🔎10 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha articles

Nov 17, 2025

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Here’s what I’ll cover today:

10 crypto events to watch this week
A dashboard for perpetual DEXs
Some great crypto reads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Jupiter’s major announcement - Jupiter teased a major announcement for its upcoming Planetary Call on Nov. 19
Fluid DEX V2 - Fluid DEX V2, which will be the most capital-efficient DEX according to its team, is expected to go live this month
Hyperliquid’s lending market - Hyperliquid is rumored to launch a native borrowing & lending market soon
Monad ICO - Monad ICO on Coinbase and vooi ICO on Cookie Launchpad start today. Most ppl from Europe are unfortunately not eligible for the Monad ICO
Avalanche Granite Upgrade - Avalanche will release Granite, an upgrade that boosts its scalability and enables biometric authentication, on Nov. 19
Filecoin Onchain Cloud launch - Filecoin will launch Filecoin Onchain Cloud, a new programmable, verifiable cloud, on Nov. 18
MegaETH’s announcement - MegaETH teased a big announcement for this week. Maybe they will announce the launch date of their mainnet
Macro events - US FOMC minutes will be released on Nov. 19 + U.S. unemployment rate data will be released on Nov. 20
Maple Finance’s Q4 Ecosystem Call - Maple Finance’s Q4 Ecosystem Call starts on Nov. 19. Its roadmap and latest progress will be discussed
GAIB TGE - GAIB, a DeFi protocol providing yield from AI credit, will launch its token on Nov. 19

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