Today the page was announced to find out if our wallet is eligible for the airdrop of the Eigen Layer restaking protocol, which brought with it some discontent from many users, due to the small number of tokens and some eligibility criteria. On the other hand, the story was different for some #Ethereum whales. What happened to the whales that staked the Eigen layer? Let's explore.
The Eigen layer restaking protocol opened its doors to all users in the middle of last year, so that we could restake the main liquid tokens (zETH, stETH, cbETH initially), and thus generate returns and points in the protocol, which would later be key for the airdrop.
At first, doing this restaking operation was a little difficult, due to the high demand of users who wanted to carry out this restaking operation, so much so that the fee costs on the Ethereum network rose to abysmal levels. This is not to mention that there was a limit for each liquid token, which if it reached its maximum limit, you could no longer restake.
Thus, over time there was greater felixibility, in terms of the diversity of liquid tokens and the elimination of a maximum limit, and more users were able to access the protocol.
Among them were #ballenas from Ethereum, who also wanted to be part of this protocol and opt for its airdrop. That is why certain names are beginning to appear. One of them and the best known is #JustinSun , which thanks to the @Arkham Intelligence platform, today we know the public wallet it uses.
Crossing chain information, we have that Justin Sun's wallet will receive 2,087,968.186 EIGEN.
Another very curious fact that caught my attention is a #billetera from another whale, where the withdrawal dates coincide with the snapshot of the Eigen layer protocol on March 15. This is the "GCR Classic" wallet. According to the arkham Intelligence platform, one of the wallets linked to GCR deposited about 4,000 wbETH 4 months ago in the Eigen layer protocol, generating points.
And just 3 weeks ago (March 17) he removed all his capital from the Eigen Layer platform.
Having an airdrop of 50,460 EIGEN.
Is inside trading a coincidence?
From the beginning it was known that whales were going to play an important role in the airdrop, due to the large capital deposited in the protocol. Retail investors were disappointed, due to the linear distribution of the protocol. That said, there are still 10 days left for the claim, which over time can clear up more doubts. We will see what happens with the price of the EIGEN token.
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