How to eat more fish and maximize Aptos ecological interactive benefits?

Original author: Alex Liu, Foresight News

Aptos Mainnet was built independently by some members of Facebook's former blockchain team Diem, raising a total of up to 350 million dollars. After the big airdrop in the testnet, Aptos Mainnet has been online for more than a year and a half, and the ecosystem projects are becoming more mature, but most of them have not issued coins yet. How to layout to maximize the benefits of interacting with the Aptos ecosystem? This article takes stock of the main potential projects in this ecosystem and provides detailed interaction paths.

Thala is the only protocol that has issued coins among the top 5 protocols on the Aptos ecosystem TVL ranking on DefiLlama.

Potential Projects

Aries Markets

Aries Markets is the largest lending protocol on TVL on Aptos, and also the largest protocol in all categories in TVL. It has obtained the qualification of incentive activities from Aptos Foundation. Currently, borrowing zUSDT and zUSDC (USDT and USDC entered by LayerZero) in the protocol can receive APT token subsidies, and the interest rate is considerable. In addition to obtaining airdrops, it is also a good place for daily deposits and loans.

Aries Markets has launched a point system, where every dollar of assets deposited earns 1 point per day, and every dollar of assets borrowed earns 3 points per day. The participation process is simple and clear: to participate in the Aries airdrop, you need to first go to the points page to register and bind your X (Twitter) account, and then participate in the protocol for deposit and borrowing.

Aries points page（）

Using an invitation code for registration will give you a 10% score bonus. After binding your account and correctly setting it up, the page will look as follows:

Since the airdrop is point-based and activating the point system requires binding the X account to filter out the witches, it is recommended to use semicolons appropriately. It seems not meaningful to have a large number of semicolons to fight for low guarantee.

Amnis Finance

Amnis Finance is a liquidity staking protocol on APT, where users can stake APT 1:1 to redeem an equivalent amount of amAPT (redeemable after 1 month, or directly exchange at a discount of about 1% on DEX), and further stake to earn staking rewards similar to wstETH.

Amnis Finance's retrospective airdrop campaign is underway, with the following ways to participate:

• Mint amAPT and stake it as stAPT, each APT accumulates 1 point
• Hold amAPT and stAPT in the wallet, earn points hourly, and earn a total of 1 point per APT per month.
• Providing amAPT-APT liquidity on Pancake Swap or LiquidSwap, the amAPT in the LP has a 3.5x multiplier compared to simply holding it in the Wallet. (LiquidSwap is recommended, not yet launched, tutorial to follow)
• Lend stAPT to Aries Markets and other hosting protocols with a 1.2x point multiplier. (Aries also has point bonuses for stAPT)

Participate in Amnis Finance in multiple ways

LiquidSwap

LiquidSwap is the first DEX on Aptos, and its project party Pontem Lumio has currently raised $10.5 million from well-known capital such as Mechanism, Lightspeed, Faction, Aptos Foundation, etc. At the same time, it is also the developer of Ethereum L2 Lumio and Aptos ecological wallet Pontem that supports the Move language. In other words, participating in the LiquidSwap airdrop may also receive airdrops from potential projects such as Lumio.

LiquidSwap also launched an airdrop registration page, which requires registration before participating in the airdrop activity. In addition to the Aptos address, you can also connect EVM address and Solana address.

Its airdrop page emphasizes that trading activities on LiquidSwap will affect the specifications of the airdrop received.

And the official has set the following volume thresholds:

• 1-20 $ - coke
• 20-50 $ - socks
• 50-300 $ - ledger
• 300 - 3000 $ - Ticket to NBA
• 3000 - 6000 $ - Vision pro
• 6000 - 30000 $ - Vacation in the Bahamas
• 30000 - 100000 $ - Cybertruck
• 100000 - 10000000 $ - House

You can check your trading volume and tier level on the Dashboard page of LiquidSwap. At the same time, you can also see the amount of liquidity provided, total number of transactions, whether you are an official NFT holder (very expensive, not recommended to purchase for the purpose of airdrop), and the amount of MEME held on the page.

After providing liquidity in the Pool on LiquidSwap, you can further stake it in the Farm and receive APT and other token incentives, and the returns are also good.

LiquidSwap's Farm page

Cellana

Cellana is the largest DEX on Aptos for the Ve (3, 3) model, which has undergone a token airdrop, but further airdrops are expected.

If you have participated in the DeFi ecosystem of Aptos or crossed chains to Aptos through LayerZero between January 1st and February 25th, before February 25th this year, please go to this page first to check if you are eligible for the airdrop.

Cellana's airdrop is distributed in the form of veCELL NFT and cannot be sold immediately. It requires two years to fully unlock. However, it can be traded on the NFT secondary market and also receive a weekly 40% voting reward.

Cellana has conducted the first round of the second phase airdrop, which was distributed to liquidity providers. The yield from LP on Cellana is also very high, worth a try.

One Fish Multiple Eating Paths 1

Mint stAPT into Aries Markets, borrow APT. Convert about half of the APT into amAPT through LiquidSwap, and provide amAPT-APT liquidity on LiquidSwap.

One fish multiple eating paths 2

Deposit zUSDT/zUSDC in Aries Markets, lend zUSDC/zUSDT, and exchange half of the lent stablecoin in LiquidSwap for another stablecoin to form a stablecoin pair LP and deposit it in Cellana.