NFT marketplace Magic Eden airdrops ME

Airdrop claimants are reporting difficulties claiming the airdrop on Magic Eden’s wallet

December 10, 2024 02:00 pm

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After announcing its ME token back in August, Magic Eden finally launched the token today, alongside an impressive number of listings across several tier one and two centralized exchanges.

About 10 minutes before launch, ME saw a 47% spike from $6.04 to a high of $8.9 on its pre-launch perps on Aevo. Two hours after launch, however, ME has cratered to a $581 million market cap, down 60% from $1.48 billion.

Users are reporting technical difficulties trying to claim the airdrop on the Magic Eden wallet. As part of Magic Eden’s criteria, users had to install its mobile wallet and link their other wallets to prove eligibility for claiming.

Magic Eden originally launched as a NFT trading platform on Solana in 2021, and later also deployed on Polygon and Base.

Magic Eden successfully capitalized on the Bitcoin NFT craze in early 2024, processing about 83% ($1.7 billion) of all Ordinals and Runes NFTs trading volumes in the past year.

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