Orbit opens GAS reward claims until November 4

nDapp has opened claims for GAS earned in Orbit’s first round. Eligible transactions across four applications determine each wallet’s share, with unclaimed rewards due to be redistributed to claimants.

Users of Neo N3 applications can now claim GAS earned in the first round of nDapp’s Orbit program. In its October 26 post, nDapp asked participants to collect rewards before November 4. The program allocated 140 GAS to qualifying participants in total.

Orbit’s first round was announced on October 1, and the earning period ended on October 21. Participants can now request the share they earned during that period. They did not need to enroll in advance or create a separate account: Orbit automatically tracked eligible smart-contract interactions.

Which transactions counted in round one?

Neo News Today allocated separate reward pools to four applications in the first round. Qualifying actions were token deposits into the NeoFS contract, bridge deposits from Neo N3 to Neo X, NeoNS domain registrations or renewals, and transfers of World of Elements’ FrankCoin token. Holding NEO or taking part in governance alone does not qualify for Orbit rewards.

The current Orbit table labels the bridge contract “NeoXBridge” and the World of Elements contract “FrankCoin.”

How reward shares are calculated

A wallet’s share depends on the number of transactions it made on an eligible contract relative to that contract’s total qualifying transactions. Orbit counts transactions when calculating shares; it does not use token amounts moved or wallet balances. In a hypothetical 40 GAS pool, a participant responsible for 10% of qualifying transactions would earn 4 GAS in the initial allocation.

When claiming ends, the program will automatically distribute any remaining GAS to wallets that submitted a claim. Within each pool, shares will be recalculated using only the transactions made by those claimants. In nDapp’s example, a user responsible for 20% of the claimants’ transactions receives 10 GAS from a remaining 50 GAS pool. No second claim is required for that distribution.

One wallet made 1,548 of 1,699 transactions

The four contracts in the platform’s round-one table recorded 1,699 transactions in total. The leading wallet’s 1,548 transactions amount to approximately 91.1% of that count; the next wallet made 52. These are nDapp’s displayed figures, without an independent scan of the blockchain.

The leading wallet’s GAS allocation depends on its transaction share and the reward pool in each application. Making 91.1% of all transactions does not guarantee the same share of the 140 GAS total; redistribution of unclaimed rewards can also change the final amount. Transaction counts also do not measure unique people or dollar-denominated activity.

Claims require a Neo N3 wallet

According to Neo News Today’s October 25 report, eligible users can connect a Neo N3 wallet to nDapp and claim through the Orbit page or My Orbit Overview under My Wallet.

Neo explains that users pay for network transactions and smart-contract activity with GAS. NEO is the network’s governance token. The ordinary GAS distributions available through holding NEO and voting operate separately from Orbit’s application rewards.

Neo News Today operates nDapp, so its Orbit reports are statements from the team running the program. Its 250 GAS Neo HODLers competition, ending October 31, is a separate event on Neo X; those prizes are not part of Orbit’s 140 GAS pool.

nDapp also quotes its October 1 launch announcement in the claim notice.