# Optimistic Alpha (week 2)

**Published by:** [AyohTunde](https://paragraph.com/@ayohtunde/)
**Published on:** 2023-08-06
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@ayohtunde/optimistic-alpha-week-2

## Content

It’s another week of the Optimistic Alpha ✨ἆWe’ll be covering Alphas from the following projects @aerodromefi @BuildOnBase @SocketDotTech @GravityDAO @ourZORA @BikeProtocol @DogeOfBase @OPambassador @SonneFinance Let's ride, a 🧵👇🏽 1. @aerodromefi Last week, I posted about the $AERO airdrop on @BuildOnBase Yesterday (Aug 4, 2023), Aerodrome released AERO token economics on Base with 405 of Initial supply going as airdrop to $veVELO LOCKERS Kindly go through the thread below to read my previous thread.What will be the criteria for the airdrop?In all the mentions from the distribution criteria, holding at least 1000 $veVELO is the basic and important criterion for the drop. So far, 3500 wallets hold $veVELO and to me honest, that’s huge 🔥 No snapshot has been taken yet. How to get $veVELO? Please do well to check this thread. 2. @BuildOnBase Mainnet Base announced it will be opening for the public on Aug 9, 2023, and users are able to bridge their assets already They also introduced the Onchain summer festival; where users will have to do daily on-chain activities throughout August.What do you need to do to get prepared?Bridge ETH from L1 or L2 to the base network.Places to bridge to @BuildOnBase - @BuildOnBase bridge (L1) 👉🏽 https://bridge.base.org/deposit - @mintdotfun (L2) 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/mintdotfun/status/1687086968021405696?s=61&t=G721lBg2f4zhYAvxT7sl_w - @layer3xyz (L2) 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/layer3xyz/status/1687810848411254784?s=61&t=G721lBg2f4zhYAvxT7sl_wMint the base enchain summer commemorative NFT 👇🏽Now you have some ETH on Base and are ready for the enchain summer. ✨🟡 3. @SocketDotTech OP Rush Socket just launch the OP rush promotion a few days ago. This promotion is intended to onboard users into the @optimismFND ecosystem.A total of 400k OP tokens will be distributed to users across different dApps and wallets leveraging sockets tech.What dApps and Wallets can you use?- Wallets @CoinbaseWallet @MetaMask @zerion @OneKeyHQ @AmbireWallet @xdefi_wallet etc - dApps @Kwenta_io @layer3xyz @rubicondefi @synthetix_io @BungeeExchange @GMX_IO @perpprotocol @PolynomialFi etc Read more 👉🏽 https://medium.com/socketdottech/socket-op-rush-program-guide-6f12bcb82bb2 4. @GravityDAO Gravity Launched the Graviton training.Gravity DAO is a conflict management DAO thaT offers Alternative Dispute Resolution and community-building services for web3 projects. This training will help boost your conflict management competency. Sweet part? This training is FREE and POAPs will be distributed at the end of the training. If you’re looking to improve your conflict management skills as a community member, builder, or anyone at all, this is for you. Read about their grant and usage here 👉🏽 https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/ecosystem-contributions/issues/2#issuecomment-1605672557 5. @DogeOfBase Airdrop on @BuildOnBase Base Doge will be airdropping @DogeOfOptimism holders, wOptiDoge, and LPers! You can purchase $wOptiDoge and LP on VelodromeFi The tweet tagged below was a day ago, so there’s probably less than 24 hours to take a snapshot. 6. @SonneFinance Sonne proposal on expansion to @BuildOnBase passed successfully https://twitter.com/sonnefinance/status/1686718625640488960?s=61&t=FjyVxTLdEgIqftgY2gyhKg This means Airdrop is incoming for Sonne stakers lockers. No announcement of a snapshot yet. Want to know how to get $uSonne and $sSonne? Check this thread 7. @OPambassador Program on @thrivecoinhq Thank Optimism program is still ongoing and you still have time to get in and take a share of 114k OP tokens while being useful to the collective. Read more 8. The NumbaNERD program Check out the NumbaNERD program as well, if you missed the alpha last week. 9. @Clipper_DEX OP Farming adventure Clipper just launched a farming adventure on the Optimism networkYou will be able to use your LP on the Optimism network to earn OP tokens rewards. To know more about the adventure, read this article from Clippers’ blog 👉🏽 https://t.co/12FO2V4fBV 10. @BikeProtocol snapshot update Just a reminder that Bike already took a snapshot of $Bike holders and LPers on Aug 3rd.Catch the $Pilot on @BuildOnBase That’s it for this week's Optimistic Alphas. If you find this useful, I’ll appreciate your feedback, likes ❤️ and retweet my tweet on X so it can reach as many people as possible. Follow me on Twitter 👉🏽 @ayohtunde Discord 👉🏽 ayohtunde Until next week, stay Optimistic ✨🔴

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