EigenLayer Tokens to Be Released in Coming Hours, Futures Trade at Fully Diluted $6.8B
The restaking protocol will unlock 1.67 billion tokens at 9 p.m. PST on Monday.
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The restaking protocol will unlock 1.67 billion tokens at 9 p.m. PST on Monday.
Restaking protocol YieldNest is introducing ynBNB, the first liquid-restaking token on BNB Chain.
Restaking protocol EigenLayer said it will distribute 86 million EIGEN tokens, around 5% of the total supply, to stakers, node operators, ecosystem partners and community members.
Eigen Labs circulated a list of team members’ wallet addresses to EigenLayer ecosystem projects that were preparing to issue tokens. The firm later banned the practice, citing potential conflicts of interest.
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Users can deposit their wBTC to get swBTC in return, with yield expected to start flowing from mid-September – as part of a blockchain “restaking” scheme ultimately designed to secure protocols in the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem.
Billions of dollars worth of ether have been withdrawn from restaking protocols over the past month as the once-trendy sector starts to be hit by the fickle nature of crypto investors.
The yet-to-implemented codebase allows any Solana-based protocol to use any asset for its economic security.
Funds will be used towards expanding the project’s restaking services, including adding support for ERC-20 tokens.
The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector will experience an ecosystem boost after a spot ether {{ETH}} exchange-traded fund (ETF) was approved in the U.S. on Thursday, according to Mike Silagadze, CEO of ETH restaking protocol Ether.fi.