🔎10 big things to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

Sep 01, 2025

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GM friends.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

10 crypto events to watch this week
DeFiLlama’s new Discover feature
A few great crypto reads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Mantle’s partnership with Bybit - MNT holders will get trading fee discounts, faster VIP account upgrades, cashback when using the Bybit card, and other major benefits on Bybit starting September. You can see all the benefits here
dYdX’s Telegram trading - dYdX will enable its users to trade with leverage directly inside Telegram through a bot with dYdX starting later in September
PTB token launch - Portal to Bitcoin, a cross-chain infrastructure protocol for native Bitcoin, will launch its token on Sept. 3
Hey Anon fee switch - Voting for Hey Anon's proposal to route its revenue to benefit token holders starts on Sept. 3. Hey Anon is Daniele Sesta’s DeFAI project
Ondo Finance’s tokenized stocks - Ondo Finance is expected to launch tokenized stocks on Sept. 3
Resolv Season 2 airdrop - Resolv Season 2 airdrop is expected to end on Sept. 9. If you used RLP or USR, you might be eligible
Peapods Finance’s PEAS buybacks - Peapods, a volatility farming DeFi protocol, will start doing buybacks for its PEAS token on Sept 2
Hyperliquid’s HYPE buybacks - 99% of Hyperliquid fees (higher than before) will go to buybacks after its next upgrade
DeFi App’s big news - DeFi App teased some major announcements for this week. Its mobile app will also add early-stage support for Android users this week
Macro events - U.S. unemployment rate data will be released on Sept. 5

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🛠️Tool spotlight: DeFiLlama’s new Discover feature

Believe it or not, crypto is still a very inefficient market.

In some cases, it takes months until the token price of a certain project catches up to its on-chain fundamentals.

DeFiLlama has recently released a new Discover feature that I find quite useful to find interesing on-chain data, so I thought I’d share it with you.

Here’s how to access it:

Go to DeFiLlama
Click on “Custom Dashboards” → “Discover”

Here, you’ll see 152 public dashboards with a huge amount of on-chain data on lots of well-known ecosystems and dApps, such as HyperEVM, lending projects, and so on.

By using this Discover page, you might be able to spot a few projects with growing fundamentals.

You can check out DeFiLlama Discover here.