Axis Robotics airdrop: AXIS claim open on Base, Season 2 points race begins

The Axis Robotics airdrop has moved from points to tokens. AXIS, the project’s token on Base, went live on 21 October 2026, and the claim portal for Season 1 of the contributor airdrop opened that day at 12:00 UTC. Season 1 holds 40 million AXIS, or 4% of a fixed supply of 1 billion, according to the project’s tokenomics page. Then, at 02:00 UTC on 23 October, Axis posted that Season 2 had begun, with 60 million AXIS set aside for contributors after the token launch.

So there are two different things here. Season 1 is a claim: if the portal shows an allocation for your wallet, you collect it. Season 2 is still open: you earn points by doing tasks, and Axis says those points count toward the next distribution, without having published how they will convert.

The checker came first. At 07:29 UTC on 21 October Axis wrote on X that its airdrop checker was live and that the claim portal would open at 12:00 UTC the same day. The portal, airdrop.axisrobotics.ai, runs on Base Mainnet and shows a connected wallet’s allocations and claim history. It also serves buyers from the September community sale, and its Legal tab says each allocation is governed by the terms of the programme it comes from.

Trading started the same day. Axis had announced on 20 October that AXIS would be listed on Binance Alpha, and Bybit opened an AXISUSDT perpetual contract in its Innovation Zone at 13:20 UTC on 21 October, with leverage of up to 20x. That is a derivatives market for traders, not a distribution of tokens.

What Axis Robotics does with its contributors

Axis collects training data for robots from the crowd. On the Axis Hub at hub.axisrobotics.ai, contributors steer a simulated robot arm in their browser to pick up a mug, sort objects or open a drawer. The physics engine, MuJoCo compiled to WebAssembly, runs on the contributor’s own machine, so any desktop or laptop will do; phones and tablets are not supported, according to the FAQ. Each completed run becomes a trajectory, a recording of joint states, object positions and control commands that Axis replays in simulation to verify before it goes into training.

Since July the Hub has also run post-training tasks. A trained policy attempts the task by itself and the contributor takes over when it slips, with 30 seconds of manual control allowed per run, and those corrections train the next version of the policy. A run counts only once the contributor signs it on Base, where it gets a data ID tied to the task and to the person who produced it.

The documentation gave these figures on 10 October 2026: more than 229,000 contributors, over 7.3 million trajectories, more than 7.0 million on-chain records and over 1,600 published tasks. In the second quarter Axis released a simulation dataset built from browser demonstrations, with 207 tasks and more than 50,000 demonstrations, and its roadmap says further training on it raised the π0.5 robot model’s success rate on the LIBERO-Plus benchmark from 83.9 to 88.8.

Season 1 claim and Season 2 points, side by side

Season 2 changes the kind of work. Season 1 was pre-TGE and ran in simulation. The docs describe Season 2 as post-TGE and “sim-to-real”, meaning tasks meant to carry skills learned in simulation over to physical robots. What those tasks will look like has not been published.

The Season 1 schedule applies to the pool as a whole: half at the token generation event, a quarter three months later and the last quarter at six months. The docs do not say how it shows up in an individual claim, so check what the portal displays for your wallet. Axis has not published a snapshot date for Season 1 either; the docs only say it covers contributions made before the TGE and the points they earned. For Season 2, the tokenomics page says terms “will be announced when the season opens”. On 23 October they still had not been, even though Axis’s post that morning said “every point now counts toward the Post-TGE community contributor airdrop”.

How Axis points are earned

Points are not a token. The points page of the docs says they cannot be transferred or redeemed for cash, and that five factors set them: how many valid runs you complete, the difficulty of each task (one to five stars), the score of each signed submission, how widely your tasks spread across scenarios and skills, and what the people you invite actually produce. Each task accepts five completions per account, and what counts is the average score across them, not the best one. A sloppy repeat therefore lowers what a task is worth to you. New tasks go up every day at 12:00 UTC.

Points settle in two-week epochs. Each epoch closes on a Friday at 00:00 UTC and the points land in the account the following Monday at 12:00 UTC. A run you complete but leave unsigned earns nothing until you sign it, and then counts in the epoch of the signature. Work from before the point system existed was credited once, in a retroactive grant based on a snapshot taken at 16:00 UTC on 29 July 2026.

One passage of the docs matters more than the rest: holding points guarantees no eligibility, allocation or distribution, and the point system “establishes no token balance, conversion ratio, or claim right”. That applies to Season 2 as much as it did to Season 1.

How to claim AXIS from Season 1

1. Type airdrop.axisrobotics.ai yourself or reach it from the Axis website and docs, never from a link in a reply or a direct message.
2. Connect the wallet you used on the Axis Hub, on Base Mainnet, and open the Allocations tab.
3. Keep a little ETH on Base in that wallet for the transaction fee if the claim needs one.
4. Claim, then check in your wallet that the token is AXIS at the contract address published in the docs.
5. Open the Claim history tab to confirm that the transaction went through.

One catch for people who joined the Hub with an email, Google or X account: the Hub then created a custodial wallet for them through Privy, with the keys managed for the user. The docs do not explain how those accounts reach the claim portal, so look for the answer on Axis’s own channels, and never give a private key or seed phrase to someone offering help.

To take part in Season 2, the route is the Hub: sign in, complete tasks and sign each run on Base so that it counts. The tasks cost nothing. Signing needs a small amount of ETH on Base, which the FAQ puts at a tiny fraction of a cent, and Axis regularly runs gasless campaigns that pay the fee for contributors.

AXIS tokenomics and unlocks

AXIS is an ERC-20 token on Base at 0x5bE75e3b0aFf5D1A042A5363Ae36AcB1d6d755ea, with 1,000,000,000 tokens and no inflation. At TGE 165 million (16.50%) were in circulation, and the docs say the whole supply is unlocked 35 months after launch. The core team and the two private rounds received nothing at TGE: their tokens sit behind a 12-month cliff and then vest monthly from month 12 to month 35. The page still carries the line “Figures may change before TGE” and gives dates only as months after launch, so read our explainer on how token unlocks work before building a calendar from it.

Contributors get 10% in total, less than the core team’s 15.20%. The community sale was small: Axis sold 10 million AXIS for $1 million at $0.10 on Sonar, which values the full supply at $100 million, with commitments taken from 21 to 28 September (13:00 Singapore time). The sale blog post announced 10% at TGE, but the investor disclaimer on the sale site, amended on 29 September, sets 25% at TGE plus a community bonus of 5% to 25% of the allocation, also unlocked at TGE, with the remaining 75% released over six months after a six-month cliff. The 25% matches the 2.5 million AXIS the tokenomics table lists for the sale at TGE. We covered a similar Sonar sale with the AllOX public sale.

Binance Alpha ran its own AXIS event

Holders of Binance Alpha Points had a separate distribution, which has nothing to do with Axis contributor rewards. In a post in Chinese on 21 October, Binance Wallet said Alpha would be the first platform to list AXIS, with trading from 19:00 UTC+8, or 11:00 UTC. Users holding at least 235 Alpha Points could claim 250 AXIS on the Alpha event page, first come first served, and while tokens remained the threshold dropped by 5 points every five minutes. We described how such Alpha claims work with the NeoSoul DNA airdrop.

Who can take part: EU, UK and US residents

For the airdrop, Axis has not said. The points page promises that eligibility, timing, geographic availability and claim terms “will be published separately before any claim event”, yet the portal’s Legal tab holds only the two documents of the community sale, its terms of service and its investor disclaimer, both issued by Axis Robotics Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. We found no airdrop terms, no list of excluded countries for the claim and no mention of KYC for it.

The sale rules give a hint and nothing more. The investor disclaimer shut out US persons and 26 other jurisdictions, among them the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia and Mainland China. No EU member state is on that list, so residents of France and Italy could buy, after the identity check run by Sonar, which applied to sale participants only. Whether the airdrop follows the same list is not stated. None of the Axis pages we read mentions a MiCA white paper for AXIS, and whether Binance Alpha’s AXIS event was open to EU users is unknown.

Risk score: 3 out of 5

We rate this airdrop 3 out of 5. The project is real: it has public documentation, a token contract on Base, a claim portal announced on its official X account and a contributor base whose work is recorded on-chain. The score stays at 3 because too much is missing. Axis has not given an end date for the Season 1 claim, and a date circulating on a third-party site is not confirmed. Season 2 has no published terms, and no airdrop rules on countries or KYC are public.

Scams follow every claim, and fake checkers using the Axis name have been reported. Axis points cannot be transferred, according to the docs, so anyone selling points or “allocations” is selling something that does not exist. No real claim asks for a seed phrase. Our guide to avoiding crypto scams covers the usual tricks.

What to watch next

Axis still owes contributors the Season 2 rules and an end date for the Season 1 claim. On the token side, the next dated step is the release of 10 million AXIS from the Season 1 pool three months after the 21 October TGE. The core team and the private rounds follow later, with their first monthly releases due after the 12-month cliff.