17 Days to Expiry: Pharos Closes the Claim Portal for the PROS Airdrop on October 25

The Pharos airdrop expires on October 25, 2026. Anyone who has not collected their PROS by then will not get them later: in its own claim notes, the project states that unclaimed tokens revert to the Pharos Foundation after the cut-off date and that the airdrop page closes afterwards. Counting from today, October 8, that leaves 17 days.

No one can carry out the step that matters on your behalf. It takes a few minutes, no extra tokens and two actions: connect your wallet to the claim portal and press a button. A deadline like this is almost never missed out of laziness, but because nobody sent a reminder.

In German, this date has so far appeared only as a line item in weekly round-ups. This article answers the questions that come before it: who is eligible in the first place, how the claim works, what to make of the fake sites doing the rounds, and which tax rules apply in Germany.

The deadline: what happens to unclaimed PROS on October 25, 2026

The schedule appears in the claim portal's user guide and splits into three stages. Registration ran from April 23 to April 25, 2026, followed by a preparation phase until April 28. The claim phase has been open since April 28 and ends on October 25. Those are the 180 days the project cites in its FAQ.

Airdrop, in brief: an airdrop is a free allocation of tokens to selected addresses, usually as a reward for early use of a network. The allocation does not arrive in the wallet by itself. As a rule, you have to go and collect it.

Two things about this deadline deserve attention. First, the project gives no time of day for October 25. The final day is therefore not a point you can plan around, and waiting until the evening means relying on an assumption. Second, the wording provides for no extension and no grace period. The project's own advice is to claim as early as possible.

Who is eligible: the four groups in the Pharos airdrop

According to the project and the trade press covering it, four groups qualify. First, testnet participants who completed tasks and daily check-ins there. Second, contributors to the "Stake Before the Stake" campaign. Third, Discord community members holding an assigned role. Fourth, users who took part in the quests through the OKX wallet campaign.

The fourth group is why this date matters to German-speaking holders. OKX promoted the PROS distribution to European users in German in May 2026. If you joined then and lost track of it afterwards, you may be sitting on an allocation you no longer remember.

Holders who qualify several times over are consolidated into a single entitlement, according to reporting on the registration launch. So there is one collection, not several. If you believe the eligibility result is wrong, you can appeal through a form in the portal; the project explicitly provides for that route.

Instant claim or lock-up: the multipliers expired long ago

At registration in April, every eligible holder could pick one of two routes. One was immediate collection from April 28. The other was a voluntary lock on the allocation in return for a bonus: 30 days paid 1.05 times, 60 days 1.12 times and 90 days 1.2 times the original amount. Anyone who made no selection during registration was assigned to immediate collection, according to the project.

For today, that has a reassuring consequence. Even the longest lock of 90 days from April 28 ended in late July. Whichever route you picked back then, your tokens have been unlocked for months and the claim button is ready. There is no waiting period left, only the deadline.

The 0.05 PROS gas fee is already sitting in your wallet

A common obstacle with airdrops is the network fee: collecting requires a balance in the right network, and anyone without one fails at the final button. Pharos headed that off. The claim fee is 0.05 PROS, according to the project, and that amount was allocated to eligible wallets in advance.

So you do not have to buy tokens to get at your tokens. Connect the wallet, accept the terms, collect. Being that clear about it is not a given, and it removes one of the classic stumbling blocks from the deadline.

The claim route at Pharos: how to proceed now

The process comes down to a handful of moves, and the first one matters most.

Open the claim page directly. Type the portal address into your browser bar yourself, or use a link you have already confirmed through the project's official channels. Do not use a search ad and do not use a link from a private message.

Connect the right wallet. The eligible address is the one you used at the time on the testnet, in the campaign or in the Discord promotion. Any other address will show you no balance, even if it belongs to you.

Read the screen before you confirm. The portal shows your allocation and the collection method you chose. Only then comes the confirmation in your wallet.

Confirm the tokens arrived. After collection, the amount shows up in your wallet and in the network's explorer. Reconciling it takes a minute and saves you wondering whether the transaction went through.

We saw the same pattern at a recent expiry deadline: the article on the Sonic claim deadline of October 15 describes the identical sequence for a different project.

Fake claim pages: how to tell the real address apart

A publicly announced expiry date is a gift to fraudsters. The date is fixed, the target group is known, and haste lowers caution. The usual scheme is a copied page under a similar-sounding address, plus an ad placed above the genuine search result or a direct message with a friendly note about the closing deadline.

Three rules keep you clear of it. One: the route to the portal always runs through the official project address, never through an ad and never through a message that approaches you. Two: a genuine claim never asks for your recovery words, your private key or an upfront payment. Three: read the approval your wallet puts in front of you. An unlimited approval for an unfamiliar contract has no place in collecting an airdrop.

If you already keep your credentials and approvals away from your everyday device, you have the shorter lever here. For the devices that do that job, see the hardware wallet comparison.

Region blocking in the claim portal: what Pharos says about restricted regions

One point to settle before the final day: the project notes in its FAQ that access to the airdrop page may be blocked in certain regions for compliance reasons. Detection is based on the IP address, and the full list of affected regions sits in the terms, according to the portal.

Which countries are on it cannot currently be documented from the source, because the linked terms page is unreachable. In practice: open the portal early enough and see whether it lets you in. If access fails, you still have time for the project's appeal route. On October 25, you will not.

Tax in Germany: the inflow of an airdrop and your tax return

For tax purposes, an airdrop is not a gift without consequences. In Germany, the treatment depends on whether something was given in return for the allocation, such as completing tasks on a testnet or in a campaign. That is precisely what applies to this airdrop's eligibility groups, which is why the rules are worth a look before you collect.

We have written up the detail in our guide to the taxation of crypto airdrops. A binding assessment of your own case comes from a tax adviser, not from an article.

In practice, one thing counts above all: record the date of the inflow, the number of tokens and the price on that day. Reconstructing that price later is laborious, and without it you have no basis for any subsequent calculation.

PROS after the claim: price, circulating supply and the weight of the expiry

To put the scale in context: PROS trades at around 0.67 US dollars on Wednesday morning, roughly 0.60 euros. Market capitalisation stands at a good 90 million dollars, which earns the token rank 311 in the overall market. Circulating supply is 135.6 million PROS out of a total of one billion. Daily turnover comes to just under 3.9 million dollars. The price has fallen well back from its high of 1.13 dollars, and sits clearly above its low of around 0.32 dollars.

Two readings follow. If you are eligible, an allocation in the hundreds of tokens is worth a two-figure euro sum, and proportionally more for larger allocations. For the market, the thin daily turnover leaves little room if many eligible holders collect and sell at the same time shortly before the cut-off. No price target follows from that, and none of these figures is a reason to rush a decision you were going to take anyway.

Pharos airdrop: after October 25 everything goes to the Foundation

An expiry deadline is the simplest way to lose money: by doing nothing. The countermeasure costs a few minutes, and the window closes in 17 days.

1. Find out today whether you are eligible. Connect the wallet you used back then on the testnet or in the campaign to the official portal and look at the result.
2. Collect the tokens as soon as you see them. Do not wait for a better price, because an expired deadline has no price. What you do with them afterwards you can decide at leisure, for instance through one of the venues in our overview of crypto exchanges.
3. Write down the inflow date, the number of tokens and the price straight away. You need those three figures for your tax return. For the tools that track them automatically, see the comparison of tax and portfolio tools.

(As of October 8, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)