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Stablecoin Airdrop Strategy (Winning Play During Bear Market)

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LITE CRYPTO

3 months ago

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Okay, here's a summary of the video covering the stablecoin airdrop strategy during a bear market.

Hey, with the crypto market looking pretty rough lately and potentially having already hit its peak for this cycle, it's smart to hold some stablecoins. This video dives into a strategy for doing just that, but not just letting them sit idle – it explores ways to earn passive income (APY) and position yourself for potential future airdrops by using various decentralized stablecoin protocols.

Here are the key points and projects discussed:

  • Market Outlook is Bearish: The crypto market has dropped significantly, almost 30% from its recent peak, and has been looking bad for weeks/months. Geopolitical risks and recession fears are adding to the negative sentiment.
  • Potential Cycle Top: There's a strong feeling that we might have actually topped for this cycle already, especially for Bitcoin. Don't expect new all-time highs for many coins like Ethereum or Solana this cycle. There might be small bounces, but likely not a significant bull run.
  • Why Hold Stablecoins Now: Given the bearish outlook, it's recommended to hold at least 25% (or 20-30%) of your portfolio in stablecoins as a safer bet.
  • Strategy: Earn Yield and Airdrops: Don't just let your stablecoins sit there! There are good decentralized options that offer yield (APY) and allow you to farm potential airdrops through point systems.
  • Risk Acknowledged: While the strategy is good, nothing is risk-free. It's important to do your own research on each project.
  • Why Stablecoin Airdrops Are Valuable: Stablecoin airdrops can be quite valuable, similar to the Athena airdrop which was very profitable. This is because stablecoins have intrinsic value, and controlling their money supply (often via DAO tokens received in airdrops) is important for things like APY, issuance rates, and deflation.
  • Resolv:
    • Has two tokens: USR (a US dollar stablecoin) and RLP (backed by different assets, less interesting personally).
    • USR offers staking APY, currently around 2.37% but averages 4.4% and can spike to 10-12% some days.
    • Exists on Base and Ethereum, but staking yield is only on Ethereum (low gas fees currently make this okay).
    • Risk exists because RLP is backed by non-stablecoin assets.
    • Point System: Get points for holding USR on either chain. Holding RLP gives 3x less points. Staking might give extra points on top.
    • Can earn points using it on other platforms like Pendle (considered high-risk personally), Spectra, and Morpho. It's a DeFi positive asset.
    • There's a referral program that boosts your points by 20%.
    • Opinion: Currently using this one. Prefers holding stablecoins here for yield and points rather than just in a wallet. Recommends using the referral code for the point boost.
  • Level Money:
    • Very new project.
    • Backed by USDT and USDC, which is good.
    • Risk: Acknowledges the long-standing FUD around Tether (USDT) and potential money laundering concerns involving agencies, though doesn't expect it to crash this cycle.
    • Crucial point: You must stake your Level USDCs to earn points/experience; just holding them isn't enough (learned this the hard way).
    • APY is high at 8.32%, considered very good for a decentralized stablecoin yield that isn't options-based.
    • Compares high APYs to risky situations like Terra Luna's collapse and Tron's USDD (avoid USDD due to Justin Sun/Tron being shady and no token airdrop).
    • Relatively early, with about 11,000 participants.
    • Can earn points via staking, Pendle pools, and depositing other assets (though many have their own tokens already).
    • Opinion: This is the newest project being used. Likes the good APY and the relatively early stage. Reminds you to stake to get points.
  • Ethereal:
    • Part of the Athena ecosystem, whose previous airdrop (Athena) was very profitable.
    • Strategy: Pre-deposit their stablecoin, USDE, to earn points.
    • Additional points from using Pendle pools.
    • Might also earn Athena rewards on top of points.
    • Uses a referral link (this gives the presenter 10% more points, you help them out).
    • Expected to launch very soon, potentially even building their own blockchain which could boost ecosystem assets.
    • USDE has been pretty stable.
    • Opinion: Likes the project and its connection to Athena. USDE has been stable. Recommends putting funds here as part of a diversified stablecoin strategy across multiple platforms. Suggests diversifying across at least three platforms in case one "gets defected" (fails).
  • Superform:
    • Functions as a multi-airdrop farming platform, using various protocols under the hood (like Hyperlane).
    • Has vaults that offer APY. Can handle cross-chain transfers/swaps (e.g., Wrapped ETH on Optimism to Wrapped BTC on Ethereum).
    • Previously released a meme token that wasn't very valuable.
    • Good options include Super USDC on Base and Ethereum, which offer decent APYs.
    • Earns rewards from other protocols like Morpho and Euler (Rawl token) in addition to Superform's own points.
    • Points are called 'creds', and these creds lead to Superform's own airdrop.
    • Opinion: Recommends using this platform. Believes the Superform airdrop will be pretty good. APYs are considered decent. Another solid place to park stablecoins for farming.
  • Perena:
    • A stablecoin project specifically on the Solana ecosystem. Good if you prefer Solana over EVM chains.
    • APY is relatively weak at about 1%.
    • Less DeFi options compared to EVM platforms for this project.
    • Points: Participated in Season 0. Earn extra points by swapping on the platform itself, not just holding the Perena token. Referral programs are available. Pools and swaps earn 'petals'.
    • Opinion: The go-to if you want to hold stablecoins on Solana and earn points. 1% APY on top of the airdrop potential is acceptable.
  • Metastable:
    • A stablecoin on the SUI ecosystem.
    • SUI is seen as growing rapidly with strong long-term potential (doesn't plan to convert SUI holdings to stables because of this conviction). Believes SUI has very good technology and could reach $20 next cycle, maybe even see ETFs discussed, though potentially no new ATH this cycle.
    • Metastable's token is MUSD (notes a similarly named coin existed on Ethereum).
    • Can mint MUSD using SUI or obtain it from other stablecoins on the SUI ecosystem. Mentions a "double fund" option but isn't familiar with it.
    • Opinion: Recommends accumulating some MUSD on SUI to earn points on that ecosystem.
  • Actionable Takeaway: It's better to put your stablecoins to work, earning APY and airdrop points, than to just have them sitting idle in your wallet. Even taking "a bit of risk" is better than zero yield/points.
  • Other Mentions: Notes other decentralized stablecoin projects exist (like LUSD on Liquity) but some won't have airdrops or APY, making them less suitable for this specific strategy. Acknowledges centralized exchanges might offer good lockup rates for USDT/USDC but focuses on decentralized options for airdrop potential.
  • Personal Note: Will be less active in March and early April due to moving apartments.

Transcript

Yo, what is up dudes? This is Light Crypto here and today we're going to be discussing some airdop strategies for stablecoins. And as you can see, the markets have been looking pretty bad in the last couple of weeks and months. We peaked at 30.72 trillion back in December and since then we have almost lost 30%. We're currently at 2.8 trillion. We dipped all the way down a week ago to 2.56, which is more than 30% down from the all-time high. And it seems that war is going to be starting between Iran, Israel and America. Even though the Ukraine war seems to be ending, it might actually not end. So a lot of bearish news and recession seems to be underway. And I hate to be the guy to say it, but it might be that we have actually topped for this cycle. There's not going to be new all-time highs in this cycle for a lot of the coins that we were expecting to reach all-time highs like Ethereum or Solana and etc. And frankly, there might be some type of a dead cat bounce or some type of a kind of like a brief bull run, which is going to be taking us 10% up or something like that, but not in a very significant way. So at least Bitcoin, in my opinion, has reached the all-time high for this cycle. I'm sorry to say that. And because I'm saying all these warning signs, I'm kind of meaning that right now, at least 25% of your portfolio should be in stable coins. Luckily, we have a couple of very good options when it comes to stable coins, which allows us to farm airdrops and get pretty good yields for these stable coins. Nothing is obviously risk-free. And I recommend everybody to do individual research on the projects that we're going to be talking about here today. Now, let's get started off with the first entry on this list. And I have talked about these on my airdrop Reagan telegram channel, and I have mentioned them probably on a couple of other airdrop videos. But today, we're going to be solely basing on stable coins here and potential airdrops throughout these protocols. So basically, what you're getting here is obviously yield for these projects. And there's going to be a lot of point systems, which are eventually going to be leading into an airdrop. And the question is, why should I be farming these versus something else? And the answer is that we have a point of reference, and that is Athena. And Athena ended up being a very valuable airdrop. Stable coins have really high intrinsic value, and people want to control the money supply of those stable coins. And that is why those DAO tokens are going to be very important when it comes to the APYs, the issuance rate, deflation, all that stuff. So that's why stable coin-based airdrops are actually quite valuable. Now, the first one on this entry is Resolve. And Resolve has two different tokens. The USR, which is stable coin for the US dollar. It has a staking APR of 2.37%. Note that this token exists on base, and it also exists on Ethereum. However, staking is only available on Ethereum. So right now, you don't have the opportunity to get the yield inside base. Now, the Ethereum gas fees are very low right now. So it's not a big problem, in my opinion. Now, there are some days where the rates actually look really good. So the average is 4.4%, but there are days where you're seeing 12%, 10% interest on your stable coin, which is good. And then we have the other token, which is RLP. I think this is some type of different form of stable coin, which is backed by different assets. I'm not like 100% sure about it. And I don't, frankly, I'm not very interested in it. But holding both of these coins are going to be getting you points. And here you can see the breakdown of like, what is the collateral of these assets. And there's going to be different collaterals for different stable coins we're going to be featuring here today. Some are backed by USDT and USDC. Some are backed by other assets. And when there's other assets which are not stable coins, there's always risk. And the point system is pretty simple. So there's a referral program. A lot of these have referral programs we're going to be talking about here today. Holding the USSR on Ethereum or on base will give you points. Another reason why you don't want to have LLP because it gives you three times less points on this point system. And then we have also staking. So I don't know if that's going to be giving you extra points, top of the 30. So let's say we're going to be staking our Ethereum. Are we getting 35 points or just five? So that's something I don't know. But I probably have to look into that. There's also Pendle stuff. I wouldn't fuck around with it, honestly, guys, because I think there's always risk with these lending protocols. Well, it's not really a lending protocol. It's more like a high risk protocol, whatever you want to call it. And then there's Spectra. I have no idea what that is. And then you can use it on Morpho as well. There are a lot of ways to earn points here. So it's really DeFi positive asset. And once again, it is on base and it is on Ethereum. And by using my code, you're going to be getting 20% boost on your points. So make sure you're going to be using my code when you're going to be signing in. So this is one I am using right now. And right now, like, I don't want to hold USDT or USDC in just like solely as the asset because I want to have yields and I want to have airdrop points. Next, we have level money and level money is very new. And I believe the level money is actually, let me actually confirm this. I want to be very sure. So I won't tell you wrong things. This is backed by USDT and USDC. So that's pretty good. But obviously, Tether has always had a level of FUD around it. And at one point, that house of cards is going to go down. I don't think it's going to be this cycle, though. It's going to happen at some point because it's kind of too big to fall. And right now there's CIA and probably some other agencies involved in with Tether and the money laundering there. Now, this has a one negative. You have to stake these level USDCs to actually get experience. So I did already buy it a week ago, but I didn't know that I wasn't getting any points. So I actually just staked out today. This is probably the most newest entry on this list. And it's very, it's not super competitive. So we have what, 11,000 people who are participating here. That's not a lot. So you're kind of early. And even though you're not early, it doesn't mean that it wouldn't be worth farming, just saying. And this one actually gives you 8.32 APY. That is very good decentralized non-options APY. We obviously have to be worried about things like 20%. And look what happened with Luna Terra, Terra Luna. Tron, for example, has the USDD and that has a 20% APY, but that's not going to have any token. And I don't trust Justin Sun. I don't trust Tron. It's super shady, always has been. So that might crash. So I don't do USDD. But this is another one. And basically it's pretty much staking. And there's a couple of other options which are going to be giving you points. Pendle pools. You can deposit other types of assets here. USDD, USDD. A lot of these stablecoins, most of these have their own tokens already. So we don't want to bother with them. But let's move on into another one. Then we have Ethereal, which is basically part by Athena. We have featured this million times already in the past. And this was a very good airdrop. It was very well being based on the deposits I made there. And right now you can basically pre-deposit your USDD, which is their stablecoin. And you're going to be getting points based on that. There's also Pendle pools, which are going to be giving you more. And apparently you're going to be getting Athena rewards on top of that, if I'm getting that right. And then there's obviously Referralink, which is going to be giving you... No, it's not going to give you any bonus, but at least I get 10% more. So you will feel good about helping me. And this is probably going to be launching very, very soon. I think they just made announcement on launching their own blockchain. So I think it was really just on the new. Just let me see if I can find it. Yeah. So they are actually building out something and that probably might actually pump the prices of their ecosystems assets. But USDE has been pretty stable. I like the project and it's another place. And I recommend putting into at least in the three different locations, just in case somebody gets defect. Then we have Superform. We have talked about this on other videos. And this is like a multi-airdop farming thing, as it's kind of like using a lot of things under the hood. So the way that the normal thing works is that there are vaults. And these vaults are giving you APY. You can like transfer money from Optimism, like a random asset, let's say, um, wrapped ETH and it turns it into wrapped BTC on Ethereum. And this is going to be playing around with Hyperlane. It also released meme token way back. Wasn't very worth anything, but this is a really, really good place to fire multiple different points. And these super USDC things on base and Ethereum are pretty good. These are good APYs. And you're going to be getting also apparently rewards in Morpho on that one and Raul on that one. So Euler. And yeah, as I said, the APYs are decent here and they are obviously going to be playing into you getting creds and creds are going to be playing into Superform's own airdrop. So another one that I recommend using because I think this drop is going to be pretty good. And the APYs are in my opinion, pretty good as well. So another, another good place to play park in. Now, then we have a couple of other entries which are outside of the EVM ecosystem, starting off with Perenna. And this is stable coin on Solana. So if you don't like using EVMs, you can use Solana. I have around 900 USD here and it's going to be giving you a pretty weak APY, but 1% top of an airdrop doesn't sound bad to me. There doesn't seem to be like a lot of pool. I mean, there seems to be like pools here, but like these APYs are not very strong. So there's not as many defy options over here. There's Season 0 which I participated on. You can get extra by swapping as well on the platform, not just holding the Perenna token. And there's referral programs here. The pools and swaps are going to be getting you petals as well. So that's something to think about. But if you are looking into having stables on Solana, this is way to go. And then we have our last entry, which is called Metastable. This is a stable coin on SUI ecosystem. As you know, SUI has been growing at a very good pace. And I don't think that's going to be stopping anytime soon. I'm not going to be transferring any of my SUI into stables because I'm really bullish on this project for long term. They got lower APY versus any other staking coins and their technology is very, very good. That's been my position for a long time. And just fundamentally, like, it's just like one of those coins that I have very strong conviction. I think it probably will reach $20 on the next cycle. This cycle, I don't know if it will be having a new all time high, but there's been some talks about like ETFs for it and etc. And they have their own stable called MUSD. I know that there has been a similar named ticker stable coin on Ethereum. I can't remember which one it was, but there was one was probably privacy coin related, if I recall right. And this one basically, there's a world option on double fund. I don't know about anything about this double up, but basically you can mint with any of your SUI things and get like MUSD from any other stable on the ecosystem. So this is another one that I recommend holding. I'm basically going to be accumulating a bit of this to start accumulating those points. But that basically wraps up what I have to show you for today. There might be some other decentralized stable cream projects, which I have missed because I have. You can leave a comment down below. I know XRP came without error. R LUSD, but that one will not have an airdrop. So, and it doesn't seem to have any APY either. So you're going to be smart about the APY and the airdrop farming at the same point. There's no point of just having USDT and USDC sitting on your wallet right now doing nothing. Like it's better to put up a bit of risk in there. And obviously there's a lot of exchanges, which are going to be giving you really, really good lockup rates for USDT and USDC. I'm going to leave a couple of those links down below as well. But thanks for watching guys. Stay tuned for more reviews. I'm going to be moving apartments, so I will not be as active in this March and start of next month as I'm doing a big move up operation. But thanks for watching. I will see you next time.

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