BULK Season 1 AURA Guide: How to Stack Points Across Every Vector

BULK Season 1 launched June 1. 1 million AURA points drop every Saturday. 43,000 wallets have points. 500 have deposited.

If you’ve seen what Hyperliquid’s HYPE airdrop did and you’re wondering whether BULK is the same play — yes, structurally it is. Same mechanic: perp DEX, pre-mainnet points campaign, ~30% community allocation. The difference is you’re earlier here than most HYPE farmers were when they started.

BULK community lead Kobie confirmed the campaign will “probably go at least 2 quarters” — this is a multi-month compounding window. Here’s how to play every angle.

What AURA Actually Is

AURA is not a token. It’s a points system that determines your share of the $BULK community allocation at TGE.

30% of the total $BULK supply is allocated to the community. AURA is how that 30% gets distributed. The more AURA you hold relative to total AURA in circulation when the token launches, the larger your allocation.

What matters right now: the total AURA pool is small. 500,000 OG points were issued June 1. 1,000,000 more drop every Saturday. That means every week you hold through a snapshot, you’re locking in a percentage of a still-growing pool. Early snapshots are disproportionately valuable.

AURA is not tradeable, not transferable, and cannot be gamed retroactively. The only way to accumulate it is to be in the system.

The Four Earning Vectors

1. Pre-deposit USDC

The highest-weight AURA vector. Deposit USDC at early.bulk.trade and hold it through the Saturday snapshot. Formula: USDC deposited × time held. Withdrawable at any time — this is not locked capital.

As of June 1, total pre-deposit TVL is $2,452,867 across ~500 wallets. 43,000 wallets have AURA but have not deposited. That gap is the opportunity.

2. BulkSOL holding

Holding BulkSOL earns weekly AURA allocations in Season 1, on top of: ~7% base staking APY, MEV tips, and 12.5% of all BULK Exchange trading fees post-mainnet. You don’t have to do anything except hold it.

BulkSOL is Solana’s liquid staking token issued by the BULK validator set, minted on Titan Exchange.

3. PT-BulkSOL on Loopscale

The advanced play. Deposit BulkSOL into Exponent Finance to receive PT-BulkSOL (a fixed-yield principal token), then use PT-BulkSOL as collateral on Loopscale to borrow SOL and loop back into more BulkSOL. Current stats: PT-BulkSOL-20JUN26 at 7.83% fixed APY, up to 40.2% APY with looping. Carries liquidation risk — see the full loop guide before entering.

4. Referrals

Share your referral code from the Pre-Deposit Dashboard. You earn 1 AURA per $100 deposited by each referral, capped at 100 AURA per $10K referred. The referred wallet must hold at least $100 through the weekly snapshot — if they withdraw before the snapshot, you earn nothing for that week.

How the Formula Works

The AURA allocation formula is confirmed by BULK community lead Kobie: “it is size x time held… like all things are and should be.”

1,000,000 AURA is distributed every Saturday starting June 6. Your share of that pool = your (deposit × time held) ÷ total (all deposits × time held across all wallets).

Snapshots happen every Saturday at 13:00 UTC. Make sure your deposit is in before then — funds held at snapshot time count toward that week’s allocation.

You also earn continuously, not as a one-time event. Kobie confirmed: “you also continue to earn every week from holding, its not a one off snapshot.” Each week you hold is another week of AURA compounding.

Waitlist Rank vs AURA — Why They’re Different

Jun from the BULK core team confirmed directly: “rank is deposit x time held” and “yes rank is not aura.”

Waitlist rank determines your position for early mainnet access — trading priority, beta features, early product access. AURA determines your token allocation at TGE.

A wallet holding 10 BulkSOL but no pre-deposit will accumulate AURA weekly but have low waitlist rank. A wallet with $50K pre-deposit but no BulkSOL will have high rank but no BulkSOL AURA.

Maximize both independently if you want both.

What This Could Look Like For You

These are illustrative scenarios using community modeling at $2B FDV. Not projections — directional sizing tools only.

Alex — “I’ll put in $200 and see what happens”

Deposits $200 in week 1. Holds through 12 weekly snapshots. Earns roughly 55 AURA from pre-deposit alone.

At the 12-week community scenario ($48/AURA): ~$2,600 on $200 deployed.

Withdrawable any time before mainnet. Zero trading risk. If the token launches and underperforms, Alex pulls the $200 back.

Jordan — “I take airdrops seriously”

Deposits $1,000 in week 1. Also picks up some BulkSOL on Titan for the second AURA vector. Holds 26 weeks across both.

Earns ~500 AURA combined across depositor + BulkSOL allocations.

At the 26-week community scenario ($23/AURA): ~$11,500 on ~$1,200 deployed.

Sam — “I want maximum exposure”

Deposits $5,000 in week 1. Runs the PT-BulkSOL loop on Loopscale alongside it. Refers 3–4 friends who each put in $500+.

Earns 2,500+ AURA across all vectors over 26 weeks.

At the 26-week community scenario ($23/AURA): ~$57,500.

Sam also earns real yield from the Loopscale position (up to 40% APY on the loop capital) while the AURA stacks.

All figures use $2B FDV community modeling. Token price and total AURA at TGE are unconfirmed. These are not financial projections.

Capital Tiers: What to Do at Each Size

$100: Put it in pre-deposit. You’re not going to move the needle with BulkSOL at this size. Every week you hold earns AURA. The minimum deposit is $10.

$500: Pre-deposit $300, use $200 to buy BulkSOL on Titan and hold it. BulkSOL earns its own AURA allocation plus staking yield. Two vectors running simultaneously.

$2,500: Pre-deposit $1,500. Take $1,000 and buy BulkSOL. Deposit BulkSOL into Exponent Finance to earn the 7.83% fixed APY on PT-BulkSOL-20JUN26, and the BulkSOL position continues accruing AURA while it’s there. You’re earning three separate income streams.

$10K+: Run the full loop. Pre-deposit USDC for stable AURA, and run the PT-BulkSOL loop on Loopscale for amplified yield and AURA exposure. The loop is leveraged — read the full strategy guide before entering.

The Dilution Timeline

Every week, 1,000,000 new AURA enters circulation. Your OG AURA percentage shrinks as a result. The $BULK allocation is a fixed percentage of a fixed supply — more total AURA means each point is worth less of the pie.

Week 1 AURA is the most valuable AURA. If you deposit $500 this week at $2.45M TVL and hold it for 12 weeks, you earn far more than someone who deposits $500 in week 8 at a much higher TVL and holds for 4 weeks.

The gap between early depositors and late depositors compounds weekly. See the full dilution breakdown for the math.

AURA allocation runs until mainnet. BULK community lead Kobie said in Discord that the campaign will “probably go at least 2 quarters” — meaning the Season 1 window likely runs through late 2026, not weeks. That’s 26+ weekly snapshots, which puts the total AURA pool at roughly 26M+ from weekly distributions alone (plus the 500K OG allocation). Every snapshot you miss is permanent dilution — you can’t backfill time held. But it also means there is no rush to panic-deploy capital; there is time to size and hold properly.

Bottom Line

Four earning vectors, one goal. Pre-deposit USDC for the bulk of your AURA. Hold BulkSOL if you have the capital. Loop if you understand leveraged DeFi. Refer if you have reach.

The June 6 snapshot is the first distribution. Deposit before Saturday.

Go Deeper

• BULK AURA Dilution: What Your Points Are Worth at TGE
• The No-Risk AURA Play: Pre-Depositing USDC on BULK
• PT-BulkSOL on Loopscale: 40% APY and AURA Points Simultaneously
• BULK vs Hyperliquid: How the HYPE Airdrop Should Shape Your AURA Strategy