🔎12 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha articles

Oct 27, 2025

Folks Finance, the cross-chain DeFi platform, will launch its token $FOLKS on Nov. 6. Check it out today!

GM friends.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

12 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

BlackRock’s ETH staking ETF - The next deadline for BlackRock’s ETH staking ETF application is Oct. 30
US-China deal - Trump will meet with Xi Jinping to discuss tariffs on Oct. 30. Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on China if an agreement isn’t reached
INJ token buybacks - Injective’s new buyback program goes into effect on Oct. 29
Monad’s airdrop reveal - Monad’s early airdrop reveal will happen on Oct. 28. DeFi power users from Ethereum, Hyperliquid, and Solana are eligible
Cosmos’s Cosmoverse - Cosmoverse, the largest community-run event for the Cosmos ecosystem, will start on Oct. 30. Expect some big announcements from projects that are part of the Cosmos ecosystem
Macro events - The FED’s interest rate decision will be announced on Oct. 29
MegaETH ICO - MegaETH ICO starts today on Sonar. The token is being sold at a ~$1 billion valuation
VULT token launch - Vultisig will launch its token called VULT tomorrow. Vultisig is a multichain web3 wallet built by the Thorchain founder
Coinbase Earnings - Coinbase Earnings Call is scheduled for Oct. 30. Strategy (formerly Microstrategy) will also announce its earnings on Oct. 30
AAVE token buybacks - AAVE is discussing a proposal to launch a $50 million annual AAVE buyback plan
Spot SOL ETF launch in Hong Kong - The first spot SOL ETF in Hong Kong starts trading on Oct. 27 (today)
GRASS token unlock - $78 million worth of GRASS, which is equivalent to 72.40% of its circulating supply, will be unlocked on Oct. 28

Together with Folks Finance

Folks Finance TGE is coming: Nov. 6th, 2025

One of the biggest problems in DeFi is liquidity fragmentation.

Liquidity is scattered across hundreds of different L1s and L2s, and new chains are going live almost every week.

Folks Finance is a cross-chain DeFi protocol built to solve this.

Its team just announced the upcoming launch of their token called FOLKS on Nov. 6.

Why Folks Finance stands out:

One app for everything - Folks has built a full suite of DeFi products for lending, borrowing, liquid staking, looping, and more
The only truly cross-chain lending protocol - Using it, you can deposit and borrow on any chain (E.g. Deposit ETH on Ethereum L1 to borrow USDC on Base)
Backed by top-tier investors - The protocol is backed by some of the largest crypto funds, including Coinbase Ventures & Jump Crypto
Live on 9 networks - Including Ethereum, Avalanche, Base, BNB, Arbitrum, Polygon, Algorand, Sei, Monad
Unified liquidity markets - Folks’ markets enable assets like USDC and solvBTC to share liquidity across all chains

The protocol reached $400M in TVL at its peak, and its points program, designed to reward its early adopters, is currently live.

Folks Finance’s FOLKS token launches on November 6th, 2025.

Start exploring Folks Finance today!

🪂This week’s airdrop opportunity

One perps airdrop that I’ve started farming heavily recently is Paradex.

It’s one of the fastest-growing tokenless perps DEXs right now, it’s incubated by Paradigm, and its team confirmed a 20% token supply airdrop at TGE.

I am farming it by opening delta-neutral positions between Paradex & Extended. The goal is to generate as much trading volume as possible.

In short, my strategy is as follows:

Go to Loris Tools / Smartbitrage
Select Extended and Paradex by clicking on “Exchanges” or “Platforms”. Then you’ll see the top funding rate arbitrage opportunities between them.

Open long, respectively short positions on both exchanges to get a yield from funding rates (e.g. short AVNT on Paradex and long it on Extended)

In this way, on top of farming the airdrops of these perps DEXs, you’ll also earn some yield from funding rates, which should surpass the trading fees & slippage.

You can check out Paradex here.