29 May Coinbase is running an OMG airdrop for Ethereum holders
In brief
- Coinbase is airdropping OmiseGo coins to long-time Ethereum holders
- Coinbase users who held ETH as of July 7, 2017 will receive coins
Coinbase users who have stored Ethereum in their accounts over the past three years are about to get a nice surprise in the form of OmiseGo (OMG).
OmiseGo—a decentralized application (dapp) for Ethereum—initiated an airdrop of its cryptocurrency OMG Coin in the summer of 2017. At the time, Coinbase did not support the currency, meaning all Ethereum holders that did business through the exchange were excluded.
Beginning May 21, however, OMG became available to customers of the primary Coinbase platform, along with users of its iOS and Android apps. Coinbase says it will now provide OMG to all customers who have held Ethereum in their Coinbase accounts since the date of the original airdrop.
The news came to light on Twitter. Jordan Spence—chief marketing officer at mycrypto.com—posted a message that he had received from Coinbase…