Summary
TLDR: Wormhole announces details about the upcoming launch and airdrop for its W governance token, available to users on Ethereum, Solana, and other blockchains. Nearly 400,000 unique wallets are eligible for the airdrop, with 617.3 million W tokens allocated. Airdrop eligibility checker is available, but no date for the claim has been announced. W token will be available on Solana SPL20 and Ethereum ERC-20, and pre-market trading has seen substantial growth.
Key Points
1. The cross-chain protocol Wormhole has announced more details about the upcoming launch and airdrop for its W governance token, available to users across Ethereum, Solana, and other blockchains.
2. Nearly 400,000 unique wallets across the “community and launch” category will be eligible for the airdrop, with 617.3 million W tokens allocated for those users. 500 million tokens will be distributed to users who have used a Wormhole application across over 30 eligible chains.
3. The W token, available as both a native Solana SPL20 token and an Ethereum ERC-20 token, will be distributed to users across various chains like Avalanche, BNB Chain, and Ethereum scaling networks like Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, and Polygon. Pre-market trading for the W token has seen significant growth, with token claims selling for $2.49 apiece as of Monday.