🔎9 catalysts to watch this week
A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads
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
An airdrop opportunity on Solana
6 alpha threads
Let’s dive in👇
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Crypto catalysts to watch this week
Avalanche Summit - Avalanche Summit, Avalanche’s largest annual event, starts on Oct. 16. The Avalanche team is expected to make some big announcements
Macro Events - US Retail Sales data will be released on Oct. 17
Donald Trump's token launch - Donald Trump’s DeFi project World Liberty will start its public token sale on Oct. 15. The project seems to be just a fork of AAVE
Major token launches - The tokens of Puffer Finance and DeBridge are launching this week
Uniswap’s roadmap presentation - Uniswap Foundation will do a deep dive into Uniswap's roadmap and vision on Oct. 14
Zero1’s Cypher blockchain launch - Cypher, the project’s AI-focused blockchain, will launch on testnet in 6 days. Early access will be available for $DEAI stakers
Frax’s frxETH V2 & BAMM launch - Two of Frax Finance’s upcoming major products will go live this month. frxETH will introduce a permissionless lending market for validators while BAMM is a novel AMM for lending & borrowing
Quai Network’s final testnet - Quai Network’s final testnet before the mainnet launch will go live this week
ARB token unlock - $50M worth of ARB (2.6% of its circulating supply) will be unlocked on Oct. 16. All of it will go to early investors and the team
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This Week’s Airdrop Opportunity🪂
Provide liquidity to Jupiter’s Liquidity Provider Pool
Jupiter is the most popular DeFi project on Solana.
Jupiter’s Liquidity Provider Pool (JLP) is essentially an index fund of SOL, ETH, WBTC, USDC, USDT that acts as a counterparty to traders.
When traders open a leveraged position, they borrow tokens from this pool.
By providing liquidity to Jupiter’s JLP pool, you can:
earn 75% of the generated fees paid by the platform traders
earn traders’ losses in case they lose more than they win
get exposure to SOL, ETH, WBTC, USDC, and USDT
potentially qualify for the next JUP airdrop (which is confirmed)
There's a risk of losing money by providing liquidity to JLP if traders win too much, but over long periods of time, JLP has always performed well.
I don’t have very high expectations for Jupiter’s next airdrop, but this strategy seems like a good way to earn some yield without taking high risks.
Here’s a link to Jupiter’s JLP pool page.
6 Alpha Threads
What’s next for new token launches?
Is it worth investing in Crypto AI projects?
What coins are crypto VCs bullish on?
A curated list of 50 analytics tools
Murad’s bull thesis for memecoins
Some interesting historical data for BTC
And that’s all for now.
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