The issue I have with these points systems is that it is just an act of making rich guys become richer, the main points of airdrops before is to build ecosystems but with the points system f you don't have real money to stake, it won't worth participating, just look at the Ace airdrop recently, the team was quiet about it and small guys made real money from it. I know all these is to curb those farming airdrops but the points system to me won't last
Yea, I ain't fan of points system either. Regarding, rich becoming richer, I feel it's law of the world.
I haven't realy looked into Eigenlayer and I assumed it's just another L2 that's not gonna get much TVL as the space is so saturated with these new L1 and L2 projects.
It's built upon Ethereum, and has tvl of 823M currently according to defillama, it was 250M before opening windows again few days ago. Also, when you stake it requires hefty gas to pay since it's on ethereum, so it excludes most users.
If i will be only staking small amounts of money and it's not worth to participate. I remind you that there was a retroactive airdrop between swell and eigen layer. When you were bridging ethereum to the swellnetwork and you will get pearl points that can be exchanged to the swell network token in the future. Swell ETH can be staked into the eigen layer as the hard cap has not yet fulfilled. You can get two tokens through doing it. The only problem if these days airdrop needs a lot of money caused by the team was building the TVL as well.
You are right, you can still do it, you get 30 pearls per 1 eth staked on pearl afaik, and then stake sweth to eigenlayer.