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- After being open for 90 days, the claiming period for 100,000,000 SXT in Chainlink’s community rewards program comes to an end today.
- Any tokens you don’t grab this round won’t just sit around; they’ll get rolled into future reward seasons.
On May 8, Chainlink (LINK) kicked off its very first Chainlink Rewards program, teaming up with Space and Time (SXT), a decentralized database network that uses zero‑knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) to securely process and analyze data for smart contracts.
Space and Time has been part of the Chainlink Build program since September 2022, making it one of the earliest projects to integrate deeply with Chainlink’s services. This partnership lets Space and Time deliver ZK‑verified queries directly to smart contracts, fast, secure, and verifiably.
The Chainlink team has posted on X with an urgent reminder: “Less than 24 hours left for all eligible LINK stakers to claim a portion of the 100M SXT made available in Chainlink Rewards: Season Genesis.”
This Season Genesis airdrop allows eligible LINK stakers to claim 100 million SXT tokens, that’s 2% of the total 200 million SXT allocated to the Chainlink ecosystem and 4% of SXT’s entire 5 billion supply.
The claim window opened May 8, 2025, and runs for 90 days, which means it’s set to close today, August 6. Miss the deadline, and your unclaimed tokens will be gone for good.
However, they won’t vanish entirely. Instead, any leftover tokens from this round will roll over into future Chainlink Rewards seasons, giving others another shot down the line.
Eligibility: Do You Qualify?
Chainlink Build is an initiative designed to accelerate the growth of early and established projects by offering technical support, custom solutions, and deep ecosystem collaboration. By making tokens claimable through Chainlink Rewards, Build projects can strengthen their communities and encourage greater participation.
To qualify for the Season Genesis airdrop, you needed to have staked LINK before the snapshot taken on March 31, 2025, using either Chainlink Staking v0.1 or v0.2. Both past and current (active) stakeholders are included, as long as their wallet address appeared in the snapshot.
If you’re using a multi‑sig wallet like Gnosis Safe, you’ll need to delegate to another address to make your claim. Rewards are divided into two parts: a variable portion based on how much LINK you staked and for how long, and a fixed portion shared equally among everyone who meets the eligibility criteria.
On top of the airdrop buzz, Chainlink just announced a flagship product: Data Streams for the U.S. Equity and ETF markets. Big DeFi names like GMX, GMX Solana, and Kamino are already using it.
These Data Streams deliver real-time, on-chain pricing for traditional finance assets like CRCL, QQQ, NVDA, MSFT, and more, spanning 37 blockchain networks. Developers now have direct, real-time access to market data, enabling them to build tokenized stocks, perpetual futures, and synthetic ETFs with confidence, backed by the same reliability trusted by institutions.
Chainlink is also ramping up its presence in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. Most recently, it rolled out a multi-chain version of Tether Gold (XAUt) in collaboration with Hyperlane on August 4, expanding access to gold-backed digital assets like never before.
