[email protected] Airdrop Guide: Drop 1 Eligibility and Safety

[email protected] Airdrop Status on July 10, 2026

Status: ACTIVE AND ACTIONABLE OFFICIAL MILESTONE INCENTIVE PROGRAM; NO DISTRIBUTION, LIQUID TOKEN CLAIM, OR FIXED SNAPSHOT DATE YET.

[email protected] qualifies as a specific live opportunity rather than a generic NEAR retrodrop theory. Airdrops.io currently labels the NEAR Protocol listing “Ongoing” and “Confirmed,” but the decisive evidence is NEAR’s own June 11, 2026 announcement. The official post says “Drop 1 is live,” says users joining now can still increase their activity, and defines a measurable eligibility floor: a sustained confidential balance above $100 in any asset on near.com plus at least one Confidential Swap.

Drop 1 is unusual. It will distribute 333,333 milestone tokens only after aggregate Confidential Intents total value locked reaches $70 million. Those rewards arrive locked and cannot be sold or transferred. They convert 1:1 into NEAR only if NEAR’s volume-weighted average price holds at or above $3.33 for three consecutive days. Neither condition has a calendar deadline in the official announcement, and no payout is guaranteed.

This guide therefore does not promise free NEAR, a token price, or an immediate claim. Participation requires putting more than $100 of real assets into a confidential system and making a swap. That creates capital, execution, smart-contract, bridge, custody, TEE, privacy, and opportunity-cost risk. If you would not use Confidential Intents without the possible reward, or cannot afford to lose the deposited amount, skip the campaign.

What Is [email protected]?

[email protected] is NEAR’s first milestone incentive drop for users of Confidential Intents on near.com. NEAR describes milestone tokens as locked rewards that convert one-for-one into NEAR if specified ecosystem growth milestones are reached. The model deliberately differs from an ordinary retrospective airdrop that sends immediately liquid tokens for past transactions.

The program uses two gates. The first is a distribution gate: Confidential Intents TVL must hit $70 million before NEAR takes the snapshot and distributes Drop 1 milestone tokens. The second is a conversion gate: NEAR’s VWAP must stay at or above $3.33 for three consecutive days before those locked units become transferable NEAR. A participant can therefore qualify, receive an allocation, and still wait indefinitely for conversion if the price condition is not met.

Confidential Intents is the relevant product, not ordinary NEAR staking, a standard NEAR wallet transfer, or any swap elsewhere in the ecosystem. The official campaign language repeatedly specifies a confidential balance and Confidential Swap on near.com. Routine activity on a different exchange, bridge, dApp, validator, or NEAR account should not be assumed to count.

Confirmed Terms Versus Unknowns

Confirmed by NEAR

• Drop 1 is live, and users joining before the TVL trigger can still participate.

• The Drop 1 pool contains 333,333 milestone tokens.

• The snapshot and distribution trigger when aggregate Confidential Intents TVL reaches $70 million.

• Eligibility requires a sustained confidential balance above $100 in any asset on near.com and at least one Confidential Swap.

• Holdings and activity above the minimum shape the allocation, while the exact score weights are not public.

• A user can see their own score, but other users’ scores remain private.

• No wallet can receive more than 2% of the Drop 1 pool, or approximately 6,666.66 milestone tokens.

• Milestone tokens are locked, non-transferable, and convert 1:1 to NEAR only after the $3.33 three-day VWAP condition.

• Distribution occurs through Confidential Intents, and NEAR says a future round two is planned.

Not confirmed

• There is no fixed snapshot date, distribution date, conversion date, or campaign end date in the official post.

• NEAR does not disclose the score formula, relative weight of balance versus swaps, minimum holding duration, or allocation per score point.

• The announcement does not promise that every account meeting the floor will receive a meaningful allocation.

• No dollar value is guaranteed. Milestone tokens are not liquid NEAR at distribution, and NEAR’s market price can fall.

• The official post does not endorse repetitive weekly swaps, wash volume, multiple wallets, borrowed funds, or any third-party farming strategy.

• Round two is mentioned, but its dates, pool, thresholds, eligibility, and treatment of Drop 1 users are not announced.

The official page contains a noteworthy publishing inconsistency: its visible SEO title says [email protected] and the article terms use $3.33, while stale page title and Open Graph metadata contain [email protected]. The operational article body is internally consistent around $3.33. Users should still recheck the live official post and dashboard before committing funds, especially if NEAR later edits the terms.

Eligibility and Practical Requirements

The minimum public eligibility floor has two parts that must both be satisfied at snapshot: a sustained confidential balance above $100 and at least one Confidential Swap. “Above $100” is safer to interpret literally, not as exactly $100. Asset prices and swap fees can push a balance below the threshold, so a tiny buffer may reduce accidental ineligibility. That buffer remains real capital at risk and should never exceed what you can afford to lose.

“Sustained” is not defined as a precise number of hours or days. The official post says activity continues updating until the TVL criterion and that holdings and activity above the floor shape allocation. It does not publish a minimum holding period. Keeping a balance longer may affect the private score, but no article can calculate the result. Do not treat unofficial claims such as “hold for 30 days” or “swap weekly” as requirements.

Access may also depend on the live near.com onboarding flow, supported wallets, source chains, assets, countries, compliance controls, and product terms. Use only accounts and funds you lawfully control. Do not bypass region blocks, sanctions screening, identity checks, or product restrictions with a VPN, borrowed identity, or someone else’s wallet. Eligibility can be denied even when a user can technically open a web page.

Safety-First Walkthrough

1. Begin at https://www.near.org/blog/milestone-incentive-program and read the current official announcement. Confirm that it still says Drop 1 is live, the TVL trigger has not occurred, and the eligibility terms remain unchanged. If the post says the snapshot happened or distribution is complete, stop treating this guide as actionable.

2. Navigate to https://near.com by typing the address directly or using the link in NEAR’s official post. Confirm HTTPS and the exact hostname. Do not use a sponsored search result, direct message, Telegram bot, shortened URL, or reply under an X post.

3. Review the live product disclosures, terms, supported jurisdictions, chains, assets, fees, privacy model, and withdrawal path before connecting anything. Confidential does not mean risk-free, anonymous in every context, or immune from legal obligations.

4. Use a dedicated low-value wallet or supported account. Do not connect a wallet containing long-term savings, valuable NFTs, governance positions, or unnecessary approvals. Back up recovery credentials offline and never type a seed phrase or private key into near.com, a checker, support chat, or “wallet synchronization” page.

5. Connect through the official interface and inspect each signature. A login signature should not transfer assets. Reject unexplained token approvals, Permit or Permit2 messages, ownership changes, blind signatures, unlimited allowances, or transactions whose destination and effect you cannot verify.

6. Locate the official Confidential balance or Confidential Intents flow in near.com. Confirm the source network, receiving system, supported asset, deposit amount, displayed fees, minimums, and withdrawal availability. First test with the smallest amount the interface allows rather than immediately transferring more than $100.

7. Confirm the test deposit appears in the correct confidential balance and, if practical, test a small withdrawal before increasing exposure. A successful deposit does not prove withdrawals will always work, but a failed test is a reason to stop.

8. Only if the system behaves as expected, bring the confidential balance modestly above $100. Account for price volatility and fees without overfunding. Stablecoins reduce price movement but introduce issuer, depeg, freeze, bridge, and contract risk.

9. Complete one genuine Confidential Swap inside the official near.com confidential flow. Review the input asset, output asset, quote, slippage, route, fees, minimum received, and final authorization. Do not create circular volume or repeated trades solely to game an undisclosed score.

10. Open the campaign or score area reached from the official interface and confirm that your activity is recognized. NEAR says your score is visible only to you. Save the date, wallet or account, deposit and swap transaction references, and screenshots without exposing sensitive account data.

11. Maintain only the amount and duration that fit your own risk budget. Check that the balance remains above the live threshold, but do not borrow, add leverage, or chase a larger allocation. The score weights and future reward value are unknown.

12. Monitor the official NEAR blog, near.com interface, and https://x.com/NEARProtocol for the $70 million snapshot announcement. When distribution or conversion eventually occurs, follow links from those primary sources only. Never pay a third party to unlock, verify, accelerate, or recover milestone tokens.

Costs and Time Commitment

The largest cost is capital exposure. The official floor requires more than $100 in a confidential balance. This is not an entry fee, but the assets may be exposed to product, contract, bridge, chain, validator, TEE, custody, depeg, and market risks while held. There is also opportunity cost because the balance could be used elsewhere, and the snapshot date is determined by a TVL milestone rather than a calendar.

Transaction costs depend on the source chain, asset, route, market conditions, deposit and withdrawal method. Potential charges include network gas, wallet or exchange withdrawal fees, bridge fees, solver or routing costs, swap spread, slippage, and price movement. The live quote controls. A small prospective allocation can be worth less than the round-trip costs, and no allocation is guaranteed.

A careful setup can take roughly 20 to 45 minutes for source verification, account security, a test deposit, a test withdrawal if available, funding, one swap, and recordkeeping. Ongoing monitoring may take a few minutes weekly, but there is no official requirement to swap on a schedule. Time estimates are practical guidance, not campaign terms.

Set a hard cash and time budget before starting. The safest budget values milestone tokens at zero, includes the possibility of losing the entire exposed balance, and does not require repeated transactions. If the economics only make sense after assuming a high allocation or future NEAR price, do not participate.

Rewards and Allocation Mechanics

Drop 1 contains 333,333 milestone tokens. The 2% wallet cap limits a single wallet to about 6,666.66 units, but that is a ceiling, not a target or likely payout. The actual allocation depends on a private on-chain activity score built from confidential holdings and swap activity. Exact weights are deliberately undisclosed, so no public calculator can reliably estimate your share.

At the $70 million TVL trigger, eligible accounts receive milestone tokens through Confidential Intents. They cannot be sold or transferred on arrival. Their stated conversion ratio is one milestone token to one NEAR, but conversion is conditional on the separate VWAP milestone. “1:1” describes units, not dollar value. The market value of one NEAR can change before, during, and after conversion.

The design creates several possible outcomes. The TVL trigger may take longer than expected. A participant’s score may produce a small allocation. The price trigger may occur much later than distribution or may not occur. Rules can be clarified as the program develops. Even converted NEAR remains volatile. Never treat the pool size multiplied by today’s price as guaranteed campaign value.

Checker, Snapshot, and Important Dates

• Guide and status verification date: July 10, 2026.

• Official announcement publication date: June 11, 2026.

• Campaign state in the primary announcement: “Drop 1 is live.”

• Snapshot trigger: aggregate Confidential Intents TVL reaches $70 million; no fixed date is published.

• Distribution: after the TVL trigger to eligible accounts through Confidential Intents.

• Conversion trigger: NEAR VWAP at or above $3.33 for three consecutive days.

• Official personal score checker: the authenticated campaign area on https://near.com; NEAR says only the user can see their own score.

• Public token allocation checker or standalone claim URL: none identified in the official announcement.

• Round two: announced as coming, but no actionable terms or dates are published.

Do not search for a separate “[email protected] checker” and connect to the first result. Until NEAR publishes a precise external URL from near.org, near.com, or @NEARProtocol, a standalone allocation or claim page is unverified. A score display is not a final allocation, and an allocation is not liquid NEAR until the conversion condition is met.

Risks and Scam Protection

Confidential system and TEE risk

Confidential Intents introduces a different trust and failure model from a plain transparent wallet transfer. Confidential execution can involve private-shard infrastructure, trusted execution environments, software attestations, bridges, solvers, validators, and backend availability. Bugs, compromised infrastructure, implementation errors, censorship, outages, or governance changes can affect access or settlement. Confidentiality may also make public independent verification harder.

Financial and reward risk

The balance can lose value, stablecoins can depeg or freeze, swaps can suffer slippage, and withdrawals can cost more than expected. The reward formula is unknown, milestone tokens are locked, and neither milestone has a guaranteed date. A possible allocation may not compensate for losses, fees, tax, or opportunity cost. The campaign’s alignment narrative does not remove downside.

Phishing, fake claims, and impersonation

• Use near.org for the announcement, near.com for the product, and @NEARProtocol for official social updates. Check every character in the hostname and account handle.

• NEAR support does not need a seed phrase, private key, one-time password, browser cookie, remote access, or screen share to calculate a score.

• There is no official liquid Drop 1 claim today. Ignore messages saying tokens are ready, a snapshot secretly happened, or a wallet must be verified immediately.

• Do not pay activation, tax, validation, release, migration, or recovery fees to an address sent by direct message. Real network fees appear in a transaction you initiated in the official flow.

• Anyone can deploy a token named [email protected] or milestone token. The reward is described as distributed through Confidential Intents and locked until conversion; ticker and logo are not proof.

• A read-only checker should not need an unlimited token approval. Reject Permit, approval, transfer, or asset-delegation requests disguised as eligibility checks.

Privacy, compliance, and tax risk

A confidential product can still collect account, device, wallet, compliance, and transaction information, and confidentiality can have legal limits. Funding and withdrawal transactions may remain visible on public chains. Rewards can be taxable when received, converted, or sold depending on jurisdiction. Keep records and consult a qualified local professional when material.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the [email protected] airdrop confirmed?

Yes, as a live official milestone incentive program. It is more precise to call it Drop 1 of [email protected] than a standard liquid airdrop. NEAR confirms the pool and rules, but distribution and conversion remain conditional.

Can a new user still qualify?

The official announcement says users joining now can still earn a higher allocation by increasing activity until the $70 million TVL snapshot criterion is met. Recheck the live post first because this answer becomes obsolete immediately after the trigger.

What is the minimum requirement?

A sustained confidential balance above $100 in any asset on near.com and at least one Confidential Swap. The exact meaning and scoring weight of “sustained” are not published.

Do ordinary NEAR swaps or staking count?

Not according to the announced eligibility language. The campaign specifies Confidential Intents balances and Confidential Swaps on near.com. Do not assume unrelated ecosystem activity counts.

When is the snapshot?

There is no fixed date. The snapshot occurs when aggregate Confidential Intents TVL reaches $70 million. Use the official interface and announcements rather than a third-party countdown.

How much will I receive?

Unknown. Allocation depends on a private score, exact weights are undisclosed, and each wallet is capped at 2% of the 333,333-unit pool. Meeting the floor does not guarantee a large reward.

Can milestone tokens be sold immediately?

No. They arrive locked and non-transferable. They convert 1:1 into NEAR only after the three-consecutive-day $3.33 VWAP condition is met.

Is there an official checker or claim page?

NEAR says a user can see their own score in the official experience. No standalone public allocation checker or liquid claim page was identified. Enter through near.com rather than an external search result.

Should I make many swaps to improve my score?

NEAR says holdings and activity above the floor shape allocation, but does not publish weights or recommend a frequency. Repetitive volume can add fees and risk without a predictable benefit. One genuine swap satisfies the stated floor.

Why does some official metadata say [email protected]?

The official page currently has inconsistent stale title metadata, while its visible SEO title and all operational article terms use [email protected] and a $3.33 VWAP. Treat $3.33 as the published body term, but verify the live page for later corrections.

Is round two actionable?

No. NEAR says round two is coming, but its conditions are not published. This guide covers only live Drop 1 and does not speculate about future eligibility.

Official Sources

Sources were checked on July 10, 2026. The live primary pages control if any term changes.

• NEAR official campaign announcement, “Introducing [email protected]: A Milestone Incentive Program”: https://www.near.org/blog/milestone-incentive-program

• NEAR official consumer product and Confidential Intents entry point: https://near.com

• NEAR official website: https://www.near.org

• NEAR official Intents overview: https://www.near.org/intents

• NEAR official X account: https://x.com/NEARProtocol

• Third-party listing used only to identify the referenced campaign, not as authority for eligibility: https://airdrops.io/near-protocol/

Disclaimer

This guide is educational information, not financial, investment, legal, tax, privacy, or cybersecurity advice. [email protected] is live as of the verification date, but eligibility, allocation, milestone timing, conversion, access, and value are not guaranteed. Confidential balances and swaps expose real assets to technical and financial risks. Verify the current official post and interface, use a dedicated low-value wallet, never reveal recovery credentials, never bypass restrictions, and never risk funds solely for a speculative reward.