eOracle founder: "Eigen Labs employees accepting airdrops from other projects caused a conflict of interest" report is false

BlockBeats reported that on August 19, Matan Sibon, the founder of the EigenLayer ecosystem project eOracle, questioned CoinDesk's recent report on Eigen Labs. Matan said that last week, CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief Sam Kessler invited him to an interview to complete an article on re-staking technology, but in the interview, Sam kept directing the topic to "whether the Eigen Labs team has ever pressured ecosystem projects to airdrop tokens to them." Although Matan repeatedly gave negative answers and said that based on his personal understanding of projects in the same ecosystem, Altlayer, Renzo, Ether.fi and other projects would not feel "pressured," these responses did not appear in CoinDesk's report. Matan added that exposing conflicts of interest is one thing, and accusing a team of abusing power to pressure other projects in the ecosystem for "profit" is another thing. CoinDesk is better off withdrawing the report or providing evidence.

BlockBeats previously reported that on August 15, CoinDesk reported that employees of Eigen Labs, the developer of EigenLayer, accepted millions of dollars in payments from other projects that relied on their technology, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest. A team told CoinDesk that it gave a portion of the tokens to each Eigen Labs employee as a "thank you." Each employee's share was ultimately worth $80,000. Eigen Labs said it only sent the list "to teams that had contacted Eigen Labs or its employees for airdrops," but one team said that Eigen Labs sent it the list of addresses, even though the team did not ask Eigen Labs to send it. It is reported that Eigen Labs employees received up to nearly $5 million in tokens through these airdrops. Eigen Labs and the Eigen Foundation banned employees from accepting such airdrops in May this year and introduced a policy that "explicitly prohibits any employee from influencing any company-related transactions for personal gain."