Ankr Forge launched with a simple proposition for our community. Hold $ANKR, complete missions across partner ecosystems, and your activity converts into a proportional share of a reward pool. The first Forge Drop has now been distributed, which means the theory has receipts.

Here is what happened, what the top participants walked away with, and how to position yourself before the next Drop.

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Drop #1 leaderboard

Rewards were distributed automatically to connected wallets once the campaign period closed. No manual claim, no gas spent chasing a claim contract. The top five finishers by Forge Points:

26,050 pts → ~106,680 ANKR

24,600 pts → ~100,742 ANKR

24,500 pts → ~100,333 ANKR

24,500 pts → ~100,333 ANKR

24,200 pts → ~99,104 ANKR

At the ANKR price at the time of the drop, those allocations land in the neighborhood of $380 to $410 each. Of course, the dollar figures move with the market, but the ANKR amounts do not.

The detail worth sitting with is the spread. Fewer than 2,000 points separated first place from fifth. In practice, that gap is a handful of missions, most of which take a few minutes. There was no requirement for deploying capital at scale, or spending weeks grinding. The top of the leaderboard was reachable by anyone who showed up consistently and worked through the mission list.

How the points became rewards

Forge Drops resolve in two stages, and understanding the split explains why the leaderboard looked the way it did.

Eligibility comes from holding $ANKR. A snapshot of your wallet balance is taken at a point tied to the campaign. Holding above the threshold at snapshot time puts your wallet in the eligible pool.

Your share comes from Forge Points. Once you are in the pool, your allocation is proportional to the points you earned relative to every other eligible participant.

Both halves matter. A qualified wallet sitting at zero points is still eligible and will still receive close to nothing, because the size of an allocation is driven entirely by points earned. Holding gets you through the door. Missions decide what you leave with.

Drop #1 is done. The next one is close.

The first campaign period has ended, and its rewards are settled. The next Drop is coming soon, and points are accruing right now for everyone participating in the campaigns that remain open.

Two campaigns are live today:

Electroneum. The first partner campaign on Forge, with a full branded mission set covering both social and on-chain activity across the Electroneum ecosystem.

Ankr. The native mission set, available to every participant regardless of which partner campaigns they join.

Missions from both count toward your Forge Point balance. If you sat out the first Drop, nothing is lost. Every campaign resets the leaderboard, and the participants who topped Drop #1 started from the same zero you are looking at.

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What is coming to Forge

Two expansions are on the roadmap and will change how points accumulate.

Forge Vault lets you lock $ANKR for reward multipliers and mission qualification, with points scaling by both deposit size and lock duration.

ValidatorFi lets you stake with supported validators to earn yield alongside Forge Points, aimed at holders who want deeper exposure to the ecosystem.

Both build on the same foundation Drop #1 validated: activity in, proportional rewards out, funded by partners who want real participants inside their ecosystems rather than a wave of airdrop farmers who leave the moment a snapshot clears. That connection to Ankr's infrastructure layer is what separates Forge from a generic points portal. Ankr already runs node infrastructure across a large share of the chains its partners operate on, which gives partner campaigns a direct line to users who actually transact.