Cardano Opens Midnight Airdrop Claim Portal for XRP and ADA Users

The Cardano ecosystem team has launched the claim portal for the Glacier airdrop, opening up the first phase of the Midnight (NIGHT) distribution.

Following the launch, 33.6 million eligible addresses across eight major blockchains can now claim their free NIGHT tokens on the portal. The supported blockchains include XRP Ledger, Cardano, Solana, Bitcoin, BNB, Ethereum, Basic Attention Token, and Avalanche.

Notably, the Glacier airdrop portal went live just a day after Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson teased its launch in a cryptic tweet. It was captioned “tomorrow kids” and was accompanied by a GIF, which reads “So it begins.”

How to Claim NIGHT

Users can claim their tokens in four steps. The first step involves visiting the claim portal and connecting the “origin address.” It is worth noting that the origin address is the same as the one that qualified for the airdrop.

Upon connecting this address, users can provide a destination address to receive the free NIGHT allocations. To complete the claim, users must accept the terms and conditions and also sign the transactions.

Phases of NIGHT Airdrop

The Glacier Airdrop, which is the first phase of the claim, will last 60 days. Once this phase ends, the Scavenger Mine–the second phase–will commence immediately for the next 30 days.

During this phase, users are required to complete computational tasks to earn a share of unclaimed tokens. Eligible users who missed the Glacier airdrop and Scavenger Mine will be presented with another opportunity to claim their tokens in a subsequent phase dubbed Lost-and-Found. Any unclaimed tokens after this event will be allocated to the Midnight treasury.

ADA Holders Remain Biggest Gainers

Although the Glacier Airdrop supports addresses from major blockchains, Cardano users will receive the lion’s share. As previously reported, 50% of NIGHT’s token supply, equivalent to 12 billion tokens, is reserved for ADA holders. 20% of the supply, translating to 4.8 billion tokens, will be allocated to eligible users on the Bitcoin network.

The remaining 30% supply, or 7.2 billion NIGHT, will be split among Avalanche, XRPL, Solana, Basic Attention Token, BNB, and Ethereum users, with each network receiving 1.2 billion tokens.

Accordingt to sources, Over 33 million addresses are eligible:

ADA: 1,072,307

BTC: 17,562,278

XRP: 2,213,942

ETH: 7,862,092

SOL: 3,465,122

BNB: 1,213,677

AVAX: 227,793

BAT: 24,605

Users’ individual holdings of eligible tokens at the time of the snapshot will determine the amount of tokens they will receive.