Conquering Layer Zero - The Omnichain Labyrinth of Airdrops
this will force you to develop basic Defi skills that will make all other future airdrops a breeze
Most of the airdrop content you find on twitter and other places, Layer Zero included, greatly lacks in depth and quality of information provided.
These people are incentivized to engagement farm your attention and regurgitate the same shallow information repackaged in a slightly different way with a different thumbnail image in order to capture the max amount of attention and keep up with their 7+ threads a week.
The more followers they acquire faster, the more money they can make from sponsored content due to their high twitter engagement.
Most of the time the info is very non specific, provides no nuance or context or is outdated/incorrect.
A recent example of this is Hashflow, which all of the top airdrop influencers are including in their thread as a Dapp to interact with but Hashflow stopped using L0 technology over 10 months ago (now using Wormhole instead I believe) so your not even making progress or interacting with L0 contracts
My goal is to do the exact opposite. The following is a copy of a thread I did recently that uses the transaction details of a high-quality airdrop farmer CC2 Ventures along with my own research and experience (I was 10+ months early to Arbitrum for reference) to extract the core valuable actions/interactions to have on a wallet.
This is then combined with Dune Dashboard criteria to know what minimum thresholds need to be surpassed to be in the top 60-70% of wallets with (generally) minimal effort
This a bit of a longer read but the 10+ min it will take you to read this is worth your time
The details provided will give a baseline of how to think and act like a good airdrop farmer. There more details I could also go into like how to approach L0 efficiently in general as well as using multiple wallets so you dont get marked as a sybil, but well save that for another time.
Layer Zero Maxi @CC2Ventures allegedly crafted an L0 guide sheet too powerful for twitter
The compromise was to post a public wallet. Those willing to transcribe and dig through the transaction (txn) history = alpha
So that’s what I did
How to craft a high-quality custom $ZRO route
The easiest way to craft a route is to categorize the different types of L0 interactions Then take various parts from each category and string them together
1/ StargateFinance interactions: includes staking STG, snapshot voting, providing liquidity, and using native bridge
2/ Cross chain swap Dapps: that use the L0 contract. Some of these route the volume through Stargate anyways but not always this will also increase your total unique contracts.
Some examples of these include _WOOFi, OmniBTC SushiSwap lifiprotocol BungeeExchange
WooFi is a good alternative, LIFI and Bungee are technically bridge aggregators but both are good tools and don’t have a token yet (pick the stargate options when using them to get a +1 L0 contract interaction)
Another great option is gas.zip for a few reasons
You can easily get gas to basically any chain that has a compatible bridge
There is a regular or a L0 option (the L0 option is more expensive depending on your route because L0 charges a set fee but good way to potentially get in more “passive” interactions)
There is a router feature so you can refuel from Wallet A directly into Wallet B on a different chain
(this plug is not sponsored although I wish it was)
3/ "ERC-20 Core" Interactions: this generally involves buying a token of a protocol and using its bridge feature (which interacts with L0 contract) you bridge that token to various other chains and then selling it (or interact with the Dapps by staking, ect)
These are great "filler" interactions between your "main" interactions of just bridging volume cross chain you don’t want to be that guy who just spams Stargate cross chain bridge interactions 5 times a day and does nothing else.
Some examples of these “ERC-20” token bridging interactions include:
agEUR from AngleProtocol
$JOE from traderjoe_xyz
$RDNT from RDNTCapital
BTC.b from BorderlessBTCb (Avax<->Arbitrum has less slippage = you lose less money on swaps/bridging) Optional: add liquidity (for min 1 week) to some of these dapps
From here it basically gets progressively more niche where you’ll be interacting with more niche Dapps and chains, but generally the slippage is higher.
Some examples of “niche ERC20 interactions:” include:
$STEAK from @steakhut_fi
(arb<->avax) $MMY from @mummyftm
(fantom) $MIM stablecoin from
MIM_Spell (moonriver) (go to “beam” under “Tools” tab)
agEUR, JOE, RDNT, BTC.b were least painful/annoying for me to do.
If I were to pick only 2 to do I would pick BTC.b (because that specific bridge is by L0 Labs) and agEUR on Angle as its pretty easy to do.
You don’t need to go overkill its not very good risk/reward for your time and you’ll need to play around with it a bit.
Ex some routes may not hit chains that you haven’t already hit yet, sometimes the site is down or is buggy or there isn’t support between certain chains anymore
In general I would probably avoid doing the “niche ERC20 interactions” as this was more relevant in a bear market when there was much less action and daily opportunities
4/ Aptos bridge
I put this in its own category as it should be put at the end of a rotation as it can take 5 days to get your funds back FROM Aptos (2.5 if you use bridge from L0 website) L0 has its own Aptos bridge which is their only "main" bridge other than Stargate & BTC.b
So this type of interaction stands out to me other Aptos bridges that use L0 but arnt’t by L0 include
PontemNetwork, ThalaLabs and PancakeSwap (bridge $cake doesn’t have long wait time)
5/ Omnichain NFTs will likely be a multiplier criteria 2 ways to go about this one
Buy an OG omninft collection on ETH mainnet. OG means that’s its been around for a while and has some form of community or buy pressure that you can actually sell back into with minimal issue
Main ones are (from most to least expensive) Lil pudgies from
pudgypenguins, Gh0sts from gh0stlygh0sts and Dinos from tinydinosnft
Would only do this if you want a bigger ETH mainnet footprint and $30 gas per wallet is minimal funds for you
Alternative: Various dapps that allow you to create/mint and bridge NFT on the "cheap EVM chains" which I call "the core 5" (bsc, poly, avax, op, arb)
merkly_com, holographxyz, PolyhedraZK, l2telegraph
Try to bridge to more niche chains = closer to hitting a large unique destination count
You can do “compound interactions” if you mint and bridge NFTs (or even do gas refuels) from tokenless L2 chains like Scroll, zkSync, and Base. As this will “passively” help you gain unique month interactions for those chains while you are also interacting with L0.
Route Example
Ok cool, but that’s a lot of info and i’ve already probably scrolled/clicked off this post by now. So how do I use this to make my own routes?
Ex. of a short route would be:
Initially fund your wallet with native gas for any of "the core 5" chains using a CEX (ideally) or Woo
Fund wallet with ETH on Arb do some stargate tasks (stake STG, add LP, vote snapshot) use stargate to bridge to OP (use Woo if you need to swap into native gas token for destination chain)
ERC20 task - buy agEUR on Angle on OP and bridge to various chains (that have gas on them) ending on OP and selling agEUR
Mint NFT via @holographxyz, bridge from BSC->polygon
Use Aptos bridge, use L0 Aptos bridge to bridge back
Start new rotation with different interactions (Ex. do BTC.b buying and bridging instead of agEUR on angle)
Your overall goal is basically do a minimum of 1 interaction from each category in any order (Aptos is last though)
Eventually hit min the Core 5 chains
Eventually have 21+ txs, $10k+ in volume, 2-3+ distinct months, to pass thresholds that put you above 70% or more of the total wallets
Some general tips I would also note are: If you have to pick start with the "core 5" as the dapp compatibility and slippage is generally the best among these chains interacting with just 3 different chains = above 46% of all wallets, 5 chains = above 72%
Avoid ETH mainnet in general to save on fees when bridging (you’ll pay $40 in gas in your using Stargate
Don’t spam high amounts of low volume txns
Don’t spam all of the tasks/interactions within a route in a short time period (Ex. Arbitrum gave -1 point if all of a wallets txn history happened within 48hrs)
Don’t use the same amount of $ or interaction pattern between wallets
Have ~$5 in native gas token on each of the Core 5 chains is best way to start = saves you time later
You can fund via CEX, or refuel tool from Bungee, or Woo if you have funds already on a Core 5 chain
You don’t have to do the interaction categories in the order I listed them in, but save the Aptos one for the end due to wait time bridging FROM Aptos
Good luck
If you want a more toned down “minimalist’ L0 farm approach you can check out this post here