MegaETH token sale oversubscribed by 8.9x with $450M committed

Ethereum layer-2 web MegaETH’s archetypal coin offering reportedly “sold out” wrong minutes and is present oversubscribed by astir $400 million, arsenic users scramble to get an allocation of its MEGA token. 

The Ethereum layer-2 web opened the auction for its MEGA token connected Monday with a rise headdress of conscionable nether $50 million, but the auction has since seen much than $450 cardinal successful commitments successful conscionable a substance of hours.

In total, the archetypal coin offering (ICO) volition allocate 5% of the full 10 cardinal token supply, with a maximum bid magnitude of $186,282 and a minimum bid of $2,650, offering the enactment to prime a 1-year lock-up for a 10% discount.

MegaETH opened its token auction connected Monday and has been oversubscribed by astir $400 cardinal from its cap. Source: MegaETH

Because it’s oversubscribed, erstwhile the countdown timer ends successful 2 days, a “special allocation mechanism” volition beryllium utilized to determine each user’s allocation, according to the auction FAQ, which takes into relationship past engagement successful the MegaETH and Ethereum communities, and whether a lock-up was selected. 

The project’s achromatic insubstantial lists the token motorboat day arsenic January 2026. The token volition beryllium tradeable connected announced centralized exchanges and decentralized exchanges operating connected MegaETH, and relation arsenic a modular ERC-20 token, but besides enactment arsenic an “economic motor for a brace of caller infrastructure features, including sequencer rotation and proximity markets.” 

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Reports connected X bespeak that the tokens were oversubscribed wrong minutes, and successful conscionable 2 hours, had already reached 5 times the headdress with 819 addresses committing the maximum bid, according to blockchain analytics level Arkham.

Source: Arkham

An expert with the onchain analytics level Santiment, Brian Q, said connected Tuesday, “Such aggressive, synchronized buying tin beryllium a reddish flag.” 

“When excessively galore participants are moving successful the aforesaid absorption astatine once, it tin amplify speculative pressure, elevate the hazard of a crisp reversal, and whitethorn bespeak much of a societal momentum than fundamentals,” helium said. 

“The sheer measurement of max contributions successful specified a abbreviated model raises the question: are buyers driven by semipermanent condemnation successful MegaETH’s technology, oregon by a fearfulness of missing retired (FOMO)?”

MegaETH’s committedness could besides beryllium a factor 

However, helium besides said it could beryllium driven by the project’s lofty promises. MegaETH’s creators, known arsenic MegaLabs, person raised ample amounts of backing and are backed by immoderate of the astir influential names successful the industry, including Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin. 

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The project, pursuing the motorboat of its testnet successful March, aims to execute millisecond-level transaction speeds. 

“In the end, MegaETH is getting truthful overmuch hype due to the fact that it promises thing everyone successful crypto wants: a blockchain that’s arsenic speedy and creaseless arsenic a regular app, but inactive connected to Ethereum’s trusted network,” Brian Q said. 

“If the squad delivers connected its goals, it could go 1 of the astir utile Ethereum extensions yet. But similar each early-stage crypto projects, it’s inactive experimental — truthful traders and investors should enactment curious, not careless, portion the communicative unfolds.”

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