🔎9 big things to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

Jun 23, 2025

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GM friends.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto events to watch this week
How to spot the fastest-growing dApps
6 alpha threads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Airdrop for KAITO stakers - Claiming for Magic Newton’s airdrop allocated to yappers and KAITO stakers will go live tomorrow on June 24
LayerZero’s ZRO fee switch - Voting for LayerZero’s proposal to activate the protocol fee and use the revenue to buy & burn ZRO will end on June 27
Injective Summit - Injective Summit is scheduled to start on June 26. Its team might make some big announcements during it
DeFi App’s S2 Airdrop - DeFi App will release details regarding its S2 airdrop this week
ZkSync’s major product release - ZKSync Inventor teased some major product releases for this week
Macro events - Fed Chair Jerome Powell will testify to the House Financial Service Committee on June 24
Infinex’s announcement - Infinex will make a big announcement on June 24
Synthetix’s deployment on Ethereum L1 - Synthetix Exchange will go live on Ethereum Mainnet soon
BLAST token unlock - $23M worth of BLAST (which is almost 35% of its circulating supply) will be unlocked on June 26

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BRINGING FUN TO WEB3 GAMING

One of the top web3 game publishers is getting ready to launch its token.

In case you haven’t heard about it before, Uprising Labs is building an ecosystem around blockchain-native gaming.

It’s one of the few publishers that prioritizes fun first gaming, and it’s working with several AAA game developers to bring them into web3.

Here’s why you should pay attention to it:

Uprising Labs is the premier web3 gaming partner of the Somnia Blockchain, one of the fastest new EVM L1s
Ambitious roadmap - The project has 10 blockchain gaming titles lined up for 2025 and a roadmap targeting 40 games over the next 4 years
Strong team comprised of gaming industry veterans - Collectively, Uprising Labs team has published 100+ games, launched 75+ titles, and contributed to the launch of 3+ EVM blockchains
Game-based token allocation - Uprising comes with a novel token mechanism that unlocks tokens in alignment with the release of new games
Massive reach - Across all its X accounts, Uprising has over 1.1 million followers

At the heart of the Uprising ecosystem will be $UPR - its native token, which is launching soon, with its presale starting tomorrow.

Uprising Labs will be built around a unified token ecosystem, with its token playing a major role in each game and being utilized for in-game item purchases.

As new games launch, the utility for the token will continue to increase.

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🛠️How to spot the fastest-growing dApps

DeFillama is the largest TVL aggregator for DeFi.

This is the main platform I’m using when looking for DeFi apps that are surging in popularity in order to find potential investment opportunities.

My strategy is simple:

Go to DeFillama → click on “DeFi” → “Overview”
Scroll to the Protocol Rankings leaderboard
In the right corner, click on “TVL Range” and write 10000000 ($10M) at Min

In the end, click on “1m Change”

After that, you’ll see a list of the fastest-growing protocols in the last month.

At that point, what I usually do is to research the top protocols from that list to see if I find any interesting DeFi primitives that are worth looking closer at.

I found many investment and yield farming opportunities in this way.

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