🔎9 big things to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

May 12, 2025

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GM friends.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto events to watch this week
A tool for tracking DeFi fundamentals
6 alpha threads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

VanEck’s Onchain Economy ETF launch - VanEck’s Onchain Economy ETF, the first actively managed crypto ETF, will go live on May 14
Sonic’s major announcement - Sonic L1 is expected to make a big announcement on May 15
Kaito’s tokenomics upgrade - Kaito will announce a tokenomics upgrade to disproportionally reward $KAITO diamond hands this week
Russia <> Ukraine ceasefire talks - Zelensky will meet with Putin on Thursday to discuss a potential ceasefire
Zero1 Labs’s technical roadmap - Zero1 Labs will release an updated technical roadmap for 2025-26 this week
Stacks’s sBTC Cap-3 release - Stacks will increase the cap for sBTC, its BTC-backed asset for DeFi, on May 15
Registration for Resolv Airdrop - The registration deadline for the Resolv Airdrop is May 16. 10% of the $RESOLV token supply is allocated to the airdrop
Token unlocks - $65M worth of APT will be unlocked on May 12
Metis’s network upgrade - Metis Andromeda L2 will undergo a major network upgrade on May 14, which will increase its decentralization

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