🔎10 crypto events to watch this week
A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha articles
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Here’s what I’ll cover today:
10 crypto events to watch this week
A tool you can use to get DeFi insurance
Some great crypto reads
Let’s dive in👇
Crypto catalysts to watch this week
Ethena’s USDe backing diversification - Ethena announced plans to diversify the backing of USDe and use RWAs, overcollateralized institutional loans, and equity & commodity basis trades, to generate yield
US-Iran ceasefire talks - Iran FM spokesman said they have prepared their response to ceasefire proposals and will announce it soon
Kinetiq’s kHYPE V2 - Kinetiq will launch kHYPE v2, a major upgrade to its HYPE liquid staking token, on April 6
Polygon’s Guiliano Hardfork - Polygon’s Guiliano Hardfork upgrade, which will make the network faster, is expected to launch on April 8
Hyperliquid’s HIP-4 prediction markets upgrade - Hyperliquid’s HIP-4 prediction markets upgrade is rumored to go live in the next 1-2 weeks
Meteora’s product upgrade - Meteora will launch a new product upgrade, aiming to make liquidity provision easier, this week
Pendle’s PT expansion - Pendle will soon expand its fixed yield product to Solana
Macro events - US FOMC meeting is scheduled for April 8
Aave’s GHO Savings Rate - Aave’s ARFC proposal to launch Aave Savings Rate, a 4.25% APR fixed yield product, just passed
Across’s token-to-equity exchange proposal - Across’s proposal to exchange ACX tokens for company equity ends on April 7
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🛠️Crypto tool of the week
A tool you can use to get DeFi insurance
In light of the recent DeFi exploits, I wanted to cover an on-chain insurance tool.
The most popular crypto insurance platform right now is Nexus Mutual. You can access its products via opencover.com, which is essentially a user interface for it.
Here you can find protocol cover, depeg cover, and custody cover.
If a protocol you’re using gets exploited via a smart contract vulnerability and you bought insurance for it, then you’ll get your money back.
That said, the insurance on OpenCover doesn’t cover all types of exploits:
For instance, it doesn’t protect against private-key breaches, as was the case with Resolv and Drift recently. But it covers the losses caused by smart contract exploits.
OpenCover currently offers insurance coverage for a few dozen protocols.
6 Alpha Articles
How the Drift hack happened
The current state of crypto
Should you quit a 9-5 job to focus on crypto?
Why the Polymarket airdrop could be massive
The veTokenomics Exodus
Ethena’s USDe backing diversification
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The Aave GHO Savings Rate at 4.25% fixed APR is the one I'd watch most closely this week. Fixed yield on a decentralized stablecoin is exactly the kind of product TradFi banks have been quietly terrified of. If Aave executes cleanly and TVL flows in, it proves DeFi can compete on yield without the synthetic complexity of earlier products. The Ethena USDe backing diversification into RWAs is also worth tracking — that's two major protocols this week signaling the same direction: DeFi is moving toward real-world asset backing. That convergence isn't random.