Is there a 42 airdrop?
None is announced. We found no mention of a 42 token, a TGE or an airdrop in 42's docs, its app text or archived copies of its site. Blogs have reported that 42 will have its own token, but we couldn't find that on any official page. What 42 does run is a points program: "You earn points by trading on 42. Every week, a set amount of points is shared among users based on their activity."
The rules don't say what points are for, and they can change: "42 may update these rules and will announce changes before they take effect." This is 42's third rewards scheme of 2026, after per-trade points in March and Tickets from June.
Warning Every point costs money, because points come only from trading. The terms say: "You may lose 100% of the funds used to purchase Contracts if the outcome resolves against your position."
What 42 is
In its own words: "42 is an asset issuance protocol where event outcomes trade as liquid tokens with defined settlement rules." Each outcome of a market, such as an election or a match, is a token priced on a curve. "Every trade mints or redeems directly against the curve, eliminating the need for pre-seeded liquidity." You can sell before the result. At the end, "all winning outcome tokens become claimable for the underlying collateral, while losing tokens expire worthless", and "Payouts are not capped."
Markets run on BNB Chain with USDT as collateral. There is also Blitz: "Blitz is a 30-second game. BNB, ETH and SOL line up at the start of every round."
42 is linked to Alkimiya, an older crypto markets project. By December 2025 the alkimiya.io address showed the 42 site, and Alkimiya's old Discord invite now opens the 42 server. No official page explains the change or says Alkimiya points carried over.
How 42 Points work
"42 issues points on a weekly cycle, running Thursday 00:00 UTC to Wednesday 23:59 UTC." The pool grows in busy weeks and has a minimum, but 42 hasn't published either figure. Your share comes from three things:
- Trading volume, which counts most: "It is the value of every buy and every sell you make in the week, across all 42 markets, whether a trade wins or loses." Blitz trades count too.
- A settlement bonus: "the more you paid for positions held through settlement, the more they add, whichever way the market resolves." But "A position sold before settlement keeps its trading volume but adds nothing for settlement."
- Boosts that multiply the total, for your weekly mindshare score and for the "Activity of the wallets you referred".
"Points are updated once a week, after each week closes on Wednesday (UTC)." The app has a Points page and a leaderboard. Old Tickets turn into points by themselves: "Eligible available, pending and staked tickets convert automatically at launch." The app shows the rate as one ticket to one point. No end date is announced.
42 airdrop step-by-step guide
No airdrop is announced. These steps earn weekly 42 Points.
- Check the restricted list below, then open www.42.space. The docs are at docs.42.space. Ignore other domains.
- Sign in with an email address or an existing wallet, and use the same method each time. A referral code is optional: you can choose "or, skip to enter app".
- Fund your account with USDT: "make sure to only send USDT on BSC to the wallet address." Or use the swap option, where "All tokens will be swapped and bridged to USDT on Binance Smart Chain (BSC)."
- Trade on any market. Buys and sells both count as volume, and holding a position until its market settles adds the settlement bonus.
Warning Don't trade against yourself to pump volume. The terms ban "Wash trading, layering, spoofing, or any form of manipulative trading", and "42 may exclude any wallet or activity that undermines the fairness of the program, and remove points earned from it."
- After each Wednesday close, check the Points page. Claim winning positions from your portfolio once a market resolves.
Open 42 PointsOpens 42.space
42 costs and fees
There is no free route. The fee page puts the 42 app's total at 2.0% per trade, 1.0% to the protocol and 1.0% to the app, though its own worked example uses 1.4%. The fee is charged when you buy and again when you sell. Sells also pay a redemption tax that rises as the market nears its result.
Blitz charges 1.6% in total, and its "positions cannot be sold". Network gas is "also paid in BUSDT from the proxy wallet", so it comes out of your USDT balance.
42 risks and eligibility
- The terms bar people "located in, organized in, residents of, or citizens of" 35 places, among them the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Belgium, Australia, Ontario, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Russia. "This list may be updated at any time without prior notice."
- VPNs are banned: "Violation of this provision may result in immediate termination of access, forfeiture of funds, and potential legal action."
- You must be at least 18, or older where your local law says so.
- The terms warn: "Event Contracts may be classified as gambling, securities, derivatives, or other regulated instruments in certain jurisdictions". Blitz settles every 30 seconds, and losing picks go to zero.
- Official documents are unfinished. The points page has a placeholder where the link to the Points page should be, and the terms still contain "[describe notification method]".
- The pool size, the boost formulas and what points are for are not published.
Who is behind 42?
The terms form "a legally binding agreement between you and Deep Thought Labs Inc." They don't say where the company is registered, and disputes go to arbitration in Singapore under English law. No official 42 page names the team.
Alkimiya raised $7.2 million in 2023 in a round led by 1kx and Castle Island Ventures, The Block reported, and its founders were Ricardo Grobel and Leo Zhang. No 42 page says whether they run 42 today. The docs list audits by Zellic, HickupHH3 and Sawmon & Natalie.
Sources
- 42 Points 42 Docs,
- Quickstart 42 Docs
- Key concepts 42 Docs
- Fees 42 Docs
- Blitz 42 Docs
- Creating an account 42 Docs
- Fund your account 42 Docs
- Changelog 42 Docs
- Deployments 42 Docs
- Audits 42 Docs
- Terms of Use Deep Thought Labs Inc.,
- 42 42
- 42 Points and referral program (archived March 2026) 42 Docs
- alkimiya.io (archived December 2025) Alkimiya
- Alkimiya raises $7.2 million to build decentralized capital markets for blockspace The Block,
This guide explains how the program works. It isn't financial advice, and no airdrop is guaranteed. Check 42's official channels before you connect a wallet or deposit funds.
