Airdrops


Finance

Crypto Exchange HyperLiquid to Airdrop 310M Tokens to Early Adopters

Airdrop hunters will receive 31% of HYPE's total supply after a points campaign that ran earlier this year.

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Finance

What to Expect Over the Coming Week in Crypto: Scroll Enters the Frame

Scroll's token launch has been met with eager anticipation from some and disappointment from others who have lamented the token allocation.

Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (Bradley Keoun)

Policy

Crypto Airdrops Ban U.S. Users, but Americans Are Claiming Tokens Anyway

Eigen Labs helped its employees access lucrative airdrops. Its U.S. employees appear to have helped themselves to tokens U.S. residents were banned from claiming.

(Павел Котов/Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

ZKsync’s ZK Airdrop Is Coming ‘Next Week,’ Here's What to Expect

According to the plan released Tuesday, 17.5% of ZK's 21 billion total token supply will be airdropped to users beginning "next week."

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Finance

LayerZero Takes Snapshot as Airdrop Draws Closer

The interoperability protocol indicated that there will be a series of airdrops.

LayerZero co-founders CTO Ryan Zarick and CEO Bryan Pellegrino (Chung Chow, BIV)

Opinion

Why Eigenlayer’s Airdrop Is Controversial

Although it’s actually conservative.

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan at ETHDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots

Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

Tech

Avail, Blockchain Data Availability Project, Sketches Out Eligibility for Token Airdrop

A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations team flagged the tweet to CoinDesk, describing it as a "leak."

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

Markets

Which Crypto Projects Will Airdrop Next? Prediction Markets Are Placing Bets

Eigenlayer has a 66% chance of sending users free tokens by June 30, the odds on Polymarket signal. Plus: Kalshi lands a big Wall Street account.

A C-17 Globemaster III from the 437th Air Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., air delivery pallets of water and food to Mirebalais, Haiti, Jan 21, 2010 to be distributed by the members of the United Nations.  Department of Defense assets have been deployed to assist in the Haiti relief effort  following a magnitude 7 earthquake that hit the city on Jan. 12, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.)

Tech

The Protocol: Using the Money Printer

If you have the money printer – as is the case for many of the blockchain projects with the power to create their own digital tokens – why wouldn't you use it? PLUS: Vitalik Buterin riffs on meme coin and Ethereum's new "blob market."

Printer