NEAR Protocol is offering many attractive incentive opportunities, from airdropping NEAR to loyal users, retroactive rewards from new DeFi projects, to AI testnet programs with token rewards, or simply staking NEAR to receive free tokens. Below is a compilation of outstanding farming, airdrop, and incentive opportunities on NEAR that could help you earn more!
Farming Opportunities on NEAR in Q2 2025
Rhea Finance: Trade Mining – 10,000 NEAR Each Month
Rhea Finance is a leading DeFi hub on NEAR with a DEX, lending, margin trading, and a host of other Bitcoin DeFi features. Rhea is currently running a trade mining program that encourages users to trade to earn rewards up to 10,000 NEAR each month (distributed as 2,500 NEAR each week). The mechanism works on a “ticket” accumulation system: each eligible token swap on Rhea rewards you with some tickets, and you can use these tickets to redeem NEAR rewards at weekly tiers.
Rhea Finance trade mining 10k NEAR per month.
Guide to accumulating points (tickets): Trade the designated tokens on Rhea (including blue-chip assets like BTC, ETH, NEAR, SOL and meme tokens like SHITZU, BLACKDRAGON, NEKO, MINEMINEMINE…) to accumulate tickets. Only buy transactions of these tokens count for tickets – selling doesn’t count. The larger your trading volume, the more tickets you earn, number of tickets per volume:
- $2 → 2 Tickets
- $4 → 4 Tickets
- $8 → 6 Tickets
- $16 → 8 Tickets
- …
- $1024 → 20 Tickets (and similarly, doubling volume → +2 tickets)
Rewards and Strategy: Every Tuesday, Rhea opens the distribution of up to 2,500 NEAR for that week, divided into reward tiers. You use your tickets to redeem NEAR – the more tickets you have, the higher reward tier you can claim. Note that each ticket can only be used once, so you need to consider when to redeem rewards to maximize the total NEAR you receive. The program is gamified – the more people participate in trading, the more likely the full 2,500 NEAR weekly pool will be paid out.
Getting started: Visit the Trade Competition page of Rhea Finance, connect your NEAR wallet, and link your X account. Then start swapping the supported tokens to accumulate tickets. Initially you’ll receive 150 tickets; these will automatically decrease by 10 tickets each day. Every Tuesday, go to the rewards page to redeem your tickets for NEAR. (The number of tickets required for each week’s redemption tier will be announced on Tuesday.) With 10,000 NEAR in rewards each month, this is an opportunity to both farm NEAR and farm the $RHEA token for active traders on NEAR.
Pro tips: NEAR <> USDT / NEAR <> USDC has the lowest fee, so consider swapping between these pairs
Additionally, RHEA Lending is offering 9–15% APY with stablecoin lending (USDT/USDC). This is a very attractive APR for stablecoins, especially on a secure platform like RHEA Lending.
$RHEA token will TGE soon, and there will be even more activity for using/contributing to Rhea Finance!
Delta Trade: Limit Orders to Hunt Airdrops Before TGE
Delta Trade is a decentralized trading bot platform that allows users to run strategies like grid, swing, DCA, and limit orders. Delta Trade integrates closely with Rhea Finance: orders from Delta’s bots are hedged through Rhea’s DEX liquidity. As a result, Delta users are indirectly contributing volume to Rhea and will be eligible for the $RHEA token airdrop after Rhea’s TGE. Delta Trade is also preparing to launch its own token ($DELTA), and has opened a program to farm points for an airdrop to reward early users.
Delta Trade is running a campaign to accumulate Delta Points – users who participate in the trading bot will receive reward points, and these points will determine their allocation in the upcoming token airdrop. You can earn points by running a grid bot (placing automated buy/sell orders within a price range), joining the PnL ranking competition, or completing daily missions on the platform.
If you own the project’s DeltaDisk NFT, you get a higher point multiplier on each trade. Currently, Delta Trade has not launched a token yet, so all points you accumulate carry very high potential value (a kind of retroactive NEAR reward).
Once $DELTA has its TGE, users with high point totals will receive a corresponding amount of tokens. Additionally, since Delta contributes to Rhea’s liquidity, Delta users will also get a $RHEA airdrop when Rhea launches its token – one effort yields two token airdrops.
How to participate: Visit the DeltaTrade.ai homepage and connect your NEAR wallet. Prepare some USDC or NEAR for the bot to trade (you can buy some on an exchange and deposit into your wallet). Next, create a trading bot (choose a grid, swing, or DCA strategy and the trading pair you want, e.g. NEAR/USDC). Activate the Delta Trade bot to start 24/7 automated trading.
https://x.com/DeltaBotTeam/status/1946267093978267797
Kaito Yap-to-Earn and $100k in Rewards from NEAR
Kaito is a platform that combines AI and Web3 to solve the problem of fragmented information in crypto. NEAR partnered with Kaito to launch an incentive program called Yap-to-Earn – users are rewarded Yap points when they share useful information about NEAR on Twitter.
How to participate and earn points (and $$$): Go to Kaito Yap for NEAR → log in with your X (Twitter) account to register. After that, regularly post tweets sharing knowledge, project analysis, or quality memes about NEAR. If your content gains significant community engagement and is deemed valuable by Kaito, you will earn a portion of NEAR’s $100,000 reward pool.
You can write content in any language! it doesn’t have to be in English. NEAR has put up a $100k reward pool for users on the Kaito dashboard from July to October 2025, you will receive Yap points as long as your posts get good engagement and Kaito evaluates them as valuable.
https://x.com/KaitoAI/status/1912879154942320722
Tip: Use the Kaito Yap Tracker & Scanner bot to track your Yap points in real time. This way you can see which of your content Kaito considers useful based on the Yap points you’ve earned.
Infinex: Retroactive Rewards for NEAR Users
Infinex is a decentralized exchange platform (in fact, a crypto wallet) founded by the Synthetix team, aiming to deliver a smoother experience than CEXs. Notably, Infinex has integrated NEAR Chain Signatures and NEAR Intents technology to support assets that aren’t on smart contract platforms (like BTC, XRP).
Infinex raised over $65 million from a host of top founders and communities. The first thing you should do is create an account on app.infinex.xyz, log in with X, and start using Infinex: join the Bull Run mini-game, post content about Infinex on X to boost your Kaito Yap points, and especially swap/use Infinex daily like a real user…
Note: Deposit at least a total of $200 in assets into the wallet to be able to access all features of Infinex. Infinex has previously airdropped its early users $Pengu, $uPatron and many other tokens… and it tends to favor NEAR users (the NEAR Foundation was part of Infinex’s investor round), so you will have a HUGE advantage as NEAR users!
PublicAI: Contribute AI Data, Earn Token Rewards
PublicAI is a Web3 project combining AI, building a decentralized data infrastructure for AI (collecting and labeling multimedia data: text, audio, video, maps… by the community). PublicAI raised $10 million (with participation from NEAR Foundation, Solana and other major funds) to develop a Train-To-Earn model, where anyone can earn money by training AI. The project has launched the DataHub beta platform, with user-contributed data reaching over 100 TB, 300,000 participants validating data, and 500,000 contributors providing verified data to the platform.
https://x.com/PublicAI_/status/1934971113286545467
How to earn PublicAI Points: PublicAI uses a reward point system for contributors, called PublicAI Points. Participants can earn points by completing data tasks on the PublicAI DataHub platform, and there’s also a social media campaign: install the PublicAI extension in your browser, then use the “AI Reply” feature on Twitter to reply to popular tweets — each time you do this, you earn points.
Join the DataHub: To start, visit beta.publicai.io and create an account (you can sign up with email or log in with a wallet). Then link your social accounts (Twitter, Discord) and link 3 wallet addresses (including a NEAR wallet – this requires ~0.1 NEAR to link). Linking a NEAR wallet makes you eligible for rewards on NEAR and lets you use NEAR for payments if needed. Next, go to the Tasks section on DataHub to see available tasks. Choose a task that suits you (for example: labeling 100 images of cats vs. dogs, translating a text passage…), complete it and submit the results to earn points.
Install the Data Hunter Extension: Increase your points by installing the PublicAI Data Hunter extension – a browser addon that lets you earn passive points from node activity and boost your social engagement. After installing, simply log in with your linked account and enable the node activity. Additionally, you can go to the “Earn more” section to see trending posts on X and use the “AI Reply” feature to auto-generate responses. Post these replies on Twitter with a valid referral link to earn extra points daily. Install it here.
Earn daily! Keep contributing!
https://x.com/_fiatisabubble/status/1949181000224788726
Stake and use NEAR Mobile Wallet, receive $NPRO
NEAR Mobile Wallet is one of many wallet apps on NEAR, developed by a third party (PeerSyst) and supported by NEAR Foundation. NEAR Mobile Wallet has a simple, user-friendly interface, making it a solid choice alongside wallets like Meteor, Intear Wallet, HOT Wallet… The team has just announced the upcoming token $NPRO, and there will be an airdrop for users and those who stake NEAR to their node!
Time to download the NEAR Mobile Wallet app (available on both iOS and Android), start using it, and stake a portion of your NEAR in the wallet to receive the $NPRO tokens!
https://x.com/NEARMobile_app/status/1942178602604278221
NEAR Mobile Wallet is also launching an ambassador program worth 100k $NRPO, check it out!
https://x.com/NEARMobile_app/status/1949743354738286857
Stake NEAR via Nansen – Earn Nansen Points
Nansen is a well-known Web3 on-chain analytics platform; the team is running a Nansen Points program in preparation for an upcoming token launch. Users can accrue points in many ways, but the simplest is to stake NEAR via Nansen to both earn staking yield (~7% APY on Nansen’s node) and accumulate points. The process is very simple: visit https://app.nansen.ai/stake/near, connect your wallet (Nansen currently supports the Sender wallet on NEAR), and choose to stake NEAR with Nansen’s validator.
For example, staking $100 in NEAR will yield ~15 points. Points add up over time and will most likely be converted into tokens when an airdrop takes place. Staked assets remain in a decentralized smart contract and can be unstaked at any time. You can also stake other tokens (SOL, ETH, MATIC…) to collect additional points. Stake NEAR via Nansen today to accumulate Nansen Points and secure a future airdrop ticket for the $NSP token.
https://x.com/nansen_ai/status/1949687763105902949
Other Projects to Watch
Beyond the major farming and staking opportunities, NEAR is home to a growing wave of early-stage projects that are quietly building from the user-friendly wallet like HOT, to emerging data infra like ConsumerFi, or experimental DeFi like VIBES and MoreMarkets. Most of them haven’t launched tokens yet — meaning now is the perfect time to get involved, farm points, and position early for future airdrops.
Here are a few promising NEAR-native or NEAR-integrated projects you should keep an eye on:
HOT Protocol
HOT is a super well-known “Telegram wallet / Telegram clicker game”, but actually HOT is an MPC-based (Multi-Party Computation) wallet infrastructure aiming to simplify and unify Web3 user experience across multiple blockchains and assets using omnibridge and its own novel tech stack.
$HOT is the base incentive token of the wallet, and has been utilized to grow $HOT into one of the most widely used wallets in all of crypto.
To start mining HOT right away, follow these few simple steps:
- Open or install the HOT Wallet via this link: https://hot-labs.org/
- Tap “Create new account” to generate your wallet
- IMPORTANT: Save your 12-word seedphrase securely – this is the only way to recover your wallet
- Once done, your wallet will be created – you’ll see the app interface
- Tap “Claim your First HOT!”, follow the steps, and finally click “Start mining!”, then “Claim” to receive your first 0.01 HOT
- Make sure to practice as much as activities from HOT as you can!
HOT is one of the most popular web3 app in the whole crypto space, start using today and earn some $HOT token!
ConsumerFi
ConsumerFi unifies micro-tasks, a premium data marketplace, and an on-chain agent launchpad, so verified workers and creators can retain value in the $4.9 billion dollar AI data market. ConsumerFi is a platform that is focused on improving the quality of agents, based on micro-tasks completed by verified workers. The token will be launched and sold for the first time.
Signup and contribute early!
https://x.com/ConsumerFi/status/1950215156752875852
MoreMarkets: Deposit XRP, BTC to Earn Yield
MoreMarkets is a cross-chain yield platform that lets you earn yield from XRP, BTC and other large assets that don’t have smart contracts to participate in DeFi. It allows you to receive yield without having to “bridge” your assets, thanks to NEAR Chain Abstraction, so users earn interest while their assets remain “in place.” MoreMarkets has raised over $13 million from many major VCs and is expected to have an airdrop. MoreMarkets is currently opening an Early Access waitlist for XRP users, and it’s expected to support BTC and other large-cap Layer-1 coins that lack smart contracts (DOGE, LTC…).
The project will prioritize rewarding early participants and there’s a good chance of a token airdrop coming up, so time to try MoreMarket!
https://x.com/moremarketsxyz/status/1948414996938936395
VIBES
VIBES is a NEAR Native platform that allows you to trade whatever the world talks about through synthetic data perpetuals.VIBES converts crypto social chatter into a low‑latency sentiment index and perpetual futures market, giving you a leveraged way to long hype or short fear on any narrative hours before spot moves—alt‑data, execution venue and token incentives in one stack. The $VIBES token is the foundation of this perps market, used both as collateral and rewards.
Start exploring Vibes now:
https://x.com/vibesdotfun/status/1944779252764987643
Templar Protocol
Templar Protocol is a DeFi platform dedicated to Bitcoin, using NEAR Chain Abstraction. It has raised $4 million and is currently in alpha testing, the concept is very interesting, worth watching!.
https://x.com/TemplarProtocol/status/1894839970730516701
Incentives for Validators – Run a NEAR Node with Meta Pool
Meta Pool, a liquid staking protocol on NEAR, is running a program to support new validators through its Node Studio platform. With Meta Pool’s Node Studio, new validators can run a NEAR node on the platform with almost no server management skills needed and cost just about 29$/month thanks to the effective of NEAR’s sharding design.
Moreover, Meta Pool will delegate at least 40,000 NEAR to each qualifying new validator’s node, helping you start earning rewards without needing your own capital. Furthermore, delegators can receive META tokens and boost their APY up to 59% if they participate in locked staking on the nodes in this program. It’s a win-win model: node operators increase their income, and stakers earn high yields plus META tokens (which can be used for governance or trading).
Small users can run NEAR node!
https://x.com/huangxiaohu321/status/1947648955103285269
Learn & Earn with LearnNEARClub
Learn NEAR Club is an all-inclusive platform designed to onboard individuals to the NEAR Protocol. It focuses on providing hands-on learning experiences and connecting community members with NEAR Ecosystem projects. The platform uses a “L(earn)” method – allowing users to EARN while they LEARN about NEAR.
You can earn nLEARN points daily by reading posts, completing courses, and more, then redeem them for $NEAR as an incentive for learning. Here’s a screenshot of the past redemption windows.
Getting started here: https://learnnear.club/courses/near-101/
Work To Earn on NEARN Gig Marketplace
NEARN is a one-stop gig marketplace built exclusively for the NEAR blockchain community. It connects projects in need of talent with a global pool of contributors looking to Work 2 Earn – getting paid for on-chain work with NEAR.
With three flexible listing types (bounties, projects, and sponsorships) and crypto-native payouts, NEARN brings the booming gig economy into Web3 and strengthens NEAR’s builder funnel.
Start your Work 2 Earn journey now on NEARN: https://nearn.io/bounties/
Conclusion
If you are a crypto user already familiar with DeFi, now is the time to leverage your experience to maximize profits on NEAR. Pick a few platforms that suit your style – trading, staking, or data contribution – and get started. Good luck!
Updated: August 1, 2025
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