Aptos's second round of airdrop gold mining manual, completed 5 leading projects in one go

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 Aptos, which still has 48% of the community quota that has not been issued.

This is not just wishful thinking. On-chain data shows that the number of active users of Aptos has increased since March, and reached a record high in June. The data shows no sign of stopping:

Token Terminal data showed that on June 8, the number of daily active users hit a record of 1.3 million, the first time Aptos had 1 million users in a single day.

1. Why does Aptos become popular every time the market cools?

1. Aptos is the project with the lowest distribution ratio and the highest profit as a wallet among all the airdrop projects in history;

• Aptos only airdropped 3% of tokens in the first round. Even with this 3% of token allocation, a single wallet can get 1000-3000u airdrops. It should be noted that these wallets only completed a few tasks on Galxe, cast a few votes on Gitcoin, and issued a few NFTs.

2. Aptos has prepared 51% of the tokens for the community, and 48% has not been issued. According to the current price, there is more than four billion US dollars worth of wealth for us to tap. Such a large amount of wealth can support the conversion of millions of users.

3. Recently, a big industry OG praised Aptos on the social platform. He believes that Aptos will surpass Solana and become the second largest public chain;

• Arthur Hayes, the founder of BitMEX, is not a talker. Not to mention the distant past, the Ethena stablecoin project that became popular this year was inspired by the “Satoshi Dollar” concept of Arthur Hayes, the founder of BitMEX.

This indirectly shows that institutions are also paying attention to Aptos and are preparing to explore some new opportunities on Aptos.

2. Is Aptos really preparing for a second round of airdrops?

Aptos is not a matter of imagination whether to issue airdrops or not. Whether to issue airdrops, how to issue airdrops, and where to issue airdrops? Although the official does not tell us who are not qualified enough, we can infer from the side:

Inference 1: Aptos publishes four tasks on Galxe

Aptos launched four tasks on Galxe in the first and second quarters (ending in April). The tasks were simple, and all they needed to do was obtain OAT. This might be a market test.

Generally speaking, if there is no operational plan, the project will not release some tasks on the task platform. This move shows that Aptos intends to launch a second round of airdrops. It may be that the trial phase has passed and the specific plan is now being worked out.

Inference 2, Aptos official information

From the official Aptos data, we can see that Aptos distributes tokens as follows:

• Of the 51% community token allocation of Aptos, 410,217,359.767 APTs are held by the Aptos Foundation and 100,000,000 APTs are held by Aptos Labs.
• The official said that these tokens will be used to promote the growth of Aptos ecological projects, so many people call “community allocation” “ecological fund.”

This means that the remaining 48% will be allocated to users of the Aptos ecosystem. We can also see this in the actions of Amnis, the largest staking platform of Aptos.

Inference 3, Aries Incentive Program, Rewarding APT

Aries, the largest lending platform in the Aptos ecosystem, tweeted in mid-January that it would issue APT rewards.

Well, this means that Aptos may have reached some consensus with the ecological projects, and the second round of airdrops of Aptos may focus on ecological projects.

In addition to the above, there are other evidences that Aptos will have airdrops, such as the developers in the Aptos ecosystem:

• Thala Project founder talks about an “Aptos airdrop season”
• Many NFT project founders announced that they would airdrop tokens to NFT holders;

For example, last December, the UNI GUI meme project airdropped to users who held OG NFTs, such as Aptos Monkey, Aptos Ape, Flames, Pontem Dark Ages… The Wapal NFT market project airdropped 5,000 gift boxes to users.

**In addition, many projects on Aptos have not yet launched tokens, and are expected to usher in an “Aptos airdrop season” like the Solana ecosystem. **

**Then the direction is clear. In the next period of time, if we want to get the big money of Aptos, we must participate in the projects on Aptos. Only users who actively participate in ecological projects will receive airdrops. **

**Which projects should we focus on interacting with? **

I checked the projects in the Aptos ecosystem and found five projects that have a special relationship with Aptos. They have supported the development of the Aptos ecosystem since the early days of Aptos and have strong backgrounds, technology, communities, and funding. They are:

• Aries Markets
• Liquidswap
• Stream Finance
• Merkle Trade
• Kana Labs

These projects will issue airdrops in the third and fourth quarters. By interacting with these projects, you will not only receive the project’s own token airdrops, but also Aptos rewards, killing two birds with one stone.

Aptos Gold Mining Manual Chapter 1: Aries Markets Airdrop Guide

(I) Introduction to Aries Markets

Aries Markets is one of the few DAPPs that has been qualified for the Aptos Foundation’s incentive activities. Now, with a TVL of over 250M, it has become the largest lending protocol on Aptos, accounting for nearly 50% of the TVL in the Aptos ecosystem, and the largest TVL protocol in all categories.

The platform’s loan volume has exceeded $100 million. The high loan volume highlights the activeness within the ecosystem and also establishes Aries Markets’ current core position in the ecosystem.

Since January this year, Aries has been running the APT incentive program, which provides additional rewards for both lending and borrowing. Currently, the APY interest rate for stablecoins on Aries is around 20%-30%, and the interest rate for stablecoin loans has even reached negative interest rates in the past, making it a good place for daily deposits and loans. The incentive program is still running and has reached cooperation with OKX and Pancake many times.

(II) Aries Markets Status

Since Aries has not yet issued a token, many people may not be able to see the potential of the token in the future. Here is a comparison 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 swaps with good fees by integrating AMM (automated market maker) liquidity pools.

Users who participated in these two projects basically received their own currency and other airdrops that allowed them to kill two birds with one stone.

(III) About Aries Airdrop

Aries recently launched a points plan, where points can be earned through lending and recommending friends on the platform. The points will be directly related to the project airdrop in the future.

1. The conditions for obtaining Aries points are as follows:

• To earn points, first go to the points page to register
• You can earn ARIES points through Lending (Supplying), Borrowing and referrals;
• The total deposit amount must be $100 or more;

2. Points accumulation rules:

• Each platform provides assets worth 1 USD, and you can earn 1 point every day;
• Earn 3 points per day for every dollar of borrowed value, with no minimum borrowing requirement.

The longer the time for the above two items, the more points you accumulate.

3. Recommendation system:

• The referrer can get an additional 10% reward on the referee’s points. The best way is to use both big and small accounts.

(IV) Aries Practical Guide

**Before the actual operation: **Please make sure that there is $APT token on the Aptos chain as a handling fee. It is best to withdraw more than 100u of $APT tokens to the Pontem wallet at one time, so as to avoid the second step of the cross-chain step below ($APT can be purchased on the exchange)

Step 1. Register an account

• Registration link:
• Twitter connection
• Bind your wallet (it can be Aptos chain of OK wallet or Pontem wallet)
• Bind invitation code, you can fill in this first: rfw84n

Step 2, cross-chain (skip)

If you have withdrawn more than 100u of $APT tokens from the exchange, the 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 a lot of wallet plug-ins, you cannot connect to the wallet on the LayerZero page.

• So the best cross-chain tool here is to use Liquidswap

PS: If you have withdrawn more than 100u $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
• You can choose E-Mode, where the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of assets in E-Mode is as high as 90%, while the LTV ratio of other assets is between 40% and 80%.

• Choose a token to deposit, such as APT, USDC, USDT and other assets

STEP 4. BORROW

Since I just deposited USDC, I want to borrow other currencies, such as amAPT (to be used in the Liquidswap tutorial below).

• amAPT is the liquid pledge protocol Amnis Finance. After staking APT, the platform issues a pledge certificate. Amnis also has a points program. Using amAPT can allow us to get at least 3 airdrops.

Methods as below:

• Select amAPT token in the Lending interface

• Click Borrow
• Enter the amount to be borrowed or directly max
• confirm

PS: When using lending tools, you need to pay attention to the risks. If the asset falls sharply, your margin will be forced to close.

Many people don’t know how to repay their loans, so every time I ask them, I get frustrated. In fact, you can just translate it yourself. To repay, just follow the 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 Gold Mining Manual Chapter 2: Liquidswap Airdrop Guide (Key Points)

(I) Background on Liquidswap

If Aries Markets is very low-key and the project owner cannot be found, then Liquidswap can be said to be a powerful presence on Aptos.

Liquidswap is one of the four flagship projects launched by Pontem Network Studio in strategic cooperation with Aptos. The strategic cooperation between Pontem and Aptos involves developing tools, EVM, AMM, etc. to promote the widespread use of its L1 blockchain.

Pontem Network has created: Lumio L2, Pontem Wallet, Liquidswap DEX, NFT (Pontem Pirates, Dark Ages), Pontem also supports NFT…

(II) Liquidswap’s performance

Liquidswap is the first and largest AMM protocol in the Aptos ecosystem, with a current TVL of $34 million and an average daily trading volume of $10 million, accounting for more than 80% of the Aptos ecosystem’s trading volume. According to official data, its average daily active users are 10,000, making it the project with the highest number of daily active users in the Aptos ecosystem.

**(III) Is Liquidswap going to issue a token? **

Yes, the official @PontemNetwork has started a community survey in May and is expected to issue coins and airdrops soon.

**(IV) What preparations should be made for Liquidswap? **

(1) Funding preparation

• Fund 1: + 10.1 APT
• Fund 2: +100u

These funds are used for the following purposes:

• Trading volume: + $5,000
• Number of interactions: + 30
• Add liquidity: +100 USD, add at least 3 pairs
• Staking: + 10 APT

The above are just basic estimates, the more interactions the better.

**(2) Wallet preparation (using a wallet with **Aries)

• Phantom Wallet
• Metamask or OK Wallet
• Pontem wallet (if you have previously paid APT fees on OK wallet, you can directly import the original mnemonic)

We will use Pontem wallet as the beginning of the tutorial here, and just import the original OK wallet mnemonic.

(V) Complete interactive tasks

First, log in to the Pontem airdrop page

• Link to Pontem wallet
• register account
• Click Go to Liquidswap

Task 1: Increase transaction volume on Liquidswap

• Choose any trading pair and trade

PS: If you want to be shortlisted, it is recommended that each account increase the transaction volume to more than + 5,000 US dollars and the number of interactions is not less than 30 times.

LiquidSwap officially sets the following transaction volume tiers:

• 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 view your trading volume and tier level on the LiquidSwap Dashboard page.

Task 2: Staking

• Liquidswap website, click Earn

• 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: Adding liquidity (killing two birds with one stone)

In the above text, we have exchanged amAPT tokens in Aries. We can use amAPT and APT tokens to form liquidity (you need to have APT tokens in your wallet).

(1) Add liquidity. The specific method is as follows:

Step 1. Enter Liquidswap platform

• Click Earn
• Select Farms

• Add amAPT/APT

Step 3: Stake LP

• Click on the “fish icon”

• Click Balance
• Click Stake to stake LP, the annualized return here is 30%;

After adding liquidity, the position will be locked for 7 days and can be withdrawn after 7 days. You can keep it there until the airdrop is issued.

You don’t need to complete all three tasks on the Liquidswap platform. You can increase the trading volume before working on liquidity, or you can just do any one of them.

The Pontem team also released two NFT series, Pontem Pirates and Dark Ages. Some farmers on Liquidswap can also get additional rewards by verifying their ownership of these two NFTs.

**The most popular project of Aptos should be Liquidswap. With TGE approaching, many airdrop hunters have released tutorials on how to get Liquidswap, plus the subsequent linkage with Lumio, the flagship project of the Pontem team. **

Aptos Gold Mining Manual Chapter 3: Amnis Finance Airdrop

Amnis Finance is a liquidity staking agreement on APT. Users can exchange APT 1:1 for amAPT which can be redeemed in equal amounts (need to wait for 1 month, or directly redeem it on DEX at a discount of about 1%), and further stake to obtain stAPT which accumulates staking income all the time like wstETH.

Amnis Finance’s airdrop event has not ended yet, and there are many ways to participate.

First log in to the official website: and then select a task to interact with:

(1) Mint amAPT and pledge stAPT, accumulating 1 point for each APT

(2) Hold am APT and st APT in your wallet and generate points hourly. You can accumulate 1 point per APT per month.

(3) Provide am APT on Pancake Swap or Liquid Swap — APT for liquidity, am APT in LP has a 3.5 times multiplier compared to the points obtained by simply holding in the wallet. (Liquid Swap is recommended)

(4) Lending stAPT to lending protocols such as Aries Markets will receive a 1.2x points multiplier. (Aries also provides a points bonus for stAPT)

The above tasks have been introduced above, please understand them thoroughly.

Aptos Gold Mining Manual Chapter 4: Merkle Trade Airdrop

Merkle Trade is a full-chain perpetual DEX that provides cryptocurrency, forex, and commodity trading with up to 1,000x leverage.

On April 1, 2024, it announced a $2.1 million seed round led by Hashed and Arrington Capital, with other participants including Morningstar Ventures, Amber Group, Aptos Labs, Re7 Capital, and Dorahacks.

Merkle Trade has not yet issued a coin. You can get airdrop points by increasing the transaction volume on it. The rules are as follows:

(1) Weekly task (including 7 consecutive days of trading)

(2) Make 5 trades

(3) Make 2 trades on different trading pairs

(4) 2000, 3000, 15000 transactions

……

Resets every week at noon (UTC) on Tuesday; all unused MP is burned.

**XP points and MP are used to level up and receive “loot boxes”, which are boxes that receive MKL airdrops (in the form of pKML tokens).

The higher the level of the box, the more tasks you complete, the higher the airdrop you will get.

Merkle Trade Link:

Aptos Gold Mining Manual Chapter 5: Kana Labs Airdrop

Kana Labs is a collection of Web3 tools invested by DWF Labs, which helps users access DeFi, GameFi, NFT markets more easily… Kana Labs’ main products include: liquidity aggregators from various blockchain chains, cross-chain bridge aggregators, wallets, SDKs for projects, and integrated developer toolkits.

Kana Labs has not yet issued a token. It is expected that new user incentive activities will be launched after the launch of V2. As early users, we can stake and increase trading volume on its trading platform. The method is as follows:

• Login platform:
• Connect to Phantom Wallet
• Brush transactions

The above is all the content for today. The market has entered a boring stage. Looking at the frequent orders from various QGs, I have a feeling that the funds released on ETH may enter the Move system.

As Solana gradually 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 an investment paradise with its own traffic.

BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said that “Aptos will surpass Solana and become the second largest public chain”, which may be realized in the next six months to a year. This will inevitably directly trigger the Aptos airdrop season, just like the Solana airdrop season in December last year.