🎯 3 airdrops, 1 strategy

GM everyone. This is 2036, the crypto newsletter that pays you.

Here’s what we’re serving up today 🍲: airdrops are the best way to make money in crypto if you have a) less than $10,000 to your name and b) some time to spare. And there’s a new way to qualify for the best airdrops.

Let’s dig in.

🥔 Today’s meat and potatoes

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We’ve talked about airdrops before - here, here, and here.

In short - airdrops are ways for crypto projects to incentivize adoption.

In exchange for using protocols early, crypto users are rewarded with free tokens transferred to their wallets. No, it’s not a scam, and no, you don’t have to pay for these tokens.

All you need is curiosity and time - which is why airdrops are hugely popular in crypto. Some savvy users make 5/6 figures a year from them.

(some actually make 7-figures, but I have a feeling you wouldn’t believe me if I said that).

Airdrops can be so lucrative that we’ve included them in our new Opportunities section below.

And luckily for us, airdrops don’t have to be complicated anymore.

Layer3 is a tool that allows us to:

• learn and explore crypto and Web3

• qualify for all the airdrops we need

… in a simple, fun interface. It’s like gamified money-making.

So far, Layer3 supports 3 of the 4 airdrops we recommend taking part in.

So here’s how you can participate:

1/ Go to Layer3 and connect your wallet.

You can use any Ethereum-compatible wallet, but we recommend Rabby instead of Metamask (here’s why).

2/ Next, head to the Layer Zero page and complete all the quests.

The interface is pretty straightforward. Once you’ve connected your wallet, it’ll walk you through the steps and explain what they each mean.

Note: the Introduction to Layer Zero quest requires that you retweet something. You can actually skip that quest and move straight to the next ones:

• Exploring Radiant

• Exploring Magic Internet Money

• Exploring Pendle

• Exploring the Bitcoin Bridge

• The Testnet Bridge

3/ Then, head to the ZKsync page and complete all the quests there.

4/ Lastly, head to the Polygon zkEVM page and - you guessed it - complete all the quests there too.

With these simple steps, you should qualify for all the airdrops.

Layer3 even has daily tasks you can do to increase the number of tokens you’ll be airdropped on their home page.

You can also use Layer3 to explore Base - the new blockchain of Coinbase.

Coinbase has said there wouldn’t be a token/airdrop, but if they change their mind, at least you’ll have qualified. Here’s the link.

We’ll update you on new tutorials and quests posted on Layer3 that help you qualify for the best airdrops.

So stay tuned. And happy airdrop farming 🌬️💧

🍨 Dessert

Stories to read if you have FOMO

1/ The real reason the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF decision matters

2/ Presidential candidate weighs in on Grayscale’s win

3/ Is another SEC bitcoin ETF denial politically untenable?

📈 Market opportunities

Yield - Beginners 🌾

• ETH: Earn 4% APR by staking ETH on Lido

• SOL: Earn 6.8% APR by staking SOL on Lido

• [Updated] Arbitrage: $ETHE and $GBTC trading at -17% and -28% discounts to the value of their underlying ETH and BTC.

Yield - Advanced 🌾

• DAI - Earn 11%+ APY on $DAI

• ETH - Earn 17%+ APR with Hop’s ETH pool on Base

• BTC - Earn 14.9%+ APR with Umami’s BTC vault on Arbitrum

Upcoming Airdrops 🌬️💧

• Linea

• LayerZero (here’s the gamified path)

• ZKsync (here’s the gamified path)

• Polygon zkEVM (here’s the gamified path)

📝 Task

Earn BTC for a simple crypto task

Our current task is still running for another 24 hours. You can check it out in yesterday’s email.

Winners will be announced tomorrow.

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