Arbital Airdrop Guide: Farm Perp DEX Points With Automated Market Making (Cheaply, Sometimes Free)
Arbital airdrop guide: no token yet, but its maker-only bots farm 14+ perp DEXes cheaply. Public since August 2026. My $41 setup and limits.
Work through Arbital with me
- 1Sign up through the invite · 10 min
- 2Connect the venue you want to farm · 10 min
- 3Create a bot and pick market making · 5 min
- 4Set a fee budget · 5 min
- 5Keep the bias neutral · 5 min
- 6Watch fees and PnL together · 5 min
- 7Confirm the volume counts · 5 min
Hedge it, right here
Farm the volume, not the direction.
Each card opens a short hedge flow here. The venue opens beside the steps, and funding and fees still apply.
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Arbital Airdrop Guide: Farm Perp DEX Points With Automated Market Making (Cheaply, Sometimes Free)
Short answer: Arbital itself has no token or points program announced, so there is no Arbital airdrop to farm directly. What it gives you is cheaper access to the airdrops of the perp DEXes it plugs into: a maker-only bot that generates volume while rebates and PnL pull your real cost down. It opened to the public on August 21, 2026 after months of invite-only access, it is backed by Y Combinator, and it now runs on 14+ perp DEXes. Start on Arbital.
Updated October 2026, from my video and Arbital's site today.
What is Arbital?
Arbital is a non-custodial trading app ("memes, stocks, and perps in one app") whose standout feature for airdrop hunters is Arbital MM: automated, maker-only market making. You choose a venue, set your budget and limits, and the bot quotes both sides of the order book. Your funds stay in your wallet.
Venues shown on the site today include Hyperliquid, GRVT, Perpl, Pacifica, Extended, Hibachi, Decibel, Ondo Perps, Phoenix and RiseX, out of 14+ in total. It also lists 640+ tokenized stocks and ETFs via xStocks, and prize pools plus boosted points for its users on partner venues.
Is there an Arbital airdrop?
Not confirmed. Arbital has a referral program, but no points system, token or snapshot has been announced. Treat any Arbital drop as speculative upside. The confirmed value is the cheap volume it produces on venues that do reward you: weekly USDC on Ondo Perps, MON on Perpl, points on Pacifica and Extended.
Why maker-only is the cheap way to farm
Points programs reward volume. Takers pay the highest fees for it; makers pay less, and on some venues get rebates. A bot that only places maker orders produces the same points-qualifying volume for less. That is the whole idea. My market-making edge write-up goes deeper into the cost math; this guide is the setup.
How to farm with Arbital (step by step)
Which venue first?
- Ondo Perps : pays a weekly USDC pool split by volume share (about 175,000 USDC a week when I recorded) plus 5,000,000 Ondo Points a week. The rebate is what makes points close to free.
- Perpl : its Purple Summer campaign pays a pool of up to $1,000,000 in MON over 16 weeks from July 8, so it is in its final stretch. Check the app before you start.
- Phoenix : no token or points yet. If Phoenix ever rewards past activity, bot volume earned at a discount counts.
- Pacifica and Extended : both on Arbital's list with points programs. Dreamcash was listed when I first covered Arbital; check the app for the current list.
What changed since my video
- Arbital's Ondo Perps competition has ended. It needed $300,000 of volume to qualify for a share of $6,000 (only 105 wallets qualified when I looked), rising to $20,000 if volume reached $100M by August 13.
- Phoenix's Flight Club has ended. It paid 15,000 USDC a day, 420,000 USDC over 28 days, and closed on August 23.
- Arbital opened to the public on August 21 and now lists Ondo Perps, Phoenix and Decibel among its venues.
How much does it cost?
You pay trading fees, capped by your fee budget, minus venue rebates, plus or minus the bot's PnL. My rule from the video: budget $50 in fees, get rebates back, and the real spend might be $40 for points you would never have earned trading by hand. Manual trading costs more, and I have lost a whole principal to liquidation doing it. Start with a small amount you can afford to lose.
Is Arbital safe?
It is non-custodial, YC-backed, and gives you the two controls that matter: a fee budget and a max loss. The risks are trading risks. A maker bot holds inventory, inventory can move against you, and leverage (up to 40x on the site) magnifies that. Use low leverage, a tight max loss, and only the official domain. Never share a seed phrase .
Stack it
- TreadFi : TREAD is live and another TREAD airdrop is coming, so its bots farm TreadFi and the DEX at once. It does not cover every Arbital venue, so keep both.
- Hyperider : my own game for generating perp volume.
- Delta-neutral : pair a maker bot with a hedge elsewhere, see delta-neutral airdrop farming .
Build it
A per-venue "cost per point " tracker: weekly rebate pools, your fees, your PnL, your points. Every Arbital user needs it and nobody has built it. Ship it with Deployr .
Arbital FAQ
Does Arbital have its own airdrop? Not announced. No token, points or snapshot. Treat it as upside.
What is the minimum to start? I started market making with $41. The grid bot needed $100.
Does the fee budget get spent in full? No. It is a cap that stops the bot, not a target.
Which perp DEXes does it support? 14+, including Hyperliquid, GRVT, Perpl, Pacifica, Extended, Hibachi, Decibel, Ondo Perps, Phoenix and RiseX.
Is the Ondo Perps competition still running? No, it closed on August 13. The weekly Ondo Perps USDC pool is separate and still the main rebate.
Related: Perpl airdrop guide · TreadFi points guide · delta-neutral airdrop farming · every airdrop
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