9 Catalysts and Airdrop Opportunities to Watch This Week

Original title: 9 catalysts to watch this week

##Original author: The DeFi Investor

Original compilation: Shenchao TechFlow

Welcome to the second issue of the "Monday Alpha" series. The content of this issue will include:

• 9 major crypto events worthy of attention this week

• 2 airdrop opportunities

9 Top Crypto Events to Watch This Week

1. Eigenlayer Token Release - $EIGEN will launch on May 10th and unfortunately will not be transferable at launch. The team stated that EIGEN will be unlockable after the new features are launched. These features are expected to be rolled out by September 30, 2024.

Eigen Foundation announcement screenshot

2. NVIDIA financial report release - Although this is not an event this week, I am sharing this information now to give you time to prepare in advance. NVIDIA's first quarter financial report for fiscal year 2024 will be released on May 22. If the financial report is better than expected, it may have a positive impact on the prices of some AI tokens, as has happened in the past.

3. Jito may announce a new SOL restakingagreement at 6pm UTC on May 6 - Given the huge success of Eigenlayer, I believe it is a very good idea to build a re-staking protocol for SOL. Jito’s CEO will join the co-founders of Solana Labs and Drift in an X Space where restaking and other matters will be discussed.

4. Velodrome’s Superchain Expansion - Velodrome’s Superchain expansion will begin this week. Velodrome is the most popular DEX native to Optimism. With this expansion, Velodrome will be deployed on some of the most popular L2s built with the Optimism Stack, including Mode, Fraxtal and Zora.

5. Aptos Token Unlocking - APT worth $103 million will be unlocked on May 12th. The majority will be owned by the team and early investors.

6. Pendle and Ethena Deployment on Solana- According to tweets from Ethena team members, Ethena and Pendle Finance may go live on Solana this month.

7. Ethena integrates on top CEX USDe Stablecoin - This week, the fast-growing stablecoin protocol will release an announcement regarding USDe Big announcement for integration. Given that Binance, OKX or Bybit have invested in Ethena, these 3 exchanges may integrate USDe.

8. Mode Token Release - Mode is one of the fastest growing Ethereum L2, Will launch its token $MODE on May 7th. 5.5% of its supply will be allocated to the first community airdrop.

9. #Sei V2 mainnet release date announced- Given that the review of Sei V2 has just been completed, its release date may be announced soon. Sei V2 is a major network upgrade where the team transformed Sei into a fully parallelized EVM blockchain capable of supporting 28,000 transactions per second.

This week’s airdrop opportunities

1. Stake on Sanctum SOL (on Solana)

Sanctum is an ecosystem for liquid staking on Solana. The protocol launched a first-of-its-kind loyalty rewards program that rewards users in a gamified way. By holding certain SOL liquid staking tokens, you can collect pets, which may make you eligible for future airdrops.

I started airdropping last week using some of my SOL positions. Sanctum has some big backers including Solana Ventures and Jump Capital.

This is the relevant link: https://sanc.tm/w?ref=N9P221

2. Deposit USDe on Karak Stablecoins

I think depositing USDe on Karak is one of the best airdrop opportunities for stablecoins right now. Karak is Eigenlayer’s biggest competitor, and USDe is Ethena’s stablecoin.

Both projects have launched a points program, and thanks to their recent partnership, you can now earn points on both Ethena and Karak.

Strategy:

- Buy USDe with another stablecoin on Ethena

- Deposit USDe to Karak

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