-to-XRP campaign (Live, Sep 25 start), Sonic's claim window (Live, hard close Oct 15), and Variational $VAR at Confirmed (32% genesis airdrop, TGE Q4 2026). Completed inside the window: NEAR's Drop 1 conversion (Sep 21), the CYS Alpha claim (Sep 23), SOON's 20.24M unlock (Sep 23), the XPL and H unlocks (Sep 25), and the Kraken withdrawal deadline (Sep 25). Dropped from Rumored: Meteora and BARD, no longer prominent.

2. Why is the Kraken row still on the Live table if the deadline passed?

Because the consequences are still running. The withdrawal window closed September 25 at 14:00 UTC as scheduled, and liquidation of remaining balances runs September 28 to October 2. No action is possible anymore, which is exactly why the row stays: readers who see it should understand the window they missed is now a forced liquidation, not a pause.

3. Why is Sonic listed as Live when its deadline is October 15?

Because the claim window is open until October 15, 2026 — it is one of the few rows where acting still changes the outcome. After the date, the contract allows anyone to trigger the burn of roughly 32.69 million unclaimed season-1 and season-2 S tokens, with no team decision or extension required.

4. Why did Meteora and BARD leave the Rumored tier?

Both were refuted year-old items — a September 2025 Meteora announcement and Binance's 41st HODLer airdrop (BARD, listed September 2025) recirculating as current. Neither appeared prominently in this week's tracked sources, so both rows were removed; their debunks remain documented in the September 14 - 20 archive editions.

5. Which rows count toward the two-of-six deadline ratio?

The six tracked protocol rows: Beldex/Humanity (closed Sep 25, liquidating), Sonic (Oct 15, hard), Grass (Jan 22, 2027, hard), GRVT (30 days per tranche), Plume (no end date), and dappOS (no end date). Two carry a printed end date. The WLFI, RLUSD/XRP and KII exchange promotions are counted separately.

6. Is this financial advice?

No. AirdropStat publishes research and commentary for informational purposes. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or farm any token.