BULK AURA Guide: How Season 1 Worked, and How to Earn AURA on Mainnet Now

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BULK mainnet launched September 5, 2026, and Season 1 pre-deposits are closed. Every pre-deposit converted automatically to trading margin during the launch-day network upgrade. This guide covers how the historical Season 1 campaign worked, and — more importantly if you’re reading this now — how to keep earning AURA on mainnet.

Current authority: For the current AURA mechanics, use the BULK AURA Points guide. For weekly league rank, promotion, demotion, and playoffs, use the Challenger Series guide. This page preserves the closed Season 1 campaign and its historical strategies.

AURA Now: The Post-Mainnet Playbook

Pre-deposit is gone as an earning vector. What’s left, active today:

1. Trade on mainnet. Trading activity is now the primary AURA driver and creates eligible fee volume for the referral program.

2. Hold BulkSOL. Unchanged mechanic — BulkSOL still earns weekly AURA, on top of ~7% base staking APY, MEV tips, and 12.5% of all BULK Exchange trading fees, now live since mainnet.

3. Refer new traders. Your referral link carried over from Season 1. Current links have limited invite uses, and eligible referred-trader fees generate direct and indirect rewards.

4. Use BulkSOL across the ecosystem. Hold it directly, use it in an Exponent BulkSOL market, or use PT-BulkSOL/raw BulkSOL as Loopscale collateral where the current market supports it. This can add protocol rewards and AURA exposure, but it also adds maturity, smart-contract, and liquidation risk — see the full loop guide for current mechanics.

September 24 snapshot: what is actually actionable

The current playbook is not “deposit and wait.” Trade organically on BULK, hold or stake BulkSOL, and refer people who will actually trade. The exact trading-volume, fee, performance, and referral weighting remains undisclosed, so do not treat any community multiplier as an official formula.

As a dated third-party snapshot, YetiScan reported approximately $509M lifetime volume, $35M 24-hour volume, and $6.41M open interest on September 24, 2026. Those figures can move quickly; verify the live dashboard before using them in a decision.

For the current BulkSOL sleeve, Exponent listed the BulkSOL-31OCT26 market. YT can create amplified exposure to the remaining term, but it can also decay toward zero at maturity and is not a guaranteed AURA multiplier. PT or direct BulkSOL is the simpler route; leverage belongs only in the risk section of the plan.

The CTA above uses our YETI referral path. We may earn AURA when referred accounts trade; the exact referral weighting is not published.

How Season 1 Worked (June 1 - September 5, 2026)

If you’re catching up on what Season 1 was, or trying to understand how your existing AURA balance was earned, here’s the historical mechanic.

AURA is not a token. It’s a points system that determines your share of the $BULK community allocation at TGE — 30% of total $BULK supply.

During Season 1, 500,000 OG points were issued June 1, 2026 as a retroactive allocation, and 1,000,000 more dropped every Saturday from pre-deposits, referrals, and BulkSOL holdings until the campaign closed. Total pre-deposits reached over $40M before conversion.

The Four Season 1 Earning Vectors (Historical)

1. Pre-deposit USDC (closed). The highest-weight vector while it ran. Formula: USDC deposited × time held, snapshotted every Saturday. Grew from $20.6M TVL (7,520 wallets) at the first snapshot to $40M+ before closing.

2. BulkSOL holding (still active). Earned weekly AURA in Season 1, and continues to on mainnet — on top of ~7% base staking APY, MEV tips, and 12.5% of BULK Exchange trading fees, now live.

3. PT-BulkSOL on Loopscale (still active). Deposit BulkSOL into Exponent Finance for PT-BulkSOL, then use it as collateral on Loopscale to loop back into more BulkSOL. Carries liquidation risk — see the full loop guide.

4. Referrals (changed). During Season 1, referred accounts needed to hold $100+ for 72 continuous hours to qualify. Post-mainnet, that hold-time rule is gone — use the YETI referral link and current invite-slot flow on invite-only mainnet (see the referral guide for current mechanics).

Waitlist Rank vs AURA — A Season 1 Distinction That No Longer Applies

During Season 1, waitlist rank (deposit × time held) determined early mainnet access priority, separate from AURA (token allocation share). Rank stopped mattering at launch — mainnet access now follows the referral-link and invite-slot flow.

What Historical Deposits Earned: Illustrative Scenarios

These are historical scenarios from Season 1, using community modeling at $2B FDV — not projections, and not something you can still act on since pre-deposit is closed. They’re preserved here for context on how the campaign paid out.

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

Deposited $200 in week 1, held through 12 weekly snapshots. Earned roughly 55 AURA from pre-deposit alone.

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

Jordan — “I take airdrops seriously”

Deposited $1,000 in week 1, plus BulkSOL on Titan for a second vector. Held 26 weeks across both.

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

Sam — “I wanted maximum exposure”

Deposited $5,000 in week 1, ran the PT-BulkSOL loop on Loopscale, referred 3-4 friends.

Earned 2,500+ AURA across all vectors over 26 weeks. At the 26-week community scenario ($23/AURA): ~$57,500 (illustrative, unconfirmed).

All figures use $2B FDV community modeling from during Season 1. Token price and total AURA at TGE remain unconfirmed. These are not financial projections.

Capital Tiers Now: What to Do Post-Mainnet

Bottom Line

Season 1 is closed. Pre-deposit converted to margin on September 5, 2026. The actionable post-mainnet routes are: trade, hold or deploy BulkSOL, and refer traders through the current referral-link flow. Merely leaving converted margin idle is not the same as generating new trading activity.

Go Deeper

• BULK AURA Dilution: What Your Points Are Worth at TGE
• What Happened to Pre-Deposit, and Mainnet Access Now
• PT-BulkSOL on Loopscale: 40% APY and AURA Points Simultaneously
• BULK vs Hyperliquid: How the HYPE Airdrop Should Shape Your AURA Strategy
• Is BULK Exchange Legit? — on-chain verification and real risk breakdown
• Who Is Behind BULK Exchange? — team, history, and communication channels
• BULK Referral Guide — current YETI referral-link mechanics