Sonic SVM Releases Tokenomics, ether.fi Introduces Liquid Bera ETH & BTC Vaults, Weekly Airdrop Claims and Upcoming Airdrops, and more...

Launches 🚀

• SyncSwap V3 launches January 1, 2025, introducing Range Pools for enhanced capital efficiency and flexibility, alongside Classic, Stable, and Aqua pools. Debuting on ZKsync, the update coincides with the $57M ZKsync Ignite campaign to boost liquidity, rewards, and APRs. The community-driven TGE is approaching.

  

• Perennial introduces Perennial Intents, novel intent layer designed to enhance

  liquidity and provide a CEX-like trading experience for perpetuals in DeFi.

  It offers guaranteed price execution, seamless one-click trading, and deep

  liquidity by combining intent-based order matching with AMM settlement, while

  the new "Petals" program rewards active traders with points.

  • Today in DeFi is supported by Perennial Finance..

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Updates 📰

• Hyperliquid adds $AI16Z and $AIXBT trading pairs, allowing users to long or short with up to 5x leverage by popular demand.

• Usual kicks off the fee switch era on January 7th, marking 2025 as a turning point for DeFi with real value and distribution.

• Venus Protocol launches a new ETHENA pool, now live on the platform. Explore the pool and participate in collaboration with Ethena Labs, Pendle Finance, and Circle.

• Echelon announces support for StakeStone assets, enabling users to deposit and borrow against $SBTC and $STONE at 50% LTV. This integration brings liquid yield-bearing BTC and ETH to the Move ecosystem, enhancing BTCfi adoption and expanding DeFi opportunities on Move, a fast-growing settlement layer.

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Issues 🚨

• Usual's USD0 briefly dipped to $0.99 after a whale sell-off but re-pegged to $1 within hours. Backed by 1:1 redeemable collateral and diversified RWA liquidity, the protocol proved resilient during this stress test. Stability remains a top priority, with updates on the way.

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Upcoming ⏳

• f(x) Protocol V2 by Aladdin DAO is almost here,
  bringing unlimited upside potential: Up to 10X leverage on ETH with no individual liquidations and 0 funding fees. fxUSD will supercharge your yield, with the USD Delta-Neutral strategy for massive yields without market exposure.

  • Today in DeFi is supported by f(x) Protocol

• Uniswap Labs teases the release of Uniswap v4, coming soon.

• Puffer Finance introduces $SOON, creating a fairer, value-preserving system for the community, along with $PUFFER Season 2 coming soon.

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Airdrops 🪂

• Sonic’s $SONIC token launches January 7, 2025, on Solana, powering the Sonic SVM and HyperGrid ecosystem. With 57% allocated to the community, $SONIC supports governance, staking, and payments. Initial Claim eligibility opens January 3, with last-minute airdrop qualification via SonicX until January 6

• Jupiter Uplink announces a new collectible available to claim on Drip Haus until Jan 6, 2 PM UTC. Last week’s airdrop, totaling $4,000 in $JUP and $USDC, has been distributed.

• Drift Hinting $FUEL launch and Drift Airdrop S2 set for May 2025.

• Bedrock launches Week 2 of the Berachain Epic, offering 100,000 Bedrock Diamonds and an extra 50,000 for ROCKBERA NFT holders. Participants can provide uniBTC-WBTC liquidity on Kodiak and complete tasks to earn rewards, including a shiny OAT badge from Galxe.

• WalletConnect reminds users to check their eligibility and claim tokens for Season 1 of the WalletConnect Token airdrop before Jan 3.

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Farms 🧑🏻‍🌾

• Deposit cbBTC and borrow USDC on Base or Ethereum mainnet to earn your share of $150,000 in incentives through the Merit Program from ACI. These incentives will be distributed over three months. For more details, click here.

  • Today in DeFi is supported by ACI

• Stryke becomes the first options protocol on Sonic Labs, offering liquidation-free leverage on $S/USDC and $ETH/USDC markets. Traders earn points toward the ~200M $S airdrop, while LPs gain from trading fees, option premiums, and Gems, which convert to $S tokens later.

• ether.fi introduces Liquid Bera ETH & BTC Vaults, offering $2M in ETHFI rewards alongside Berachain, KodiakFi, Dolomite, and Goldilocks incentives. Deposit $weETH, $WETH, $stETH, $eBTC, $wBTC, $cbBTC, or $LBTC to earn rewards, with deposits locked for 90 days post-mainnet launch.

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Weekly Airdrop Claims and Upcoming Airdrops