Table of Contents
Most airdrop farming is a grind: volume targets, daily transactions, leaderboard anxiety. This list is the opposite. These are 5 farms where you deposit once and the position does the work, earning up to 148% APR while the points accumulate in the background. No manual trading, no volume churning.
We ranked them by what’s actually verifiable, not by points hype. Yields quoted are trailing or variable figures, not promises, and we’ve flagged the real risk on every entry.
1. Monetrix: passive yield plus active points, still very early
Monetrix is the youngest farm on this list and arguably the best odds-per-dollar because of it. The loop: deposit $USDC on HyperEVM, mint $USDM, stake it as sUSDM, and earn around 16.8% APR generated by delta-neutral strategies running on Hyperliquid. The yield is variable, not guaranteed, and moves with funding conditions.
The early-entry math is the draw. Only a few million dollars have been deposited so far, so your share of the GEMs points pool is competing against a small crowd rather than the tens of thousands of wallets grinding the big-name farms.
Risk: delta-neutral does not mean risk-free. Funding can compress or invert, smart contract risk applies, and there’s a 3-day redemption queue, so your capital isn’t instantly liquid.
2. BULK: the pure deposit-and-wait farm
BULK is passive farming distilled to its simplest form. Pre-deposit capital ahead of mainnet and earn AURA, a rewards system that weights deposit duration rather than manufactured volume. There’s literally nothing to do after the deposit. Time in the pool is the strategy.
Risk: AURA’s conversion into an actual token isn’t defined yet, so you’re trusting the team to translate points into allocation fairly. And with $35.2M already deposited, this one is no longer a quiet corner. The early-bird edge has partly been arbitraged away, which is exactly what you’d expect from the lowest-effort farm on the list.
3. Hibachi: vault farming with points and real strategy yield
Hibachi offers vaults where the strategy generates the trading activity, not you. Deposit into a vault, and the vault’s own trading builds the points while paying strategy yield on top. Recent trailing numbers: the Growi Alpha Vault hit 148% APR last month, Robonet ran 51.9%, and the Fire LP vault did 16.9%.
Be clear-eyed about what those numbers are: trailing figures from one strong period, not fixed APYs. A vault that printed 148% last month can print a drawdown next month. Treat the headline number as a marker of high risk, not free money, and pick the vault tier that matches your tolerance rather than defaulting to the biggest number.
Risk: strategy drawdowns, variable performance, and the usual smart contract exposure.
4. xStocks on Nado: the simplest passive farm with equity exposure
If you want stock exposure while you farm, this is the lowest-effort route. Deposit and hold xStocks on Nado and you earn a 25% xPoints multiplier just for holding. No trading required at all.
One precision note: this passive route earns xPoints specifically, not Nado’s core points (those require trading activity). Neither xStocks nor Nado’s xPoints side has a confirmed token yet, though Nado’s core points do convert to the confirmed $INK at TGE, which is why active traders double-dip there. As a pure holder, you’re farming the speculative leg.
Risk: tokenized stocks stack issuer risk, custody risk, and regulatory risk on top of the normal equity risk of the underlying share. More layers than a plain stablecoin deposit.
5. Hylo: best for real yield on Solana
Hylo is the Solana entry, backed by $1.5M from Robot Ventures, Colosseum, and Solana Ventures, with TVL that scaled to roughly $100M since its mid-2025 launch. The passive route: deposit hyUSD into the Earn Pool, receive eHYUSD, and collect around 8% APY while stacking XP that could convert into a governance token if one launches.
A 25% XP boost for early depositors is still live, and the position carries no directional leverage exposure, which makes it the calmest entry on this list from a market-risk standpoint.
Risk: hyUSD depeg. The stablecoin is over-collateralized by Solana LSTs with delta-neutral management, but no synthetic dollar’s peg is unconditional, and no token or TGE has been confirmed.
How to think about this list
The trade-off across all five is the same: passivity costs you certainty. None of these five points systems has a confirmed token behind the specific rewards you’d be farming (Nado’s confirmed INK sits behind its active trading points, not the passive xPoints route). What you’re buying with a passive deposit is optionality: yield today, a shot at an allocation tomorrow, and your time back in the meantime.
The sensible structure is matching farm to risk appetite. Hylo and Monetrix for stablecoin-denominated calm, BULK for pure set-and-forget, xStocks for equity flavor, Hibachi only for the portion of your stack you’d genuinely put into a high-variance strategy.
