Sakaru [咲かる] is a Japanese word that means to bloom or flourish. Which is exactly what the Gainify project is doing as we near our one-year anniversary. Let’s review the G-App’s launch and see what’s in store for Gainers in S12.
S11 Review
Season 11 brought the much awaited debut of the G-App. We did a soft public launch in our Discord server on Jan. 31, and in the days after we compiled feedback and worked hard to remedy the initial issues reported by users.
By Feb. 15 we resolved nearly every bug & issue that we could replicate, and upgraded the app’s node to an unlimited Nodely plan. We’d like to again send our appreciation to Nodely for working with us to stabilize the app with their service.
From then to now, we’ve seen a variety of farms & pools launched by both Gainify and from ASAs in the ecosystem. The process of starting development in Sept. last year, to now hosting farms & pools from other projects has been amazing, but also carries a mixed bag of emotions.
It was incredibly challenging navigating delays and messaging these to the larger market. We lost a lot of support and holders due to this, and the sting still lingers. On the other side, having the app live for a month now is a phenomenal feeling. Also, it’s been absolutely joyous working with projects behind the scenes to help them deploy their own offerings; and subsequently promoting these on X and in our Discord.
Much like the stabilization of the app by incorporating Nodely, we now look to stabilize the Gainify project. We’ll do this through offering amazing APRs on the G-App, recruiting projects to deploy, developing partnerships, increasing the amount of NFD segments minted, and communicating professionally to the market at large. We’re blooming now — Sakaru!
GAINIFY Additions
We saw a few major inclusions of GAINIFY in go to spots within the Algorand ecosystem’s docs & pages.
Thanks to the one and only Fred Estante, we were included in the Algorand DeFi Ecosystem directory.
Additionally, Fred has been mentioning G-App info in his weekly roundups, which we absolutely love to see!
When Pera overhauled the way projects could get listed on the discover tab in their wallet, we desperately wanted to submit our info in that moment. Rather than go to the community section then later request a move to DeFi, we decided to hold off on the submission until the G-App was live.
Well that took some time, but we finally completed the submission process in mid-February. After receiving approval, GAINIFY is now easily visible in Algorand’s most beloved wallet!
These additions are huge boosts to GAINIFY visibility, and will drive more traffic, farmers, and holders within our ecosystem. They also help validate the legitimacy of our project to newcomers, and we sincerely thank both Fred & Pera for their support!
With these two milestones under our belt, we’ll start the listing process with external providers like DeFi Llama, Dapp Radar and similar in the coming months.
We’ll also be deploying an automated listing bot to Reddit in the near term. We’re just working some kinks out with the way images are presented (Discord listing bot is live and was much easier to develop)
G-App Launch Metrics
- $46,000 = the increase in G-App TVL from soft launch to the end of S11
- 22 = farms deployed
- 14 = pools deployed
- 19 = different assets/ASAs available to farm or pool in S11
- 9 = the amount of farms & pools that offered GAIN as a supplemental reward
- 3 = projects that have taken advantage of the GAIN SRP (supplemental reward program, detailed in the image below)
- 1330% = highest sustained APR through S11 (VIVIT — GOLD farm)
S12 Farms & Pools
We have a ton of high APR pools & farms planned for S12. Let’s take a look at them all:
Pools
- Stake USDC earn tALGO | Runs from start to mid-season
- Stake tALGO earn GAIN | Runs from mid-season to end
- Stake VEST earn XVX | Runs from start to mid-season
- Stake ??? earn XVX | Runs from mid-season to end
Note: This staked asset will be the project that has the most mentions/engagement in this X post - Stake GAIN earn XVX | Runs all season
- Stake XVX earn TINY + GAIN | Runs all season
- Stake MONKO earn GAIN | Runs all season
Farms
- Stake XVX — ALGO Tinyman LPs, earn XVX + ALGO | Runs all season
Note: This will be the highest APR farm launched this season. We want to further drive stable TVL for VERTEX and this will be enticing farm - Stake GAIN — ALGO Tinyman LPs, earn GAIN + ALGO | Runs all season
Note: The GAIN farm hosted on Tinyman will end March 31. From that point on, all GAIN-ALGO farms will be on the G-App - Stake GAIN — USDC Tinyman LPs, earn GAIN + USDC | Runs all season
- Stake GAIN — goBTC Tinyman LPs, earn XVX | Runs all season
Note: This will be a brand new LP. Due to this, the earliest liquidity providers will have access to the highest APRs for the farm’s duration.
We’re very excited to see Gainers take advantage of these offerings. By providing a variety of pools and high APR farms, we hope to see increased usage of the G-App and a nice lift in app TVL.
NFD Checkup
gain.algo NFDs offer unparalleled utility within the Algorand ecosystem, and the market seems to agree! We’re nearing 100 mints and currently stand in 15th place for most minted segments in Algorand history.
While we’ve beaten this drum quite a few times, it’s worth mentioning the value gain.algo segments provide.
Segment holders who set their gain.algo segment as their primary in the NFD app receive a deposit boost of 20% on eligible farms/pools in the Gainify App. Stake $100 of a token or LP and be credited as having staked $120!
10% of the G-App’s revenue is airdropped quarterly to segment holders.
The first quarterly airdrop of ALGO & USDC will go out sometime in early April. The first airdrop will be 33% smaller than normal, as the G-App’s soft launch didn’t happen until January 31 (no activity in Jan.). But the second airdrop that takes place in July will encompass three full months and reflect the increased activity we expect the app to have.
When the first quarterly airdrop is sent, we’ll produce a report that documents the values and how the amount per segment holder is derived. For early reference, every two weeks we take 10% of the value in the G-App’s revenue wallet and send it to the designated airdrop wallet. The remaining amount is then sent to the Gainify treasury. The treasury and revenue wallet addresses are all documented in our Gitbook for your reference.
While we don’t call our NFD segments equity for obvious legal reasons, segment holders are in a unique position to benefit from increased usage of the G-App. For this reason, we encourage all segment holders to drive traffic to the app. This can be done by mentioning the opportunity to launch farms or pools to communities you’re in, and relaying the high APRs that are ever-present on the G-App.
Philosophy
We wanted to take a moment to elaborate on our philosophy, and how it ties into the 2025 crypto market.
As recently mentioned on X, we are a completely organic project. We’ve self-funded every aspect of GAINIFY — from burning 10,000A in our initial LPs that are locked for 5k years, to paying thousands of ALGO in providing unique farm rewards like BTC/LINK/PEPE/etc, to developing and delivering the G-App.
Beyond the financial commitments we’ve made to GAINIFY, our four co-founders have poured countless manpower hours into the project over the past year. This includes winning 3rd place in Change The Game, attending Decipher, deploying seasonal rewards, communications/X posts, and engaging with our community day in & out.
It’s easy to build when you sellout equity to VCs. It’s easy to gas up the price by paying KOLs to shill. It’s easy to promise the world and deliver rugs. Just look at Solana’s entire ecosystem.
We’ve done none of the above, and never will. We’re generally appalled by the behavior of the modern crypto market. People are actually killing themselves over memes. The larger market thinks a project is worthless if it doesn’t 1,000x in a matter of hours. Major CEXs integrate celebrity, politician, & influencer scams without any due diligence. Traders say “you’re late” if you aren’t in a token within the first 15 minutes. Everything gets left for dead the moment a KOL shills something new. It’s bizarre and an affront to what crypto was, and should be.
Throwing on our boomer hats, back in the heydays of 2016–2017, if you wanted to scam or rug, you’d have to fork and create an entire chain. There would be a good amount of time you’d have to spend on spinning this up, and of course you’d have to fork and create a wallet to interact with the new chain. Then, you’d have to recruit miners to provide security to the network, so you could then get listed on a low-tier CEX. For reference, just search for [ANN] posts on BTCTalk during that era.
These barriers reduced the volume of scammers as they had to put skin in the game and attract real users to develop the new chain. ERCs broke the barrier of having to create a whole new blockchain, but they still had to labor to get a listing and have the asset tradeable; as Uniswap didn’t exist then. From then to now, the process of creating and trading a crypto asset has become 1000x easier — which is great! Unfortunately, it has turned the space into a den of vipers.
Here’s what we think: we believe in DeFi and its capacity to provide services to the world that were previously unavailable to most. We believe DeFi is the next evolution of finance. We believe permissionless systems hold immense value. We believe that crypto is an escape for residents of impoverished or totalitarian nations — be them in the third or first world. We also believe that Algorand has incredible, untapped potential that the market will eventually realize.
This is who we are, and what we believe. We’re fine being the adults in the room by working on a serious project with lofty goals. We hope our philosophy aligns with yours.
Conclusion
This is the final season of our first year, and we’re thankful to everyone who has supported us, farmed with us, and helped us get to this point. We welcome all newcomers with the same fervor, and hope you enjoy what we’re building.
Take advantage of the various farms & pools that are coming in S12, and watch your holdings bloom alongside us. Sakaru!
