Redeeming Midnight NIGHT: Four Tranches, a Randomised Start Day and the 4 December 2026 Deadline

CryptoTicker — 2026-09-10

NIGHT tokens claimed in Midnight's Glacier Drop do not arrive automatically: the allocation thaws over a 360-day period in four equally sized tranches, and each tranche must be actively redeemed by the holder through Midnight's portal. The schedule ends on 4 December 2026, after which a 90-day grace period runs before the portal closes permanently. Eligibility was fixed at the claim stage — only addresses that registered a destination address by 20 October 2025 have an entitlement, and the article notes that Midnight's own documentation is thin on this deadline in English, with the author cross-checking Midnight's two primary sources against an independent report.

For Cardano holders this is a hard, irreversible deadline attached to the ecosystem's privacy sidechain. Anyone who claimed nearly a year ago and has not revisited the portal may already have multiple due tranches sitting unredeemed, and missing the 4 December 2026 endpoint plus the grace window means forfeiting the allocation outright. It also matters for how the market reads NIGHT supply: because distribution depends on manual redemption rather than an automatic vesting release, circulating supply will lag the unlock schedule by however much holder inattention there is.

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*Source: CryptoTicker*