Insightful Insiders Premium #3 - Finding The Edge outside the EVM Bubble

Finding edge in the unfamiliar world of Non-EVM ecosystems

In airdrop land everyone is more than aware of the large EVM based airdrop projects such as the large funded L2 like zkSync, base, Linea, Zora, and Scroll.

But much fewer people highlight and talk about the tokenless protocols and ecosystems outside of the EVM bubble. Today we are going to look at and give some examples of airdrop that fall within the “Non-EVM” sector of airdrop land.

This edition is going to be referring to a lot of other people guides and content opposed to me writing out tutorials for each project because each of these creators have done a good job of creating guide and there isn’t much point in me just repeating in what they have written and pretending its my own work.

1/ Bitcoin ecosystem - Stacks

Stacks is basically an L2 on top of Bitcoin that is currently the top layer for defi activity on Bitcoin with currently over 55M TVL

Quick summary on stacking DAO by shady go give him a follow on twitter

“Staking DAO is the best place for liquid staking on Stacks. It is basically Jito but on Stacks. They released their points system on January 16th and it works as follows:

• 1 point per stSTX per day.

• 1.5 points per stSTX used in DeFi per day.

• 2.5 points per stSTX locked on stableswap per day staked on Bitflow.

You also get a unknown multiplier for holding a Stacking DAO Genesis NFT so I recommend buying one as they are pretty cheap right now (≈20 STX floor).”

This thread by 0xWelfare is also a good guide on how to get started

TLDR - use a bitcoin wallet like Xverse or Leather and get BTC on that wallet

bridge to the bitcoin L2 / stacks

stake Stacks or LP it, bonus points if you hold thier NFt and you get people to use your ref code

Why I like this play - bitcoin L2 = more niche and underfarmed, not super difficult to interact with (there will be perceived difficult because most people wont want to downloads a new wallet and bridge to a new chain which = edge), very passive once you get set up = low maintenance/time cost in the future