We’re excited to introduce Chainlink Rewards Season 1—the next evolution of the community engagement and rewards program that enables Chainlink Build projects to make their native tokens claimable by Chainlink ecosystem participants, including eligible LINK stakers.

Building on the success of Chainlink Rewards Season Genesis, where Space and Time made 100M SXT tokens available to eligible LINK stakers, Season 1 features nine Build projects and introduces a more advanced engagement and claiming mechanism. Season 1 will start on November 11, 2025 and features the following Build projects: Dolomite, Space and Time, XSwap, Brickken, Folks Finance, Mind Network, Suku, Truflation, and bitsCrunch. 

Season 1 is designed to give eligible LINK stakers a more interactive, choice-driven experience while strengthening their engagement and connection with Build projects. The new claims mechanism for Chainlink Rewards Season 1 involves three key steps:

• Stake LINK, Earn Cubes — Cubes are a non-transferable, non-monetary unit of account, similar to credit card points or airline miles, that can be redeemed for token rewards. In Season 1, eligible LINK stakers will receive an amount of Cubes related to their historical participation in Chainlink Staking v0.1 and v0.2 (amount of LINK staked and time staked). A snapshot determining Season 1 Cube balances was taken November 3, 2025.
• Allocate Cubes — Starting on November 11, 2025, eligible LINK stakers can visit rewards.chain.link to view their Cubes balance and begin allocating Cubes to projects. Allocating Cubes determines which Build project tokens a participant can claim. Participants may allocate in any fashion (all to one project, spread across many, equal-weighted, etc.) and can adjust allocations any time until December 9, 2025, when a final snapshot of Cubes allocations is taken. Allocations take place offchain and incur no transaction fees. Cubes expire after the final allocation snapshot.
• Claim Tokens — On December 16, 2025, tokens begin unlocking and become claimable over time, with unlocks occurring linearly over a 90-day period. The number of tokens a participant can claim from a Build project is proportional to their share of the total Cubes allocated to that project. For example, if your allocation equals 1% of all the Cubes allocated to a project, you can claim 1% of the tokens that project made available in Season 1. Participants can also trigger an optional Early Unlock to claim a portion of their still-locked tokens early while forfeiting the rest. Forfeited tokens are redistributed to a Loyalty Pool, which become claimable by participants who did not Early Unlock at the end of the unlock period.

In Season 1, eligible LINK stakers are empowered to research and learn about Build projects and the solutions they are bringing to market before choosing how to allocate their Cubes. In addition to completing project quizzes, the self-directed process of allocating Cubes means participants can select projects that interest them personally, strengthening the alignment between Build projects and the Chainlink community. 

In this blog, we dive into the evolution of the Chainlink Build program, provide an overview of Chainlink Rewards Season 1, and highlight each participating project in the season.  

Accelerating Builder Success With Chainlink Build

The Build program is a Chainlink Economics initiative designed to accelerate the growth of both early-stage and established projects within the Chainlink ecosystem by providing enhanced access to Chainlink services and technical support. In return, projects commit a percentage of their total token supply to the Chainlink ecosystem, which includes service providers such as LINK stakers.

By joining Chainlink Build, projects can gain access to:

• Comprehensive technical support: Receive priority assistance from service providers in the Chainlink ecosystem, including engineering and product experts.
• Priority access to services: Gain early access to Chainlink services in alpha and beta releases, enabling roadmap alignment with Chainlink product releases.
• Custom solutions: Integrate tailored Chainlink oracle solutions, with ongoing maintenance and monitoring for enhanced reliability. 
• Go-To-Market support: Leverage the expertise of domain experts and leaders in the Chainlink ecosystem to accelerate product adoption and market reach.
• Ecosystem collaboration: Connect with other Build members through workshops, events, and community-driven growth opportunities. 
• Partner support: Tap into Chainlink’s established network of strategic alliances, providing security tooling, cloud credits, auditing services, and more. 

Projects in the Chainlink Build program represent a wide range of Web3 verticals, including AI, DePIN, interoperability, derivatives, DEXs, lending, tokenized assets, gaming, stablecoins, NFTs, and more. These teams have accelerated their growth and delivered innovative, production-ready solutions that are reaching users around the world. For the latest list of active projects currently in the Build program, refer to the Chainlink Build webpage.

Chainlink Rewards is an evolution of the Build program, enabling projects to make their native tokens claimable by the Chainlink ecosystem participants, including the eligible LINK stakers helping secure the Chainlink Network. In doing so, Build projects can expand their own community and create global awareness of their unique products with support from some of the most active and engaged participants across the entire crypto ecosystem.

Featured Build Projects in Season 1

Chainlink Rewards Season 1 features nine Build projects that are making a percentage of their token supply available to eligible LINK stakers. This includes projects that joined the Build program during its original creation and have closely worked with the Chainlink community on accelerating their projects adoption.

Dolomite

Dolomite is a next-generation money market where anyone can be a power user. With a flexible architecture and a powerful toolset, you can build, manage, and optimize sophisticated positions with precision.

Dolomite uses Chainlink Automation to set dynamic protocol parameters on Arbitrum, Data Feeds to price assets in lending markets, and CCIP to transfer its protocol token DOLO between Ethereum, Berachain, and Arbitrum.

Space and Time

Space and Time is the blockchain for ZK-proven data securing onchain finance. Backed by Microsoft’s M12, Space and Time provides institutions, enterprises, and financial apps a secure platform for connecting data onchain to power tokenized assets, stablecoins, and global markets. 

Space and Time uses Chainlink Functions to enable smart contracts to query its decentralized data warehouse, uses CCIP for cross-chain transfers of its protocol token SXT, and sponsors a Chainlink Data Feed for SXT/USD on Ethereum. The pilot of Chainlink Rewards, Season Genesis, launched in collaboration with Space and Time on May 8, 2025.

XSwap

XSwap is a cross-chain ecosystem building on top of Chainlink infrastructure allowing users to swap, bridge, stake, and even create their own tokens, all enabled by Chainlink CCIP. With over 350K+ users and $205M+ transaction volume, XSwap unifies DeFi through one secure, intelligent interface. Users can swap, bridge, stake and even create their own tokens cross-chain with TCP (Token Creation Platform).

Powered by Chainlink, XSwap combines AI analytics, fiat on-ramp infrastructure, and deep cross-chain liquidity in a seamless Web3 experience. XSwap uses Chainlink CCIP to power its token bridge and cross-chain swaps, and Data Feeds to support AI Insights within its swaps application.

Brickken

Brickken is a leading institutional-grade software provider enabling the compliant tokenization and management of real-world assets (RWA). Built for financial institutions, asset managers, and regulated entities, the platform digitizes financial instruments such as equity, debt, private credit, bonds, and funds, as well as tangible assets like real estate, infrastructure, and commodities.

Brickken offers a complete solution to issue, manage, and operate tokenized assets through a single, secure platform. Available as a web app, white-label solution, or API, it adapts to any business model or technology stack, supporting regulated environments, institutional use cases, and platform-scale integrations. Brickken uses Chainlink Proof of Reserve for transparent multi-chain asset management, integrated CCIP to make its token transferable across chains, and adopted the ETH/USD Data Feed on BNB Chain.

Folks Finance

Folks Finance is a leading cross-chain lending protocol powered by Chainlink CCIP, enabling users to lend, borrow, and manage assets across multiple blockchains from a single account. By eliminating bridging and wrapping, Folks unifies liquidity and functionality across ecosystems, delivering a CEX-level experience on fully permissionless infrastructure.

Backed by top investors such as Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi, OKX Ventures, and Borderless Capital, Folks redefined capital efficiency in DeFi, proving that true crosschain lending can exist in production, not just theory. Folks Finance uses Chainlink Data Feeds on Avalanche to price lending market assets and CCIP to enable deposits and borrowing across multiple chains.

Mind Network

Mind Network pioneers quantum-resistant Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) infrastructure, powering a fully encrypted internet through secure data and AI computation. In collaboration with industry leaders, Mind Network is establishing HTTPZ (a Zero Trust Internet Protocol) to set new standards for trusted AI and encrypted on-chain data processing in Web3 and AI ecosystems.

Mind Network is backed by notable investors including Binance Labs, Cogitent, Hashkey, Animoca Brands, and has received two Ethereum Foundation Grants for its FHE research. Partnering with industry leaders like Zama, Mind Network is building a fully encrypted infrastructure, committed to realizing the vision of HTTPZ for the next generation internet.

Mind Network uses Chainlink CCIP to power its FHE Bridge for transferring confidential messages across chains, and to move its protocol token FHE between Ethereum, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, and the Mind Network chain.

Suku

Suku is a blockchain project designed to simplify the complexities of Web3 for everyday users and creators. Its mission is to turn every internet user into a Web3 user by offering intuitive tools that make blockchain utilities accessible in daily life.

The ecosystem includes SukuPay, which revolutionizes cross-border remittances with instant, affordable transfers, as already implemented in Guatemala through its integration with Banco Industrial’s Zigi app; SukuWallet, a social login wallet that makes joining Web3 as easy as logging into X, enabling users to send crypto via @handles, mint and manage NFTs, tip X accounts, and connect to dApps while paying gas fees in SUKU token for an easy, social Web3 experience; and Ringo, a social challenge platform where Suku’s technology powers peer-to-peer engagement and onchain truth.

Suku will use Chainlink Functions to connect smart contracts to the GSMA Open Gateway SIM SWAP API, Automation to enable time-based payments, and CCIP to facilitate cross-chain payments

Truflation

Truflation is an independent macroeconomic signals provider & indexer aggregating 30M+ data points from 80+ providers daily. Truflation’s mission is to deliver real-time, unbiased economic data, transforming price movements into actionable trading signals and smarter investment decisions.

Truflation uses Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain payments and prediction pools, Data Feeds and Data Streams to price index components, and Automation to trigger index rebalancing.

bitsCrunch

bitsCrunch is a leading AI-powered blockchain analytics company securing the Web3 ecosystem. It provides advanced data forensics, digital asset valuation, and fraud prevention across multiple chains. Backed by Coinbase Ventures and Animoca Brands, bitsCrunch ensures transparency, compliance, and trust for investors, enterprises, and digital asset platforms globally.

bitsCrunch uses Chainlink VRF to help ensure fairness and verifiable randomness in its airdrop campaign.

Chainlink Rewards Season 1 Overview

Cubes

Cubes are a non-transferable, non-monetary unit of account, similar to credit card points or airline miles, that can be redeemed for token rewards. In Season 1, eligible LINK stakers will receive an amount of Cubes related to their historical participation in Chainlink Staking v0.1 and v0.2, based on the amount of LINK staked and time staked. 

Cubes accrual started when Chainlink Staking v0.1 launched on December 6, 2022 and transitioned to tracking staking activity on Staking v0.2 at its launch on November 28, 2023. The snapshot determining Cubes balances for Season 1 was taken on November 3, 2025. The amount of Cubes a participant has will not increase during Season 1. Cubes expire at the end of the Allocation Period in Season 1.

Allocation Period

Starting on November 11, 2025, eligible LINK stakers will be able to access rewards.chain.link to see their Cubes balance and begin allocating their Cubes to Build projects. Before allocating to a project, participants must complete a quiz about the project. Once completed, participants can allocate, re-allocate, or un-allocate their Cubes across Season 1 projects at any time during the Allocation Period in any fashion. Allocations take place offchain and do not incur transaction fees. 

Each project has a fixed pool of tokens for Season 1. During the Allocation Period, the redemption rate between Cubes and tokens floats based on how many Cubes have been allocated to the project. Participants will be able to see total allocations across projects on the user interface, which will update periodically. Participants must allocate Cubes during the allocation period to be able to claim tokens during the claim period. At the end of the Allocation Period on December 9, 2025, a snapshot of allocated Cubes will be taken to determine the final redemption rate for tokens in the Claim Period. Cubes expire after the final snapshot is taken.

Claim Period

On December 16, 2025, after the Allocation Period ends and the Cubes allocation snapshot is taken, the claim period for Season 1 begins. During the claim period, tokens unlock linearly over 90 days, with unlocks occurring every Ethereum block. Participants can claim tokens as they unlock or wait until all tokens are unlocked to save on transaction gas costs.

Early Unlock Option

In addition to claiming tokens as they unlock, participants may choose to trigger an optional Early Unlock to claim a portion of their still-locked tokens early while forfeiting the rest. Tokens that have already unlocked are not forfeited. The percentage of locked tokens claimable through Early Unlock starts lower at the beginning of the unlock period (meaning more locked tokens are forfeited) and gradually increases toward the end. Forfeited tokens are redistributed to a Loyalty Pool. At the end of the 90-day unlock period, tokens in the Loyalty Pool become claimable by participants who did not Early Unlock, distributed in proportion to their Cube allocations. This mechanism creates an additional reward for patient participants.

Expanding the Chainlink Ecosystem

The launch of Chainlink Rewards Season 1 marks the next major milestone in the evolution of the Build program and the Chainlink ecosystem as a whole. By empowering eligible LINK stakers to engage directly with Build projects through a more interactive and rewarding experience, Season 1 strengthens the connection between builders and the broader Chainlink community. We look forward to further accelerating the growth, collaboration, and adoption of Web3 applications powered by Chainlink.

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Disclaimer: This post is for informational purposes only and contains statements about the future, including anticipated product features, development, and timelines for the rollout of these features. These statements are only predictions and reflect current beliefs and expectations with respect to future events; they are based on assumptions and are subject to risk, uncertainties, and changes at any time. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed in these statements, although we believe them to be based on reasonable assumptions. All statements are valid only as of the date first posted. These statements may not reflect future developments due to user feedback or later events and we may not update this post in response. Please review the Chainlink Terms of Service, which provides important information and disclosures. The Chainlink Rewards program is being built to comply with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and will not be available in certain regions, such as the United States, which could change in the future.