First official leaderboard pulse: 7,615 depositors hold $20.7M USDC. The $1M whale earned 46,394 AURA. A $120K wallet earned 6,302 — more than half of it from referrals, not deposits. The referral lane is outperforming whale capital.
Mainnet trading activity is the second AURA allocation leg, confirmed by kdot in Discord on June 3, 2026. Pre-deposits earn Season 1 AURA, then trading on mainnet earns a separate, meaningful allocation signal.
Deposit rank 45 put $120K in the BULK vault and earned 6,302 AURA — 3,253 from referrals, 3,049 from its own capital. The referral half out-earned the deposit half without spending a dollar more. The math, the case, and how to run it.
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).
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