Top Airdrop Hunts of December ($)
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Sponsor: Mantle — The Mantle Global Hackathon, running 10/22 to 12/31, invites devs & founders to design, build, and deploy scalable RWA and DeFi products on Mantle.
- 📺 Kalshi Signs CNBC and CNN Partnerships. The deals come as mainstream media preps for midterm elections.
- 📈 CFTC Crowns Itself Regulator of Spot Crypto Markets. The well-received announcement could mark the start of a slippery regulatory slope.
- 🪐 Meta Plots Metaverse Cuts as Narrative Momentum Slows. The social media giant is reportedly planning major metaverse division cuts as the sector loses narrative enthusiasm.
| Prices as of 4pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $3.14T | ↘ 0.6% | ↗ 1.8% |
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BTC $92,486 | ↘ 0.6% | ↗ 1.2% |
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ETH $3,143 | ↘ 0.2% | ↗ 3.5% |
Market Plays:
- 🪙 CPU mining Juno Cash
- ⚖️ Trying Polymarket in the U.S.
- 🤖 Entering the 1st Clanker Presale
- 🏦 Depositing to the yoGOLD vault
- 🏅 Joining the dYdX trading competition
Hot Reads:
- 📚 The Blockchain Canon — Zachary Williamson
- Trenches Healing Session 101 - IT4I
- 🥸 Achieving Maximum Online Privacy — Vladimir S.
- 📱 Apps Aren’t Helping Chains Anymore — Smokey the Bera
- 🧠 The Crypto Dream Must Be Reimagined — Binji
Farming Opps:
- 🟠 BTC: 100% APR with Aerodrome’s cbBTC-LBTC pool on Base
- 🟠 BTC: 13% APR with Ekubo’s WBTC-LBTC pool on Starknet
- 🔵 ETH: 33% APR with Aerodrome’s WETH-LsETH pool on Base
- 🔵 ETH: 4% APY with Pendle’s Lido GGV PT on Ethereum
- 🟢 USD: 25% APY with Exponent’s hyUSD PT on Solana
- 🟢 USD: 12% APY with Strata’s jrUSDe on Ethereum
Airdrop Hunter:
- ⭐ Aster: Claim S3 ASTER airdrop
- 🐟 Kyo: Claim KYO airdrop
- 🕯️ Lighter: Hunt Lighter airdrop
- ♾️ infiniFi: Hunt S2 rewards
Crypto comes bearing airdrop gifts this holiday season, and as the world strings its lights and the year winds down, our analyst team remains busy in the workshop, filling the sleigh...
We’ve gift-wrapped five of this season’s hottest airdrop opportunities into a convenient newsletter for your enjoyment, curated from the nearly 200 available airdrop opportunities in Airdrop Hunter, our comprehensive hub of airdrop alpha with step-by-step hunting instructions shared exclusively with Bankless Citizens!
Today, we’re recommending 5 airdrops for the month of December. 👇
🏦 EulerDebt
Following the collapse of tokenized yield fund Stream Finance early last month, multiple onchain lending vaults with exposure to the project became insolvent, unable to fulfill lender withdrawal requests once Stream-linked borrower collateral sharply depreciated. Euler was one of the lending applications impacted by such busts.
In search of a solution for lenders looking to make the most from a bad situation, SeaFi (a vault provider for AVAX and GCP tokens) created a peer-to-peer exchange for distressed Euler vault shares called “EulerDebt.” EulerDebt sellers receive liquidity on their distressed debt, meanwhile, buyers can repurchase debt at a discounted price.
Although EulerDebt has yet to provide a formal indication that it will conduct an airdrop, it remains possible that this newly deployed protocol could move towards a token distribution, potentially by launching a points program.
🛣️ FastLane
FastLane is the self-described “alignment layer” of Monad, a high-performance EVM Layer 1 blockchain that hit mainnet on November 24. At the time of writing, FastLane was the largest liquid staking provider on the emergent Monad blockchain, holding $6.5M of deposits.
Holders of shMON (the receipt minted by depositing into FastLane’s shMonad staking protocol) receive the same benefits as other liquid staking tokens – including automatically accruing yield and the ability to enhance yields in DeFi – but denominate their deposits in MON and earn their rewards from the Monad blockchain.
The ongoing FastLane points program rewards users for deploying shMON liquidity across key parts of the Monad ecosystem. Unlike many other liquid staking protocols, shMonad has a “degen pool,” which reallocates depositor yield to shMON stakers in enhanced points rewards.
🪙 Strata
Built on top of Ethena, Strata is a risk tranching protocol that offers structured products for sUSDe, allowing investors to better tailor their risk-reward preferences through two distinct risk levels: junior and senior.
Strata’s senior investors (srUSDe) enjoy the benefits of overcollateralization, with moderate yield. This group diverts a portion of its sUSDe yield to junior investors (jrUSDe), who act as first-loss capital and earn greater returns than holding sUSDe alone.
Although the extra protection offered for holders of Strata’s srUSDe is minimal, considering the offering is only ~16% overcollateralized, Strata’s jrUSDe offers well above market yields for negligible additional risk to crypto users seeking exposure to Ethena USDe (a highly risky synthetic dollar itself).
Strata has an ongoing points program that rewards users for depositing into the protocol, deploying Strata deposit tokens throughout whitelisted DeFi applications, and referring others to Strata. It is likely these points will convert into liquid tokens at a future date.
⤴️ Curvance
Curvance is a Monad-native lending protocol centered around like-kind, yield-bearing assets. It enables users to borrow against LSTs, LRTs, stablecoins, and LP tokens without forfeiting their underlying yield. Borrowers can reach loan-to-value ratios as high as 97.5% in select markets (beyond what many traditional lending markets offer).
The protocol emphasizes its ease of use. Curvance allows users to execute one-click leveraged yield trades, removing the usual multi-transaction complexities associated with looping strategies. Overall, Curvance aims to combine high leverage with a simplistic UX that optimizes the Monad yield farming experience for onchain capital allocators.
Curvance also operates an ongoing Bytes rewards program that measures user participation across deposits, borrowing, integrations, and broader protocol engagement. While not yet confirmed, these rewards can be expected to convert into liquid tokens in the future.
📅 Monday Trade
Monday Trade is currently the largest derivatives platform on the Monad blockchain, though with just over $2M in total value locked, the platform still decidedly sits in the “early” stage.
Similar to many other popular onchain exchanges, Monday Trade offers trading in both spot and perpetual markets, allowing its users to choose between vanilla or leveraged token exposure. While the early-stage nature of Monday Trade limits the number of available markets, its traders can access perpetuals on BTC and ETH, or trade spot markets of popular Monad-native assets.
The ongoing “Voyage Point Program” is a 24-week campaign designed to reward users for providing deep, passive liquidity, and trading on Monday Trade. Additionally, Monday Trade’s “Momentum Campaign” and “TVL Incentive Campaign” will respectively reward top leaderboard participants and MON/USDC spot liquidity providers who participate before December 23.
Mantle Global Hackathon 2025: Mantle has entered a new phase in its roadmap – becoming the distribution layer to connect TradFi and onchain liquidity for RWAs where real-world finance flows. To accelerate this vision, Mantle launched the Mantle Global Hackathon 2025, running from October 22 to December 31, 2025, inviting developers, founders, and innovators to design, build, and deploy scalable RWA and DeFi products on Mantle.