NEAR Protocol Airdrop: Earn NEAR Rewards (2026)

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NEAR Protocol airdrop details

[email protected] Drop 1 is finished and was paid in $NEAR. NEAR has confirmed more milestone drops and named the next one [email protected], but as of 17 October 2026 it has published no rules, pool size or date for it.

Drop 1 snapshot: taken 15 September 2026, when confidential TVL on near.com reached $70 million
Drop 1 payout: 333,333 NEAR sent straight to qualifying near.com accounts on 21 September 2026, after the NEAR VWAP held at $3.33 for three days
Next drop: [email protected], teased on 26 September 2026 with no pool, trigger or date
Eligibility: not published for [email protected]. NEAR says each future milestone is calibrated to higher community activity than Drop 1
Claim path: your near.com account. NEAR named no separate claim site for Drop 1

Warning: a site that asks you to connect a wallet to claim [email protected] or [email protected] is not one NEAR has pointed to. Drop 1 rewards were credited inside near.com.

Latest update: [email protected] Drop 1 paid out, [email protected] next

There is nothing left to do for Drop 1: if you qualified, your NEAR has been in your near.com account since 21 September 2026. NEAR announced the snapshot on 15 September 2026, once confidential TVL reached $70 million. The price condition followed within a week, when NEAR posted that the $3.33 VWAP had held for three days and the NEAR was distributed. On 26 September 2026 it posted “[email protected] next.” with no rules attached. Confidential TVL kept growing after the snapshot: NEAR put it at $150M+ on 13 October 2026. We’ll add the [email protected] rules here when NEAR publishes them.

How to get set up on near.com before [email protected]

NEAR has not said which activity [email protected] will count. The steps below are what Drop 1 counted. Drop 1 also counted activity from before it was announced. Treat any deposit as money you’re happy to keep on near.com with no reward attached.

Step 1: Open near.com and create an account

Go to near.com and sign in, or create an account if you don’t have one yet.

Step 2: Fund your account

Deposit any supported asset from one of the 30+ chains near.com connects to. If you don’t hold anything to deposit, buy USDC on Bybit and send it to near.com, or bring funds over from another chain with the bridge widget below.

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Step 3: Move funds to your confidential account

Switch from your Main account to your Confidential account on near.com and move the funds across. Once the transfer completes, that balance is no longer visible on the public chain.

Step 4: Make a confidential swap

Swap any pair from your confidential balance. The swap runs on NEAR’s private shard, so the amount and the pair are not recorded on the public NEAR blockchain.

Step 5: Follow NEAR on X for the [email protected] rules

Follow NEAR Protocol on X, the account that posted the Drop 1 snapshot and payout. Check any [email protected] rule you read elsewhere against that account.

[email protected] Drop 1 rules (Ended)

We kept these for anyone checking whether they should have been paid. They are the rules from NEAR’s [email protected] announcement of 11 June 2026.

The pool was 333,333 milestone tokens, locked and non-transferable on arrival
The snapshot fired when aggregate Confidential Intents TVL hit $70 million
Eligibility: a sustained confidential balance above $100 on near.com in any asset, plus at least one confidential swap. Holdings and activity above that floor shaped the allocation
Score components were public but the weights were not. Each user could see only their own score
No wallet could receive more than 2% of the pool, about 6,666 tokens
Tokens converted 1:1 into NEAR once the NEAR VWAP held at or above $3.33 for three consecutive days

near.com launches confidential perps

Perpetuals on near.com have been confidential by default since 17 September 2026. They run on Hyperliquid with 50+ markets and up to 40x leverage, funded from any asset on any chain. NEAR has not said whether perps activity will count toward [email protected]. Perps are not available to US persons or in other restricted jurisdictions. Leveraged trading carries a real risk of losing the position.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I still qualify for the [email protected] airdrop?

No. NEAR took the Drop 1 snapshot on 15 September 2026 and paid 333,333 NEAR to qualifying near.com accounts on 21 September 2026. Activity after the snapshot does not count for Drop 1. The next round NEAR has named is [email protected]. Its rules are not out yet.

How do I claim my [email protected] rewards?

There is nothing to claim. NEAR sent Drop 1 straight to qualifying near.com accounts, so log in to near.com and check your balance. NEAR has not pointed to any separate claim site, so treat a site that asks you to connect a wallet for [email protected] as unofficial.

When does [email protected] start?

NEAR has not said. Its only public word so far is a post on 26 September 2026 reading “[email protected] next.” There is no published pool, trigger, eligibility rule or date. NEAR’s 11 June 2026 blog post said future drops would be announced as their conditions come into reach.

Do I need $100 in a confidential balance for the next drop?

Nobody knows yet. A $100 confidential balance plus one confidential swap was the floor for Drop 1. For later rounds NEAR wrote that each milestone will be calibrated to higher community activity and that “the floor moves up”, so expect a higher bar than Drop 1’s.

How much NEAR did each wallet get from [email protected]?

NEAR has not published per-wallet amounts. The pool was 333,333 NEAR and no single wallet could receive more than 2% of it, which caps any one wallet at about 6,666 NEAR. Allocation depended on confidential balance and activity above the $100 floor, with weights NEAR kept private.

Conclusion

If you farmed Drop 1, check your near.com balance and you’re done. If you missed it, there is nothing to catch up on yet: [email protected] has a name and no rules. Parking $100 on near.com now is a bet that NEAR rewards early activity again, which it did for Drop 1, against the chance that the next floor lands well above $100. We’d only deposit money we’d hold there anyway. Confidential balances sit on a NEAR private shard run by permissioned validators and bridged to mainnet, a different trust model from NEAR in your own wallet. For other plays while you wait, see our $500 airdrop farming plan, the 2026 airdrop tier list or the airdrop claims open now. If anything here goes out of date, tell us with the Report an Issue button on this page.

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What is NEAR Protocol?

NEAR Protocol is a sharded layer-1 blockchain built around cross-chain execution and privacy. Its main consumer interface lets users swap assets across 30+ chains without manually bridging or managing gas on each network. It has raised over $607 million in total funding and targets high throughput with low fees.

The protocol’s defining feature right now is Confidential Intents, launched in February 2026. Transactions execute inside a NEAR private shard backed by Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), keeping amounts and counterparties hidden until settlement.

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