Bear Chain Mining Guide: The Sweet Mine with Over 200% Annual Yield
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Bear Chain Mining Guide: The Sweet Mine with Over 200% Annual Yield
Various play-to-earn and passive income ways to earn with BERA.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: 1912212.eth, Foresight News
Bitcoin has surpassed $100,000, and the altcoin market is heating up again. The token of emerging Layer 1 blockchain Berachain has risen for three consecutive days from a low of $2.7 to nearly $4.7. If you're holding BERA and don't plan to sell in the short term but want to earn higher returns, this article will walk you through various passive income opportunities.
First, let's briefly review Berachain’s three native tokens. BERA is the gas token used to pay transaction fees and serves as a core asset for liquidity mining and staking. BGT is the governance token earned by staking BERA or providing liquidity, used for participating in ecosystem governance and sharing protocol revenue.
BGT cannot be purchased or transferred on the market; it can only be earned through providing liquidity. Users may exchange BGT for BERA at a 1:1 ratio, but this process is one-way—BERA cannot be converted back into BGT. HONEY is the native stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, used to mitigate market volatility and commonly applied in lending and yield optimization scenarios.
Earn Double Rewards via Infrared Interaction
Infrared is Berachain’s liquid staking protocol. According to official data, its total TVL has exceeded $900 million. In March this year, it raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Framework Ventures, bringing its total funding to $18.75 million, with YZi Labs having participated in its earlier investment in June 2024.
Infrared has launched a points program to incentivize user participation before its token launch. The team has indicated a possible token release in Q3, meaning contributors who supply liquidity to Infrared’s proof-of-liquidity vaults, provide liquidity for key trading pairs on decentralized exchanges (such as Kodiak and BEX), or stake iBGT and iBERA may earn points and qualify for future official airdrops.
Infrared has created wrapped versions of BGT and BERA—iBGT and iBERA—to enhance market liquidity.
Stake BERA or iBGT
Users can directly stake BERA on the Infrared website and receive the wrapped token iBERA. The staked BERA is delegated to validators, generating staking rewards. iBERA can also be used for liquidity provision, lending, or as collateral on decentralized exchanges, allowing users to earn additional yields while continuing to accrue staking rewards. Note that unstaking is currently not supported on Infrared, so users must wait for the feature to be officially released.
Official data shows that staked TVL has reached $340 million with an annualized yield of 4.8%, compared to around 3% offered by Binance’s flexible savings products.
BGT is a non-transferable and non-tradable governance token, but iBGT is different—it offers a more flexible and practical "liquid" version of BGT that can be freely traded and used within the Berachain ecosystem.
Staking iBGT on Infrared allows users to earn rewards generated by the underlying BGT, distributed in HONEY. Additionally, users can add iBGT to liquidity pools on DEXs like Kodiak or use it as collateral for borrowing on platforms such as BeraBorrow, Gummi, and Dolomite.
Data shows that iBGT’s total TVL has reached $28.73 million with an extremely high annualized yield of 245%, consisting of 9% paid in HONEY and 236% in WBERA.
Create Liquidity Pools on Infrared
Creating liquidity pools allows users to earn trading fees plus substantial interest income. For example, on DEXs like Kodiak and BEX, setting up WBERA-iBERA pools currently offers annualized yields exceeding 50%. Furthermore, participating on Infrared grants a 1.5x points multiplier. (https://infrared.finance/portfolio)
The base annualized yield for these pools ranges from 1.4% to 2.26%, while the 50% yield is distributed in iBGT form.
On the management page, users can periodically claim their HONEY, WBERA, and iBGT rewards, then re-stake them (e.g., stake iBGT rewards to earn more HONEY and WBERA).
When creating liquidity pools, users should monitor performance: if annualized yields are very high but TVL is low, the yield typically drops quickly once larger capital flows in.
Kodiak DEX Protocol Liquidity Pools
Kodiak is a DEX protocol within the Berachain ecosystem. Its current TVL stands at $538 million according to the official site. (https://app.kodiak.finance/#/liquidity/pools?chain=Berachain_mainnet)
Users can earn significant returns by joining liquidity pools—for instance, the iBGT-iBERA pool offers 1.04% in trading fees and an annualized yield of 127.91% denominated in HONEY. The iBERA-BERA pool offers higher trading fee returns of 1.41%, though HONEY yields are relatively lower at 44.76%.
Deposit BERA on Lending Protocol Dolomite
Berachain’s lending protocol Dolomite has launched its native token. The official site shows lenders can earn an annualized return of 18.97%, making it attractive for users to deposit BERA and earn high iBGT rewards. (https://app.dolomite.io/balances)
Moreover, for those seeking even higher returns, users can borrow HONEY at an annual rate of 6.64%, then redeposit it at an annual yield of 9.62% to capture the spread.
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