I finally figured out how to claim the ZK airdrop from ZK Nation in the United States as they have a really good Geo Block on it lol. I have CyberGhost and no matter what country I tried I could not get it then after hours of searching I was able to find a thread that told me how lol.
The way to get your ZK allocation which can be significant as mine was about 2000 dollars if i could have claimed right away now its about 1300 usd worth but still great for not even knowing I was getting it but all my activity on ZK for a while i guess was enough to get a good allocation from it. Deff not the highest by any means but far from the lowest allocation. If you have used zkSync ERA I would check the ZK nation checker for the drop see if your addresses qualify and if they do claim that shit using the process above. Also make sure you use the correct website there are likely scams out there. You can also tell by looking at DBank if you have a allocation as it will show up in you assets as a airdrop pool and add to your net worth but you don't own them until claimed and in January when the window shuts they will disappear so i would get on claiming them now.
ZRO was also a great airdrop that I had no clue I was getting and by far the best performing one so far out of the latest ones I have received. I was eligible for 250 ZRO of which I sold 150 to cash out some profit as I also sold some ZK to cash out some profit as well but the rest of the ZRO I have been holding not in LPs as I think its going to fly up and ZK I have the majority out of the LPS but have about 300 worth of ZK in PCS LPs in a wide range from .09 to .37 to cover an expected increase in ZK price as well as give it plenty of room to breathe. I may also add a tighter range for ZK to get the higher APR and manage it keeping the range between the highest close and the lowest low which is still a wider range but tightens up the range and increases the APR quite a bit. The really wide range is getting about 100% APR and the tighter ranges are getting in the few hundreds of percent APR. Same with ZRO when I had some of that in a LP it was yielding 500-600% APR on the ZRO/ETH pair but for now I am expecting price action to move up so I am not holding in a LP but will be looking to deposit on a lending platform like AAVE or which ever platform has that as a option for collateral to borrow against it a little bit as well as receive interest on the deposit.
ZERO Lend is another airdrop I recently received and that I added half to staking ZERO locked for 4 years to get the max APR on ZERO and use that to fill up the LP and feed the two ZERO/ETH LPS that I have my ZERO deposited in. One is on Zero Lend locked for a year and is eligible for various airdrops with a APR of 100% and NILE is the other and the pair receives NILE tokens that can be staked or paired with other tokens like USDC or ETH to earn more NILE and ETH as well as have the staked NILE be able to distribute additional NILE to fund additions to the pools.
All of the airdrop farming, staking and lp management can be a great way to fund your Splinterlands purchases when the assets are in the dumps that you would usually use to fund additional purchases. That is deff easier to do when the cash flow is down a ton in SPL but you have uneffected cash flow to give you more purchasing power in SPL as its like another countries currency depreciating against your countries giving you more buying power in a different country than in yours which is splinterlands in this case as the cash flow buys much less outside and inside SPL right now due to the crash in SPS lately which is what all the rewards are in except for the land markets which reward in SPS and the resources can be sold for DEC but that is also down a good 30-50% currently but is likely to fluctuate back to .008 ish where as SPS unless there is a catalyst and changes that bring in revenue for the DAO or its gets listed or the marketing push works well bringing in new players which will be what we need as SPL is like a regular game in the sense that there needs to be a set of people who play the game bc they like playing it not just for the rewards bc if we do not have people willing to spend and not care if they make money which is every other type of video game then we will slowly lose value which is what is happening now. Everyone is on the side of they like the game and want to make money in the game as well as expand there collection but even having that wont be enough long term it would sustain us for a while if we got a influx of new player/investor types but we really need people who just play and dont mind spending on it so the rest of the people who take part in the other activities like LPS and nodes etc that are necessary for the game to run and markets to function can take out fees they earn and not kill the markets as there would be constant revenue coming back in from the part of the player base that plays to have fun. Its more like we need people that play pokemon most play for fun some play to make money and the difference is there is a middle group in this game where you can build a business within the game by providing liquidity, operating a market maker bot, botting a account which provides match liquidity, operating a bulk buy pool, maintaining liquidity on and off hive engine and taking arbitrage, starting a guild that gives benefits to new players or any players but compensates the guild owner by having multiple accounts so they get paid a few x on the guild earnings for managing and paying for the upgrades in the guild. Also tournaments are a key thing i think as most people lose which means they could be a good revenue source for the company if they make the prizes good and are able to attract a lot of players maybe with exclusive prizes in monthly tournaments like skins that you can only get in that tournament or some other cosmetic item like that bc it wont give you a advantage in game play but many collectors would want it and those are the players that we want to retain and who will spend money and not take it out where as players like me spend money but only re invest part of the earnings and take part out every week or two in order to re invest and diversify into other assets which has been a good strategy this last couple of years as overall assets have gone way down in SPL and now that leaves a opportunity to start DCA back in to SPL assets by slowly bidding on cheap cards when they come up and being patient so you can get a good ROI on the assets you buy and position yourself to be able to ride out lower prices bc you bought at a great price meaning you can likely re sell close to or at what you bought for if you can be patient and bid on assets instead of just buy them in the market. Also you can message people and negotiate with them p2p likely get a price reduction from list price right now and also look at assets listed for a while and make offers well below the mkt price to see if they are motivated to sell. Buying assets at list price is not the way to do it right now as they are being sold so much cheaper if you can just hold off and bid on them and wait for a bid to be filled bc there are large players still exiting and they are doing so over time to not crash the market. If you talk to them to they will likely be willing to deal just to move it along faster bc it may sit for 2 months if not so they time value of money is on the buyer side right now and killing sellers bc its better off to have the assets rented if they wont sell near your price and if you can rent it bring in some revenue lower your cost basis you might be able to lower price eventually and get out at break even or even a profit depending on mkts.