🔎9 big things to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

Sep 30, 2024

GM friends.

Welcome to a new issue of the “Monday Alpha” series.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto events to watch this week
An airdrop that you might be eligible for
6 alpha threads

Let’s dive in👇

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Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Macro Events - FED Chair Jerome Powell will give a speech on Sept. 30
Eigenlayer’s full token launch - Eigenlayer will finally make its token transferable on Sept. 30
Synthetix’s governance proposal - Voting for Synthetix’s proposal to overhaul its governance system & introduce a new roadmap ends on Oct. 4. The new roadmap includes upgrading SNX tokenomics, launching Synthetix on Solana, and more
OpenAI $6.5B Funding Round - OpenAI’s next big funding round is rumored to close at the end of this week. This might be a bullish catalyst for AI coins
ENA token unlock - $165M worth of ENA (22.5% of its circ. supply) will be unlocked on Oct. 2. All of it is allocated to the ecosystem development
DeFi Kingdoms’s new game launch - DeFi Kingdoms's Colosseum game will launch exclusively on Metis L2 on Oct. 2. DFK Colloseum will be their first game to feature PVP combat
Avalanche9000 Upgrade - Avalanche9000, Avalanche's largest upgrade yet, is rumored to launch this month. This will significantly increase the customizability of the L1 blockchains built on top of it
Major announcement from DeFi Projects - CoW DAO, Pyth Network, Everclear, StakeWise, and Gnosis Pay will make a big announcement together on Oct. 1
SUI token unlock - $113M worth of SUI (2.4% of its circ. supply) will be unlocked on Oct. 1. Most of it will go to early investors

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This Week’s Airdrop Opportunity🪂

Register for WalletConnect airdrop

If you’re an active DeFi user, you might be eligible for WalletConnect airdrop.

WalletConnect is a popular web3 communications protocol that connects crypto wallets to decentralized applications. Given that it’s used by many of the most popular dApps, you likely used WalletConnect at least once.

The project has raised almost $25M in funding.

In order to see if you qualify for its airdrop, you need to register first:

visit https://airdrop.walletconnect.network/
click on “add address”
connect your wallet addresses with the highest on-chain activity (I recommend doing it using Wallet Connect)

Sign a transaction to confirm you’re the owner of those wallets
Connect an email address to get notified on your eligibility

Airdrop registration is open until Oct 18. After that date, the project team will likely finally launch an airdrop checker.

A very high no. of wallets will likely be eligible for this airdrop, so I don’t have high expectations. But by registering for it you can potentially get some free money as this isn’t an airdrop that required spending time to farm it.