Hydration rolls out a six-month liquidity GIGAHydration campaign with 2 million DOT in incentives to grow TVL and user participation.
Hydration, one of Polkadot’s leading DeFi platforms, launched a new liquidity incentives initiative in collaboration with the Polkadot Treasury. The campaign will distribute 2 million DOT over six months to users who supply liquidity to a broad set of assets on the Hydration platform.
The new programme builds on the outcomes of Hydration’s previous campaign, which allocated 1 million DOT in rewards over the past year. That effort helped to raise the platform’s total value locked and user activity, and this latest campaign aims to continue that trend by attracting more capital inflows and expanding Hydration’s role within the Polkadot ecosystem.
Incentives will target a mix of major assets, including stablecoins, ETH, DOT, and tBTC. Stablecoin support will focus on USDC and USDT, available via both native issuance and Snowbridge, along with HOLLAR, Hydration’s upcoming native stablecoin.
There are also plans to incentivise a euro-denominated stablecoin. ETH liquidity will be directed towards GIGAETH, a synthetic ETH asset on Hydration that accrues additional yield by aggregating returns from both wstETH and aETH sources.
In addition to major tokens, the campaign extends incentives to a range of mid-cap assets such as KSM, AAVE, and LINK. Hydration plans to introduce community voting every three weeks to determine which tokens receive temporary APR boosts. These governance rounds will allow the community to direct yield enhancements to specific assets based on collective demand.
All campaign rewards will be issued in GIGADOT, a composite token that tracks the value of DOT while earning passive yield from multiple sources. These include vDOT, aDOT supplied to Hydration’s money market, trading fees, and additional incentive layers.
The GIGAHydration campaign is positioned as a strategic measure to deepen liquidity, support cross-chain assets, and maintain growth momentum across Polkadot’s DeFi environment.
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