⭐Pika Protocol announced Retroactive Airdrop

Pika Protocol is a decentralized perpetuals swap exchange on Ethereum Layer 2.

What to do:

- check eligibility here
- claim Airdrop on June 22nd

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⭐️ Fuel Network announced Sway Summer - an online hackathon with $100,000 in prizes

Fuel Network is building a blockchain with maximum security and the highest flexible throughput for the Ethereum ecosystem.

Fuel raised $81.5M by Blockchain Capital, CoinFund, Stratos Technologies, Alameda and others.

Sway Summer takes place 07.07 - 07.08.

What to do:

- register here
- wait for announcements

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⭐️ Mint NFT in Zora Network

Zora is a protocol which focuses on providing accessible tools to create NFT collections and independent marketplaces.

Zora raised $60M by Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Kindred Ventures and others.

What to do:

- add the Zora Network to your wallet
- deposit funds in Zora Network
- mint NFT in Zora Network here

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⭐ Optimism announced RetroPGF Round 3

Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain.

RetroPGF 3 will distribute 30M $OP to reward contributions that have supported the development and adoption of Optimism.

RetroPGF 3 project registration will open in the coming months and voting will take place in fall 2023.

What to do:

- go to website
- read the terms of RetroPGF 3
- perform activities
- wait for announcements

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⭐️ Orbiter in partnership with zkSync announced event on TaskOn

Orbiter is a decentralized cross-rollup bridge for transferring the Ethereum native assets, which is the infrastructure of Layer 2, it offers low cost and almost instant transfers.

What to do:

- go to website
- perform activities
- wait for announcements

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Weekly Review of Activities by A2 Finance

Fuel - announced Sway Summer
Zora - mint NFT
Linea - extend the duration of Week 7 of the Linea Voyage
opBNB - announced Testnet
Pika - announced Retroactive Airdrop
Optimism - announced RetroPGF Round 3
Orbiter - announced event on TaskOn

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Maverick announced ecosystem pre-season

Maverick is a composable DEX that enables liquidity providers to achieve high capital efficiency with their desired Liquidity Providing strategy.

Protocol raised $18M by Jump Crypto, Pantera Capital, Binance Labs, Shima Capital and others.

Rewards will be calculated using a combination of these factors: liquidity providing, achieving contributor, participation in governance votes, trading volume using Maverick UI and holding MAVA NFTs.

Snapshot of Pre-Season participants was taken on 20:00 UTC, 22.06.

The community will be able to verify their eligibility and claim rewards on Maverick’s official website.

What to do:

- wait for announcements

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Holograph is a set of NFT products designed to provide creators, developers, and businesses with the tools necessary to navigate the rapidly evolving sector more effectively.

Holograph raised $8.2M by Soma Capital, Avalanche VC, Kosmos Ventutes and others.

What to do:

- connect wallet here
- mint NFT
- transfer NFT between different chains

Activity deadline until 15:00 UTC, 30.06‼️

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⭐️ dYdX will launch public testnet on July 5th

dYdX is a DEX that currently supports perpetual trading. dYdX runs on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and allows users to trade with no intermediaries.

dYdX is backed by a16z, Paradigm, Polychain Capital, DeFiance Capital and others.

What to do:

- wait for announcements

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⭐SPACE ID announced Airdrop for Voyage Season 2

SPACE ID is a universal name service network that seamlessly connects people, information, assets, and applications in the digital world building on BNB Chain.

SPACE ID raised $10M by Polychain Capital, Binance Labs and dao5.

What to do:

- check eligibility here
- claim Airdrop from June 29th to July 29th

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Mantle anounnced token conversion on ByStarter

Mantle is a high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network with modular design, low fees and high security established by BitDAO.

What to do:

- go to website
- perform activities for Whitelist Genesis Offering or for Public Genesis Offering
- wait for announcements

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Ambit Finance is a fintech app that incorporates lending, borrowing, and yield optimization strategies to further the utility of BUSD and DApps in the broader BNB Chain ecosystem.

Ambit Finance raised $4.5M by Binance Labs.

What to do:

- perform Zealy tasks
- wait for announcements

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Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees forever while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding.

Shardeum raised $23.2M by Spartan Group, Big Brain Holdings, Foresight Ventures, and others.

What to do:

- add chain in the wallet
- use faucet to claim test tokens
- perform activities here, here, here and here
- create an NFT collection here

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LI.FI builds multi-chain, on-chain swaps, cross-chain swaps and a combination of both DeFi middleware for the application layer.

LIFI raised $23M by CoinFund, Theta Capital, Bloccelerate VC, Three Point Capital and others.

What to do:

- perform activities here, here, here and here
- fill in the form
- mint NFT here
- wait for announcements

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⭐️ EigenLayer announced an increase restaking capacity

EigenLayer is a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of res taking.

EigenLayer raised $64.5M by Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital and others.

The caps for LSTs, including rETH, stETH, and cbETH, will be increased to 15,000 tokens per LST with no individual deposit limit.

What to do:

- wait for announcements

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⭐️ Zora users activity

Zora is a protocol which focuses on providing accessible tools to create NFT collections and independent marketplaces.

Zora raised $60M by Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Kindred Ventures and others.

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⭐️ Fuel Network launched Guild

Fuel Network is building a blockchain with maximum security and the highest flexible throughput for the Ethereum ecosystem.

Fuel raised $81.5M by Blockchain Capital, CoinFund, Stratos Technologies, Alameda and others.

What to do:

- perform activities on Guild
- join Discord
- wait for announcements

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⭐️ Gitcoin announced new proposal

Gitcoin is a platform where coders and developers can get paid to work on open-source software in a wide variety of programming languages.

What to do:

- self delegate GTC
- vote on snapshot

Activity deadline until 08.07‼️

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⭐️ zkPass announced an Ambassador program

zkPass is a composable, privacy-preserving decentralized identity verification solution for Web3 based on MPC and ZKP technologies.

Recently, zkPass became a participant in Season 5 of Binance Labs Incubation Program.

What to do:

- fill in the form
- wait for announcements

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⭐️ EigenLayer users activity

EigenLayer is a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of res taking.

EigenLayer raised $64.5M by Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital and others.

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⭐️ dYdX launched Public Testnet

dYdX is a DEX that currently supports perpetual trading. dYdX runs on smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, and allows users to trade with no intermediaries.

dYdX is backed by a16z, Paradigm, Polychain Capital, DeFiance Capital and others.

What to do:

- go to website
- connect wallet
- perform activities
- leave feedback

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