megaETH Launches The Fluffle NFT Series, Targeting a $540 Million FDV

megaETH, a real-time blockchain focused on improving Ethereum performance, announced today that it will soon launch a new NFT series: The Fluffle.

megaETH, a real-time blockchain focused on improving Ethereum performance, announced on Thursday that it will soon launch a new NFT series: The Fluffle.

The total number of this NFT series is 10,000, the whitelist price is 1ETH, and it is a non-tradable and non-transferable SBT (Soul Bound Token). The rights and interests of NFT holders include a future 5% token distribution, 50% can be unlocked on the TGE day, and the rest will be unlocked linearly within 6 months. The whitelist details have not yet been announced, but users can currently check whether they are eligible for the whitelist on the official website.

megaETH is one of the popular Ethereum expansion solutions in this round. On June 27, 2024, it completed a $20 million seed round of financing, and received financial support from institutions and celebrities such as Dragonfly, Robot Ventures, Folius Ventures and Vitalik Buterin. In December 2024, it conducted a community round of financing on the Echo platform, completing the $10 million financing target within 3 minutes, and its valuation has exceeded $200 million.

However, the NFT sale launched by megaETH has caused heated controversy in the community. On the one hand, some players believe that the odds of this fundraising are extremely high and actively accept whitelists off-site. On the other hand, some players question whether megaETH is a disguised ICO and is harvesting the community in advance before the bull market ends. So who is more reasonable? Odaily Planet Daily will sort out the views of both parties in this article for readers' reference, and it is not intended as any investment advice.

Proponent: The valuation is reasonable and worth participating in

There is no doubt that the highlight of megaETH's The Fluffle series of NFTs lies in the future 5% token airdrop allocation. Therefore, the community generally regards it as a "shell coin sale" activity. The project party that successfully sells the tokens will receive 10,000 ETH, which is approximately US$27 million at this stage (if ETH does not fall). If the FDV of the tokens is calculated based on the 5% airdrop ratio, it will be US$540 million.

If the previously raised $30 million is added, megaETH’s total financing will reach $57 million. Based on the general token valuation of 20 times the financing amount, megaETH’s FDV is only $1.14 billion.

But whether it is the FDV of $540 million calculated based on NFT pricing or the FDV of $1.14 billion estimated based on the financing amount, community players who support megaETH believe that the valuation is still within a reasonable range and has a potential return of at least 10 times. After all, compared with the FDV of the previous popular Ethereum expansion schemes TEG, such as ZKsync ($4.2 billion), Starknet ($19.5 billion) and Blast ($2.7 billion), megaETH’s current FDV is indeed not high, and is even still lower than Starknet’s current circulating market value of $660 million.

ABCDE Venture co-founder BMAN published an article to support megaETH : "They could have raised more funds, but they rejected the VC's $1 billion offer and chose to use the retro ICO method to give tokens to more communities. I believe this is an attractive opportunity for liquidity, and it is also the most asymmetric opportunity in recent times. As an investor, I am very happy that Ethereum has returned to the simple, retro ICO era."

enzoblue, a team member of the NFT project CyberKongz, even made a bold statement : if there are people who don’t want to be on the whitelist, feel free to DM them.

Some community players have also seen through the reason why megaETH is "selling coins through a backdoor listing". On the one hand, the use of SBT can avoid the speculation of NFT in the secondary market; on the other hand, it clearly defines NFT as a "collectible", which reasonably avoids legal risks and gives the private placement price, which is almost the same as VC, to the community in the form of NFT. In the face of community doubts, megaETH co-founder Bing Xiong also said frankly ; "We can't directly give the token ICO to the community. We can only lower the valuation in this way and give it to the community in the form of NFT. Whether people buy it depends on their own valuation of the project."

Opposition: The main network has not been moved, and the harvest is premature

Of course, in this cryptocurrency world where truth and falsehood are mixed and innocence depends entirely on eloquence, if you want to understand the real thoughts of the project owner,