🔎9 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha threads

Sep 08, 2025

IOPn just announced a major partnership with UAE-based Gewan Holding. Learn more about this here!

GM friends.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto events to watch this week
Airdrop opportunity of the week
A few great crypto reads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Hyperliquid’s USDh wars - Paxos, Frax Finance, and Agora are competing to deploy Hyperliquid's upcoming native stablecoin with the ticker USDh. On-chain voting to decide who will win will take place on September 14
Resolv Points Program - Resolv’s S2 points program will end tomorrow. A min. 4% of the RESOLV supply will be distributed to airdrop recipients
Linea TGE - $LINEA TGE will happen on Sept. 10. The token is currently trading at a $2+ billion FDV on pre-markets
DOGE ETF - First Dogecoin ETF could launch in the US as early as this week
ENA accumulation strategy - StablecoinX, an Ethena treasury company, announced it raised $530M to buy ENA. The company will buy between $5M and $10M worth of ENA per day
Omni Network’s significant announcement - Omni Network will make a major announcement on Sept. 11
DeFi App’s incentive campaign - DeFi App will announce more details about its upcoming campaign that will give $1000 in bonus HOME to its users this week
SOL Strategies on Nasdaq - SOL Strategies will become the first Solana infrastructure company listed on Nasdaq on Sept. 9
Macro events - U.S. CPI data will be released on Sept. 11

Together with IOPn

Gewan Holding backs IOPn at a $1B+ valuation

Big news out of the UAE:

UAE-based Gewan Holding, a subsidiary of NG9 Holding, has taken a strategic stake in IOPn, investing in the project at a $1 billion+ valuation.

As part of this collaboration, Project ATLAS was also introduced - which will serve as a sovereign-grade AI data center built by Iopn and an official Nvidia Cloud Partner.

What is IOPn? It’s a new infrastructure layer for a new kind of decentralized global coordination.

Here’s why I’m keeping an eye on it:

Built for real adoption - IoPn’s OPN Chain will enable real-world asset tokenization, modern payment infrastructures, and biometric authentication services, strengthening digital trust
Blockchain + AI – IOPn’s unique AI stack is powered by NVIDIA GPUs, which combine high-performance AI computing with a sovereign digital identity layer
Strategic UAE Leadership – The partnership between Gewan Holding and IOPn reinforces the UAE’s position as a global hub for blockchain and AI solutions

With a billion-dollar valuation secured and real-world adoption in motion, IOPn is positioned at the forefront of the AI + blockchain convergence.

Check it out today!

🪂Airdrop opportunity of the week

Everyone from CT is talking about HyperEVM airdrops nowadays, so I thought I’d cover my favorite way to farm them in this issue.

If you’re familiar with the Hyperliquid ecosystem, you probably heard of Hyperbeat.

It is a protocol that has developed a wide range of automated yield vaults.

My strategy using it is as follows:

Bridge USDT to HyperEVM L1 - you can do it via thehyperliquidbridge.xyz
Deposit USDT into the Hyperbeat USDT vault

Why do I like this vault? Because the funds deposited there will automatically be deployed to generate yield across the top HyperEVM protocols.

By depositing USDT in the Hyperbeat USDT vault, you’ll earn 8% APY + Felix, Hyperbeat, HypurrFi, Hyperswap, Ethena, Resolv, Hyperlend, and Theo points.

This seems to me the easiest method to get exposure to multiple HyperEVM airdrops.