🔎9 catalysts to watch this week
A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads
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Here’s what I’ll cover today:
9 crypto events I’m watching this week
A new tool for tracking narratives
6 alpha threads
Let’s dive in👇
Crypto catalysts to watch this week
Sonic’s $S listing on Binance - Sonic's new token $S will be listed on Binance on January 16. Sonic has recently also teased the launch of a DeFAI Hackathon
Aerodrome’s Slipstream V2 Upgrade - Aerodrome will release Slipstream V2, a major DEX upgrade, this month. It’s expected to bring a 1.4x boost in the protocol fees
Solayer’s public token sale - Solayer’s token sale is set for Jan. 16. Participants will be able to buy $2000 worth of tokens at a $350M valuation. The token is trading at a $800M valuation in pre-markets
Airdrop for ENA stakers - Derive, an options and perps DEX, will launch its token DRV on Jan. 15. 5% of DRV supply will be allocated to ENA stakers
SOLV token launch - Solv, a decentralized BTC Reserve, will launch its token on Jan. 17. SOLV will be listed on both Binance & Hyperliquid
ONDO token unlock - $2.4 billion worth of ONDO will be unlocked on Jan. 18. Most tokens will be allocated to the protocol development & ecosystem growth
Mode's AI Terminal - Mode's AI Terminal will go live this month. The platform will allow to swap, stake, and farm through an AI-enabled chatbot and will initially be available only to MODE stakers
Macro Events - US CPI Data will be released on Jan. 15
Jito’s deposit caps removal - Jito will reopen the SOL restaking deposits for 24 hours starting on Jan. 14
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A new tool for tracking narratives🛠️
Crypto Koryo, a crypto analyst who’s been sharing lots of interesting narrative insights over the past 2 years, has recently released Dexu.ai.
Dexu.ai is a new free web3 data analytics platform that makes it very easy to discover new crypto trends.
I gave it a try, and I found this tool to be quite interesting.
So I wanted to also share it with you.
Using Dexu.ai, you can:
See what narratives and tokens are top performers
Find viral tweets/articles that are crypto-related
track the most mentioned coins by a certain KOL over a certain period
Identify the most popular projects by a wide range of metrics including mindshare, token performance, volume, and smart followers
Check key social, market, and technical metrics for major projects
… and much more
I’ve long said that being successful in crypto is all about being good at spotting and understanding narratives.
Personally, I find this tool very useful for identifying trends.
Here’s a link to Dexu.ai if you want to check it out.
6 Alpha Threads
8 mental frameworks for traders
Aylo’s thoughts on the market
What makes the market go up and down
A guide for making it in crypto
The new era of DeFi: DeFAI
How to make money in the agentic economy
And that’s all for now.
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