An overview of the most noteworthy industry events and project developments to watch for in the coming week.
- The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced as early as October 14 at 17:45.
- The Trump family's crypto project WLFI will be live-streamed on October 14, with the public token sale starting on October 15.
- Puffer Finance will open PUFFER airdrop claims on October 14 at 19:00.
- The deBridge token DBR and airdrop will launch on October 17.
- The "10th Global Blockchain Summit" hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab will take place in Shanghai on October 17.
This week (October 14 - October 20, 2024), don't miss the major Web3 events. Below is an exciting preview for the week:
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Important Events
The Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) will begin a live stream at 20:00 Beijing time on October 14, during which the WLF team, advisors, and public sale details will be introduced. WLFI claims that two special guests will attend, with silhouettes of the two possibly being Musk and Trump. Additionally, Trump announced that the WLFI token public sale will start on October 15 (local time).
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced as early as October 14 at 17:45 Beijing time.
Ethereum developers agreed to try to launch Pectra Devnet 4 before the core developers' consensus (ACDC) call on October 17.
Project Developments
Puffer Finance will open PUFFER airdrop claims on October 14 at 19:00, with claims open until January 14, 2025, at 19:00. Additionally, Puffer Finance has launched on Bitget Launchpool, with a total prize pool of 2.7 million PUFFER, and the lock-up period will be from October 14 at 20:00 to October 21 at 20:00.
The Eigen Foundation has postponed the first reward claim date for programmatic incentives v1 by one week to October 15, 2024, to ensure that only eligible non-investor EIGEN stakers and qualified operators can receive programmatic rewards for their activities prior to transferability (i.e., for the period before September 30, 2024).
The Ethereum liquidity re-staking protocol ether.fi will launch re-staking rewards on October 15, allowing stakers holding weETH or eETH to earn staking, re-staking, and Season 4 rewards (ether.fi points).
The cross-chain interoperability protocol deBridge will launch its token DBR and airdrop on October 17, 2024, according to their announcement.
The Web3 game Seraph will officially start a new round of PTR testing on October 17, 2024, at 11:00, in preparation for the upcoming S1 official season, introducing launch code rules for the PTR test and S1 season.
Binance contracts are expected to update the API query interface on October 17, 2024, at 11:00. After this time, the GET /fapi/v1/aggTrades and GET /dapi/v1/aggTrades interfaces will support querying contract trading data for no more than one year.
Users of the Singapore crypto trading platform Fairdesk must liquidate (futures, spot positions) their accounts by October 17, as the platform will officially close all services on November 30.
Zero1 Labs will launch the Cypher testnet on October 20, allowing DEAI stakers to access it early.
The Sui ecosystem DeFi platform DeepBook plans to launch the token DEEP on October 14, along with the release of DeepBook V3. On the day of the token release, the 101,968 holders of DBClaimNFT will be able to claim their token allocation through the claim website; for users participating in the third version testing phase, DeepBook will analyze their quality and timely contributions and will provide another claim website within a few weeks after the token release for users to check eligibility and claim rewards.
Event Previews
NEAR and Delphi Labs will jointly launch 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 to selected development teams. Blast stated, "For companies that have never raised funds before, Blast will invest at a post-money valuation of $15 million. For companies that have already raised funds or are currently raising funds, the terms will typically follow the same terms as the previous or current financing round."
Sony's Layer2 project Soneium announced it will reveal 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 categories. All winners will receive equal levels of support in marketing, business, and technology, with investments focused on projects closely related to Soneium's vision and drive.
The "League of Meme Legends" trading competition hosted by SunPump will run until October 15 at 00:00, with a total prize pool of 65,000 USDT.
The Arbitrum ecosystem security subsidy fund SSF will open until October 15 at 7:59, distributing $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, with Sigma Sprint starting on October 14, offering over $1 million in prizes and seed funding.
Pragma San Francisco will be held from October 15 to 17 in San Francisco, USA.
The Solana Chinese community Solar and the Solana Foundation will host the Solana Hong Kong Startup Village in Hong Kong from October 9 to October 16, 2024. This event is co-hosted by the Web3 education platform HackQuest and supported by Hong Kong Cyberport. The Solana Hong Kong Startup Village will select 30 entrepreneurs from the Solana ecosystem within the Chinese-speaking community for a week-long Co-build & Co-live event.
The Avalanche Annual Summit LATAM will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 16 to October 18, where Avalanche will introduce a significant upgrade, Avalanche 9000.
Worldcoin will hold a related meeting in San Francisco at 18:00 Beijing time on October 16, with the theme "Real-time Updates: A New World," and OpenAI founder Sam Altman will also attend.
The ETHShanghai 2024 Summit will be held in Shanghai on October 16, co-organized by core members such as ETHPanda, TinTinLand, and ChainFeeds.
The "10th Global Blockchain Summit" hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab will take place on October 17 at the Shanghai Innovation and Creative Design Research Institute (505 Dongchangzhi Road, former site of the Leishide Institute). The theme of the 10th Global Blockchain Summit will be "Technological Progress," continuing the industry's vitality by standing on the shoulders of "giants."
_Foresight News has organized surrounding activities for Shanghai Blockchain Week, which can be accessed _here._
ETHSofia will be held from October 17 to 19 at the Sofia Technology Park in France according to.
ETHGlobal San Francisco will take place from October 18 to 20 in San Francisco, USA as per.
BITKUB SUMMIT 2024 will be held in Thailand from October 19 to 20, with the theme "Gateway to the Future: Opening the Door to Technology and Investment for a Sustainable Future" as stated.
The two-day non-profit annual cryptocurrency policy summit Reg3 Conference will be held from October 19 to 20, focusing particularly on the European Union, aiming to improve dialogue between the industry and regulatory authorities in European countries as mentioned.
Token Unlocks
According to Token Unlocks data, this week will see significant one-time token unlocks for ARB, AXS, and EIGEN, including:
Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock 92.65 million tokens at 21:00 on October 16, valued at approximately $49.87 million, accounting for 2.56% of the circulating supply;
Axie Infinity (AXS) will unlock 9.25 million tokens at 21:10 on October 14, valued at approximately $44.04 million, accounting for 6.08% of the circulating supply;
Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock 11.22 million tokens at 3:00 on October 16, valued at approximately $41.85 million, accounting for 6.01% of the circulating supply;
Starknet (STRK) will unlock 64 million tokens at 8:00 on October 15, valued at approximately $27.01 million, accounting for 3.3% of the circulating supply.
Pixels (PIXEL) will unlock 54.38 million tokens at 18:00 on October 19, valued at approximately $7.28 million, accounting for 7.07% of the circulating supply.
Proposal Voting
Radiant Capital has initiated a proposal to change the unlocking period of 200 million RDNT from three years to two years, with voting ending on October 15.
ApeCoin proposal AIP-466 aims to dissolve four working groups focused on governance, marketing, Web3 development, and the metaverse, with the voting end date set for October 17.
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