2024-04-13
A document outlining the requirements for the AVAIL token airdrop was Leaked on social media platform X by user @Bitcoineo.
Avail, a prominent blockchain data availability project, is currently operating on a test network and is following in the footsteps of its rival Celestia, whose token has already achieved a market cap of over $1 billion.
According to the leaked screenshot, users of layer-2 rollups such as Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and Starknet, as well as ecosystem developers and Polygon PoS stakers, may be eligible to receive the AVAIL token.
Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of Polygon, also Expressed enthusiasm for the airdrop within the Polygon community in his own post on X.
Avail was previously a part of Polygon but became an independent project in March 2023. Anurag Arjun, the founder of Avail, was a co-founder of Polygon.
While Avail's competitors in the data availability space are gaining momentum, the trend of "modular" blockchains is emerging, allowing functionalities that were previously exclusive to "monolithic" blockchains like Ethereum to be broken down into separate plug-in modules.
Celestia, another data availability solution, conducted its TIA airdrop in November 2023, and its token already has a circulating market capitalization of $1.8 billion.
EigenLayer, with its in-house DA solution EigenDA, recently launched on the Ethereum blockchain but has not confirmed plans for a token.
