Eclipse Labs Excludes ES Token Airdrop Team

• ES token airdrop will be exclusive to the community
• Eclipse Labs bans team from claiming ES
• Transparent distribution aims to avoid supply manipulation

Layer 2 solutions developer Eclipse Labs has announced stringent measures to ensure that the ES token airdrop is exclusively community-driven.

The company has confirmed that no team members will be allowed to participate in the free token distribution, in an attempt to maintain the integrity of the initial circulating supply and avoid any insider involvement that would compromise the fairness of the distribution.

In the recent past, we've witnessed other protocols farm their own airdrops, actively taking away allocation from their community and users. This is a tactic used to obfuscate the real circulating supply of the token.

This will not happen with $ES .

Eclipse Labs employees have…

— Eclipse Labs (@Labs_Eclipse) June 25, 2025

According to the company, all employees and collaborators have signed legal agreements prohibiting them from claiming the airdrop, in addition to having their wallet addresses — including test ones — previously excluded from eligibility. The move comes after growing criticism in the industry about projects that used internal wallets to manipulate the initial supply of their crypto assets.

“This is a tactic used to obfuscate the true circulating supply of the token,” Eclipse explained. “This will not happen with $ES.”

With this approach, the startup intends to hand over initial control of the tokens directly to the community, ensuring that the total circulating tokens at launch only reflect eligible recipients. The company has also set a one-year lock-up period for team and investor tokens, followed by a gradual release over three years.

Founded in 2022, Eclipse launched its Ethereum-based scaling solution powered by the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) in November 2024. This architecture allows applications originally developed for Solana to operate within the Ethereum ecosystem, combining speed and security between the two blockchains.

To date, the company has raised approximately $65 million in funding, including a Series A round led by Placeholder and Hack VC. The official date for the ES token airdrop has not yet been announced, but the expectation is that 100% of the allocation will go to network users.