🔎9 big things to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

Sep 02, 2024

GM friends.

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

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto catalysts to watch this week
a new airdrop I’m farming
5 alpha threads

Let’s dive in👇

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Crypto Events to watch this week

Fantom’s Sonic Upgrade - Fantom is launching Sonic, its largest upgrade yet, on testnet this week. Sonic will drastically increase the network scalability, introduce 1-second transaction finality, and bring a few other major changes
Arbitrum’s Stylus Upgrade - Arbitrum’s highly anticipated Stylus Upgrade is scheduled for Sept. 3. This will enable Arbitrum developers to write smart contracts using Rust, C, and C++
Macro events - The US Unemployment Rate will be revealed on Sept. 6
Polygon’s new token launch - Polygon’s MATIC token will be rebranded to POL on Sept 4. In the future, POL token utility will be increased as POL will be used to secure Polygon’s Agglayer network
INJ Tokenomics Upgrade proposal - Voting for Injective’s proposal to dynamically reduce INJ token supply ends in a few hours
Sanctum’s collaboration with major CEXs - Binance, Bybit, and BitGet will soon launch their SOL liquid staking tokens, which are built on top of Sanctum. This could help in increasing the TVL of the protocol
TAIKO token unlock - 15.8% of TAIKO circulating supply ($18M) will be unlocked on Sept. 5 for one of the project’s airdrops
Nakamoto.Games’s Stake2Earn release - Nakamoto.Games’s new staking mechanism for $NAKA launches on Sept 6. The goal is to decrease the token dilution by rewarding stakers with in-game assets
IMX token unlock - $42M worth of IMX (2.1% of its circ. supply) will be unlocked on Sept. 6. All of this is allocated for the ecosystem & project development

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This Week’s Airdrop Opportunity🪂

Deposit USDe, WBTC, weETH, or rsETH on Corn

Corn is a super yield network built around Bitcoin.

It is backed by Binance Labs and it is basically an Ethereum L2 focused on establishing a DeFi hub for BTC.

There are 2 main ways to farm its airdrop:

deposit weETH, rsETH, USDe, or sDAI on Corn to earn points
mint Corn’s tokenized BTC token by depositing WBTC (for 2x points boost)

The protocol currently has ~$19M in TVL, so I’d say this airdrop opportunity isn’t overfarmed yet. At this moment it’s still in a private access phase.

If you wanna farm its airdrop, you need an invite code. You can use one of these: 4yj9-p56t rtg8-63gf ngyb-nhce aac3-k6er pg3c-n49f dpcr-9ch6 ej73-em4r adfk-gecb

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