Nodepay Airdrop in 2026: How NC Rewards Work Now, and What Happened to the 2025 Claim

The one-off Nodepay airdrop, which paid NC for points earned in Seasons 0 to 2, ended with the token launch in January 2025. Today Nodepay pays NC through a recurring cycle instead. Under its current V2 documentation, users earn points by answering, sharing and creating market "signals". Each month the points that pass activity, verification and fraud checks convert into NC according to the user's share of the reward pool. The converted NC must then be claimed to a connected wallet. As of 25 October 2026, NC trades at about $0.00075 according to CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap.

What changed most recently

• 6 January 2026: Nodepay V2. Nodepay's official X account announced that the project was moving into "Phase 2" with Nodepay V2. The post said users reach V2 by migrating their account with the same credentials and wallet, and it pointed to docs.nodepay.ai. The documentation site carries the title "Nodepay Documentation V2".
• 30 September 2025: the pivot to signals. A sponsored Chainwire press release said Nodepay had launched a "real-time prediction signal marketplace". The release described this as a move away from a bandwidth-sharing network towards sentiment and prediction signals. The figures in that release (over 2 million downloads, users in 180 countries, 89,000 people on a waiting list) are the company's own.
• The current documentation calls Nodepay "a real-time intelligence platform that converts collective human input into actionable market insights". The bandwidth-sharing browser extension, which was the basis of the original campaign, is gone from it; bandwidth providers appear only as a possible future role.

Older guides that tell you to install an extension and leave it running describe the previous system, so start from the official docs instead.

How you earn NC under V2

The documentation lists five ways to earn during each cycle:

1. Responding to signals. You answer prompts from the Signal Engine. Nodepay aggregates the answers into sentiment data called Node Signals.
2. Sharing signals. You post active prompts outside the platform. X is the only channel the docs name.
3. Creating or suggesting signals.
4. Joining insight campaigns run by projects.
5. Engaging with Node Pulse, the live feed that explains changes in market sentiment.

These actions earn "Signal Points / Node Points", which feed into your Score Card. The Score Card rates signal accuracy, consistency, quality of participation, sharing impact and overall contribution. A higher score can bring higher reward multipliers and better eligibility for the monthly conversion.

The monthly cycle

• Points are added up at the end of each cycle.
• Each account is checked for minimum activity, verification status and fraud.
• Eligible users receive NC in proportion to their share of the reward pool.
• The NC has to be claimed to a connected wallet. It can then be withdrawn to a personal Solana wallet, staked on-chain or spent inside the platform.
• Signal Points reset after each cycle, so they do not carry over.

Enhanced verification or identity checks cost "a small fee", according to the docs.

Is staking required?

Nodepay's V2 documentation presents staking as a way to get "extra perks, boosts, and long-term benefits", and as the basis of future roles such as validators. It does not make staking a condition for earning. An airdrops.io listing, last updated 22 April 2026, says "token staking is now mandatory for all reward earnings"; the official docs set no such rule.

In August 2025, before V2, Nodepay announced a "Tier 3 Gold" level for its Signals programme. Blockchain.news, citing Nodepay's X post of 11 August 2025, reported the terms as 10,000 NC staked or two approved Signals, 200 to 400 signal points a day, and 2,000 points per approved suggestion.

The original airdrop: what happened in 2024–2025

• A snapshot was taken on 26 November 2024. Points from Seasons 0, 1 and 2 of the points campaign were converted into NC (CoinMarketCap Academy).
• Nodepay's official X account announced the final airdrop checker, covering Seasons 0, 1 and 2.
• NC was listed on 6 January 2025, and trading began on 14 January 2025 (CoinMarketCap Academy).
• Claims went through claim.nodefoundation.ai (CoinMarketCap Academy). Treat it as a historical address and connect a wallet only through links posted on Nodepay's official channels.
• According to CoinMarketCap Academy, Nodepay removed more than 300,000 bot accounts in its Season 1 review and cancelled 17 billion illegitimate points.

NC tokenomics (from Nodepay's documentation)

Total supply is fixed at 1,000,000,000 NC, and the initial circulating supply was 208,000,000. The token runs on Solana, at contract B89Hd5Juz7JP2dxCZXFJWk4tMTcbw7feDhuWGb3kq5qE.

Locked investor and team tokens cannot be transferred or staked during lock-up. NC can also be spent inside the platform, for example on verification, signal creation, campaign tools and sponsored signals. NC holders get a say in governance.

Price and market data (25 October 2026)

The two aggregators disagree on circulating supply and on the all-time high, so the market cap figures differ as well. Either way, the token trades more than 99% below its peak. A small allocation of NC is worth very little at these prices.

Funding and backers

On 26 December 2024, Nodepay said in a PR Newswire release that a second funding round had brought its total raised to $7 million. The named investors included IDG Capital, Animoca Brands and JUMP Crypto, and the release claimed more than 1.5 million active users at that time.

Safety checklist

• Use links from Nodepay's official X account (@nodepay_ai) or docs.nodepay.ai. Claim pages are a common target for copies built to drain wallets.
• Never enter a seed phrase on any claim or staking page.
• Check the token contract above before you hold or move NC.
• Expect a small fee for enhanced verification, and confirm the amount inside the app before you pay.