Layer Zero Maxi @CC2Ventures allegedly crafted an L0 guide sheet too powerful for twitter
The compromise was to post a public wallet
Those willing to transcribe the txns = alpha
So thats what I did
How to craft a high-quality custom $ZRO route🧵
The easiest way to craft a route is to categorize the different types of L0 interactions
Then take various parts from each category and string them together
1/ @StargateFinance interactions
includes staking STG, snapshot voting, providing liquidity, using native bridge
2/ Cross chain swap dapps that use L0 contract
some of these route the volume through Stargate anyways but not always
this will also increase your total unique contracts
these include @_WOOFi @MugenFinance @OmniBTC @SushiSwap @lifiprotocol @BungeeExchange
WooFI (great for getting gas on new chain) followed by mugen, were the least painful to use in my experience
LIFI and Bungee are technically bridge aggregators but both are good tools and dont have a token yet, pick the stargate options when using them (L0 contract)
3/ "ERC-20 Core" Interactions
this generally involves buying a token of a protocol and using its bridge feature (which interacts with L0 contract)
you bridge that token to various other chains and then selling it (or interact with the dapps by staking, ect)
these are great "filler" interactions between your "main" interactions of just bridging volume cross chain
you dont want to be that guy who just spams stargate cross chain bridge interactions 5 times a day and does nothing else
some of these bridgeable tokens include:
agEUR from @AngleProtocol
$JOE from @traderjoe_xyz
$RDNT from @RDNTCapital
BTC.b from @BorderlessBTCb, (avax<->arbitrum has less slippage = you lose less money on swaps/bridging)
Optional: add liquidity (for min 1 week) to some of these dapps
From here it basically gets progressively more niche where youll be interacting with more niche dapps and chains, but generally the slippage is higher
some examples
$STEAK from @steakhut_fi (arb<->avax)
$MMY from @mummyftm (fantom)
$MIM stablecoin from @MIM_Spell (moonriver)
agEUR, JOE, RDNT, BTC.b were least painful for me, dont need to go overkill and youll need to play around with it a bit
Ex some may not hit chains that you havent already hit yet, sometimes the site is down or is buggy or there isnt support between certain chains anymore
4/ Aptos bridge
I put this in its own category as it should be put at the end of a rotation as it takes 5 days to get your funds back FROM Aptos (2.5 if you use bridge from L0 website)
L0 has its own Aptos bridge which is their only "main" bridge other than Stargate & BTC.b
So this type of interaction stands out to me
other Aptos bridges that use L0 but arnt by L0 include
@PontemNetwork @ThalaLabs and @PancakeSwap (bridge $cake doesnt have long wait time)
5/ Omnichain NFTs
Likely be a multiplier criteria
2 ways to go about this one
Buy an OG omninft collection on ETH mainnet
OG means thats its been around for a while and has some form of community or buy pressure that you can actually sell back into with minimal issue
Main ones are (from most to least expensive) Lil pudgies from @pudgypenguins, Gh0sts from @gh0stlygh0sts and Dinos from @tinydinosnft
Would only do this if you want a bigger ETH mainnet footprint and $30 gas per wallet is minimal funds for you
Alternative:
Various dapps that allow you to create/mint and bridge NFT on the "cheap EVM chains" which I call "the core 5" (bsc, poly, avax, op, arb)
Try to bridge to more niche chains like zk sync era, polygon zkevm
BONUS
Splice in some form of ZK Sync Era interactions/footprint into the route
You should absolutely have some sort of footprint on zk, but this is a much longer-term play, token is easily 10+ months away
use @Orbiter_Finance, @layerswap (both tokenless) Woo, Bungee to bridge
Do the standard actions, makes some swaps add some liquidity if you can, not much to interact with currently
Main dapps right now are @syncswap @izumi_Finance @velocorexyz @mute_io
Short term: hit min 8 txns and $120 volume (& min $120 liquidity)
over time 21+ txns 1k+ volume
Ok cool, but thats a lot of info and ive already probably scrolled/clicked off this thread by now
So how do I use this to make my own routes?
Ex. of a short route would be:
-Initially fund your wallet with native gas for any of "the core 5" chains using a CEX (ideally) or Woo
-fund wallet with ETH on Arb
-stargate tasks (stake STG, add LP, vote snapshot) use stargate to bridge to OP
(use mugen or woo if you need to swap into native gas token for destination chain)
-ERC20 task - buy agEUR on Angle on OP and bridge to various chains (that have gas on them) ending on OP and selling agEUR
-Mint NFT via @holographxyz, bridge from BSC->polygon
-use aptos bridge, use L0 aptos bridge to bridge back
Start new rotation with different interactions
Your overall goal is basically
Do min 1 interaction from each category in any order (aptos is last though)
Eventually hit min the Core 5 chains
Eventually have 21+ txs, $10k+ in volume, 2-3+ distinct months, to pass thresholds that put you in the top ~60-70% of wallets
Some general tips I would also note are:
If you have to pick start with the "core 5" as the dapp compatibility and slippage is generally the best among these chains
interacting with just 3 different chains = above 46% of all wallets, 5 chains = above 72%
Avoid ETH mainnet
Dont spam high amounts of low volume txns
Dont spam all of the tasks/interactions within a route in a short time period (Ex. Arbitrum gave -1 point if all of a wallets txn history happened within 48hrs)
Dont use the same amount of $ or interaction pattern between wallets
Have ~$5 in native gas token on each of the Core 5 chains is best way to start = saves you time later
You can fund via CEX, or refuel tool from Bungee, or Woo if you have funds already on a Core 5 chain
You dont have to do the interaction categories in the order I listed them in, but save the Aptos one for the end due to wait time bridging FROM Aptos
Going to save the txn transcription & takeaways of the CC2 txn route for another thread because its long (20+ tweets in itself)
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