A Quick Overview of Two Notable Airdrop Projects Worth Watching: Hyperlane and Pontem
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A Quick Overview of Two Notable Airdrop Projects Worth Watching: Hyperlane and Pontem
Pontem has now confirmed its airdrop event, and the related airdrop registration page is live.
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This article introduces Hyperlane and Pontem, providing detailed interaction guides—read on for more.
Hyperlane Interaction Guide
If you missed Wormhole, here's your next chance with the testnet—meet Hyperlane.
What you'll need: ETH + Cosmos + EVM wallet
Chains to interact with: Neutron, Celestia, Manta, Arbitrum
It doesn’t matter where you start—you can withdraw directly from a centralized exchange, or use a tokenless squid to bridge funds between EVM and Cosmos chains to begin.
1. Start with ETH on Base or Scroll
Use third-party bridges such as Orbiter Finance, Owlto Finance, deBridge, Jumper, Bungee
2. Use Merkly’s Hyperlane Token Bridge integration to bridge ETH from any of the following addresses
Base→ Scroll→ Arb
Or alternatively follow this path: Scroll→ Base → Arb
You should ultimately end up on Arb
3. Swap ETH for TIA.n on Trader Joe
Tip: You should drive trading volume and liquidity during the "rest" period between interacting with new wallets, as it is currently under-mined.
4. Use Hyperlane’s Nexus Bridge to bridge TIA.n from Arb to Celestia on your Cosmos wallet
If you're already using tools like squid on Neutron, you can also bridge TIA there.
5. On Kelpier, cross-chain swap TIA on Celestia for NTRN on Neutron to have gas on Neutron
6. Use the Nexus Bridge again to bridge TIA from Celestia to Neutron
7. At this point, you have several options:
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Bridge back to Celestia for "cheap" transaction volume (round-trip bridging from ARB/EVM is much more expensive, with a flat fee of 0.27 TIA), then proceed to Arb or Manta
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Bridge from Neutron to Manta (if you don’t already, you’ll need ETH gas on Manta and use iZUMi Finance to swap ETH for TIA.n)
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Bridge back from Neutron to Arb
In my view, these routes between chains are more efficient than dealing with Nautilus and inEVM (Injective EVM)
By completing this route, you will have interacted with the following:
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Used squidrouter to obtain gas on Cosmos chains
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Bridged ETH via Hyperlane using Merkly
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Interacted on both Base and Scroll
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Driven trading volume and liquidity on Trader Joe
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Used Hyperlane’s Nexus Bridge to bridge from EVM to Cosmos and between Cosmos chains, across 1–2 different Cosmos and EVM chains depending on your route
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Possibly interacted with tokenless third-party bridges/ aggregators such as deBridge, Orbiter, Jumper, etc.
8. Additional Notes
Unless you’re a trader trying to show off how many different chains you can bridge across, I suggest ignoring INJ EVM, Victor, and Nautilus integrations.
The key point is that we must cross two distinct chains on both the Cosmos and EVM sides—this constitutes the main “unique interactions” and helps overcome the intended “friction points.”
Rather than just doing a Merkly Hyperlane token bridge,
When bridging TIA between Cosmos and EVM, you can switch wallets on the receiving end and continue performing airdrop-related interactions on the next wallet within that cluster until you're satisfied with the number of interactions on the current wallet.
For example: EVM Wallet 1→ Bridge TIA to Cosmos 1,
Then Cosmos 1 bridges TIA to→ EVM Wallet 2 on Arb/Manta.
I believe if you do this and your wallet group history consists of five or fewer wallets, you should be fine.
You can mitigate this potential risk by depositing to a CEX and withdrawing funds to a new wallet in a “clean” manner, or by using cross-chain routing functionality on a bridge somewhere on the EVM side.
For example: EVM Wallet 1 uses deBridge’s cross-chain bridge to swap ETH from ARB to OP into EVM Wallet 2, then bridge those ETH from OP to Arb, ready to bridge to the next “new” Cosmos wallet—this would show the funding source as the deBridge contract address.
Pontem Lumio Interaction Guide
The project has raised $10.5 million in funding from institutions including Aptos, Pantera, Animoca, Delphi, and others. It leverages Layer Zero technology and is deeply integrated with the Aptos ecosystem, soon launching its own L2.
Pontem has now confirmed an airdrop campaign, and the related airdrop registration page is live.
You can check your Pontem “profile/achievements” at the following link:
https://liquidswap.com/#/dashboard
Here, we can see they are tracking several metrics such as trading volume, number of swaps, and amount of liquidity provided.
We can also see that holding any amount of the following four meme coins earns you a “badge.”
1. Use http://bridge.liquidswap.com to bridge funds to Aptos (this also uses L0, so it interacts with one of their contracts)
If possible, try to bridge at least $250–$1,000.
2. Buy any amount of the four tokens: DooDoo, RETuRD, SHRIMP, UPTOS, so they appear in your profile.
3. Drive at least $1,000 in trading volume across 5 separate trades. Trading pairs between APT and USDC/USDT (Layer Zero stablecoins) will have the lowest slippage.
4. Under the “Earn” tab, go to Pools and provide liquidity to one of the pairs.
I chose the USDC/USDT (Layer Zero) pair, which currently offers around 159% APY. Try to provide at least $25–$100 worth of liquidity.
5. Optional: Under the “Earn” tab, go to Staking and stake at least 11 APT with any validator, preferably one outside the top 10.
Unlocks occur approximately once per month.
6. Optional: Visit Topaz to purchase NFTs from the Dark Ages and Space Pirates collections. These are Pontem-branded, quite expensive—only proceed if you want to mark this item off in your profile and believe in holding these NFTs.
To register for future airdrops, visit:
https://airdrop.liquidswap.com
Connect your Pontem wallet, sign the message, then do the same for an EVM (ETH-compatible) wallet or SOL wallet—or both.
Important note: This is not the Pontem token airdrop itself—its purpose is currently unclear, but I believe it likely aims to distribute future airdrops for Pontem ecosystem projects and meme coins to advanced users of Pontem.
I think Pontem will eventually launch its own native token too, so all these interactions are preparing you for that as well.
Some other tokenless Aptos projects you can interact with—and integrate into your Pontem activity:
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