Blast has issued 17 billion BLAST tokens to its network's early adopters in its much-anticipated first airdrop.

The Ethereum Layer 2 scaling network distributed BLAST at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Blast said in an X post. Roughly 35% of airdropped tokens had already been claimed as of the time of writing, Parsec Finance's blockchain explorer tool showed. However, Blast had yet to confirm the total number of claimed BLAST tokens at publication time and did not immediately reply to The Block's request for comment. 

The 17 billion BLAST distributed in the airdrop make up 7% of the 100 billion BLAST tokens in total supply, CoinGecko data shows. 

BLAST was trading at $0.028 at time of writing on the pre-market trading platform Whales Pro. At that price, the total value of the 17 …