🔎9 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

Dec 30, 2024

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GM friends.

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

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto events I’m watching this week
How and why I’m farming Resolv airdrop
6 alpha threads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

FTX’s claim distributions - FTX will begin paying $16 billion in stablecoins to its former users on Jan. 3. A part of this will very likely be deployed back into crypto
Frax X BlackRock proposal - Voting for a proposal to use BlackRock's BUIDL as a backing asset for Frax Finance's stablecoin ends on Jan. 1. Frax has recently also announced that it’s rebranding its stablecoin from FRAX to frxUSD
Kaito’s ETH airdrop - Kaito will airdrop between 0.1 ETH and 0.2 ETH to everyone in top 1000 on its Yapper Leaderboard on Jan. 1. To earn Yap points, you need to sign up on Kaito, add your wallet address, and be active on X
GammaSwap's yield tokens audit - The audit for GammaSwap's Yield Tokens is scheduled for Dec. 30. Yield tokens will enable users to earn 60-80% APY for ETH and hedge impermanent loss
Empyreal’s AI agent launchpad launch - A no-code AI agent launchpad powered by Empyreal will go live very soon. It will enable the customization of agent skills and personality and the addition of custom datasets
Berachain X Pendle - Pendle has confirmed it will release a set of points trading pools for Berachain’s new pre-deposit vaults in the near future. This should enable some great airdrop opportunities
Movement Mainnet launch - Movement Mainnet is confirmed to launch in January. Movement is a Move-based Ethereum L2 that will allegedly support up to 160,000 transactions per second
Pendle’s airdrop - The snapshot for an airdrop for PENDLE stakers will be taken on Dec. 31. The airdrop is estimated at $6M at the current prices
SUI token launch - $300M worth of SUI will be unlocked on Jan. 1. Most of it will go to Sui’s early investors and contributors

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This Week’s Airdrop Opportunity🪂

My full strategy for farming Resolv airdrop

Resolv is the fastest-growing tokenless delta-neutral stablecoin protocol.

I first mentioned it when it had ~ $15M in TVL. In the meantime, its TVL skyrocketed to $300M, and its team announced many new DeFi integrations.

So I wanted to share an update on my strategy for farming its airdrop.

Why I’m farming Resolv Airdrop

Resolv stands out from other delta-neutral protocols by using an innovative dual token model to isolate risks from its stablecoin USR
Its wstUSR pool on Pendle has the highest APY among all stablecoin pools (37%)
By depositing capital in Resolv’s RLP delta-neutral vault, you can earn a much higher yield than by holding Ethena’s sUSDe

USR is the protocol’s stablecoin backed by ETH, while RLP is its insurance layer, which can also be seen as a liquid delta-neutral strategy vault.

How I’m farming Resolv Airdrop

There are 18 different ways to earn Resolv Points, but the best ones in my opinion are:

Provide liquidity to Resolv’s wstUSR pool on Pendle (link here)
Provide liquidity to USR-RLP pool on Curve Finance (link here)

Both strategies are currently generating 30 points daily per $1 of liquidity provided, which is the maximum amount of points you can earn.

You can use any token to provide liquidity to the wstUSR pool on Pendle.

For the 2nd strategy, you’ll need to buy USR and RLP first, but this is something you can easily do on the Resolv app.

The APR for holding RLP is currently massive: 31% over the past 7 days.

How to get an extra 115% Resolv Points Boost

One thing that's very interesting about the Resolv points program is that you can earn massive boosts by completing certain activities. Those include:

Use a referral link (you can use mine here if you want) - 20% boost
Deposit min. $5 on Hyperliquid (if you didn’t do it before) - 10% boost
Buy min. $1 of $pxETH on Dinero - 10% boost
Buy a Resolv Blueprint NFT on OpenSea - 25% boost (ideal only for large deposits, as each NFT costs 0.5 ETH)
Complete 7 different on-chain activities related to Resolv - 50% boost (Personally, I provided liquidity to its wstUSR pool on Pendle, bought Pendle YT, bought USR and RLP on both Base and Ethereum, and staked USR on Resolv)