Crypto Assets Industry Important Events Preview

March 17

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans to launch Solana futures contracts, currently awaiting regulatory review. The new contracts will offer two specifications of 25 SOL and 500 SOL, using cash settlement, based on the CME CF Solana USD Reference Rate.

A certain trading platform will support the Kadena network upgrade and hard fork, and will suspend KDA deposits and withdrawals at 23:00 UTC. The upgrade is expected to take place at block height 5,659,280, and trading will not be affected.

The Ethereum development team will launch the "Hoodi" testnet to make final preparations for the Pectra upgrade. This upgrade aims to improve the usability and scalability of Ethereum, including lowering L2 data costs and increasing staking limits. If the testing goes smoothly, Pectra may be deployed on the mainnet as early as April 25.

Starknet plans to officially launch its mainnet within this week. According to its decentralized roadmap for 2025, Starknet aims to become the first fully decentralized L2 network that scales Ethereum on a large scale.

Gitcoin has announced the details of the GG23 community round, which includes 6 themes, with approximately $21,000 in funding for each round. The application for the open source software project OSS Program is expected to start today and will last for two weeks.

ZKsync announces the termination of the Ignite program and the suspension of reward distribution, and will focus on the development of the Elastic Network in the future. The team stated that they will optimize the token economic model and introduce new ecological incentive measures.

The voting on the proposal by Cronos to restore the 70 billion CRO tokens that were burned ends today. Early data shows that 95.7% of participants oppose the plan.

ApeCoin will unlock 15.6 million tokens, accounting for approximately 1.95% of the circulating supply, worth 8 million USD.

March 18

Meta will launch the "Community Notes" feature in the United States, applicable to several of its social platforms, aimed at increasing transparency in information verification.

Initia will close its wallet extension service, and users need to complete the testnet data migration before then.

The Sui Foundation has launched the SuiNS RFP program, aimed at funding project development that meets ecological needs. The application deadline is today at 15:59 ( UTC+8 ).

Fasttoken will unlock 20 million coins, accounting for approximately 4.65% of the circulation, worth 79.8 million US dollars.

March 19

An Indian crypto exchange announced that its restructuring plan will be voted on today until the 28th. If approved, approximately 85% of the account balance will be distributed to creditors within 10 working days.

The Babylon Foundation has extended the airdrop registration deadline to 4 PM today.

The Core 2025 game hackathon ended today, with a four-week event offering a prize pool of $380,000 for developers.

Polyhedra Network will unlock approximately 15.53 million tokens, accounting for about 25.72% of the circulating supply, worth 31.8 million USD.

March 20

The Federal Reserve will announce its interest rate decision and economic outlook summary.

A certain international trading platform will launch perpetual contracts for REZ, GRASS, and RARE.

A trading platform will delist multiple spot trading pairs, including XR, GOAL, KP3R, and others.

The second round of permanent liquidity support program for BNB Chain ends today, with a one-week event that includes daily and weekly competitions.

BNB Chain will undergo the Pascal hard fork upgrade, supporting EIP-7702 and introducing new features such as Gas abstraction.

March 21

The U.S. SEC's Crypto Assets Working Group will hold its first roundtable meeting, with the theme "Defining Securities Status." Guests include legal advisors from several investment institutions.

BNB Chain "TVL Incentive Program" is extended until today.

Wemade and its employees will have the next round of debate regarding the lawsuit over the performance bonus dispute related to WEMIX tokens.

Immutable will unlock 24.52 million coins, accounting for approximately 1.39% of the circulating supply, worth 13.4 million US dollars.

March 22

SPACE ID will unlock 78.49 million coins, accounting for approximately 18.23% of the circulation, valued at 19.3 million USD.

March 23

The application deadline for the Ethereum Foundation's 2025 academic grant program is approaching, with a total funding of 2 million USD.

Metars Genesis will unlock 10 million coins, accounting for approximately 11.87% of the circulation, valued at 97.4 million USD.

MANTRA will unlock 5 million coins, accounting for about 0.51% of the circulation, valued at 32.8 million US dollars.

Murasaki will unlock 10 million coins, accounting for approximately 1.00% of the circulating supply, valued at 7.4 million USD.