Kraken-Backed Ink Foundation to Airdrop INK Token, Starting With Aave-Powered Liquidity Protocol

The Ink Foundation, the nonprofit behind layer 2 Ink, is launching its native token INK in an attempt to bootstrap onchain capital markets through a liquidity-first strategy.The token will debut on a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and trading protocol built on Aave, and distribution will begin via an airdrop to early users.There will be no governance gimmicks or fluctuating emissions schedules, the foundation said. INK has a hard cap of 1 billion tokens minted, with no recourse to change the supply via governance proposals source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/18/kraken-backed-ink-foundation-to-airdrop-ink-token-starting-with-aave-powered-liquidity-protocol