At $27.7M TVL, a $100 USDC deposit earns 3.6 AURA per week. One referred friend who deposits $200 earns you 2 AURA per week — permanently. As TVL grows, deposit AURA per dollar shrinks. Referral AURA does not. Here is the math that changes your strategy.
We pulled the top 2,000 of the BULK leaderboard going into the first weekly snapshot. Here is what $20.6M TVL, 7,520 depositors, and the full Aura rankings reveal that the dashboard does not show.
Hyperliquid distributed $8.7B to 94,000 wallets. The playbook that produced that outcome was not obvious at the time. Stealth seasons, anti-Sybil design, builder codes, no-VC structure — here is the full breakdown and where BULK maps to each piece (and the one place it diverges: BULK is VC-backed).
BULK team member kdot laid out the AURA allocation criteria directly in Discord last night: early fund committers and mainnet traders get more. Two-step playbook confirmed by the source.
The BULK AURA formula rewards size × time. Larger deposits capture proportionally more of the 1,000,000 weekly AURA pool — and institutional referral mechanics mean that referring one large depositor earns more AURA per week than 100 retail referrals combined.
Most DAOs hold idle USDC earning 4–6% in Aave or Compound. The BULK pre-deposit accepts up to $5M per depositor, is withdrawable anytime with no lockup, earns AURA weekly on top of the idle position, and converts to trading margin at mainnet. A non-custodial alternative with asymmetric upside on TGE.
1M AURA distributes every week. Formula: USDC deposited × time held. Every Saturday you're not in is AURA you can't recover.
Minimum $10 · Withdrawable anytime · Converts to trading margin at mainnet