🔎9 catalysts to watch this week

A compilation of crypto catalysts, airdrop strategies and alpha articles

Mar 02, 2026

Theo is launching a new yield-bearing stablecoin backed by gold. Learn how it works here!

GM friends.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

9 crypto events to watch this week
A new tool to track the RWA sector
Some great crypto reads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

Starknet’s strkBTC launch - Starknet will soon release strkBTC - a wrapped BTC token with built-in privacy that can be used in DeFi
Theo Network’s pre-deposit vault - Theo will launch a pre-deposit vault for thUSD, its new yield-bearing stablecoin powered by delta-neutral gold strategies, this week
Opinion TGE - Opinion, the prediction market platform on BNB Chain, will launch its token called OPN on March 5. 3.5% of its supply will be airdropped
Macro events - Trump said this about Iran today: “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon” + US unemployment rate will be announced on March. 6
Fluid’s community ownership proposal - Fluid‘s proposal to move Fluid Protocol and its IP rights toward full community ownership will soon go live for voting
Avantis and Resolv airdrops - Avantis’s 2nd airdrop will become available for claiming on March 5 + Resolv’s S4 airdrop claims will open on March 5
Usual’s new product - Usual, a RWA stablecoin protocol, is expected to unveil a new product this week
Paradex TGE - Paradex founder said that the TGE will happen this week
Avalanche’s incentive program - Avalanche is launching a new $40M incentive program on March 2. The incentives are for “projects driving real on-chain activity” according to the foundation

Together with Theo

The yield-bearing stablecoin backed by gold

Theo Network, a dApp with $130M+ TVL, is bringing the gold standard back.

Its team just announced thUSD - a new innovative yield-bearing stablecoin backed by gold via a novel delta-neutral strategy.

In 2025, thUSD’s strategy generated an average APR of 8.27%.

This is significantly above the yields of most stablecoin protocols, and thUSD has a lot of room to scale, as it is built on the depth of the gold derivatives market.

thUSD yield essentially comes from two sources:

thGOLD Lending - thGOLD, which is part of thUSD’s collateral, is a tokenized version of gold that is lent to established retailers to generate a yield
Basis spread on gold futures - In the same way Ethena shorts ETH to achieve a delta-neutral strategy, Theo shorts Gold Futures on CME to capture the roll yield

~6.6% APR comes from gold futures roll yield and ~2.5% APR from thGOLD lending.

Gold also has 39x more average open interest than BTC and 58x more than ETH.

This makes Theo’s strategy infinitely more scalable than any delta-neutral yield strategy with native crypto collateral.

thUSD is launching this week with a $100M initial pre-deposit vault.

Explore how you can earn a high yield with thUSD here!

🛠️Crypto tool of the week

A new tool to track the RWA sector

DeFiLlama has just launched a new free RWA dashboard.

I think it’s obvious at this point that tokenization is one of the highest-potential sectors in crypto. But the thing about many RWAs today is that they can’t be used in DeFi and are accessible only to a small number of whitelisted users in many cases.

What’s cool about DeFiLlama’s RWA dashboard is that it allows seeing a lot of interesting details about every major tokenized asset: