The ZERO airdrop is still going on and you can use eth or some of the lst lrts to borrow against eth in gravitas earn lxp-l and gravitas points for both airdrops as well as with a say weETH vault you would earn additional points toward a few more drops, so next i plan on opening a vessel with weETH to get etherfi points and other points with other vessels as well as stake more grai in the stability pool to earn additional lxp-l and 3x gravitas marks for the airdrop. Right now I am in a good place for the gravitas drop and am just making it into the top 500 points holders which goes up fast in points from 33K - a few million points and I should move up the chain a bit more depending on how long the drop takes to come out and we reach the 20 million grai which is when the airdrop will happen for gravitas and we are at about 5 million grai so were 25% of the way to a gravitas drop and lxp-l will hopefully happen toward the end of the year into a bull market and have them drop a token based on the lxp and lxp-l points earned which i will be focusing most of my airdrop farming on lxp-l and additional drops on zksync using my zk tokens to farm zk on pcs lps as well as using zro on radient for emissions on a single sided lend of zro so I can have both long with interest and lp positions for sideways markets to earn higher fees so i get both appreciation and fees for sideways movement and the same for zk will be set up to have lending position and a lp position to harness the fees from pcs and the interest and airdrop on reactor fusion for depositing zk to lend or on another platform that may airdrop on zksync and use them for a deposit to get part of that drop as well. Sync Swap is a potential airdrop i will be looking at as well as more zro adding to radient to get additional airdrops of arb, etherfi points, radient drops from dlp quarterly, rlz deposit interest from zro deposits in the new vault as well as eth deposits in the new vault after borrowing some eth against wbtc or using gravitas to move grai across chain to deposit on dolomite and earn oARB and goARB by depositing on dolomite and in gravitas stability pool on arbitrum to get goARB drops which is where i may move my stability pool or some of it from linea to arbitrum to get more arb drops as the arb drop grants are on going to various providers and arb is down right now so you may be able to get more arb as platforms may increase emissions of there allotted grants. Will also be looking at btc layer 2s like BEVM and b2 and stx and thorchain for new networks on btc that will be airdropping like BEVM i will be doing some of the social quests as well as providing btc liquidity on BEVM and other layer 2s and protocols on the various layer 2s in order to get airdrops on the btc layer 2 networks before they potentially get more popular as they are not popular right now compared to evm protocols but if btc can provide defi i think it may gain in dominance against eth if the dapps work well and start to grow. It may be worth exploring BEVM and some of the other drops that are confirmed on various btc layer 2s for some long term profits and air drops as well as the evm drops that are popular right now. Lineas drop I think will be a big one like the other evms that have dropped and done decently well and I will hopefully get a similar or bigger allocation that other drops like zk or zro which i didn't know i was even getting but I ended up getting a few grand on those but this one im actively farming and am further up on the rankings so hopefully that reflects with a large airdrop of a few grand. Im sure I will get some of the other points drops that are popular with the lst and lrt projects right now as well since im farming some on radient as well with weETH and looping that to get points as well as the arbitrum and radient drops on the asset which are bonues.
You can try out radients new rlz product vault to deposit your layer zero airdrop tokens and finally earn one sided lending fees on them in addition to lps so you can adjust your positions based on your forcasts and depending on how likely you think a big increase in price is depends on your allocation to either rlz one sided vaults with less fees (interest) or allocation to the lp which pays out a higher rate of fees but does worse if it goes up in price as the gains will not be as large as if it were just held but its likely to do both so I have a mix of long only positions on radient now and on uniswap for the usdt/zro pair which is one of the only lps with significant volume for zro/usdt the rest of the sites have up zro/eth lps mostly and not vs usdc or usdt. The merkl rewards are over so trading volumes have thinned out as well. RDNT is also down in price so emissions right now could be worth holding and selling later into usdc to add to the vaults and earn the gauntlet usdc from circles usdc native promotions and arbitrum from the ltpp drop and radient from the dlp quarterly airdrop of rdnt to dlp lockers. I wont be adding any additional dlp right now just using my locked position which has declined by about 1000 dollars but has also earned me more than that in airdrops so it actually all evened out and same with hmx it declined but the zro drop i got from it made up for the decrease in price after you factor in the fees extracted as well as future drop coming up for HMX stakers.
ZERO may be a good hold right now if it can break out and heat for the higher price levels instead of the initial airdrop price which it is just hitting right now with some incoming buy volume it looks like. It looks like there are some people buying low here and there is likely to be a price increase up if it can break out of the resistance formed by the initial price the asset was listed at and if it can prices could head back up to the top ranges especially when the teem fixes a few outstanding things keeping the price weighed down and causing annoyance in the community like airdrop delays for manta etc but it leaves a opportunity to take advantage of a possibly under priced asset and farm it at lows at about 10% with grai deposited on zero lend via lina earning lxp-l as well. The grai i borrow will be split between the safetly module on linea, arbitrum and on zero lend to get the various airdrops and airdrop allocation points. I intend to only borrow conservatively with less than 35% ltv on the weth vessel which does not provide a yield but provides additional borrowing power to 90% instead of 80% ltv so you have a bigger cushion and in volatile markets you need a big cushion. Borrowing a low ltv will let you keep your vessel open longer and borrowing cost keeps going down as the vessel is open with time as gravitas only charges a upfront fee to mint grai then never again unless you close the vessel or repay and mint again it will cost another fee so managing the vessel is important to minimize interest costs effectively to make it worth doing. you are basically just utilizing a bit of your eth liquidity on grai and making sure it never gets to liquidation by having a high ltv and money that can be moved fast to deposit into weth and keep the vessel open in a crash as well as assets from the stability pool next de leveraging when ever that happens i will likely get discounted weth etc from the pool as people are liquidated.
Dolomite has not indicated they are offering a airdrop yet but have dolomite xp points you gain for having certain assets and they may be used for a future drop of a token as well as benefits on the platform once you get enough. Some of the up and coming platforms also give much better yields on typically very low yield assets like wbtc gets 5% ish on dolomite and .1% on aave so depositing makes sense but borrowing may not as the cost of borrowing is much more on dolomite for eth or btc but stables are similar so you can borrow stables on dolomite then deposit them into lps for eth so you can earn some additional yield on your wbtc which is used for collateral up to 50% to hold the eth/usdc concentrated lp position for short periods of time where its expected that sideways action is to continue as that is when the position performs the best when prices stay stagnant and fees roll in. Also shorting btc in the amount used as collateral in order to go market neutral on the collateral and hedge while collecting funding fees.
