Polygon Information Chief Comment on EigenLayer Controversy: 90% of L1 and L2 business teams will re
According to a previous report by Zombiet, foreign media CoinDesk revealed in a report that EigenLayer employees sent "address lists" to pressure external project parties, in order to receive millions of magnesium token airdrops. This incident has sparked discussions in the community.
Matan Sibon, founder of the EigenLayer ecosystem project eOracle, questioned this report regarding this matter.
Matan stated that Sam Kessler, the deputy editor in chief of CoinDesk, contacted him last week under the name of "Re staking Technology Articles" and conducted an interview. However, during the interview, Sam Kessler constantly redirected the topic to whether the Eigen Labs team had pressured the ecosystem project to airdrop tokens to them. Although Matan repeatedly denied it and pointed out that he believed that projects such as Altlayer, Renzo, Ether.fi were unlikely to have been pressured, these responses did not appear in CoinDesk's report.
Matan tweeted:
Exposing conflicts of interest is one thing, accusing a team of abusing their power to pressure other projects in the ecosystem for profit is another. If Sam Kessler and CoinDesk can retract these allegations or provide evidence of pressure, it would be commendable behavior
However, some industry insiders believe that such behavior of demanding quotas from partners is not a new thing in this industry. Polygon Chief Information Officer Mudit Gupta posted on X that people are panicking about Eigen Labs employees requesting airdrops from ecological sub projects, but in reality, 90% of Layer1 and Layer2 BD teams directly request shares or airdrops in the name of consultants.
In addition, Mudit Gupta stated that if any journalist really wants to investigate this matter, they only need to launch a fake new DEX and contact BD teams from different Layer1/Layer2 to experience it firsthand.
