Just last week, Scroll announced a couple of key important dates: A snapshot date for the $SCR token would be taken on October 19th, 2024, and that claims for $SCR would be available by October 22nd, 2024:
Wait, they announced a snapshot…in advance?
Since the announcement of the “Scroll Sessions” made this past April, the team has made it pretty clear that they’ve made a lot of emphasis for not only early adopters but also for people who keep liquidity in Scroll’s DeFi protocols. In a point system called “Marks,” one can roughly accrue approximately 1 mark per day for every 0.1 $ETH held on the L2 — the key indicator being: Marks = Value x Action x Time. In order to check how many marks you have and where this puts you in the pack, thankfully there’s a Marks rank checker by Scrollstat where you can see where you stand:
Therefore, if you’re already pretty low in the rankings and if you’re willing to move an ungodly amount of capital over to Scroll for the next week or so, I’d say that it’s probably not worth joining this late in the game. There are however things that you can do that might help level the playing field — Badges — which we’ll talk about next.
Badges
Scroll has a bunch of badges which you can mint via their Canvas program — more than a 100 different badges across dozens of different protocols, whether they be NFTs, swapping, connecting socials, or providing LPs. I’m unsure of how much weight badges will have on your allocation, but what is clear is that it’s far less costly to rank up, albeit if you have the time. I only have 45 badges and that puts me in the top 1%:
Out of the 2.5 million users, according to the Canvas homepage, only 730k Canvases have been minted with a total of 4.4 million badges, meaning that on average each Canvas user has about 4 badges minted, leaving to no surprise how easy it is to get in the top 5 percent, say if you 30–40 minted. Which of the 100s of badges should you mint? We’ll get into that next.
But first, if you’re wanting to put in the time and haven’t minted your Scroll Canvas yet, mint your for 50% off by using code ‘NEFG4.’
What are the easiest badges to get? Luckily I’ve figured that out for you
Free (5 Badges)
Ethereum Year 2021 Badge — no prerequisite required
Scroll Origins NFT Badge — for those who hold the soulbound Scroll Origins NFT
Toaster Airdrop Badge — connect twitter account
Pencils SOULS Drops Badge — connect socials
XHS Holder Badge — have an Adapative Humanity Score greater than 0
Bridging (10–30 Badges)
Bridge on Symbiosis — there’s actually a total of 20 different badges that you can get through Symbiosis, the lowest hanging fruit are the ones that require a single crosschain swap of at least $100 from either Polygon zkEVM, Mode, Linea, zkSync, Mantle, Base, Optimism, Taiko, Blast, Polygon POS, Metis, Ethereum, BNB, and Avalanche
Bridge 1 time on Owlto — (Any volume)
Bridge 1 time via MeMe — (Any volume)
Bridge 3 times via MeMe — (Any volume)
Bridge 1 time via Comet — (Any volume)
Bridge 3 times via Comet — (Any volume)
Bridge 1 time via XY Finance — (At least $25 of value)
Bridge 1 time via MiniBridge — (Any volume)
*You can also get additional badges for 5 or 10 bridges, roughly $0.50 for each bridge)
Cross-chain Swap via Interport — (Any volume)
Refill on gas via Interport — Fees are roughly 0.0003 $ETH ($0.74)
NFTs (11 Badges)
Deploy an NFT collection on NFTs2Me (Free)
Mint the Hypodrop Scroll OG NFT for 0.00008 $ETH
Mint the Hypodrop Scroll Keeper NFT for 0.00085 $ETH
Mint the Hypodrop Scroll Guardian NFT for 0.00009 $ETH
Mint Trusta Reputation Attestation for 0.0001 $ETH
Mint one NFT collection on Omnihub for 0.00016 $ETH
*You can get the second Gold Badge if you mint 4 more
Mint the RubyScore ranking on Scroll — Level 2 NFT for 0.0003 $ETH
Mint your Omnihub Name NFT for as low as $0.0004 $ETH
Mint the Omnihub Scroll Guardian NFT for 0.0005 $ETH
Mint your Proof of Humanity on Trusta for 0.0005 $ETH
Mint a ZNS domain name for 0.00098 $ETH
LP/Swap (14 Badges)
Matcha Scroll Trader — Swap 4 times (any volume)
Eisen Tier 4: Beginner — Swap 1 time > $10
*You can also get 3 additional badges for swapping $500, $3000, or $5000
T oaster Degen Badge — collect at least 100 Butters by depositing more than $15 dollars at least 4 times
Toaster OG Badge — collect at least 300 Butters by depositing more than $15 dollars at least 10 times
iZISwap Swapper Badge — Swap at least $50
iZiSwap Liquidity Provider Badge — Deposit at least $50
Symbiosis Pro Swapper — Swap at least $100
XY Finance Liquidity Badge — Deposit at least $100
Toaster GM Badge — Deposit/Swap at least $300
Toaster x Rho Markets Collab Hidden Badge — Deposit more than $300 dollars onto Rho Markets in one single transaction
Syncswap — Swap more than $450
Ambient Swapooor — Swap more than $500
Ambient Filloor — Fill a limit order over $500 (this can be done with USDT/USDC)
Ambient Providooor — Deposit more than $1000 in single LP position
Conclusion
As I mentioned before, I only have 45 badges and that put me in the top 1%. With increasing effort to keep minting more badges, in my opinion, the higher hanging fruit just wasn’t worth the effort for me in the time we have left.
Have you already been grinding away at getting as many badges as you can get? How many have you been able to accrue so far? Are there any easy badges that I left out of my list? If so, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below.
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