Written by: Insightful
Compiled by: TechFlow
This article introduces Hyperlane and Pontem and gives a detailed interaction guide. Please see below for details.
Hyperlane Interaction Guide
If you missed out on Wormhole , your next beta opportunity is right in front of you, and it’s called Hyperlane .
What you need to prepare: ETH + Cosmos + EVM wallet
The chains we will interact with are: Neutron, Celestia, Manta, Arbitrum
It doesn’t matter where you start, you can withdraw directly from a centralized exchange, or use the token-less Squid to bridge funds between the EVM and the Cosmos chain to get started.
1. Start using ETH on Base or Scroll
Use third-party bridges such as Orbiter Finance , Owlto Finance , deBridge , Jumper , Bungee
2. Use the Merkly Hyperlane token bridge integration to bridge ETH from any of the following addresses
Base→ Scroll→ Arb
Or follow this path: Scroll → Base → Arb
You'll end up on the Arb
3. Exchange ETH for TIA at Trader Joe’s
TIP: You should push for volume and liquidity during the "rest" periods between interacting/bridging new wallets, as it is under-mined.
4. Use hyperlane’s Nexus bridge to bridge TIA.n from Arb to Celestia on your Cosmos wallet
If you are already using software like squid on Neutron, you can also bridge TIA to Neutron.
5. In Kelper, swap the TIA crosschain on Celestia to NTRN on Neutron so that there is Gas on Neutron
6. Use Nexus bridge again to bridge TIA from Celestia to Neutron
7. You have several options at this point:
- Bridge back to Celestia for "cheap" volume (round trip from the ARB/EVM bridge is much more expensive at a flat rate of 0.27 TIA) and then to Arb or Manta
- Bridge from Neutron to Manta (if you don’t have it, you’ll need to have ETH Gas on Manta and use iZUMi Finance to do the swap from ETH to TIA.n)
- Bridge from Neutron back to Arb
In my opinion, the route between these chains is more efficient than dealing with nautilus and inEVM (injective EVM)
At the end of this route, you have interacted with:
- Using squidrouter to get Gas on the Cosmos chain
- Using Merkly to bridge ETH via hyperlane
- Interaction on both Base and Scroll
- Driving volume and liquidity on trader Joe’s
- Use Hyperlanes nexus bridge to bridge from EVM to Cosmos and interact between Cosmos chains, on 1-2 different Cosmos and EVM chains, depending on how your route is
- May have interacted with third-party bridges/aggregators without tokens, such as deBridge, orbiter, jumper, etc.
8. Additional Notes
Unless you are a trader trying to show off how many different chains you can bridge, I think you can ignore the INJ EVM, Victor and Natilus integrations.
The main thing is that we are crossing two different chains on both the Cosmos and EVM sides, this is the main “unique interaction” and “friction point” we are overcoming
Instead of just bridging the Merkly Hyperlane token,
When bridging TIA between Cosmos and EVM, you can change wallets on the receiving side and continue airdrop interactions with the next wallet in that cluster until you are satisfied with the amount of interactions with your current wallet.
For example: EVM wallet 1 → bridge TIA to Cosmos 1,
Then Cosmos 1 bridges TIA to →EVM wallet 2 to Arb/Manta,
I think if you do this and the wallet group has historically been 5 or less you should be fine.
You can mitigate this potential risk by depositing to a CEX and withdrawing the funds to a new wallet in a “clean” manner, or you can use the routing functionality of a cross-chain bridge somewhere on the EVM side.
For example: EVM wallet 1 uses deBridge's cross-chain bridge to exchange ETH from ARB to OP to EVM wallet 2, and then you bridge those ETH from OP to Arb, ready to bridge to the next "new" Cosmos wallet, which will show the source of funds as the deBridge contract address.
Pontem Lumio Interaction Guide
The project has raised $10.5 million in financing from Aptos, Pantera, Animoca, Delphi and other institutions, and is about to launch its own L2 by leveraging Layer Zero technology and deeply integrating with the Aptos ecosystem.
Pontem has now confirmed the airdrop activity and the relevant airdrop registration page has been launched.
You can view your Pontem Profile/Achievements at the following link:
https://liquidswap.com/#/dashboard
Here we can see that they are looking at several metrics such as trading volume, number of exchanges, and amount of liquidity provided.
We can also see that holding any number of the following four Meme coins will earn you a “badge”.
1. Bridge funds to Aptos using http://bridge.liquidswap.com (this also uses L0 so will interact with one of their contracts)
If possible, try to bridge at least $250-1000.
2. Purchase any amount of the four tokens: DooDoo, RETuRD, SHRIMP, UPTOS so that this appears in your profile.
3. Drive at least $1,000 in trading volume in 5 separate transactions, and the trading pair between APT and USDC/USDT (Layer Zero stablecoin) will have the lowest slippage.
4. Under the “Earn” tab, go to the pool and provide liquidity for one of the pairs.
I chose the USDC/USDT (Layerzero) pair, which currently also offers an annualized yield of about 159%, and tried to provide at least $25-100 worth of liquidity.
5. Optional: Under the “Earn” tab, go to Staking and stake at least 11 APT on any validator , preferably one outside the top 10.
The unlocking cycle is approximately once a month.
6. Optional: Go to Topaz and buy NFTs from the Dark Ages and Space Pirates collections , these are from Pontem, they are expensive, only do this if you want to check this item on your profile and are optimistic about holding these NFTs.
To register for future airdrops, visit:
https://airdrop.liquidswap.com
Connect your Pontem wallet, sign the signature, then do the same for your EVM (ETH compatible) wallet or SOL wallet, or both.
IMPORTANT: This is not the Pontem Token airdrop itself, and it is not clear what this is for, but I think it is likely for future airdrops of Pontem Ecosystem Projects and Meme Coins to premium users of Pontem.
I think Pontem will eventually have its own native token as well, so you’re preparing for that through all of these interactions.
Some other Aptos projects that don’t have a token yet, that you can interact with and integrate into Pontem as well:
