Grass Reviews 

319 Days of Mining, Only $0.29 Estimated Reward.

I have been running Grass for 319 days across multiple devices and accumulated 1.95 million Uptime Points. After the Stage 2 Rewards Checker went live, my estimated reward is just 0.29 USDC.

This result is deeply disappointing. Users were encouraged to keep their devices online for months, share unused bandwidth, and contribute consistently to the network. After investing significant time, electricity, internet bandwidth, and system resources, receiving an estimated reward of $0.29 feels completely disproportionate.

The reward system lacks transparency. Grass has never clearly explained how Uptime Points and Network Points are weighted, making it impossible for contributors to understand how their rewards are calculated. Many long-term users are reporting similar frustration and confusion.

I will wait until the official claim opens on July 22 before making a final judgment. If the final reward changes significantly, I will happily update this review. However, based on the current estimate, this has been one of the most disappointing reward experiences I have encountered.

The whole thing is a massive scam. It pays you pennies for your data. They pumped the price with the first airdrop and then dumped it. They sold hundreds of millions of tokens. They don't pay you for your data!

Terrible site, Terrible support countless hours running in epoch2 but estimated USDC payout is $0 with over 1,941,162 points, support say its only for "app support", avoid this company at any cost do not waste your time or effort. not saying its a "scam" my friends who referred me got a mere $4 showing on his for half of the points but terrible site and honestly not worth risking your data to fund this awful company, Stay safe, They also lied and said you would be paid in $grass which has changed and now being paid in USDC to favour them.

I take it Derek is magically going to disappear now, after religiously informing everyone publicly that this isn't a scam!?

Well done Derek., Hope you got paid handsomely.

Totally unworthy, 8 days of internet sharing, with the chance that your IP will be blacklisted, and etc. I only go 0.05USDC! Its a joke, this amount, totally dissatisfied..
I paid more for the electricity, then got profit from you guys!

I've been giving Grass my Internet bandwidth for 2 years and now I'm getting just a little over $11 as a reward.

Scam, project don't comply with their promises

wish i could have gave them 0 stars. introducing some shit network points mid airdrop and saying its just a addition and then the primary (uptime points ) are ignored. The primary points conversion ratio is so low that even million uptime points will give few cents. They just suck up on your device and network, would not recommend. Greatest scams in the history, they have betrayed ther communitty

They’re scammers hacking users system through their applications and draining users wallets

I ran a Grass node for almost 2 years, 24/7, with virtually no downtime. I never missed an uptime check, never complained, and honestly “farmed” for their promised future airdrop, just as the project team suggested.
I waited for Airdrop 2. The result: 9 USDC.
Nine dollars. For two years of continuous node operation. I won’t even calculate how much the electricity and time spent maintaining this thing cost me.
SCAM

TYPICAL SCAM xDD they changed rules a few days before launching second rewards and after 600 active days you could receive like 1-6 dollars xDD
I had 20 devices, 578 active days, 1.6M point and got 4$

After 19 months of running this app I m getting only 10$. Total scam

12 million uptime points and 6640 network points and got 32 USDT. WTF?

I believed in Grass. I don't anymore.
I don't write reviews very often, especially negative ones. I'd rather spend my time building things than complaining. But after waiting more than a year to see how this project rewarded the people who helped build its network, I think it's only fair to share my experience.

I wasn't chasing a quick airdrop. I wasn't running a browser extension on an old laptop for a few weeks. I invested because I genuinely believed in the idea.

I run a fairly substantial homelab with multiple always-on systems. I've spent years building reliable infrastructure, so I understand exactly what it costs—both financially and in time—to keep systems online 24/7. I knew what I was contributing, and I was happy to contribute because I believed Grass was building something worth supporting.

I even bought one of the $90 Grass shirts because I wanted to support the project beyond simply running nodes.

That's how much confidence I had in it.

Looking back, I regret that decision.

My final results
*520 Days Active
*25 Devices
*1,613,809 Uptime Points
*518.16 Network Points

Estimated Allocation: $2.61 USDC
After more than 520 days, that's what my contribution was apparently worth.
Not even enough to cover the electricity used by the equipment that helped support the network. I wasn't expecting to become rich. That would have been unrealistic.
What I did expect was that over a year of consistent participation would be recognised in a way that reflected the value contributors were providing.
Instead, I watched the reward model evolve to place far greater emphasis on Network Points, leaving huge amounts of accumulated Uptime Points with very little practical value.

Whether that was intentional or simply poor communication, the outcome is the same.
I've lost confidence in the project.

Running infrastructure isn't free.
*It costs electricity.
*It costs hardware wear.
*It costs internet bandwidth.
*It costs maintenance.
*It costs time.

Those costs are carried by the community, not by Grass.

The money itself isn't what disappointed me most.

What disappointed me was what the payout represented.

If over 520 days, across 25 devices, with more than 1.6 million Uptime Points, my contribution is considered to be worth $2.61, then I honestly don't believe long-term supporters are being valued fairly.
Grass had an interesting vision, and that's why I supported it. Unfortunately, I no longer feel that support goes both ways.

**My nodes are now offline**

I won't be recommending Grass to anyone. If you're considering joining, don't rely solely on marketing or leaderboard screenshots. Read the experiences of long-term participants, compare the resources they invested with what they ultimately received, and decide for yourself whether it's a fair exchange.

I genuinely hope Grass improves because the concept has potential.

At this point, however, I no longer have confidence in the project.

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***********Added for grass reply -*************

Derek, this response actually confirms the problem I raised rather than answering it.

Grass's own documentation states that the updated points system was introduced and became effective in Epoch 11 of Stage 2.

So telling users they received little because they didn't earn enough Network Points completely sidesteps the issue: Network Points did not exist as part of the points system for the first 10 epochs.

Grass itself says the early priority was rewarding uptime and network growth, and that Uptime Points helped build the foundation of the network. You can't now dismiss hundreds of days of that contribution by saying, effectively, "you didn't get many Network Points," when that metric was introduced halfway through Stage 2.

And blaming my connection is particularly weak. I accumulated 1.6 million Uptime Points across 520 active days. If Grass believes my connection was unstable or my software outdated enough to justify a $2.61 reward, then provide the data: connection history, bandwidth actually routed, utilisation before Epoch 11, utilisation after Epoch 11, and exactly how both point systems were weighted in my allocation.

I don't have an issue with USDC. I don't expect Grass to reward hardware I chose to buy either. Neither is the complaint.

I'm happy to accept a $2.61 result if Grass can transparently demonstrate how 520 days of contribution produced it. That's what I've been asking for.

From now the game is change.
This will be a trash project that loses investors due to the indiscretion in providing information about the Airdrop for which we have been waiting for a long time and sacrificing devices for a year and the rewards you get are not enough to pay for public toilets, it's a shame you will be ruined if you don't change the point system to be wiser.

Been running nodes for grass for 2 years and they scammed us, they're not rewarding users like they're supposed to... please do not use use grass and if you're already a user please uninstall their software ASAP. Thanks for nothing Grass scammers

3M+ Points 1.5years of up time , 17 devices , Got 0.98USDC , while my referrals with 1 device and 300,000 pts got 0.45USC. Absolute mess. Probably i paid 1000 times more than what i got. Absolute shi***! Well played grass , we have "sheeped".

Pure scam in season 2, season 1 was good but this time they purely scammed us by using our net and the highest reward is approx. 15 to 30 usdc like wth... please everyone stay away from this shitty project and report as much as you can.

LOOL 4 bucks, 4 BUCKS you’re an absolute scam