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Flare is a network of its own that grew out of a distribution to XRP holders. If you held XRP in December 2020, you were entitled to FLR whether or not you ever collected it.

Your everyday address starts with 0x. If you stake, you also have a second address beginning P-flare1, and your staking history lives entirely on that one.

Rewards here come from several different mechanisms, on different schedules, and one of them expires if you do not collect it in time.

Rewards that expire if you do not collect them

Most networks hold your staking rewards indefinitely. Flare does not, and this is the single most consequential thing to know about your Flare income.

Delegation rewards accrue every few days. They then sit waiting for you to claim, and after 90 days they are gone. Not delayed, not reduced. Forfeited permanently, and nothing can recover them.

For your tax return the consequence is precise: your income is what you claimed, not what you earned. Someone who delegated all year and claimed twice has income from two claims, and the accrued amounts that lapsed in between were never received by anyone. A figure calculated from accrual data would overstate their income, and they would pay tax on money they never got.

There is a wrinkle if you set up automatic claiming. Someone else's address then signs the claim on your behalf and takes a small fee for doing it. The claim is still yours and the income is still yours, but the amount that reached you is net of that fee, and the transaction is signed by an address you will not recognise in your own history.

Flare's other reward streams behave differently again. Staking rewards accumulate and become claimable in batches rather than continuously. For how staking income is treated where you file, see the USA crypto tax guide or the UK crypto tax guide.

Three years of monthly distributions, now finished

Flare's distribution to XRP holders was not a single airdrop. It was one initial portion followed by 36 monthly tranches, running from March 2023 to January 2026, when the programme concluded.

That shape matters. A user who thinks of it as one airdrop will try to value it at one price on one date. In reality they received a stream of payments across three years, at prices that varied enormously, and each tranche is its own receipt with its own value and its own cost going forward.

The entitlement traces back to a snapshot of XRP balances taken in December 2020, but the snapshot is not when anyone received anything. Each tranche was received when it was collected.

Anyone who held XRP back then may also hold SGB from a separate distribution in September 2021, on Songbird, which is a different network with a different token. Two entitlements from one XRP position, and they belong in two separate lines. If you are also reconstructing the XRP side, our XRP Ledger integration covers it.