Ahhh... now it makes sense.

battlefieldID194 wrote:
So obviously for the next set of prizes, we will get only +1 per Rigellian of the DNA thingies, whatever they will be.

This is a little conspiracy theorist, by the silly leaderboard is to prompt competitive people to send out their eggs even if they have already maxed out the prizes (thereby getting useless probes and thus have fewer rayguns, DNA to start out at the next cycle).

I doubt the protein strands will only be worth 1. They were rumored to be worth 6 because of the higher prize levels.