AltLayer

The token launched on Binance on 25 January 2024. The claim site ran for one month, until 25 February 2024, and unclaimed tokens returned to AltLayer's treasury after the claim period. Recipients included OG Badge and Oh Ottie NFT holders (1,768 Oh Ottie NFTs were counted), Altitude participants, EigenLayer restakers and Celestia stakers.

AltLayer set aside a dedicated pool for the restaking community, with tiers based on "Restaked Points". It said it obtained that data from the EigenLayer team and from Renzo, Ether.fi and KelpDAO. Celestia stakers were to get access later through a portal for staked TIA.

The sybil rules were stricter than most. Wallet addresses with the same source of funding were disqualified altogether, and AltLayer gave the example of clusters of more than ten wallets funded from one non-faucet treasury that trade in sync. Over 1 million non-sybil addresses qualified across phases of the Altitude campaign. The team also said more incentives were planned for partners adopting restaked rollups.

Disqualifying entire clusters is harsh on families, friends or teams who share a funding source, and it can catch legitimate users. It is also a strong deterrent to farmers, which is the intent.

Rewarding restakers makes the airdrop part of a wider effort to attract EigenLayer's user base to new products, and shows how much of this field is shared audiences.

One more consideration is that ALT's airdrop was tied to another project's data. Using Restaked Points from EigenLayer and its partners meant the reward depended on figures AltLayer did not produce itself, which is efficient but also means errors or disputes in the source data flow into the result. When a drop relies on other teams' records, check which sources were used and whether they were published, so you can verify your own score.