@Ilya_samotolkov

How our retrodrop farming is going 🥂 The end of the year is coming, and it's bringing a whole series of launches we expect big results from. 📄 Our #1 by expectations is no secret anymore: @variational_io . I've pushed it a lot, so hopefully you're already on it and stacking points. The CEO confirmed on X that everything is on track and TGE will happen this year. And there are still plenty of announcements ahead. From what I know, the options integration and the trading API are almost ready. Not much to explain about options: they're getting a lot of hype in crypto right now = volume is guaranteed. It's another instrument on the platform, running through the same market maker network that already powers perps and swaps there. The trading API will let algo strategies plug in and open the door to trading terminals used by both solo traders and big hedge funds actively trading perps. It also lets Variational's infrastructure slot seamlessly under the hood of crypto wallets and other interfaces. As for point value: right now you can sell a point for $30 (and that's before the announcements above). Costs are a bit higher than in previous weeks (the same volume gets you fewer and fewer points). Makes sense: right now it's the most obvious move in the market, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Our costs last week came out to $5–6 per point. Getting points for $2 is pretty hard now, even with our experience and strategies. But even so, that's 5–6x on costs. So we keep grinding Variational, and our main deposit is working there. Alongside Variational we're farming two perps under NDA for now, we'll talk about them later. One should airdrop before the end of the year too. In the other one we're super early users, they haven't even announced a points program yet (and that's usually the most profitable time to farm, you can pull points in batches with minimal costs). 📄 We've wrapped up farming @extendedapp . $XTEN should hit the market within the next couple of weeks. The results there will be worse than Variational, but still pretty decent. Based on a poll in our community, it's 2–4x on costs. We farmed it for a year and a half. At the current $XTEN pre-market valuation on @HyperliquidX , FDV is $230–250M, which puts a point at $1. Averaged across all our accounts, a point cost us around 35–40 cents. We'll run the detailed math after the token launches and share it with you. 📄 Among the other projects we're farming that I can name publicly: we keep up activity on @base and Robinhood Chain, run volume on our @Polymarket account farm, and use a few more perps paired with the main ones we're focused on. That's about it, my brothers. KEEP GRINDING 🏃‍♂️ The end of the year is shaping up to be super mega juicy. And we don't give a fuck about the elections, the laws, people getting locked up and the general crypto whining that "it used to be better." For those who work, things are great right now too. Could it be better? Of course it could. $BTC could've broken $150–200K by now, I'd like $ETH a bit higher, and I'd love to start getting out of $HYPE once it rips through $100. But it is what it is. We have tens of thousands of points across all the projects above, a huge $HYPE stack we've held since the airdrop two years ago, and a huge drive to keep working and growing. So we keep grinding, and success will come.