Datai Network airdrop: 942 wallets can claim 397 to 865 DATAI until 22 November

The Datai Network airdrop can be claimed now. Since 13:00 UTC on 22 October 2026, 942 wallets have been able to collect between 397 and 865 DATAI each from a pool of 400,000 tokens on BNB Chain, through a Sablier campaign that closes at 13:00 UTC on 22 November. Datai announced the opening on its official X account at 13:54 UTC that day. By 07:19 UTC on 24 October, 164 wallets had claimed about 70,570 DATAI, 18% of the pool, according to the campaign page.

The pool is small. 400,000 DATAI is 0.04% of a fixed supply of one billion, and it went to roughly one participant in 90: 84,179 wallets took part in the campaign behind it, according to the eligibility repository Datai published on GitHub. The method is what makes this airdrop worth reading about. The team documented its sybil filter and its allocation formula in detail, and the same README gives appeal dates that do not agree.

What Datai Network is

On its official website, Datai Network describes itself as a blockchain data platform for AI, moving from a centralised model to a network of community-run indexer nodes. It was incubated by ChainGPT Labs and started out as Merlin, a centralised blockchain data provider. Two of its products fed the airdrop campaign: Crunchie, an agent for yield analysis that the roadmap lists for late 2025, and a BNB Wallet Score planned for early 2026. The roadmap puts the MainNet and the preparation of the token generation event (TGE) in the third quarter of 2026.

DATAI launched with no presale, no IDO and no launchpad, the team wrote on X on 20 October, adding that liquidity would be locked at launch. Trading opened at 13:00 UTC on 22 October on PancakeSwap, in a DATAI/USDT pair on BNB Chain. The project describes the token as having “no mint, no tax, no blacklist”. The contract it published is 0x5063eF56477935e84f953dC41A126133a9CfC294.

Datai airdrop key facts

Who qualified for the Datai Network airdrop, and why most did not

Points, called DATUM, came from a campaign that combined Crunchie quests with the BNB Wallet Score. The README applies its filters one after the other, and the funnel shows where wallets dropped out:

• 84,179 wallets took part in the campaign.
• 36,789 of them completed at least one quest.
• 36,735 had an X or Discord account linked.
• 31,663 were not part of a synchronised group of wallets.
• 942 reached the cut-off of 1,650 DATUM.

The sybil step is the one the team explains at length. It says it went through more than 750,000 recorded campaign actions and found 769 groups of wallets “acting in lockstep”: they checked in during the same minutes day after day and ended with near-identical totals. Compared with randomised timelines, the real data showed 74 times more synchronised pairs than chance would produce, according to the README. Many of the groups also shared templated display names and accounts created minutes apart.

All 5,828 wallets in those groups were excluded. The funnel only drops by 5,072 at that line, and the README gives the reason: 756 of the flagged wallets had already fallen out at the first two steps, for lack of a quest or a linked account.

The hardest cut came last. About 30,700 wallets passed every behaviour check and still stayed below 1,650 DATUM. The README says the list was capped at 1,000 wallets and that the cut-off left 942, with the unused places kept for appeals the team upholds.

The full list is public as a file, Airdrop_DATAI.csv, published with its SHA-256 fingerprint so that anyone can check a downloaded copy. Coindaro downloaded it on 24 October: the hash matched the one in the README, and the file holds 942 distinct addresses whose amounts add up to exactly 400,000. It is version 1, dated 20 October and marked “pre-appeals”. The repository has had no commit since 16:27 UTC that day, so nothing shows whether appeals changed it.

How the 397 to 865 DATAI amounts were set

Allocations follow the square root of each wallet’s DATUM, not the points themselves. A wallet with four times as many points as another gets twice as many tokens. Amounts are rounded to whole tokens, and the README says no wallet ends up more than one token away from its exact share.

The result is flat. In the published file the median allocation is 418 DATAI and the average about 425. 810 of the 942 wallets receive less than 450, only 11 receive 500 or more, and 36 get the minimum of 397. Coindaro gives no dollar value: the token is two days old and trades in a single pool.

How to claim DATAI on Sablier

Claims run on Sablier, a token distribution protocol, not on a page hosted by Datai. In its post of 22 October at 13:54 UTC, the project wrote that “Claims are open”, mentioned a temporary glitch in the Sablier interface that had been fixed, said 108 wallets had already claimed, and gave a 30-day window “until 22/11/2026”. The post links the campaign; the README, which promised to carry the link, still did not on 24 October.

1. Open the Sablier claim campaign from Datai’s X post of 22 October, never from a reply, a direct message or a search ad.
2. The page is locked to BNB Chain. Type your address in the eligibility check to see your amount before connecting anything.
3. Connect the wallet that took part in the DATUM campaign.
4. Keep enough BNB in that wallet for the network fee and Sablier’s claim fee, shown as $1.99 in BNB.
5. Compare the amount with your line in Airdrop_DATAI.csv, then sign the claim transaction.
6. Add the DATAI contract 0x5063eF56477935e84f953dC41A126133a9CfC294 to your wallet to display the tokens.

There is no vesting on this pool. The Sablier page lists the distribution as “Instant”: tokens go straight to the recipient at the claim. Datai’s tokenomics post says every allocation vests on-chain through Sablier, but its claim post points to a separate vesting page for investors, partners and the team. Sablier states on the page that it does not endorse the projects running airdrops.

The README contradicts itself on appeal and claim dates

The eligibility repository disagrees with itself in several places. Its summary table says appeals stay open until 22/11/2026. The Appeals section gives 22/10/2026 as the due date, a month earlier. The table and the Claiming section both say the claim link will be added once appeals close, while claims opened on 22 October. And the warning that the official link will appear only on the repository and on Datai’s X account still shows a placeholder, “[@DATAI X HANDLE]”, where the account name should be.

Coindaro does not pick one of these dates. If the October one applies, the appeal window is already shut. A reader who believes a wallet was wrongly excluded should check the repository and the @datainetwork account for a correction before relying on either.

DATAI tokenomics: 1.77% circulating at launch

The project set out its tokenomics on X on 22 October at 06:09 UTC. At the TGE, 1.77% of the supply was circulating, about 17.7 million DATAI. Investors and the airdrop together account for 0.57%, and team and advisors hold 0% until month six. Everything is released by month 57, close to five years after launch. Since the airdrop is 0.04% of supply, most of that 0.57% belongs to investors.

Datai said liquidity was locked at launch without giving a duration. CoinGabbar reported on 23 October that the lock runs 12 months through UNCX; Coindaro has not seen the lock itself. On code, CertiK’s Skynet page lists one audit of Datai Network, delivered on 22 January 2025, with 32 findings: none critical, five high (two resolved, three acknowledged). The audited files include DataiToken.sol, but the page does not link the report to the contract deployed in October.

For holders the next date is month six, around 22 April 2027 if counted from the TGE, when team and advisor tokens can start to move. Our explainer on token unlocks covers how such schedules work.

Risk score: 4 out of 5

Coindaro rates this airdrop 4 out of 5 for risk. DATAI is a low-cap token two days old with one trading venue, the DATAI/USDT pool on PancakeSwap, and CoinGabbar reported that no listing on a major centralised exchange has been announced. In a thin pool, even a few hundred tokens sold at once can move the price. The team is not named on the website, and CertiK’s page marks it as not verified, with no KYC.

The amounts are small, while a fake claim site can drain far more than the airdrop is worth. What keeps the score below 5 is the paper trail: a public list whose hash checks out, a published contract, an instant claim on a known protocol, no deposit and an earlier CertiK audit.

Fake claim pages and other scams

A public eligibility list tells scammers exactly which wallets to target with cloned claim pages. Datai’s own warning is short: “Always verify the contract address. We will never DM you first.” The README adds that the team will never ask for a seed phrase or private key. A genuine claim never asks you to send tokens first. Approve only the claim transaction and refuse any request to spend other tokens. Our guide to avoiding crypto scams lists the common patterns.

Can EU, French and Italian residents claim?

Nothing in the official sources excludes any country. Coindaro found no terms page, KYC requirement or MiCA white paper for the token; the website footer links only to a privacy policy. That absence is not a legal green light: residents of the EU, France or Italy should check their own rules, including how airdropped tokens are taxed where they live.

What is still unknown

The official documents give no snapshot date; CoinGabbar reported 10 October, which Datai has not confirmed in the sources we read. Nothing says whether appeals changed the 20 October list. The full allocation by category could not be checked against an official document, and the people behind Datai are not named.

Next dates for the Datai airdrop

The claim closes at 13:00 UTC on 22 November 2026. Datai’s X post gives only the date, so do not wait for the last day. On 23 November, unclaimed tokens go back to the treasury, according to the README. The six-month lock on team and advisor tokens ends around 22 April 2027, with releases continuing until month 57.