Blast's Big Moment
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📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Crypto markets exhaled with a green day following Monday's selloff. The biggest winners? Memes. BRETT, WIF, PEPE, NOT, and BONK showcased double-digit gains for the day, though most are still far below their June highs.
| Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.29T | ↗ 3.1% | ↘ 2.6% |
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BTC $62,117 | ↗ 3.4% | ↘ 4.7% |
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ETH $3,411 | ↗ 2.0% | ↘ 1.8% |
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NEAR $5.45 | ↗ 0.1% | ↗ 14.7% |
It's almost... finally... just about here.
Ethereum’s Blast L2 has been one of the more innovative protocols when it comes to incentive models for bootstrapping deposits and user activity. They've been very successful thus far, enabling the network to accumulate over $2B in total value locked (TVL) and become the second-largest L2!
While Blast has transformed into a Goliath among L2s, the imminence of its airdrop – scheduled for tomorrow, June 26 – raises undeniable concerns about the network’s future in the aftermath of this much-anticipated event.
Today, we’re digging into what we know about the airdrop and unpacking the dilemma Blast faces in the post-drop battle to retain existing users and their capital! 👇
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Thousands of Bankless Citizens scored an average of $3,500 worth of tokens after Ether.fi's airdrop. Did you miss out again?
Ether.fi was in the Bankless Airdrop Hunter, and you could have gotten into the latest drop by following our quests! There are nearly 100 other crypto protocols in Airdrop Hunter waiting for you.
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