Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 21.

Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets.

Crypto markets are demonstrating robust resilience to start the week, with bitcoin

The macro calendar centers on midweek U.S. jobless claims and housing and durable goods figures. Meanwhile, cross-asset markets continue to digest the policy path following recent rate decisions from the Bank of Japan and Bank of England.

On the market structure front, attention centers on the SEC opening its tokenized securities pilot framework.

What to Watch

  • Crypto
    • Sept. 22: The SEC’s conditional 5-year exemption window opens, allowing select institutional venues to begin pilot trading of tokenized stocks directly on public blockchains.
  • Macro
    • Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m.: Canada Retail Sales MoM for August est. -0.8% (Prev. 0.6%)
    • Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Initial Jobless Claims for period ending Sept. 19 est. 201K (Prev. 196K)
    • Sept. 24, 10:00 a.m.: U.S. New Home Sales for August est. 700K (Prev. 739K)
    • Sept. 25, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Durable Goods Orders MoM for August est. -0.3% (Prev. 1.1%)
    • Sept. 25, 10:00 a.m.: U.S. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Final for September est. 47.8 (Prev. 51.7)
  • Earnings
    • None scheduled.

Token Events

  • Governance votes and calls
    • Lido DAO is voting on a proposal to authorize a contingent LDO centralized-exchange liquidity market-making mandate—budgeting up to $1.5 million in recallable LDO and 480,000 USDC, to maintain orderbook depth and prevent potential exchange delistings. Voting ends Sept. 21.
    • Uniswap Governance is holding a temperature check on extending its protocol fee collection and UNI burn infrastructure to Arc, an L1 network built by Circle. Voting ends Sept. 23.
    • CoW DAO is voting on a redesign of its solver quote competition, setting aside a dedicated quote reward budget equal to 10% of protocol revenue to improve price routing and order conversion. Voting ends Sept. 25.
  • Unlocks
  • Token launches
    • No confirmed major token launches.

Conferences

  • None

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