Sentient Airdrop Portal Opens: Eligibility, Season 2 Details

Sentient has launched its airdrop registration portal, allowing contributors to check their eligibility for rewards tied to the project's development. The portal opened recently and will remain accessible until November 29, 2025, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, giving users a limited window to connect their accounts and verify participation.

Understanding Sentient's Mission

Sentient focuses on advancing open-source artificial general intelligence, aiming to keep it free from dominance by any one organization. At its core is the GRID, a system designed to make AI tools discoverable, combinable, and shareable among users. Interfaces like Sentient Chat let people interact with these features, and the team plans to release the full source code soon, enabling anyone to modify and enhance it. 

Beyond that, Sentient Labs pushes forward research in areas such as cryptographically secure controls, efficient data retrieval, and orchestration methods, with some work presented at major conferences like NeurIPS. This approach emphasizes community involvement and transparency in building AI that benefits a broad audience.

The Airdrop's Purpose and Structure

The airdrop distributes $SENT tokens to those who have actively supported Sentient's growth, from testing features to sharing insights. It prioritizes real contributions over automated farming, using multiple layers of checks to ensure fairness. 

While exact allocation amounts remain undisclosed during registration, the process confirms whether users qualify based on past activities. Roughly 2% of the airdrop goes to external researchers, highlighting the project's commitment to collaborative progress.

Who Qualifies: Eligibility Breakdown

Eligibility spans several groups, each evaluated on specific metrics to reward genuine engagement. Here are the main categories:

• Community Members: This includes Discord participants who created content in areas like art, development, education, or support during Season 1. Users advanced through levels—Early, Advanced, and Sentient AGI—based on consistent input. About 1,067 individuals hold qualifying roles, drawn from a server that saw over 17 million messages and more than 162,000 unique pieces of content shared globally.
• Sentient Chat Users: Qualification here relies on three factors: meaningful queries that show thoughtful interaction (excluding short or generic inputs), regular usage over time with emphasis on recent activity, and constructive feedback that highlights issues and suggests fixes. The beta phase attracted over 290,000 unique users, handling 22 million queries and maintaining around 50,000 monthly actives. A multi-step validation process, including AI analysis and manual reviews, filters out ineligible entries.
• Top Voices and Yappers: Social contributors on platforms like X (formerly Twitter) are assessed on sustained efforts, including post volume, reach, engagement, and overall influence. The review avoids strict cutoffs, incorporating a wide range of participants while excluding bots. Ongoing yappers may earn rewards in future seasons, and a share of tokens is set aside for top stakers in partner projects like Kaito, which aids in data and promotion.
• Open-Source Researchers: External experts who collaborated on Sentient's work—through reviews, datasets, evaluations, or building upon its outputs—also qualify. This covers independents, academics, and lab-based professionals who helped refine tools like scalable fingerprinting or grounded search systems.

Those who fit these descriptions should gather their relevant accounts, as the system cross-references them for confirmation.

Step-by-Step Registration Guide

To participate, head to the official portal at https://airdrop.sentient.xyz/, as shared on Sentient's verified channels, to avoid scams. 

First, sign in and link the wallet associated with your contributions. Next, connect your Sentient Chat account via Google, followed by your Discord and X profiles. 

A crucial step involves verifying proof of uniqueness through partner Billions, which uses a one-time selfie to generate a zero-knowledge proof confirming you're a single individual; the image isn't stored, preserving privacy. 

Finally, review all connections and submit. Remember, you can't add accounts later, so include everything upfront. If issues arise, seek help in Discord's dedicated channels like #airdrop-faq or #airdrop-support-tickets, but limit queries to technical matters.

This setup ensures allocations reach authentic users, with built-in filters blocking multiple entries from the same person.

Safeguards Against Abuse

Sentient has implemented robust anti-Sybil measures to maintain integrity. The registration limits connections to one of each account type per user, and the Billions verification adds a human-element check without compromising data security. Curators reviewed lists to eliminate farms and bots, focusing rewards on verifiable impacts. These steps align with the project's ethos of equitable distribution.

Season 2 and Future Opportunities

As Season 1 wraps up, Season 2's Community Grants program is already underway, incorporating feedback for improved clarity and equity. Contributions since November 1, 2025, count toward progress, and existing role holders from the prior season gain a competitive edge. New roles centered on contributions will emerge, alongside diverse rewards such as $SENT tokens, NFTs, and merchandise.

The evaluation timeline starts with applications opening mid-month, closing at the end, and results announced the following week. The initial round kicks off in mid-January 2026, with monthly cycles thereafter. Yappers and Kaito stakers could see additional allocations here. Sentient encourages ongoing involvement through its Discord server, where users can join discussions and track updates. This evolution promises a more structured path for contributors to shape open AI advancements.

Overall, the airdrop marks a milestone in Sentient's journey, rewarding past efforts while setting the stage for broader participation. As the project expands, these initiatives could foster even stronger community ties in the pursuit of accessible AGI.

Sources:

• _{Sentient Airdrop Announcement on X (LIVE Portal Post): https://x.com/SentientAGI/status/1990489750856204430}
• _{Sentient Official Airdrop Portal: https://airdrop.sentient.xyz/}
• _{Kaito Partnership Announcement: https://x.com/kaitoai/status/1991071309518811362?s=46}