Airdrop Calendar & Tracker — September 28 – October 4, 2026

The weekly snapshot of every tracked claim, by status, with a source link on every row. This week: nine live rows led by Sonic's October 15 contract burn; the Kraken Beldex/Humanity rows move to an explicit Liquidating status with a dated-window conflict printed in full; two newly dated upcoming events (Ethos, InterLink); and a change log that includes a ticker correction — City Protocol's token is $CIT per its own documentation, not CT.

Live

How to read the Live tier: the nine rows split into three urgency classes. Rows 1–2 are expiring value — Sonic's burn (Oct 15) and Grass's close (Jan 22, 2027) are the only protocol claims in the entire tracked set with hard, contract- or announcement-backed end dates, which is why they lead the table. Rows 6–9 are published exchange campaigns — their pool sizes are operator-stated facts, and their windows (Oct 13, 16, 23, 30) stack so tightly that October 16 alone closes two of them. Rows 3–5 are open-ended — no printed end date means no expiry risk but also no urgency signal, and the 30-day per-tranche clocks on GRVT (280M GRVT over 12 months) are the only internal timing mechanism. A row's position in this tier is a statement about information available, not about value; "none printed" is a data limitation, not a guarantee.

Liquidating

Upcoming — confirmed dates

Tracker-added October entries that we could not independently confirm: Apyx (APYX) TGE October 13 and Soul Protocol (SO) mainnet October 19 — listed by Bittime's TGE tracker without dated primary announcements (Bittime).

The Upcoming tier carries a status discipline worth noting: rows 1–2 are claim-side events where an action (or its absence) has a consequence — Ethos's unlock is automatic but changes what holders can do with 1,425 wallets' worth of supply, and InterLink's close is a use-it-or-lose-it deadline. Rows 3–5 are supply-side schedule entries — no action available, relevance limited to market context — and they are included because this week's data report tracks their absorption. The tier deliberately excludes the two tracker-added entries (Apyx, Soul Protocol) from the numbered table itself: without a dated primary announcement, a date is a lead, and leads do not get rows until the project confirms.

Confirmed — TGEs and allocations

Rumored — unverified

Meteora and BARD remain out of this tier — both published structures that make a near-term retroactive airdrop claim unverifiable, and nothing this week changed that.

What moved between the tiers this week

Six movements, in order of consequence. One status change: Beldex/Humanity from live-claim to Liquidating — the tracked set's first row ever to reach that tier, and the reason the tier exists as a category at all. One correction: City Protocol's ticker, fixed against the project's own documentation ($CIT, not CT) — a reminder that the Confirmed tier's "confirmed" attaches to the source, not the event. One completion: Concrete's TGE executed Sep 30 and moved from upcoming coverage into the Confirmed table with same-day listings on three venues. One addition: the renewed USD1/WLFI campaign entered Live as a fifth-round row, replacing the closed round it extends. Two dated rows: Ethos (Oct 8) and InterLink (Oct 12) entered Upcoming with printed timestamps, plus the three unlock schedule entries (ENA, HYPE, APT) that are context rather than claims. Nothing left the tracked set entirely this week — the first week since this tracker began that no row was retired.

The tier structure itself is the methodology: Live means a claim or campaign is running and actionable now; Liquidating means the disposition mechanism has taken over and the claimant's remaining options are passive; Upcoming means a dated event is confirmed by a primary or named source; Confirmed means the project's own materials establish the structure (allocation, supply, mechanics) even where execution timing is unverified; Rumored means third-party narrative without project confirmation. Rows move down the structure on evidence and move back on corrections — the City Protocol row is this week's worked example of both.

Reading the movements: what the tier shifts actually signal

The six movements above are not a flat list — they describe a market in a specific phase. Two patterns stand out. First, the direction of motion is mostly upward this week: Concrete entered Confirmed, two dated rows entered Upcoming, and a fifth campaign entered Live. Downward motion was limited to a single row (Beldex/Humanity) reaching the terminal Liquidating tier. That is the profile of a market where more structures are being created than retired — consistent with the broader September trend of new TGEs and new campaigns outnumbering completed or failed ones. The fact that no row was retired for the first time since tracking began is the same signal read from a different angle: nothing aged out, because the cohort keeps growing.

Second, the movements expose where the measurement risk lives. The City Protocol correction is the cautionary case: a row can be "Confirmed" by a tracker while the underlying event (the Sep 28 TGE) has no accessible primary confirmation. We keep the row in Confirmed but anchor it to the project's own documentation rather than the tracker, and we explicitly flag the execution gap. The Beldex/Humanity liquidation is the opposite risk — a row whose dates disagree across sources (Kraken's own Oct 2–9 vs third-party Sep 28–Oct 2), where we print both and treat the exchange as primary. Both cases are why this tracker assigns a tier and a source to every row rather than a single "yes/no confirmed" flag: the confidence is carried by the source link, not asserted in the headline.

The practical consequence for a reader is simple. If you are tracking a live claim, the Live and Upcoming tiers are the actionable ones — and the two printed hard deadlines (Sonic Oct 15, Grass Jan 22 2027) are the only dated rows where inaction has a published cutoff. Everything in Liquidating, Confirmed, or Rumored is either passive (Kraken), structural (Concrete, City), or unconfirmed (Lighter) — worth watching, but not something a claimant acts on this week.

Change Log

• Kraken Beldex/Humanity → Liquidating. Withdrawals closed Sep 25, 14:00 UTC. Window printed two ways: Oct 2–9 (Kraken notice; still running at publication) vs Sep 28 – Oct 2 (earlier third-party reporting). Both kept; exchange notice treated as primary.
• City Protocol ticker corrected. Official documentation names the token $CIT (10B supply; 17.9% TGE unlock; 1% airdrop fully unlocked at TGE). The CT label came from third-party trackers and collides with Concrete. TGE execution on Sep 28 remains unconfirmed in accessible sources.
• Concrete (CT) TGE executed Sep 30 — moved out of the upcoming tier into Confirmed, with same-day Binance Alpha/OKX/HTX listings and a two-batch trading competition (Oct 1–15).
• New live row: Binance's renewed USD1/WLFI campaign (Oct 2–30), the fifth round, with a first-ever USD1 tranche in Stage 2. The closed Sep 4 – Oct 2 round's fourth distribution (Oct 2) again carried no published value — 4 of 4.
• Upcoming dated rows added: Ethos WHUF (Oct 8, 15:00 UTC, automatic), InterLink (Oct 12, 23:59 UTC), plus the early-October unlock events (ENA Oct 5, HYPE Oct 6, APT Oct 11).
• Unchanged: Sonic (Oct 15) and Grass (Jan 22, 2027) remain the only two printed end dates among the six tracked protocol rows — 2 of 6 for a second consecutive week.

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