Crypto merchants, early adopters, and airdrop farmers in finding claimed more than 46.2 million EIGEN tokens worth about $359 million within the first three days of EigenLayer’s extremely-anticipated airdrop that went reside on Friday, in line with blockchain analytics agency Flipside Crypto.

Roughly 108,000 pockets addresses claimed those tokens, and of these addresses, one recognized as belonging to Tron founder Justin Solar claimed more than two million EIGEN, worth about $16.2 million, on Saturday, making him the 2d-excellent pockets claimer, per Flipside Crypto, onchain analytics agency Nansen, and blockchain explorer Etherscan.

While they’re unable to switch out their EIGEN currently (that is expected to happen round Sept. 30, after key funds and slashing components are successfully-established), token holders can stake their Eigen  to construct bigger the protection of the platform. For that reason, 76,000 pockets addresses in finding staked 35.8 million EIGEN, worth about $278 million, of the entire claimed tokens, knowledge from Flipside Crypto reveals.

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At press time, about 37.4 million EIGEN tokens worth $290 million remains unclaimed at pre-market trading prices. Folks who got an airdrop allocation of EIGEN can’t ship their EIGEN to other addresses. Nonetheless, they’ll trade EIGEN perpetual futures, which don’t in finding expiration dates, on decentralized exchanges Aevo and Hyperliquid, venues that enable of us to take a position on the asset’s future price.

EigenLayer is the 2d excellent decentralized finance protocol with a entire worth locked of $14.7 billion, trailing tiresome liquid staking protocol Lido however sooner than lending protocol Aave, per DefiLlama. The worth of EIGEN perpetual futures on Aevo has diminished about 14% from $9.07 on Friday to $7.77 on Monday.