Token Airdrop Weekly Data Report — Week of September 14 – 20, 2026

1. Week-over-week: the third comparison, and the first reversal

Two prior editions established the baseline and the first comparison; this third edition adds a data point where a series finally moved against its own direction. Each figure below names its source, and where a metric's definition shifted between weeks, the shift is stated rather than hidden.

2. The Alpha threshold series: the first non-rising week

Every reference point in BlockBeats' series rose until this week. On September 16 the threshold opened at 240, and on September 17 it opened at 235 — both below the 246 that opened the prior week's Block Street wave. That is the first non-rising observation in the sequence we track. It is one week, and one week is not a trend, but it is the first crack in a monotonic story. The invariants held throughout: the fixed 15-point claim cost, the 5-points-per-5-minutes decay, and the 24-hour confirmation rule. The KII competition is a different shape entirely — a volume contest with early-bird and emerging-trader multipliers rather than a claim event, which is why its column is a structural n/a rather than a number.

3. Deadlines: the ratio holds, the composition is unchanged

Counting note: the Week 38 edition lists the same five protocol rows as Week 37 — Beldex/Humanity (Sep 25, hard), Grass (Jan 22, 2027, hard), Plume (no end date published), dappOS (no end date published), and GRVT (30 days per tranche, next date unpublished) — of which two carry a printed end date. That is the same two-of-five ratio as the prior two weeks, on the same list, which is itself the finding: the claim landscape has stopped moving. What moved this week was the reporting around it — the edition corrected its own earlier Humanity wording (a project-run portal does exist) and its Grass elapsed-months figure, and added XDAO to exclusions.

4. Unlocks: Sei's mid-month release

The mid-month cadence held: Sei's release landed on the 15th, as its monthly schedule implies, at roughly the same 1.1–1.5% of supply the prior months carried. The figure we present most cautiously is the historical drawdown average, and the caution is the point — a 12.9% mean drawn from seven events is a describing statistic, not a predicting one. Different recipient classes sell differently, markets absorb supply differently across regimes, and a quarter in which every number is negative is exactly the kind of sample that tempts readers to treat a mean as a law.

5. The WLFI second distribution: the gap becomes a pattern

The campaign commitment is unchanged: 150 million WLFI across four weekly distributions (September 11, 18, 25, October 2) to eligible USD1 holders, calculated from daily lowest-hourly-balance snapshots with a 1.2× multiplier above 300 USD1 of daily futures open interest and a 70% haircut on USD1 borrowed against other stablecoins. What changed this week is that a second distribution date passed — September 18 — without the announcement's value columns being filled. At our September 21 check, the accessible version of the announcement still showed placeholder fields ("to be updated") for both the first and second distributions' effective APR and WLFI token value.

We therefore again publish the commitment (unchanged, token-denominated) and the gap (unmeasured), and nothing in between: no estimated payout, no assumed APR, no converted dollar figure. For context only, and clearly labeled as such: the campaign's pool has shrunk across the year's extensions — 235 million WLFI in a February–March round, 178 million in a June–July round, and now 150 million — and third-party coverage of recent rounds has referenced a boosted APR near 6.33%. Neither figure is a published outcome of the September 11 or 18 distributions to us, and neither substitutes for the missing value.

6. What we do not count

• Tokenless launches as distributions. ARC's September 16 mainnet is logged as an infrastructure event and as a zero in every distribution column. A $74-billion-stablecoin settlement layer launching with no native token is the week's largest event and contributes nothing to airdrop supply — which is exactly the data point.
• Self-reported metrics. Project-site figures — users, developers, testnet volume — appear only as self-reported claims, never as market data, and are excluded from every table on this page.
• Unlock projections as flows. The Sei drawdown average and next week's SOON figure are models and history, not measurements of realized flows. We report the date as fact and the size as an estimate.
• Claim events as completed outcomes. DGAI and APM claims opened and their confirm windows ran, but neither Binance nor the projects has published pool-exhaustion or payout-distribution data. We count the events; we do not count the results.

7. Methodology — how this report is built

Every figure in this report is traced to a named source in the Sources list, and each comparison column states a metric's definition so a reader can verify the change rather than trust it. Three rules keep the series comparable week to week. First, the Alpha claim-cost invariants — 15 points per claim, 5 points lost per 5 minutes of delay, 24-hour confirmation — are treated as constants; when one moves, the move is the headline, not a footnote. Second, distributions that publish no value are logged as a commitment and a gap, never as an estimate: a placeholder field in an official announcement is read as "not yet measured," and we will not fill it with a guess. Third, tokenless launches and self-reported project metrics are kept out of the measurement columns — Arc appears as a zero in every distribution row precisely because it launched with no token to distribute, and project-site adoption figures never enter a table we present as market data.

Sources

1. DGrid AI (DGAI) Alpha airdrop terms — BlockBeats (Sep 16, 2026), TechFlow (Sep 16, 2026)
2. apM Fashion (APM) Alpha listing and claim — Binance Wallet (Sep 17, 2026)
3. KiiChain (KII) Alpha trading competition — Binance announcement (Sep 18, 2026)
4. Alpha threshold series — BlockBeats (Sep 10, 2026); DGAI threshold — BlockBeats (Sep 16, 2026)
5. ARC mainnet launch and USDC-gas, tokenless design — Circle press release (Sep 16, 2026)
6. Binance USD1→WLFI campaign terms and pending distribution fields — Binance announcement; pool history and boosted APR context — CoinDesk
7. Kraken Beldex/Humanity deadline, tracker rows, and Week 38 corrections — CryptoTicker W38, Crypto World Headline W38
8. Sei September unlock and historical impact — Bitrue, Tokenomics.com
9. SOON unlock timing — Bitrue

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