
Part of the problem is the airdrop model for token distributions, which has grown in popularity in recent years.
Of the 30 tokens listed by cryptocurrency exchange Binance in 2024, all but one are in the red—and most are down badly, according to a post by crypto researcher Coin98 Analytics on the X social media platform.
The sole exception is Jupiter’s native token, JUP, which has risen 21.2% since listing on Jan. 31 and now has a fully diluted value (FDV) of some $8 billion. FDV is a measure of market capitalization assuming a token’s entire supply is circulating at current trading prices.
Launched in January, Jupiter is a Solana-based decentralized exchange that has attracted upward of $610 million in total value locked (TVL), according to DefiLlama. Its Jan. 31 airdrop was the largest in Solana’s history, with some $700 million worth of JUP tokens distributed to around 1 million wallets.
Pixelverse airdropped 10% of PIXFI’s total supply to holders of its Rare, Epic, and Legendary non-fungible token (NFT) collections.
Pixelverse, a non-fungible token (NFT) and gaming platform on The Open Network (TON), launched its native token, PIXFI, in a much-anticipated airdrop on July 18.
The token traded up almost 50% in the first hours after listing and approached approximately $200 million in fully-diluted market capitalization before pulling back later in the day, according to CoinMarketCap.
The PIXFI token is now listed on several centralized exchanges, including Bybit, HTX, Gate, Bitget, MEXC, according to another Pixelverse X post.
The Blast team announced that its token airdrop would commence on June 26 and that users who bridged assets to the network or used its apps would receive tokens.
Ethereum layer-2 Blast network will launch an airdrop for its early adopters on June 26, according to a June 25 social media post from the team. Seventeen percent of the total supply will be released in the airdrop, 7% of which will go to users who bridged either Ether (ETH) or US Dollar Blast (USDB) to the network. Another 7% will go to those who “contributed to the success of DApps [decentralized applications]” on Blast and 3% will go to the Blur Foundation for future airdrops to its community.
An accompanying report stated that wallets ranked in the top 1,000 in terms of points will “vest part of their airdrop linearly” for six months, implying that these accounts will not be able to sell all of their tokens for another six months.
The Blur Foundation claimed that it is going to distribute its share of the token rewards to traders and holders who have used or will use its platform. One percent of the total supply will go to traders and holders in Season 3, 0.5% will be reserved for traders and holders in Season 4, and another 0.5% will be reserved for future use. Blur did not state how the remaining 0.5% will be utilized
LayerZero’s “not an airdrop” ZRO token airdrop has spurred a new peak for Arbitrum’s daily revenue.
LayerZero’s token launch on June 20 caused a massive surge in fees on Arbitrum, leading to a record $3.43 million daily revenue for the blockchain, a bump of around 16,680% compared to ththe day prior.
LayerZero launched the ZRO token on Thursday but triggered criticism over its obligatory “donation” mechanism — which requires claimants to spend a small amount of money per token to nab their allocation.
These mechanics pushed up the average gas fees on the blockchain, which hit 89 cents, up from its typical less-than-1-cent fee.
An “airdrop hunter” secured $753,000 worth of the new ZKsync token (ZK) via 85 wallets, according to the crypto tracker Lookonchain. Lookonchain notes the trader proceeded to deposit 2.71 million ZK worth $678,000 into Binance and sold 300,000 ZK for 20 Ethereum (ETH) worth $69,000 via the decentralized exchange (DEX) SyncSwap. ZKsync is a layer-2 […]
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The data covered the “top 10,000 addresses” that received zkSync’s new ZK token, though that only makes up 1.4% of the total wallets eligible for the ZK airdrop.
Nearly half of the top wallets that received the new zkSync (ZK) token on Monday, June 17, have already sold their entire allocation in the airdrop, contributing to a 34.5% fall in the price of ZK since its launch.
Data from blockchain analytics firm Nansen shows that nearly 41% of tracked addresses sold their entire airdrop, while 29.2% sold at least some of their tokens. The total amount sold across both cohorts was over 486 million ZK.
Just over 30% of the top receiving wallets have held onto their ZK tokens.