- The Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced as early as 17:45 on October 14.
- The Trump family's crypto project WLFI will live stream on October 14, and the token public sale will be launched on October 15.
- Puffer Finance will open the PUFFER airdrop claim on October 14 at 19:00.
- The deBridge token DBR and airdrop will be launched on October 17.
- The "10th Global Blockchain Summit" hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs will be held in Shanghai on October 17.
The major Web3 events this week (October 14 - October 20, 2024) are not to be missed. The following is a preview of the highlights this week:
Important Events
The Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) will launch a live stream at 20:00 Beijing time on October 14, where they will introduce the WLF team, advisors, and details of the public sale. WLFI claims that two special guests will attend, and the event poster shows silhouettes of the two guests, which could potentially be Musk and Trump. In addition, Trump announced that the WLFI token public sale will start on October 15 (local time).
The Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced as early as 17:45 Beijing time on October 14.
Ethereum developers agreed to launch the Pectra Devnet 4 as soon as possible, before the Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call on October 17.
Project Progress
Puffer Finance will open the PUFFER airdrop claim on October 14 at 19:00, and the airdrop claim will be open until January 14, 2025 at 19:00. In addition, Puffer Finance has launched on the Bitget Launchpool, with a total prize pool of 2.7 million PUFFER, and the staking period will be open from October 14 at 20:00 to October 21 at 20:00.
The Eigen Foundation has postponed the first reward claim date for the Programmatic Incentives v1 by one week to October 15, 2024, to ensure that only eligible non-investor EIGEN stakers and qualified operators can receive the programmatic rewards for their activities prior to transferability (i.e., up to September 30, 2024).
The Ethereum liquid staking protocol ether.fi will launch staking rewards on October 15. Stakers holding weETH or eETH can receive staking, restaking, and Season 4 rewards (ether.fi credits).
The cross-chain interoperability protocol deBridge's token DBR and airdrop will be launched on October 17, 2024.
The Web3 game Seraph will officially start a new round of PTR testing on October 17, 2024, at 11:00, to prepare for the upcoming S1 official season, and will introduce the activation code rule in the PTR test and S1 season.
Binance Contracts is expected to update the API query interface on October 17, 2024, at 11:00. After October 17, 2024, at 11:00, the GET /fapi/v1/aggTrades and GET /dapi/v1/aggTrades interfaces will support querying contract trading data for up to 1 year.
Fairdesk, a cryptocurrency trading platform in Singapore, requires users to clear their accounts (futures, spot positions) before October 17, and the platform will officially close all services on November 30.
Zero1 Labs will launch the Cypher testnet on October 20, with early access for DEAI stakers.
DeepBook, a DeFi platform in the Sui ecosystem, plans to launch the DEEP token and release DeepBook V3 on October 14. On the token release day, the 101,968 holders of DBClaimNFT will be able to claim their token allocation through the claim website. For users who participated in the Phase 3 testing, DeepBook will analyze their quality and timely contributions, and provide another claim website within a few weeks after the token release to allow users to check their eligibility and claim the rewards.
Event Preview
NEAR and Delphi Labs have jointly launched an AI accelerator, which will start on October 14.
Blast will launch a 10-week Mobile Big Bang Bootcamp from October 14 to December 20, 2024, providing $250,000 in funding support for the selected development teams. Blast stated that "for companies that have never raised funds before, Blast will invest at a post-valuation of $15 million. For companies that have already raised or are currently raising funds, the terms will usually follow the same terms as the previous or current round."
Sony's Layer2 project Soneium announced that it will announce the winners of the Soneium Spark incubation program on October 14. Soneium stated that it will implement a single category of winners, replacing the previous gold and silver levels. All winners will receive equal support in marketing, business, and technology, and their investments will focus on projects closely related to Soneium's vision and driving force.
The "League of Meme Legends" trading competition hosted by SunPump will continue until October 15 at 00:00, with a total prize pool of 65,000 USDT.
The Arbitrum ecosystem security subsidy fund SSF is open until October 15 at 7:59, and will distribute $2.5 million worth of ARB.
Wormhole will launch the global multi-chain startup program Sigma, which consists of three parts: Sigma Sprint, Sigma Accelerate, and Sigma Seed. Sigma Sprint will start on October 14, with over $1 million in prizes and seed funding.
Pragma San Francisco will be held from October 15 to 17 in San Francisco, USA.
Solar, the Solana Chinese community, and the Solana Foundation will hold the Solana Hong Kong Startup Village from October 9 to October 16 in Hong Kong, co-hosted by the Web3 education platform HackQuest and supported by Hong Kong Cyberport. The Solana Hong Kong Startup Village will select 30 Solana ecosystem entrepreneurs in the Chinese-speaking region for a one-week Co-build & Co-live event.
The Avalanche annual summit LATAM will be held from October 16 to October 18 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Avalanche will unveil the important Avalanche 9000 upgrade.
Worldcoin will hold a related conference in San Francisco at 18:00 Beijing time on October 16, with the theme "Real-time Update: A New World", and OpenAI founder Sam Altman will also attend.
The ETHShanghai 2024 summit will be held on October 16 in Shanghai, co-organized by ETHPanda, TinTinLand, and ChainFeeds.
The "10th Global Blockchain Summit" hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs will be held on October 17 in the Shanghai Innovation and Creative Design Institute (former site of Rayson Engineering College, 505 Donglangzhi Road). The 10th Global Blockchain Summit will be themed "Continuing the Vitality of the Industry on the Shoulders of Giants".
ETHSofia will be held from October 17 to 19 in the French Sofia Technopark.
ETHGlobal San Francisco will be held from October 18 to 20 in San Francisco, USA.
BITKUB SUMMIT 2024 will be held from October 19 to 20 in Thailand, with the theme "The Gate to the Future: Opening the Gates of Technology and Investment for a Sustainable Future".
The two-day non-profit annual Cryptocurrency Policy Summit Reg3 Conference will be held from October 19 to 20, with a special focus on the European Union, aiming to improve the dialogue between the industry and regulatory authorities in European countries.
Token Unlocks
According to Token Unlocks data, this week will see large-scale one-time unlocks of tokens such as ARB, AXS, and EIGEN:
Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock 92.65 million tokens on October 16 at 21:00, worth about $49.87 million, accounting for 2.56% of the circulating supply;
Axie Infinity (AXS) will unlock 9.25 million tokens on October 14 at 21:10, worth about $44.04 million, accounting for 6.08% of the circulating supply;
Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock 11.22 million tokens on October 16 at 3:00, worth about $41.85 million, accounting for 6.01% of the circulating supply;
Starknet (STRK) will unlock 64 million tokens on October 15 at 8:00, worth about $27.01 million, accounting for 3.3% of the circulating supply.
Pixels (PIXEL) will unlock 54.38 million tokens on October 19 at 18:00, worth about $7.28 million, accounting for 7.07% of the circulating supply.
Proposal Voting
Radiant Capital has initiated a proposal to change the unlock period of 200 million RDNT tokens from three years to two years, and the voting will end on October 15.
ApeCoin has a proposal AIP-466 to dissolve the governance, marketing, Web3 development, and metaverse working groups, and the voting will end on October 17.
