🔎10 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha articles

Sep 22, 2025

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Here’s what I’ll cover today:

10 crypto events to watch this week
An overview of the Strategic ETH Reserve dashboard
A few great crypto reads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Mantle x Bybit - Mantle teased a big announcement in collaboration with Bybit for this week
USDAI TVL cap increase - USDAI will increase its TVL caps to $500M on Sept. 23 at 12PM EST. I am personally planning to deposit some liquidity to farm it - be aware that the new caps will likely be filled in minutes due to the high demand
Plasma mainnet and TGE - Plasma, the L1 for stablecoins, will release its token and mainnet beta on Sept. 25
Macro events - US Fed Chair Jerome Powell will give a speech on Sept. 23 + US GDP QoQ data will be released on Sept 25
Nansen’s major announcement - Nansen will make a massive announcement on Sept. 25 (likely about its points program)
Ethena's S4 points program - Ethena Season 4 points program ends on Sept. 24. The airdrop will probably happen in the next weeks
Metamask x Hyperliquid - Metamask will launch in-wallet perps powered by Hyperliquid soon
Orderly’s buyback program - Orderly will launch a buyback program in the near future and allocate 60% of its revenue to ORDER buybacks
Defi App's Season 2 Kaito yap campaign - DeFi App’s Kaito campaign ends on Sept. 26. 125M HOME (~1% of its HOME supply) will be given to yappers
Bubblemaps’ major announcement - Bubblemaps will make a big announcement this week (probably tomorrow on Sept. 23)

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🛠️Tool spotlight: Strategic ETH Reserve dashboard

The primary reason why ETH has been a top performer in Q3 is the massive buying pressure for it caused by the new ETH treasury companies.

An interesting tool I found to monitor their activity is strategicethreserve.xyz.

Using it, I can see things such as:

The mNAV (Market Net Asset Value) of all major ETH treasury companies
The amount of ETH bought by treasury companies and ETFs over time
How much ETH have treasury companies bought recently
The recent performance of ETH ETFs

And many other interesting stats. I find it pretty useful to monitor what institutional investors are doing and whether they are running out of capital.

You can check out the Strategic ETH Reserve dashboard here.