🔎10 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

Mar 17, 2025

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Here’s what I’ll cover today:

10 crypto events I’m watching this week
A tool for finding trending airdrop opportunities
6 alpha threads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

SEC’s first crypto roundtable - The SEC Crypto Task Force will host the first roundtable to discuss crypto regulation on March 21. The initial session will be open to the public and streamed live
Fluid’s major announcement - Fluid will make a big announcement soon. The announcement will likely be about Fluid DEX V2, a new iteration that will combine the best of DEX V1 and Uniswap V4
Mantle Network Hardfork Upgrade - Mantle’s next major upgrade is scheduled for March 19. It will include the activation of EigenLayer's EigenDA on Mantle, improving the network performance and increasing its censorship resistance
Blast’s App Store launch - The first wave of ecosystem apps will launch on Blast Mobile starting March 17
Nvidia’s GTC AI Conference - Nvidia’s biggest annual conference begins on March 17. Several crypto projects like NEAR will participate and might make some announcements during it
STRK Staking V2 - The proposal to launch Starknet’s STRK Staking V2 will go live on March 20
Macro events - FOMC interest-rate decision will be announced on March 19. No rates are expected this time according to Polymarket
Daniele Sesta’s new project launch - Daniele Sesta will launch Apes Win, his new project, on March 21
SEC vs Ripple case - Sources claim that the SEC vs. Ripple case is in the process of wrapping up and will be over soon
Sui Gaming Summit - Sui Gaming Summit will start on March 18. The project might make a big announcement during it

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