2026 Liquidity Mining Guide: Skip Memes, Earn from Degenerate Traders' Fees

Author: Ignas

Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow

TechFlow Introduction: While most people rush into meme coins and lose money, this article offers a contrarian path: provide liquidity to tokenized stock and meme trading pairs to earn high fees. Ignas shares specific pools, tools, and strategies, offering practical value for retail investors looking to earn high yields with small capital.

It feels like DeFi Summer again. Except most degens are busy losing money on meme coins instead of profiting from those degens losing money on meme coins.

Degens speculate on memes through FOMO, generating millions of dollars in trading fees daily. They don't provide liquidity; they just gamble. If you're not involved at all, that's a good thing.

Second thing.

Pons launchpad popularized meme coins directly pegged to tokenized stocks (AI/NVDA, BONER/HIMS, MOO/MU). The arbitrage between these pools and regular stock/USDG pools is my sweet spot because arbitrage fees keep accumulating.

You don't need to hold meme coins to earn yield from those losing degens.

I'm having a blast.

Here's what you might need to know before getting started.

Bullish Data

Robinhood Chain launched in July. Although new, it's impressive:

DEX trading volume of $1.66 billion! Second only to Solana ($2.1 billion), surpassing Ethereum ($1.37 billion)

24-hour app fees of $16.98 million

Stablecoins at $833 million, cross-chain TVL of $2.6 billion

Perpetual contract volume of $387 million

$757 million TVL generating $17 million in app fees daily.

Read that again:

$757 million TVL generating $17 million in app fees daily.

That's an 819% annualized yield, or 2.243% daily.

Compounded annually, that's an APR of 328,000%.

Fellow degen @0xSammy shared that tokenized stocks generated 13 million transactions in one day, with 203,000 addresses holding tokenized stocks, up 46% in three days.

Why Yields Are So Juicy

Two main reasons.

No one is providing liquidity. FOMO launched on Robinhood Chain in July. It's a meme coin trading app without LP functionality.

Robinhood Wallet and FOMO also allow buying memes with credit cards. The Block reported that JPMorgan has asked Visa to investigate. This volume comes from people who will never provide liquidity.

If you experienced DeFi Summer, you have all the liquidity mining skills. The new degens who recently entered crypto are our yield source.

These pools are too small for funds. When I entered, the RBLX/USDG pool had a TVL of $168,000 and trading volume of $6.2 million.

Daily fees were 11% of TVL!

Funds can't put $5 million into a $168,000 pool. This is the perfect playground for small degens like you and me.

MemeFi Is the Best LP Business On-Chain

Sammy verified 27 meme/stock trading pairs under 22 stock tickers.

AI/NVDA, MOO/MU, BONER/HIMS, NUDES/SNAP, LIGMA/FIG.

BONER alone accounts for 81% of HIMS on-chain supply. They want a short squeeze, but it's actually a float squeeze. You know the drill.

Some meme/stock pools are the highest fee-generating pools on-chain in the past 24 hours. Data from scopl.live:

AI/NVDA: $447,000

AI/WETH: $340,000

UBIK/GLD: $321,000

Fee-only annualized yield is 1329%.

You don't have to hold meme coins, because impermanent loss could wreck you, or you could get hurt when your (least) favorite KOL decides to dump.

Every trade buying AI through NVDA, and every BONER squeeze repricing HIMS, eventually gets arbitraged back through the stock/USDG pool.

HOOD/USDG, NVDA/USDG, RBLX/USDG, DJT/USDG are my current favorite pools.

Here's the full list of meme coin trading pairs for your reference. Table link: here.

You can find it in his blog post below:

Indeed, the lessons from DeFi Summer 2020 are your biggest advantage. However, we're not farming useless cat and dog memes; we can profit from the growth of tokenized stocks while meme degens stuff our pockets.

I love them, these meme coin degen traders.

Tools to Help You Farm

Revert: My favorite LP tool.

Instead of copy-trading degens buying memes, copy-trade the smartest LPs. You can sort LPs by annualized yield, P&L, creation time, etc. You need to think through your filtering criteria; it requires trial and error.

I like it because you can also LP with a single asset, and it helps with rebalancing (though I think they charge a small fee).

scopl.live: Pool discovery tool with real-time fee APRs. Not sure if it's a vibe-coded app, but it helps you find new pools and can replace Revert.

vfat.tools: Liquidity mining farms. This is the OG tool you can use for farming. But if you want to LP farm on Uniswap, it's not very useful.

Merkl: This is the 2026 vfat for incentivized Uniswap positions.

Filter chain = Robinhood.

Currently, it offers extra rewards on Uni v4 pools for stock tokens (like SPY-MU, SPY-INTC, with over 100% Merkl APR on top of fees).

If you know more tools, please share in the comments! I'm learning as I write this.

Farming with AI

This makes things much simpler: use Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, whichever you prefer, to become the best farmer.

It can help with bookkeeping, checking total ROI, finding new pools, and creating a unified dashboard for all your positions across platforms. In the AI era, there's no excuse not to know how to farm.

As I post this, HOOD is only 1.5% away from my target price. Nice.

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