Season 2 is live, and with it comes a new layer on top of the regular TydroInkPoints incentive rewards: boost multipliers.
All the details on the base TydroInkPoints incentive rewards and their budget are referenced in this post here.
This post is the current, living reference for how boosts work and what they’re worth.
The table below is kept up to date: whenever a value, threshold, or cap changes, that change is posted as a new reply in this thread with its own changelog, and this table is updated to match.
What boosts do
Season 2 rewards are distributed through the same incentive mechanism as always. Boosts don’t create a bigger reward pool, they change how each wallet’s share of that pool is calculated. A wallet with no boost earns rewards at the base rate (1x). A boosted wallet earns a bigger share of that same pool for the same deposit.
Why boosts exist
Instead of splitting rewards evenly across every wallet, boosts make sure a larger share goes to wallets that have already supported Tydro, have a genuine track record, or are already part of the ecosystem Tydro is built within.
In short: two wallets depositing the same amount on the same day can end up earning different rewards, because they aren’t starting from the same place. Boosts are how that difference shows up.
The categories behind this, and the reasoning for each one, are detailed alongside the boost structure in the replies below.
How boosts work
Boosts are organized into categories, each with its own cap. Within a category, a wallet can qualify for more than one boost, and those stack up to that category’s cap. Across categories, boosts also stack, but the total is capped overall, no matter how high the individual categories add up. The categories and their caps are listed in the table below.
Current boost structure
This table reflects the current version of the system. It will be updated in place whenever a change is posted in the replies below.
| Category (cap) | Boost | Value |
|---|---|---|
| OG Users (cap 20%) | Tydro OG: used Tydro before 30 September 2026 | ≥$100: 5%, ≥$10k: 10% |
| Aave OG: Aave or Morpho Optimizer lender activity before 2024 | ≥$1k: 10% | |
| Ink OG: any onchain activity on Ink before Tydro’s launch date (25 July 2025) | 5% | |
| Lending Track Record (cap 30%) | DeFi Lending user: history on another lending protocol, any activity before Season 2 start | 5% |
| Lender: largest balance lent on Aave or Tydro, held for 30 days | ≥$10k: 5%, ≥$100k: 7.5%, ≥$500k: 10%, ≥$1m: 12.5%, ≥$10m: 20% | |
| Tydro Migrator: user that migrated from a lending protocol (excluding Aave) to Tydro | ≥$100: 5%, ≥$10k: 10%, ≥$100k: 15%, ≥$500k: 20% | |
| kBTC Holdings (cap 25%) | kBTC Holder: holds kBTC, akBTC, or (s)avkBTC(x) | ≥$100: 5%, ≥$10k: 10% |
| Global cap | Maximum boost any single wallet can earn | 50% |
Worked example: how a category cap kicks in
Based on the structure above, say a wallet qualifies for:
- Tydro OG, ≥$10k: 10%
- Aave OG: 10%
- Ink OG: 5%
That’s 25% in the OG Users category, but the category cap is 20%, so 20% is what actually counts toward the wallet’s boost, not 25%. The cap stops any single category from growing without limit, even for a wallet that checks every box in it.
If that same wallet also qualifies for a boost in another category, say the DeFi Lending user boost (5%) under Lending Track Record, that gets added on top: 20% + 5% = 25% total. Still well under the global cap, so the full 25% applies.
Version history
| Version | Date | Change | Reply |
|---|---|---|---|
| v1 | 9 September 2026 | Initial Season 2 boost structure | Link |
Each row links to the reply in this thread where that version’s full breakdown, category explanations, and changelog were posted.
Not financial advice. Boosts affect a wallet’s share of a fixed reward pool; they are not a rate of return.