Take a look at the most noteworthy industry events and important project developments in the coming week.
The Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced as early as 17:45 on October 14.
The Trump family's crypto project WLFI will be live-streamed on October 14 and will launch a public token sale on October 15.
Puffer Finance will open PUFFER airdrop claims at 19:00 on October 14.
deBridge token DBR and airdrop will be launched on October 17th.
The "10th Blockchain Global Summit" hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab will be held in Shanghai on October 17.
This week (October 14 - October 20, 2024), Web3 events are not to be missed. The following is a preview of this week’s highlights:
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Important Events
The Trump family crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) will start live streaming at 20:00 Beijing time on October 14, and will introduce: the WLF team, consultants, and public sales details. WLFI said that there will be two special guests in attendance. The poster in the WLFI announcement posted the silhouettes of the two special guests, who may be Musk and Trump. In addition, Trump announced that the public sale of WLFI tokens 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 have agreed to try to launch Pectra Devnet 4 before the ACDC (Agreement of Core Developers) call on October 17.
Project Progress
Puffer Finance will open PUFFER airdrop claims at 19:00 on October 14, and the airdrop claims will be open until 19:00 on January 14, 2025. In addition, Puffer Finance has been listed on Bitget Launchpool, with a total prize pool of 2.7 million PUFFER, and the lock-up period is from 20:00 on October 14 to 20:00 on October 21.
The Eigen Foundation is delaying 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. the period ending September 30, 2024).
Ethereum liquidity re-staking protocol ether.fi will launch re-staking rewards on October 15. Stakers holding weETH or eETH can obtain staking, re-staking and Season 4 rewards (ether.fi points).
The cross-chain interoperability protocol deBridge token DBR and airdrop will be launched on October 17, 2024.
The Web3 game Seraph will officially start a new round of PTR testing at 11:00 on October 17, 2024 to prepare for the upcoming S1 official season, and introduce startup code rules in the PRT test and S1 season.
Binance Futures is expected to update the API query interface at 11:00 on October 17, 2024. After 11:00 on October 17, 2024, the GET /fapi/v1/aggTrades and GET /dapi/v1/aggTrades interfaces will support querying contract transaction data of no more than 1 year.
Users of Singapore's cryptocurrency trading platform Fairdesk are required to liquidate their accounts (futures and spot positions) before October 17, and the platform will officially shut down all services on November 30.
Zero1 Labs will launch the Cypher testnet on October 20, and DEAI stakers will have early access.
Sui Ecosystem DeFi platform DeepBook plans to launch the DEEP token on October 14, and release DeepBook V3 at the same time. On the day of the token release, 101,968 holders of DBClaimNFT will be able to claim their token allocation through the claim website; for users who participated in the version 3 test 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.
Upcoming Events
NEAR and Delphi Labs 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, and will provide $250,000 in funding support to selected development teams. Blast said, "For companies that have never raised funds before, Blast will invest at a post-investment valuation of $15 million. For companies that have raised or are raising funds, the same terms as the previous round or current financing terms are generally followed.
Sony Layer2 project Soneium announced that it will announce the winners of the Soneium Spark incubation program on October 14. Soneium said that it will implement a single category of winners, replacing the previous gold and silver levels. All winners will receive the same level of support in marketing, business and technology, and its investment will focus on projects that are closely related to Soneium's vision and driving force.
The "League of Meme Legends" trading competition hosted by SunPump will last until 00:00 on October 15, with a total prize pool of 65,000 USDT.
The Arbitrum Ecosystem Security Subsidy Fund SSF is open until 7:59 on October 15th and will distribute $2.5 million worth of ARB.
Wormhole will launch the global multi-chain entrepreneurship program Sigma. Sigma consists of three parts: Sigma Sprint, Sigma Accelerate and Sigma Seed. Sigma Sprint will start on October 14, with prize money and seed funding exceeding US$1 million.
Pragma San Francisco was held from October 15 to 17 in San Francisco, USA.
Solana Chinese Community Solar and Solana Foundation will host the Solana Hong Kong Startup Village in Hong Kong from October 9 to October 16, 2024. This event is co-organized by Web3 education platform HackQuest and supported by Hong Kong Cyberport. Solana Hong Kong Startup Village will select 30 Solana ecosystem entrepreneurs in the Chinese-speaking region for a week-long Co-build & Co-live event.
Avalanche’s annual Summit LATAM will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from October 16 to October 18, where Avalanche will launch Avalanche 9000, a major upgrade to Avalanche.
Worldcoin will hold a related meeting in San Francisco at 18:00 Beijing time on October 16. The theme of the meeting is "Real-time Updates: A New World". OpenAI founder Sam Altman will also attend.
The ETHShanghai 2024 Summit will be held in Shanghai on October 16 and will be co-organized by core members including ETHPanda, TinTinLand and ChainFeeds.
The "10th Blockchain Global Summit" hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab will be held on October 17 at the Shanghai Innovation and Creative Design Institute (former site of Leshide Institute of Technology, No. 505 East Changzhi Road). The 10th Blockchain Global Summit will be themed "Technology for the Future" and will stand on the shoulders of "giants" to continue the vitality of the industry.
Foresight News has compiled a list of Shanghai Blockchain Week related events, which can be accessed here.
ETHSofia will take place from October 17 to 19 at the Sofia Science Park in France.
ETHGlobal San Francisco was held from October 18th to 20th in San Francisco, USA.
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".
The two-day nonprofit annual cryptocurrency policy summit, Reg3 Conference, will take place on October 19-20 with a special focus on the European Union, aiming to improve dialogue between the industry and regulators across Europe.
Token Unlock
According to Token Unlocks data, ARB, AXS, EIGEN and other tokens will be unlocked in large amounts this week.
Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock 92.65 million tokens at 21:00 on October 16, worth approximately $49.87 million, accounting for 2.56% of the circulation;
Axie Infinity (AXS) will unlock 9.25 million tokens at 21:10 on October 14, worth approximately $44.04 million, accounting for 6.08% of the circulation;
Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock 11.22 million tokens at 3:00 on October 16, worth approximately $41.85 million, accounting for 6.01% of the circulation;
Starknet (STRK) will unlock 64 million tokens at 8:00 on October 15, worth approximately US$27.01 million, accounting for 3.3% of the circulation.
Pixels (PIXEL) will unlock 54.38 million tokens at 18:00 on October 19, worth approximately US$7.28 million, accounting for 7.07% of the circulation.
Proposal Voting
Radiant Capital has initiated a proposal to change the unlocking period of 200 million RDNT from three years to two years, and the voting will end on October 15.
ApeCoin proposal AIP-466 proposes to disband four working groups including governance, marketing, Web3 development and metaverse. The voting end date is October 17.
