Airdrops and funding by project
Sorted by airdrop date. Jumper is highlighted at the bottom because it distributed its token through a sale, not an airdrop.
| Project | Token | Airdrop | What was distributed | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hop | HOP | Jun 2022 | 20.5M HOP claimed in the first days out of 54.8M available; 145,329 addresses | No publicly announced rounds |
| Across | ACX | Nov 2022 | 115M ACX (11.5% of supply): 70M to liquidity providers, 20M to the community, 15M to early users, 10M to the Bridge Traveler program | $51M: $10M (Nov 2022, $200M valuation) and $41M in 2024 led by Paradigm |
| Connext (Everclear) | NEXT | Sep 2023 | To users and routers on Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and Gnosis; total amount not published | ≈ $22M: $2.2M seed (2021), $12M Series A (2021), $7.5M (2023, $250M valuation) |
| Wormhole * | W | Apr 2024 | 617M W (6.2% of 10bn), about 400,000 wallets | $225M (Nov 2023, $2.5bn valuation): Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin, Jump |
| LayerZero (Stargate) | ZRO | Jun 2024 | 85M ZRO (8.5% of supply), 1.28M wallets, 25 to 5,000 ZRO per wallet | $263M: $135M Series A (2022, $1bn valuation) and $120M Series B (2023, $3bn valuation); a16z, Sequoia |
| deBridge | DBR | Oct 2024 | About 491,000 wallets | $5.5M seed |
| Orbiter Finance | OBT | Jan 2025 | 22% of 10bn OBT in the first airdrop, then 3% a month for six months | Seed and Series A, amounts not disclosed; 10% of tokens to investors |
| Hyperlane | HYPER | Apr 2025 | 57% of supply set aside for the community; airdrop fully unlocked | $18.5M (2022, led by Variant) |
| Jumper | JUMP | Sep – Oct 2026 | No airdrop. Public sale on Legion from 29 Sep to 2 Oct 2026; 50% of tokens unlocked at TGE, the rest over 4 months | $3M public sale at a $75M valuation; pledges of about $48.6M (24 times the target) |
Dollar amounts are what was raised from investors (VC rounds and token sales), not the token's market value. The row marked * is partly from general knowledge.
An airdrop is usually based on a snapshot taken before the announcement: whoever had used the bridge by that date received tokens. Using a bridge afterwards just for the airdrop rarely helps.
Major bridges without their own token
Relay, Mayan and LI.FI, among the most used today, have no token of their own (as of 8 Oct 2026). Prediction markets are betting on whether Relay will launch one. Circle Gateway and USDT0 move USDC and USDT, so they do not need a separate token.
Sources
Across: initial allocations · The Block: Across $41M · The Block: ZRO airdrop · The Block: LayerZero Series B · Fortune: Wormhole $225M · CoinDesk: Hop airdrop · Connext: NEXT airdrop · The Block: Connext $7.5M · deBridge: $5.5M · The Block: Orbiter OBT · CoinDesk: Hyperlane airdrop · The Crypto Times: JUMP sale