🔎9 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha articles

Nov 03, 2025

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Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto events to watch this week
A crypto tool to track what’s trending
Some great crypto reads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Lighter spot trading - Lighter is rumored to enable spot trading this week. A memecoin is also expected to be airdropped to active Lighter users
Macro events - U.S. unemployment rate data will be released on Nov. 7 + US Supreme Court will decide whether Trump’s tariffs are legal or not on Nov. 5
ETH buybacks - Linea will start using 20% of its gas fees to burn ETH this week. This alone won’t create a lot of buying pressure for ETH, but it may encourage other L2s to do the same thing
DeFi App’s trading contest - DeFi App will release a $1M Trading Contest this week for the users of its perps product, which is powered by Hyperliquid
Aerodrome’s DEX upgrades - Aerodrome will release two major upgrades (Slipstream V2 and Autopilot) next week
Pendle’s community call - Pendle’s next community call will happen on Nov. 6 in its Discover Server. Some important updates might be shared during it
EtherFi buyback program - Voting for the EtherFi proposal to launch a $50M buyback program ends on Nov. 3. It looks like it’s gonna pass
Smartcon conference - Chainlink’s Smartcon conference starts on Nov. 4
ENA token unlock - $57M worth of ENA will be unlocked on Nov. 5

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A tool for tracking crypto trends🛠️

A platform that I’ve been using for a while is Cookie Fun.

It’s similar to Kaito Pro, but the difference is that Cookie Fun is completely free.

I use it primarily to:

Check what projects are surging in mindshare (for instance, in the screenshot above, you can see that ASTER is trending after CZ tweeted about it)
Find the reason why a certain token pumped (in some cases, you can see this by clicking on a token)
Check whether most people are bullish or not on a certain project (when you click on a ticker, you’ll see how its CT sentiment & mindshare changed over time)

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