{"id":303185,"date":"2024-05-16T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=303185"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:56:29","slug":"blast-delays-token-launch-but-increases-airdrop-allocation-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/blast-delays-token-launch-but-increases-airdrop-allocation-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast Delays Token Launch But Increases Airdrop Allocation &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Ethereum Layer 2 network was widely expected to drop its token in May but has delayed the launch to June 26.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ethereum Layer 2 network Blast has postponed its token generation event (TGE) and airdrop to June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Originally scheduled for the end of May, Blast is distributing two extra allocations of Blast Gold, akin to points, to dApps and users to compensate for the delay.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Tweet from Blast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a result, Blur is also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/blur_io\/status\/1790845838480085197\">extending<\/a> its <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/nfts-and-web3\/ethereum-nfts-dip-as-blur-season-3-winds-down\">Season 3<\/a> campaign, which was slated to end in the coming days, until June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Many tokens and NFTs on Blast have been bleeding leading up to the highly anticipated TGE as the incentive to hold them dwindled.<\/p>\n<p>After today\u2019s announcement, tokens on Blast began to reprice higher, as farmers began to accumulate more tokens to add to their <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/blockchains\/blast-ecosystem-surges-on-novel-jackpot-incentive-structure\">jackpot<\/a> decks. There has not been much movement on Blast NFTs yet, and it\u2019s unclear whether they will catch bids as strongly as the tokens.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Top Tokens on Blast\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"240.6\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto\" id='b' style='filter: url(%23b)' src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F6oftkxoa%2Fproduction%2F48780395cdc5bb59f8e7c5629994d22ae48fd0f8-1600x401.jpg&amp;w=828&amp;q=100\" \/><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Top Tokens on Blast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blast is the fourth-largest Layer 2 with nearly $2.7 billion in total value locked (TVL), according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/l2beat.com\/scaling\/summary\">L2beat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum Layer 2 network was widely expected to drop its token in May but has delayed the launch to June 26. Ethereum Layer 2 network Blast has postponed its token generation event (TGE) and airdrop to June 26. Originally scheduled for the end of May, Blast is distributing two extra allocations of Blast Gold, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-303185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303188,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303185\/revisions\/303188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}