Sonic sets October 15 as final airdrop claim deadline, 32.7M unclaimed $S tokens face permanent burn

Sonic Labs has set 15 October 2026 as the final deadline for claiming its Season 1 and Season 2 airdrop allocations of the S token, with about *32.69 million unclaimed S currently locked in the airdrop contracts and earmarked for a permanent burn if not claimed by that date. After the cutoff, anyone will be able to call the burn function on-chain, and the remaining tokens will be destroyed rather than recycled into new airdrops or reminted under another program. According to Sonic’s official announcement, the unclaimed S tokens are still claimable by eligible fNFT holders through the Sonic airdrop portal until the deadline, with the claim schedule structured around two seasons. For Season 1, claims are open with a penalty until 18 April 2026, then penalty-free from 18 April to 15 October 2026; for Season 2, claims are penalized until 24 May 2026, and penalty-free from 24 May to 15 October 2026. After 15 October 2026, any S left in the contracts will stop being claimable and will instead become eligible for on-chain destruction, permanently removing them from circulating and total supply. Sonic Labs has explicitly stated there will be no additional airdrops or extra minting tied to this program, so missed allocations will not be reissued. The move is framed by Sonic as the final stage of its airdrop distribution process, designed to prevent unclaimed allocations from sitting indefinitely in legacy contracts and to put a clear end date on the initial token distribution. By hard-coding a burn path for leftover tokens, Sonic is tightening its tokenomics and providing clarity to participants about the long-term supply of S, while giving remaining eligible holders a fixed window—up to 15 October 2026—to claim via the Sonic dashboard and associated tools such as the PaintSwap fNFT orderbook.

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