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@TheCryptoDaddi The real ppl making any amount of money are spending $200 or more a day running them. And there are plenty of bad days that go along with the good.
Optimism dropped $50k on early users. Base is 5x bigger than Optimism. We're talking $100k+ for wallets that qualify.
Somewhere right now, someone is grinding Base protocols between shifts. No followers. No connections. Just consistent onchain activity. When the snapshot hits, that person walks away with six figures.
Here is my playbook.
Why I am convinced Base token will be huge.
Let's look at the facts:
→ Base is the only major L2 without a token
→ Coinbase sitting on $6b+ in cash
→ Optimism average claim was $4k
→ Optimism TVL at snapshot was $300m
→ Base TVL at $15b
→ Base has 2m+ daily active addresses
If the airdrop scales even slightly with ecosystem size, top wallets could easily see six figures. The median will probably be around $5k. The difference is how you position.
What separates a $5k claim from a $100k claim.
Single-protocol farmer get wrecked every time. Optimism rewards users who touched multiple dApps. Arbitrum multiplied allocations for ecosystem depth.
The pattern is clear: airdrops reward ecosystem citizens, not one-trick farmers.
If your wallet only knows one DEX and a bridge, your are leaving a lot of money on the table.
Here is exactly how I am diversifying.
Bridging to Base (the first signal).
Your first onchain interaction matters. How you enter the ecosystem is data.
What I am doing:
→ Using the official Base Bridge for at least one tx
→ Using third party bridges like Across or Stargate
→ Bridging multiple times across different weeks
→ Bridging different assets
Don't bridge $10k in one tx and sit dormant. Bridge smaller amounts consistently over time. That's how real users behave.
Wallet hygiene (don't get sybiled).
This is where most farmers lose.
Sybil hunters look for:
→ Wallets that bridge, hit one protocol and stop
→ Wallets with identical tx patterns
→ Bursty activity follower by nothing
→ Round number transactions (100, 200, 1000)
How to look human:
→ Irregular tx amounts ($126 instead 100)
→ Activity spread across weeks and months
→ Different times of day
→ Engage with random small protocols
→ Different activity patterns on different wallest
One clean wallet with deep ecosystem activity will outperform 20 sybil flagged wallets every time.
Base App (@baseapp).
If you don't have a code yet, let me know and I will send you one.
Base App has multiple functions:
→ Posting
→ Trading
→ Mini apps (which are actually really dope)
→ Earning for posting
How I would play it:
→ Post daily content
→ If you want make swaps, use the app sometimes
→ Use the mini apps like the one from @RemixGG_
→ Engage with other people
→ Buy some very low cap posts worth few $ and hold
I think in this case the most important factors will be trading volume and buying posts of others.
Zora (@zora).
This one is actually pretty straightforward. Use the app daily, post content daily, and buy some creator coins. I don't trade on Zora, I just bought some coins and am holding.
The play here is consistency over size. Daily engagement > one big purchase.
Aerodrome (@AerodromeFi).
Aerodrome is THE liquidity hub of Base. If any protocol gets a fat allocation of Base tokens to distribute, it is this one.
On Optimism, Velodrome received HUGE amounts of $OP tokens to incentivize pools and rewards $VELO lockers. Aerodrome is the Base equivalent. I am 100% sure they will get a big chunk of Base tokens for $AERO lockers.
Providing liquidity: You can either provide liquidity on stable or on volatile pairs. I usually go with volatile pairs for higher APR. Don't set the range too tight, or you will have to adjust multiple times a day and suffer IL.
Let's say you want to farm the ETH/USDC pair. In a 100$ range, the pool offers around 980% APR right now. That's actually huge given the fact that $AERO is close to its bottom.
Locking and voting: If you want to spice it up even more -> use Aero rewards -> lock them -> vote weekly and receive bribes -> sell the bribes and compound into your LP
This creates multiples touch points: LP provider + locker + voter. That's three activities in one protocol.
Bonus strategy.
To avoid losses in case ETH dumps, look for a perp DEX that offers airdrop points.
The play:
→ 1x short ETH on a points-farming perp DEX
→ If your LP positions goes down, your short goes up
→ You will have to manually adjust positions
→ You are farming two airdrops plus LP rewards
You can do the math on position sizes with AI. Three birds, one stone.
Lending (the heart of DeFi).
You 100% want to have some stables deposited into lending protocols. The bigger the protocol, the more likely they will be included in Base token distribution criteria.
My picks:
→ Morpho (@Morpho)
→ Wasabi (@wasabi_protocol)
→ Moonwell (@MoonwellDeFi)
Don't just deposit and forget. Borrow against your positions occasionally. Use the borrowed funds elsewhere. Create loops. More activity = more $
Perps and prediction markets.
Base has chain native protocols for both:
→ Avantis (@avantisfi) for perps
→ Limitless (@trylimitless) for predictoors
Both have a running airdrop campaign right now. Even if you are not a heavy trader, opening a few positions over time creates more activity. Does not need to be big size, just consistent.
Trading Base tokens.
This one is straightforward. Just make sure you don't wash trad. That gets flagged instantly.
There are many great tokens on Base you can buy and hold. But at the same time, I think volume will play a role. This is the easiest part to farm the airdrop, so I think your allocation won't be too big just from trading alone.
The play:
→ Use Aerodrome or Base App for swaps
→ Buy some Base native tokens you actually like
→ Swap between different assets occasionally
→ Don't just hold -> create activity
NFTs (actually dead or?).
Don't sleep on this. Optimism and Arbitrum both factored NFT activity in their criteria.
What I would do:
→ Mint BASE native NFTs
→ Buy a few cheap NFTs from different collections
→ List some for sale
→ Use different marketplaces
Does not need to be expensive. A few $5-$10 purchases spread out over weeks is enough.
Deploying smart contracts (the most important).
I would not use any deployer here. Instead, try to build something nice yourself. It can be a simple lottery or an NFT project. With AI, it will take you maximum one day to deploy something.
If you are good at prompting, you could even deploy a mini app on Base App, that would give you the biggest boost imo.
Why deploying is so important:
→ Very few wallets deploy contracts
→ Shows developer level engagement
→ Airdrops have historically rewarded builders
Even a basic contract puts you in a tiny percentile of users.
Capital allocation (example with $1.000).
If I had only $1k to deploy for Base farming, here is how I would split it:
→ $400 Aerodrome LP
→ $150 lending
→ $100 Zora
→ $100 Base App
→ $50 NFTs
→ $150 Trading
→ 50$ perps (just for activity)
You can adjust based on your risk tolerance and capital. The point is diversification not concentration.
Timeline and consistency.
Burst farming won't work. Sustained activity is what matters.
My approach:
→ Touch Base at least 3-4 times per week
→ Rotate between protocols
→ Keep activity going for months, not days
→ Assume snapshot could be anytime - start now!
The wallets that get top allocations won't be the ones who showed up for one week and only traded meme coins. They will be the ones with long consistent activity.
Priority ranking (if you are short on time).
If you can only do a few things, prioritize in this order:
1. Smart contract deployment
2. Aerodrome LP + locking
3. Lending
4. Base App
5. Bridging
6. Zora
7. Trading
8. Perps + prediction markets
9. NFTs
The top 50% will cover 80% of your allocation. The rest ist optimization.
Bottom line.
Base is the most obvious airdrop setup we have seen since Hype. Coinbase backed. Massive TVL. No token yet. Every signal is there.
Some of you will screenshot your claim and move on. Others will claim life changing money. The difference is what you do over the next few months.
The window is open. The playbooks is here. Execute now!
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