EigenLayer has sparked controversy due to its employees receiving a large number of tokens in the ecological project airdrop

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, the re-staking protocol EigenLayer has sparked controversy due to employees receiving a large number of tokens in ecosystem project airdrops. The total value of these tokens peaked at nearly $5 million. Eigen Labs had provided a list of employee wallet addresses to projects preparing to issue tokens, including Ether.Fi, Renzo, and AltLayer.

One project team stated that they sent a portion of the new cryptocurrency to each employee of Eigen Labs as a "thank you," with each employee's allocation ultimately valued at $80,000. Another team reported that Eigen Labs sent them a list of employee wallet addresses and felt compelled to pay out tokens to avoid jeopardizing their relationship with Eigen Labs, which is crucial to their business.

To address these issues, Eigen Labs and the Eigen Foundation quietly prohibited employees from accepting such token airdrops in May of this year, acknowledging that this practice could lead to conflicts of interest or at least give that impression, and implemented stricter internal policies.