Take a look at the most noteworthy industry events and important project developments in the coming week.

  1. Scroll will open SCR airdrop claims on October 22.

  2. Gitcoin will launch the 22nd round of Grants program on October 23.

  3. Ubisoft will launch a Web3 game (Champions Tactics) on Oasys on October 23.

  4. Blockchain Life 2024 takes place in Dubai on October 22-23.

  5. YGG worth approximately $7.84 million will be unlocked on October 27.

 

This week (October 21st - October 27th, 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 Scroll token release date and airdrop collection time is October 22, 2024. Scroll said that the Sessions 2 plan will be launched soon, and the Marks count of Airdrop 1 winners will be reset to zero on October 22, 2024.

Gitcoin will launch Grants 22 on October 23 and will last until November 6. This round will introduce on-chain proof of casting and cross-chain donation functions. This round of funding focuses on expanding open source software (OSS) and supporting digital public goods, with 4 OSS rounds totaling $1 million and 7 community rounds each matching $12,500 to $20,000.

 

Game giant Ubisoft’s Web3 PvP turn-based role-playing game (Champions Tactics) will be launched on the game blockchain Oasys on October 23.

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb will announce between October 21 and 25 whether to extend the cautious project status of Rally (RLY), lift restrictions, or terminate trading support. Previously, Bithumb listed Rally (RLY) as an investment cautious project on September 24.

 

A Nigerian judge has postponed the trial of Binance compliance chief Tigran Gambaryan until October 25.

 

Project Progress

 

Tap Protocol will release the token TAP on October 21st.

The Grass Foundation will launch the final airdrop query page on Airdrop One on October 21, and the claim will not be opened at the same time.

 

Moonveil, a Layer2 gaming ecosystem, will be conducting a node sale, with the whitelist round taking place on October 22 and the public round going live on October 24. Node activation is scheduled for the first quarter of 2025, with 25% of tokens to be unlocked after the TGE, 70% of tokens to be unlocked within three years, and the remaining 5% to be allocated to community rewards after the TGE.

Nayms token NAYM will undergo TGE on October 22.

 

Ethereum metaverse game Decentraland will launch a public beta version of its desktop client on October 22, and is expected to explore VR features.

Binance will open SCR/BTC, SCR/USDT, SCR/FDUSD and SCR/TRY spot trading pairs at 16:00 on October 22.

Derivatives trading platform Aevo will delist the ZERO perpetual contract at 16:00 on October 23. All users' positions will be settled at the 5-minute index price TWAP, and trading will be permanently suspended 30 minutes in advance.

 

ALIENX token AIX will be available for redemption on October 23.

OKX will delist BLOCK/USDT, UTK/USDT, UTK/USDC, AST/USDT, AST/USDC, SIS/USDT, SIS/USDC, WXT/USDT, WXT/USDC, WIFI/USDT, WIFI/USDC trading pairs from 16:00 to 16:30 on October 24, 2024. Users must cancel their orders for the above currency pairs before 16:00 on October 24. If they fail to cancel their orders in time, the order system will automatically execute them.

 

The migration deadline for Merit Circle’s MC tokens to BEAM is October 26, 2024.

 

The Layer 1 blockchain Vega community passed a proposal to shut down the Vega chain, which is expected to remain operational until at least October 27 to give users time to withdraw their assets.

 

Upcoming Events

 

The 13th International Forum on Web3, Cryptocurrency and Mining, Blockchain Life 2024, will be held in Dubai from October 22 to 23 and is expected to attract more than 7,000 attendees from 120 countries.

 

In addition, dYdX Day, hosted by the dYdX Foundation, will be held in Dubai on October 21; the Cosmos annual conference Cosmoverse 2024 will be held in Dubai from October 21 to 22; and Cardano Summit 2024 will be held in Dubai, UAE from October 23 to 24.

The Metis funding program "Thrive Metis STARTathon" funding program accepts applications until October 21 and will provide more than US$200,000 in funding to support promising projects in the fields of cross-chain DeFi, RWA tokenization, and social platforms.

 

Solana will be co-hosting the Solana Hacker House event in Hong Kong from October 24th to 26th with Web3 Harbour and InvestHK, which will feature informative and educational activities around hot topics around Solana, as well as workshops, panel discussions, and presentations from industry leaders and ecosystem teams.

Token Unlock

 

ADA, GAL, EIGEN and other tokens will be unlocked in large amounts this week, including:

 

Cardano (ADA) will unlock approximately 18.53 million tokens at 8:00 on October 22, accounting for 0.05% of the existing circulation;

 

Galxe (GAL) will unlock about 587,000 tokens at 8:00 on October 22, worth about $1.2 million, accounting for 0.46% of the existing circulation;

 

Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock approximately 1.29 million tokens at 3:00 on October 23, worth approximately $4.8 million, accounting for 0.69% of the existing circulation;

 

Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 12.86 million tokens at 15:00 on October 23, worth approximately US$5.3 million, accounting for 0.47% of the existing circulation;

 

Yield Guild Games (YGG) will unlock approximately 14.08 million tokens at 22:00 on October 27, worth approximately US$7.84 million, accounting for 3.64% of the existing circulation.

 

Proposal Voting

 

The Lido community has launched a new round of 3 snapshot votes: Bolt joining the Lido Alliance application, integrating the Community Staking Module (CSM) into the decentralized validator library, and whether the wstETH cross-chain endpoint on Zircuit should be considered a specification. The deadline for the 3 votes is 00:00 on October 25.

The proposal for the Arbitrum community to swap tokens with 19 blue-chip projects will end on October 25. Currently, 19 blue-chip projects have been identified, and it is planned to swap tokens with 3-7 of them. The total swap amount is capped at 2 million ARBs, and a single project will swap up to 500,000 ARBs.