It´s #L222 season so I decided to do a price prediction of $HOP by relative comparison with the $ENS, $OP, and $PSP airdrop.
It´s based on the assumption that 🐰 $HOP will have a similar market cap at launch as $SYN and that only 50% of addresses will claim their tokens. 🧵👇...
When doing such a prediction there are essentially 2 factors that you have to solve to determine the initial price:
Hop is the top bridge in the L2 ecosystem regarding reputation and connectedness inside the Ethereum community. We have just seen it with the 🔴 $OP airdrop.
Right now, the only comparable bridge is @SynapseProtocol with a current market cap of $250M.
At launch, I expect $HOP to reach a $150M market cap.
It´s the first fully decentralized bridge and I believe it will take a huge part in the #L222 summer season.
However, it should be noted that we are in a bear market and some people might insta-dump it for liquidity.
2. Initial Circulating Supply
Only 5.85% (58.5M $HOP) will be able to be claimed and traded by early adopters. The question is, will they all be claimed on the first day?
I highly doubt it.
If we look at the data from the $ENS, $OP, and $PSP airdrops, few wallets did claim.
Let´s take a look:
a) $OP = 248,699 eligible addresses= 60% claimed during first day.
b) $ENS = 137,689 eligible addresses= 41% claimed during first day.
c) $PSP = 20,000 eligible addresses= 53% claimed during first day.