🔎10 big things to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha articles

Sep 29, 2025

Portal, the only custodyless interoperability protocol, is gearing up for its mainnet launch on Oct. 13. Check it out today!

GM friends.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

10 crypto events to watch this week
This week’s airdrop opportunity
Some great crypto reads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

FTX’s next distribution - $5 billion will be distributed to FTX creditors on Sept. 30 in the form of stablecoins
Pendle’s deployment on Plasma - Pendle is expected to go live on Plasma L1 this week. This should bring some interesting yield opportunities given Plasma’s high XPL incentives.
Solstice’s Solana launch - Solstice, the Ethena of Solana, is expected to go live on Solana this week. The protocol already amassed $150M+ TVL in private beta
Limitless token sale - Limitless will end its Kaito presale in 6 days. This is the most oversubscribed public token sale on Kaito launchpad so far
Infinex x Hyperliquid integration - Infinex will enable trading perps via its Hyperliquid integration this week. Prediction markets are also coming to Infinex in the next months
EtherFi’s ETHFI token news - EtherFi is rumored to announce an important token holder alignment update on Oct. 1
Macro news - The odds of a US government shutdown by the end of this month rose to 73% on Polymarket (at the time of writing)
ENA token unlock - $118M worth of ENA will be unlocked this week. This is 3.1% of its circulating supply
Huma Finance’s announcement - Huma Finance will make a major announcement on Oct. 1
Ethereum’s Fusaka testnet rollout - Ethereum’s testnet for its next major upgrade called Fusaka launches on Oct. 1

Together with Portal

Portal Mainnet is coming: October 13, 2025

Billions of dollars have already been lost in bridge hacks.

Over the past years, bridges have proven to be very vulnerable to exploits.

Portal is a cross-chain infrastructure protocol built to solve one of crypto’s biggest issues: cross-chain trade without trust.

After years of development, Portal to Bitcoin is finally launching its mainnet on October 13.

The goal is to make cross-chain interactions radically safer.

Here’s what makes it stand out:

Custodyless swaps - Portal is the first custodyless Bitcoin cross-chain infrastructure project, enabling true self-custody for your cross-chain trades
BitScaler technology - At the core of it is BitScaler, a new technology that scales Bitcoin natively in a trust-minimized way with no changes to the core protocol
No Bridges. No Custodians. No wrapping - When you do a cross-chain trade via Portal, your funds always remain yours

Using Portal, you’ll be able to seamlessly execute cross-chain swaps between BTC, ETH, SOL, and L1/L2s.

October 13 is the mainnet launch date.

👉 Check out Portal to Bitcoin!

🪂 This week’s airdrop opportunity

One of the most popular tokenless stablecoin protocols right now is USDai.

In case you haven’t heard of it before, USDai is a DeFi project that lends the assets backing its stablecoin to AI companies in exchange for a high yield.

Its TVL cap has recently been raised from $250M to $500M, and the new maximum cap has been reached in less than an hour due to the large demand.

But there is still one way you can farm it regardless of the TVL cap being filled:

Bridge USDC to Arbitrum (you can use Jumper Exchange)
Go to Silo Finance and deposit USDC to the sUSDai (19 Nov 2025) · USDC market

In this way, you will get a 6% lending APR + 10x USDai points. You can track the USDai’s Allo points you obtained on the USDai website.

Given that USDai raised over $15M in funding, has an active CT community, and its TVL cap is reached, I think it has the potential to do a good airdrop.

You can check out USDai here.