9 big things to watch this week

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GM friends.

Welcome to a new issue of the “Monday Alpha” series.

Here’s what I’ll cover today:

• 9 catalysts I’m watching this week

• An airdrop opportunity for stablecoins

• 7 alpha threads

Let’s dive in👇

Crypto catalysts to watch this week

1. TIA token unlock - $1 billion worth of TIA (80% of its circ. supply) will be unlocked on Oct. 30. All of it will go to early investors and core contributors

2. Chainlink SmartCon Conference - Chainlink’s largest annual conference starts on Oct. 30. Expect its team to make some big announcements during it

3. Jito’s Solana Restaking Launch - Jito’s SOL restaking phase 1 will start on Oct. 30. At launch, there will be a $25M TVL cap

4. Mantle Catalysts - mETH Protocol, the liquid staking protocol governed by Mantle, is launching its token COOK on Oct. 29. cmETH, Mantle’s liquid restaking token, will go live a day later on Oct. 30

5. Macro Events - US Unemployment Rate data will be released on Nov. 1 and The Bank of Japan (BoJ) will announce its next interest rate decision on Oct 31

6. Stacks’s Nakamoto Upgrade - Stacks’s next big upgrade has been rescheduled to go live on Oct. 29/30. The upgrade will increase the transaction speed on Stacks and introduce 100% Bitcoin finality to Stacks

7. GRASS Token Launch - Grass, one of the most popular AI projects on Solana, is launching its token on October 28

8. The Arena’s Token Launch - The Arena, the most popular SocialFi app on Avalanche, will release its token on Oct. 29. Arena V2, a new iteration of the app, will go live soon after

9. Fluid DEX Launch - Instadapp has rescheduled the launch of the Fluid DEX for Oct. 29

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This Week’s Airdrop Opportunity🪂

Leverage farm USDe on INIT Capital

INIT Capital is a tokenless lending protocol on Mantle.

The protocol is powered by INFINIT, a tokenless DeFi Abstraction Layer with some big backers including Electric Capital and Hashed.

With the following strategy, you can farm 3 types of airdrop points at once:

• 2x INFINIT Stones

• 1.5-2x INIT points

• 20x Ethena Sats

Here’s how:

1. Register on INFINIT’s Rewards page to join its points program

2. Buy Ethena’s USDe stablecoin using USDT or USDC on Ethena

3. Bridge that USDe to Mantle L2 using a bridge like Stargate

4. Go to INIT Capital → click on Hooks → click on Neutral USDe Looping Hook → open a leveraged USDe position (which involves borrowing USDT against USDe)

After clicking on “Neutral USDe Looping Hook” you can choose what leverage you wanna use. To avoid being liquidated, I’d recommend using a low leverage (up to 2x).

Here’s a link to INIT Capital.

7 Alpha Threads

Edgy’s Q4 Watchlist

10 tips to stay ahead of new trends

Why is the ETH price performing so badly?

a16z’s state of crypto report

A daily crypto research workflow

The bull thesis for DeFi

The story of GOAT AI memecoin

And that’s all for now.

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