Original author: Crypto researcher Defi_Mochi & Stacy Muur

Original translation: Felix, PANews

In 2024, major projects launched airdrops one after another. Based on the summary information of crypto researchers Defi_Mochi and Stacy Muur, this article consolidates the price performance of 11 tokens after this year's TGE (Token Generation Event).

Price performance of some tokens after TGE; Source: Stacy Muur

Jito（JTO）

• Airdrop: 10% of the 1 billion total supply (100 million)

• Current Circulation: 121,958,742 Tokens

• Price performance since launch: Up 149% from $1.49

• High ROI (most stakers are eligible for 4900+ tokens)

Airdrop method:

80% is allocated to jitoSOL stakers ---> A higher proportion is allocated to SOL stakers

• Since the airdrop qualification criteria favors low SOL stakers, it is more likely to be a Sybil

• TVL and metrics are growing healthily

Ethena Labs (ENA)

• Airdrop: 5% (total supply is 15 billion, 750 million airdropped)

• Current Circulation: 1,479,139,274 Tokens

• Price performance since launch: Up 73% from $0.52

• DeFi users have extremely high returns on investment

Airdrop Method

• 5% of the total supply will be airdropped, 50% will be initially unlocked by the top 2,000 users and YT token holders of Pendle, and the remaining 50% will be unlocked linearly over 6 months. 3% of the total supply of this airdrop, accounting for 0.15% of the total token supply, will be distributed to SchizoPosters and Redacted Remilio Babies series NFT holders.

• Highly consistent with the protocol indicators --> TVL reached a new high of 2.7 billion during the S 2 event

• DeFi-favoring airdrops drive sUSDE adoption

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• friend.tech (FRIEND)

• Airdrop: The current total supply is 93,884,904, 100% airdropped to the community

• It has fallen 64% since its launch price of $3.08

• The overall return on investment is low for key holders and buyers

Airdrop Method

• Airdrop all tokens to community members and launch V2 and Club at the same time

• Users can claim the remaining airdrops by joining the Club, etc.

• Price discovery is average

Jupiter (JUP)

• Airdrop: 1.35 billion (13.5% of total supply of 10 billion)

• Price performance since launch: Up 51% from $0.66 USD

• Moderate ROI for most users of the platform

Overall, JUP’s airdrops were in line with the key metric that the project is most concerned about (trading volume). With strong partnerships and products like jupSOL and launchpad, JUP has been a huge success overall.

Wormhole (W)

• Initial airdrop: 617 million W (6% of total supply).

• Initial airdrop value: $1 billion

• Current value: $345 million

• Initial price vs. current price: -64%

AltLayer (ALT)

• Initial airdrop: 300 million ALT (3% of total supply).

• Initial airdrop value: $90 million

• Current value: $110 million

• Initial price to current price: +28%

ether.fi (ETHFI)

• Initial airdrop: 60 million ETHFI (6% of total supply).

• Initial airdrop value: $202 million

• Current value: $300 million

• Initial price to current price: +47%

Polyhedra Network (ZK)

• Initial airdrop: 150 million ZK (15% of total supply, unlocked linearly over 36 months)

• Initial airdrop value: $480 million

• Current value: $210 million

• Initial price to current price: -43.8%

ZetaChain (ZETA)

• Initial airdrop: 31.5 million ZETA (1.5% of total supply).

• Initial airdrop value: $52 million

• Current value: $47.5 million

• Initial price vs. current price: -10%

Renzo (REZ)

• Initial airdrop: 700 million REZ (7% of total supply).

• Initial airdrop value: $105 million

• Current value: $94.5 million

• Initial price vs. current price: -6.3%

Notcoin (NOT)

• Initial airdrop: 80 billion NOT (80% of total supply).

• Initial airdrop value: $466 million

• Current value: $413 million

• Initial price vs. current price: -17%