As the reputation of zkSync, Layerzero, and Blast collapsed in the second quarter of 2024, people began to look for new ways to make money. Smart money will naturally not forget that there are still 48% of community quotas that have not been distributed to Aptos.
This is not to be obscene here. On-chain data shows that the number of active Aptos users began to increase in March, and reached a record high in June. The data has not stopped yet:
Token Terminal data shows that on June 8, the number of daily active users hit a record of 1.3 million. This was the first time Aptos had 1 million users in a day.
1. Why does Aptos become popular every time the market goes cold?
1. Aptos is the project with the smallest distribution ratio among historical airdrop projects and the most profitable one as a wallet;
Aptos only airdropped 3% of tokens in the first round. This 3% token allocation can also allow a single wallet to receive an airdrop of 1,000-3,000 US dollars. You must know that these wallets only performed a few tasks on Galxe and A few votes were cast and a few NFTs were played on Gitcoin.
2. Aptos has prepared 51% of the token distribution for the community, and 48% has not been distributed. According to the current price, there is wealth worth more than 40 billion US dollars for us to mine. Such a large amount of wealth can carry several Millions of users converted.
3. Recently, a major industry OG recommended Aptos on social platforms. He believes that Aptos will surpass Solana and become the second largest public chain;
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes is not a "talker". Let's not talk about it. Let's talk about the popular stablecoin project Ethena, which was launched this year. It was inspired by the "Satoshi Dollar" concept of BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes.
Will win! BitMEX founder: Aptos will surpass Solana, what is the key to victory?
This shows from the side that institutions are also paying attention to Aptos and are preparing to explore some new opportunities on Aptos.
2. Is Aptos really planning to issue a second round of airdrops?
Whether or not Aptos will send airdrops is not determined by obscenity. Whether or not it will be sent, how and where will it be sent? Although the official does not tell us about these people who are not good enough, we can infer from the side:
Inference 1. Aptos releases four tasks on Galxe
Aptos released four tasks on Galxe in the first and second quarters (ends in April). The tasks are very simple, just obtain OAT. This may be a market test.
Under normal circumstances, if there is no operational planning, the project will not release some tasks on the task platform. This move shows that Aptos has plans to issue a second round of airdrops. It may have passed the testing stage and is now working on specific plans.
Inference 2. Aptos official information
As can be seen from Aptos official information, Aptos distributes tokens as follows:
The community portion of Aptos’ 51% community token allocation, 410,217,359.767 $APT, is held by the Aptos Foundation, and 100,000,000 $APT is held by Aptos Labs.
The official stated that these tokens will be used to promote the growth of Aptos ecological projects, so many people call "community distribution" "ecological funds".
This means that the remaining 48% will be allocated to ecological users based on Aptos. We can also capture this in the actions of Amnis, Aptos’ largest staking platform.
Inference 3. Aries incentive plan, reward $APT
Aries, the largest lending platform of the Aptos ecological project, tweeted in mid-January that it would issue $APT rewards.
好了，這說明 Aptos 可能與生態項目已經達成了一些共識，Aptos 第二輪空投可能重點會發放給生態項目。
In addition to the above, there is other evidence that Aptos will have airdrops, such as developers in the Aptos ecosystem:
Thala project founder talks about having an “Aptos airdrop season”
Many NFT project founders have announced that they will airdrop tokens to NFT holders;
For example, in December last year, the UNI GUI meme project was airdropped to users holding OG NFTs, such as Aptos Monkey, Aptos Ape, Flames, Pontem Dark Ages... The Wapal NFT marketplace project airdrops 5,000 gift boxes to users.
In addition, many projects on Aptos have not yet launched tokens and are expected to usher in the "Aptos airdrop season" like the Solana ecosystem.
Then the direction is out. In the next period of time, if we want to win the big prize of Aptos, we must participate in projects on Aptos. Only users who actively participate in ecological projects will receive airdrops.
Which projects should we focus on interacting with?
Brother Gou checked the projects in the Aptos ecosystem and found 5 projects that have an extraordinary relationship with Aptos. They began to support the development of the Aptos ecosystem in the early days of Aptos' creation. They have strong backgrounds, technologies, communities, and funds. They are:
Aries Markets
LiquidswapAmnis
Finance
Merkle Trade
Kana Labs
These projects will issue airdrops in the 3rd and 4th quarters. By interacting with these projects, you will not only get airdrops of the project's own tokens, but also get Aptos rewards, so you can eat more with one fish.
Aptos Nuggets Manual Chapter 1: Aries Markets Airdrop Guide
(1) Introduction to Aries Markets
Aries Markets is one of the few DApps that has qualified for Aptos Foundation's incentive activities. Now it has become the largest TVL lending agreement on Aptos with more than 250 million TVL, accounting for nearly 50% of the TVL in the Aptos ecosystem, and the largest TVL agreement in all categories.
The platform's borrowing amount has exceeded US$100 million. The high amount of borrowing highlights the activity within the ecosystem and has established Aries Markets' current core position in the ecosystem.
Since January of this year, Aries has been running the $APT incentive program, which provides additional incentives for both lending and borrowing. Currently, the stablecoin APY lending interest on Aries is around 20%-30%. The stablecoin loan interest rate even reached negative interest rates in the past, making it a good place for daily deposits and borrowing. The incentive program is still running and has cooperated with OKX and Pancake many times.
2. Aries Markets Status
Since Aries has not issued tokens yet, many people may not be able to see the potential of later tokens. It is clear here when compared with similar projects on other public chains:
Atlendis: An unsecured lending protocol on Polygon that allows users to earn APY profits by depositing funds into a pool or becoming a borrower to optimize capital efficiency.
Jupiter: is a DEX aggregator protocol on Solana that allows users to search and execute exchange transactions with good fees by integrating liquidity pools of AMMs (Automated Market Makers).
Users who participate in these two projects basically receive local currency and other airdrops that provide more than one fish.
(3) About Aries airdrop
Aries recently launched a points program. You can earn points by borrowing money and recommending friends on the platform. The points will be directly related to the project airdrop later.
1. The conditions for obtaining Lu Aries points are as follows:
To earn points, first go to the points page to sign up
ARIES points can be earned through Lending (Supplying, lending), Borrowing (lending) and referrals;
The total deposit must be $100 or more;
2. Points accumulation rules:
Each platform offers an asset worth $1 and earns 1 point per day;
Earn 3 points per day per dollar of value borrowed, with no minimum borrowing requirements.
The longer you do the above two items, the more points you accumulate.
3. Recommendation system:
The referrer can get an additional 10% reward of the recommended person's points. The best way is to play with large and small numbers.
(4) Aries Practical Guide
Before the actual operation: Please ensure that there are $APT tokens on the Aptos chain as handling fees. It is best to withdraw more than 100 US dollars of $APT tokens to the Pontem wallet at one time, so as to avoid the second cross-chain step below ( $APT can be purchased on exchanges)
Step 1. Register an account
Registration link
Bind X
Bind the wallet (it can be the Aptos chain of OK wallet, or you can use Pontem wallet)
To bind the invitation code, you can fill in this first: CryptoCityTW
Step 2. Cross-chain (can be skipped)
If you have withdrawn more than $100 of $APT tokens from an exchange, this cross-chain step can be skipped.
Click Launch App to enter the interactive page
Click Bridge and use LayerZero or Wormhole to complete the cross-chain. However, if you use many wallet extension applications, you will not be able to connect to the wallet on the LayerZero page.
So the best tool for cross-chain here is to use Liquidswap
PS: If you have withdrawn more than $100 of $APT tokens from the exchange, you can skip the cross-chain step and go directly to the interaction below.
Step 3. Deposit
Switch to Lending interface
There is the option of E-Mode, where assets have loan-to-value (LTV) ratios of up to 90%, while other assets have LTV ratios between 40% and 80%.
Choose a token to deposit, such as $APT, $USDC, $USDT and other assets
Step 4. Loan
Since I just deposited $USDC, I want to lend out another currency, such as amAPT (used in the Liquidswap tutorial below).
amAPT is the liquid pledge agreement Amnis Finance. After pledging $APT, the platform issues pledge certificates. Amnis also has a points program that allows us to get at least 3 airdrops with amAPT.
Methods as below:
Select the amAPT token on the Lending interface
Click Borrow
Enter the amount to be borrowed or directly max
confirmation
PS: When using lending tools, you need to pay attention to the risks. If the assets fall sharply, your margin will be forced to be liquidated.
Many people took out loans and didn’t know how to repay them, so I was devastated every time they asked. In fact, I just translated it myself. Just operate in the same direction. Repay is to repay the loan, and Withdraw is to withdraw your deposit.
After the operation is completed, click Points to view your points.
Aptos Nuggets Manual Chapter 2: Liquidswap Airdrop Guide (Key Points)
(1) About Liquidswap background
If Aries Markets is very low-key and the project owner cannot be found, then Liquidswap can be said to be the background leverage on Aptos.
Liquidswap is one of the four flagship projects launched by Pontem Network studio in strategic cooperation with Aptos. Pontem’s strategic partnership with Aptos involves development tools, EVM, AMM and more to promote widespread use of its Layer1 blockchain.
Pontem Network created: Lumio Layer2, Pontem Wallet, Liquidswap DEX, NFT (Pontem Pirates, Dark Ages), Pontem also supports NFT...
(2) Performance of Liquidswap
Liquidswap is the first AMM protocol with the largest transaction volume in the Aptos ecosystem. The current TVL is US$34 million and the average daily trading volume is US$10 million, accounting for more than 80% of the Aptos ecological transaction volume. According to official data, its daily active users average 10,000, making it the project with the highest number of daily active users in the Aptos ecosystem.
(3) Will Liquidswap issue coins?
Yes, the official X Pontem Network has started community surveys in May and is expected to issue an airdrop soon.
(4) What preparations should be made to use Liquidswap?
(1) Funding
Funding 1: +10.1 $APT
Fund 2: +100 $USDT
These funds are used for the following purposes:
Volume: +$5,000
Interactions: + 30
Add Liquidity: +$100, add at least 3 pairs
Staking: +10 $APT
The above are just basic estimates. The more interactions, the better.
(2) Wallet preparation (use one wallet with Aries)
Phantom wallet
MetaMask or OK wallet
Pontem wallet (if you have $APT fee on OK wallet before, you can import it directly with the original mnemonic phrase)
We use the Pontem wallet as the beginning of the tutorial here. Just import the original OK wallet mnemonic phrase.
(5) Complete interactive tasks
First, log in to the Pontem airdrop page
Link to Pontem Wallet
Register an account
Click Go to Liquidswap
Task 1. Increase transaction volume on Liquidswap
Choose any trading pair and start trading.
PS: If you want to be shortlisted, it is recommended that each account has a trading volume of more than +5,000 US dollars and a minimum of 30 interactions.
LiquidSwap officially sets the following transaction volume ladders:
1–20$ — coke
20–50$ — socks
50–300$ — ledger
300–3,000$ — Ticket to NBA
3,000–6,000$ — Vision pro
6,000–30,000$ — Vacation in the Bahamas
30,000–100,000$ — Cybertruck
100,000–10,000,000$ — House
You can check your trading volume and ladder level on LiquidSwap’s Dashboard page.
Task 2. Pledge
Liquidswap website, click Earn.
Select Staking.
Select any "Validators" section.
Click stake.
Stake at least 10.1 $APT (it is recommended to choose a validator with a longer time).
Task 3: Add liquidity (one fish eats more)
Above, we have exchanged amAPT tokens in Aries, and we can use amAPT and $APT tokens to combine liquidity (you need to have $APT tokens in your wallet).
(1) Add liquidity. The specific methods are as follows:
Step 1. Enter the Liquidswap platform.
Click Earn.
Select Farms.
Add amAPT/APT.
Step 3: Conduct Stake LP.
Click on the "fish icon".
Click Balance.
Click Stake to pledge LP, and the annual interest rate here reaches 30%.
After adding liquidity, the position is locked for 7 days and can be withdrawn after 7 days. You can keep it there until the airdrop is issued.
You do not need to complete all three tasks of the Liquidswap platform. You can do liquidity after brushing up the trading volume, or you can only do any one of them.
The Pontem team has also issued two NFT series, Pontem Pirates and Dark Ages. You can also get additional rewards by owning these two NFTs on Liquidswap through verify.
The most popular project of Aptos must be Liquidswap. TGE is about to come, and many airdrop hunters have published Liquidswap hair-raising tutorials, plus the subsequent linkage with the Pontem team’s flagship project Lumio.
Aptos Nuggets Manual Chapter 3: Amnis Finance Airdrop
Amnis Finance is a liquidity staking agreement on APT. Users can exchange APT for amAPT that can be redeemed in equal amounts at a ratio of 1:1 (you need to wait for 1 month, or exchange it back directly at a discount of about 1% on DEX), and further pledge Get stAPT that accumulates staking income at the same time as wstETH.
Amnis Finance’s airdrop event is not over yet, and there are many ways to participate.
First log in to the official website: https://stake.amnis.finance/retroactive, and then select a task to interact:
Mint amAPT, stake stAPT, and accumulate 1 point for each APT
Holding amAPT and stAPT in your wallet will generate points every hour. A total of 1 point can be accumulated for each APT per month.
Offering amAPT on Pancake Swap or Liquid Swap — APT for liquidity, amAPT in LP has a 3.5x multiplier compared to points earned by simply holding in a wallet. (Liquid Swap is recommended)
Lending stAPT to lending protocols like Aries Markets has a 1.2x points multiplier. (At the same time, Aries also has a points bonus for stAPT)
Several of the above tasks have been introduced above, please understand them thoroughly.
Aptos Nuggets Manual Chapter 4: Merkle Trade Airdrop
Merkle Trade is a full-chain perpetual DEX offering cryptocurrency, forex and commodities trading with leverage up to 1,000x.
A $2.1 million seed round was announced on April 1, 2024, led by Hashed and Arrington Capital, with additional participants including Morningstar Ventures, Amber Group, Aptos Labs, Re7 Capital, and Dorahacks.
Merkle Trade has not issued coins yet. You can get airdrop points by brushing the trading volume on it. The rules are as follows:
Weekly tasks (contains 7 consecutive days of trading).
Make 5 trades.
Make 2 trades on different trading pairs.
Brush 2,000, 3,000, 15,000 trading volumes.
Reset every Tuesday at noon (UTC); all unused MP will be burned.
XP points and MP are used to level up and obtain "loot boxes", which are boxes that can earn MKL airdrops (in the form of pKML tokens).
The higher the box level, the more tasks you complete, and the higher airdrops you get.
Merkle Trade Link: https://app.merkle.trade/?ref=XI0066HZ
Aptos Nuggets Manual Chapter 5: Kana Labs Airdrop
Kana Labs is a series of Web3 tools invested by DWF Labs, which can help users access DeFi, GameFi, and NFT markets more easily... Kana Labs' main products include: liquidity aggregators from various blockchain chains, cross-chain Bridge aggregator, wallet, SDK for projects, integrated developer toolkit.
At present, Kana Labs has not issued coins, and it is expected to launch new user incentive activities after the launch of the V2 version. As early users, what we can do is to pledge and brush the transaction volume on his trading platform. The method is as follows:
Log in to the platform: https://tinyurl.com/4uk8h2hv
Connect Phantom Wallet
Brush Transaction
The above is all about today. The market has entered a boring market stage. Looking at the frequent orders placed by various QGs, there is a feeling that the funds released from the Ethereum currency may enter the Move system.
As Solana matures, investors are also looking for new breakthroughs. The flywheel generated by these rotating funds will bring many hot spots, and there are still 48% of tokens that do not have Aptos. The technology and ecology have been deployed, and it is a self-contained An investment paradise for traffic.
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said that "Aptos will surpass Solana and become the second largest public chain." This may be realized in the next six months and one year. This will inevitably trigger the Aptos airdrop season just like the Solana airdrop season in December last year. .
[Disclaimer] There are risks in the market, so investment needs to be cautious. This article does not constitute investment advice, and users should consider whether any opinions, views or conclusions contained in this article are appropriate for their particular circumstances. Invest accordingly and do so at your own risk.
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Original author: Encryption Dog