I've spent the last several days comparing allocations, reading the new Rewards Terms, and reading hundreds of comments from other long term node runners. One thing has become painfully clear This isn't just about getting a small payout. It's about trust.

For years, Grass encouraged us to keep our devices online. We watched our Days Active, Uptime Points, Devices, and Epoch progress climb. Many of us kept computers running 24/7, shared our bandwidth, paid for electricity and internet, and stuck with the project because we believed those metrics reflected our contribution.

Then the rewards arrived.

Some people with hundreds of days online and millions of uptime points received only a few dollars. Now we discover the new Rewards Terms say Grass can

decide the reward formula however it chooses,

change the weighting of factors,

never disclose the exact calculation,

and has no obligation to explain how rewards are determined.

Legally, they may have the right to do that.

But that's not the issue.

The issue is transparency.

If Network Points were always the metric that mattered most, why weren't users clearly told that from the beginning? Why prominently display Uptime Points, Days Active, and other progress metrics for years if they ultimately carried far less or no weight than many people believed?

Nobody is asking Grass to publish every line of their algorithm. People are asking for something much simpler

Tell us what actually mattered before asking us to invest years of our time.

Trust is incredibly difficult to build and incredibly easy to lose.

The saddest part is that Grass had one of the largest and most dedicated communities in DePIN. Thousands of people believed in the vision and volunteered their bandwidth long before there was any guarantee of a reward.

Now Reddit, Discord, and X are full of longtime supporters saying they're uninstalling. That's a dangerous place for any decentralized network to be.

A DePIN network is only as strong as the people willing to keep their nodes online.

If those people conclude that years of contribution can be reduced to a few dollars without a clear explanation, many won't be around for Stage 3.

Grass doesn't just owe people rewards. It owes them transparency. Because if trust disappears, the network eventually does too.

Total Grass uptime:

• 934 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes (approximately)

Your account span:

• Started: June 17, 2023
• Today: June 23, 2026
• Total elapsed time: 1,102 days

almost 2.6 years of actual online time.

if people really want to understand what’s happening, stop staring at the points dashboard and start following the wallets.

the on chain activity from the Grass multisig shows something interesting:

Large batches of GRASS are being sent from the multisig into intermediary wallets, and those wallets are then splitting the tokens into structured distributions across dozens of other addresses.

Those are not random numbers. That’s organized allocation behavior.

If you’re serious about understanding the project:
follow the wallets, not the slogans.