Galxe is shutting down Quest, ID and Passport. The team and brand move under Gravity, its layer 1 chain. Campaigns run until December 5, reward claims close December 15, and after that the site goes read-only. If you have unclaimed rewards sitting on Galxe, you have about five weeks to get them out.
That is the short answer. Below is the full timeline, a claim checklist, what happens to your OATs and $G, and a story from 2018 about the quest platform we ran before Galxe existed.
What Galxe announced
Galxe published the news on November 9. The announcement covers three things.
First, the company is folding its team and brand into Gravity to speed up development of Gravity L1. Second, Galxe Quest, Galxe ID, Galxe Passport and the services around them will close. Third, the $G token does not change and Gravity keeps operating as normal.
Some changes took effect the same day. Spaces can no longer create new campaigns. New Galxe+ and Galxe Score subscriptions have stopped. Passport minting is also closed.
Galxe says it served more than 36 million users and over 7,700 projects in five-plus years. For context, that is the single biggest quest platform in crypto choosing to exit the quest business.
The dates that matter
There are two hard deadlines and one open one.
December 5 is the last day to complete campaigns. Any quest you have not finished by then stays unfinished.
December 15 is the last day to claim rewards. After that, the Galxe website switches to read-only mode. You can look, but you cannot claim.
The third timeline is separate. Smart Savings balances, staked $G you have not withdrawn, and $G held on Gravity Alpha mainnet wallets will get their own claim process. Galxe says those funds are safe and that instructions will follow. Do not confuse this with the December 15 cutoff. Nothing in the announcement suggests those assets expire on that date.
What to do before December 15
Treat this like any other snapshot deadline. Work through it wallet by wallet.
Log in to Galxe with every wallet you have ever used there. Most farmers have more than one, and the forgotten wallets are where the unclaimed rewards hide.
Check your campaign history for anything marked as eligible but not claimed. Points-based campaigns, raffles you won, token rewards and OATs all count.
Claim any on-chain rewards now rather than in the last week. Gas spikes and site load tend to get worse near a deadline, and a stuck claim on December 14 is not a position you want.
Finish any live campaign you care about before December 5. Partially completed quests will not be worth anything after that date.
Screenshot your profile, your Galxe Score and your completed campaign list. Once the site is read-only, that data is still visible, but there is no guarantee for how long.
For the $G side, do nothing yet. Wait for the official instructions on Smart Savings and staked $G. Anyone who messages you with a “claim link” for those funds before Galxe publishes the process is running a scam.
What stays and what goes
OATs and NFTs you already minted on-chain stay in your wallet. They are tokens on a blockchain, not entries in a Galxe database, so the shutdown does not remove them. What they are worth for future eligibility is another question.
Galxe Score and Passport credentials are a different story. Passport minting has already stopped. The announcement does not say what happens to existing Passport data or whether it can be exported. We will update this post if Galxe clarifies.
Projects lose a distribution channel. Thousands of teams used Galxe campaigns as their default onboarding tool. Expect those campaigns to move to Zealy, Layer3, Kaito-style leaderboards or in-house points programs.
Why Galxe is closing quests
Galxe frames the move as focus. Running a layer 1 and running a quest platform are two very different businesses, and the team picked the chain.
The announcement does not give more than that, so we will not speculate about numbers. Still, the timing says something. Projects have been shifting budgets from social quests toward on-chain points programs for two years. A quest that asks you to follow, join and retweet has far less signal than a points program that measures deposits and volume. Our guide on how airdrop points work covers that shift in detail.
I built a quest platform in 2018. Here is what it taught me
This one is personal, so I will switch to first person.
Back in 2017 and 2018, AirdropAlert ran campaigns we called exclusive airdrops. A project came to us, we set up a form, users followed on Twitter, joined Telegram, submitted a wallet, and we verified entries by hand and distributed tokens. Nine campaigns in one snapshot, more than fifty overall. It was a quest platform before anyone used the word. I wrote the whole story in the exclusive airdrops throwback.
Then the first bear market hit. I scaled down instead of raising money to build it out. That decision is covered in the first airdrop bear market post, and for years it looked like a mistake. Galxe took the idea, added wallet connect, Discord verification and proper APIs, and grew it to 36 million users.
Now they are closing it. Not because the product failed, but because the economics of social quests stopped making sense even at that scale. The best-funded version of the idea I walked away from has now walked away from it too.
My takeaway is simple. Distribution mechanics are temporary. Forms gave way to quests, quests gave way to points, and points will give way to something else. The constant is that projects need users and users want upside.
What this means for airdrop farmers
Quest-style farming is not dead, but it is no longer where the money is. The big airdrops of the last two years rewarded capital and real usage, not Discord roles.
Three practical moves follow from that.
Shift your time toward points programs and on-chain activity. Perp DEX volume, bridging, lending and staking are where eligibility is decided now.
Have a plan for any token you do receive from a closing campaign. Our airdrop exit strategy guide explains how to sell without regret.
Keep finding campaigns somewhere that is not going read-only. We list new crypto airdrops every day, and you can filter active airdrops by chain and category in the airdrop database.
Keep This Content Free
Writing up shutdowns like this one on the day they happen takes time, and AirdropAlert stays free because readers sign up to exchanges through our links. If you need a place to sell tokens you claim from Galxe before the deadline, OKX and Bybit both list most of what came out of its campaigns. Using those links costs you nothing and keeps the site running.
Final Words
Galxe closing Quest, ID and Passport ends the biggest quest platform crypto has had. The practical part is easy: finish campaigns by December 5, claim everything by December 15, and wait for separate instructions on Smart Savings and staked $G.
Deadlines like these are exactly why we built the airdrop calendar. It is a new tool that pushes TGEs, snapshots, distributions and claim cutoffs straight into your Google or Apple calendar, so the next December 15 never sneaks up on you.
The bigger lesson is about where farming attention goes next. Social quests had their era. On-chain points and real usage have the current one. Position your wallets accordingly, and check back here as new campaigns replace the ones Galxe leaves behind.
FAQ
Is Galxe shutting down completely?
Galxe Quest, Galxe ID and Galxe Passport are closing. Gravity, the layer 1 chain, continues, and the $G token is unchanged. The Galxe website becomes read-only after December 15.
When is the last day to claim Galxe rewards?
December 15 is the final day to claim campaign rewards. December 5 is the last day to complete campaigns.
What happens to my Galxe OATs?
OATs you minted on-chain stay in your wallet. The shutdown affects the Galxe platform, not tokens already on a blockchain.
What about my Smart Savings or staked $G?
Those have a separate claim process. Galxe says the funds are safe and that instructions will be announced. Ignore any claim link that appears before the official announcement.
Can projects still launch Galxe campaigns?
No. Spaces lost the ability to create new campaigns on November 9, the day of the announcement.
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