Economic Calendar 9.29-10.5: TOKEN2049 Singapore Week, FTX's $1.6B Third Bankruptcy Distribution, US Senate Crypto Tax Hearing, and $310M Token Unlocks

September 29

• TOKEN2049 Week kicks off in Singapore from September 29 to October 5, with the flagship TOKEN2049 conference scheduled for October 1-2 at Marina Bay Sands, expecting to attract over 25,000 attendees and 500+ exhibitors.

    The entire week will feature hundreds of side events, the TOKEN2049 Origins Hackathon, and startup competitions, focusing on blockchain innovation, networking gatherings, and culminating with the F1 Grand Prix weekend.

    Highlight speakers include World Liberty Financial co-founders Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

   

• The U.S. SEC and CFTC announced they will jointly host a regulatory coordination roundtable in Washington on September 29, with the agenda and speaker list now published.

    The meeting will focus on topics including the history of SEC-CFTC cooperation, platform regulatory coordination, and market participant choices and costs. Speakers include SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, Acting CFTC Chairman Caroline Pham, Kraken co-founder Arjun Sethi, and Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman.

   

• Binance announced the launch of its 46th HODLer Airdrop project, Falcon Finance $FF, which provides universal collateral infrastructure for on-chain liquidity and yield.

    FF token has a total supply of 10 billion, with 1.5% allocated for the HODLer airdrop and 23.4% of the total supply in circulation at listing.

    Additionally, 150,000,000 FF tokens will be used for market activities 6 months after listing, with specific rules to be announced separately.

   

• Coinbase will globally launch two local fiat-backed stablecoins on September 29: AUDD (Australian dollar stablecoin issued by AUDC Pty Ltd) and XSGD (Singapore dollar stablecoin issued by StraitsX).

    Users can convert Australian dollars to AUDD and Singapore dollars to XSGD for free. Both coins are backed by fiat reserves, with XSGD having received regulatory compliance approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

   

• Binance officially announced that the trading launch of Anoma $XAN tokens on Binance Alpha and Binance Futures, originally scheduled for September 23, 2025, has been postponed to September 29, 2025. The specific times are as follows:

  • Binance Alpha: September 29, 2025, 10:00 UTC

  • Binance Futures: September 29, 2025, 10:30 UTC

• The shocking global case of Qian Zhimin's multi-billion dollar Bitcoin money laundering scheme will begin trial on September 29, 2025, at Southwark Crown Court in London.

    Reports reveal that Chinese victims will need to "defend their own rights" in the UK's civil asset recovery proceedings against criminal proceeds. This case involves cross-border money laundering and crypto asset recovery, and is viewed as a landmark test for regulatory oversight and governance of cross-border financial crimes in the digital currency era.

    Qian Zhimin (alias "Yadi Zhang") illegally raised approximately 43 billion yuan through Ponzi scheme-style "investment and wealth management" products between 2014-2017, affecting 130,000 victims.

    This case represents not only one of the landmark events in China's illegal fundraising history, but also the largest crypto money laundering case in UK judicial history.

   

• Ronin announced that RON token buybacks will launch soon, with the treasury converting all held ETH and USDC to RON within one month. Ronin currently holds over $5 million in assets, including 890 ETH and 650,000 USDC. If fully converted to RON, this would represent approximately 1.3% of RON's current circulating supply.

    Ronin stated this move aims to reduce market circulation, increase treasury holdings, and create stronger alignment with ecosystem builders and token holders. The team emphasized that the treasury will only conduct one-way buybacks and will not sell RON tokens.

   

Token Unlocks

• TREE: Unlocks approximately 7.08 million tokens, 4.11% of circulating supply, valued at ~$1.94 million.

September 30

• FTX will pay creditors an additional $1.6 billion starting September 30 as part of the third distribution of its bankruptcy estate.

    The bankruptcy plan, finalized in October 2024, will deploy over $15 billion in recovered assets. FTX's latest payment will target both convenience and non-convenience categories of the exchange. The convenience category typically refers to retail traders and small creditors who make up the majority (up to 99%) of FTX's creditor base, while the non-convenience category involves larger or more complex claims.

   

• Binance Alpha will list OpenEden $EDEN on September 30.

• Binance Alpha will list and open trading for zkVerify $VFY on September 30, at 11:30 UTC. Additionally, Binance Futures will launch VFY/USDT perpetual contracts on September 30, 2025, at 12:00 UTC, with leverage up to 50x.

• Starknet announced that BTC staking functionality will go live on mainnet September 30. This upgrade will allow Bitcoin holders to stake on Starknet, helping secure the network and earn rewards.

    Additionally, the unstaking period will be reduced from 21 days to 7 days, providing stakers and delegators with faster and more flexible operations. After the upgrade, validators and developers will be able to deploy Bitcoin delegation pools and begin protocol integration, with rewards starting distribution on September 30.

Token Unlocks

• BIGTIME: Unlocks approximately 333 million tokens, 20.00% of circulating supply, valued at ~$16.14 million.

• KMNO: Unlocks approximately 229 million tokens, 6.37% of circulating supply, valued at ~$15.65 million.

• OP: Unlocks approximately 31.34 million tokens, 1.74% of circulating supply, valued at ~$21.38 million.

October 1

• The US Senate Finance Committee announced it will hold a hearing on crypto taxation on October 1.

    Witnesses will include Coin Center Policy Director Jason Somensatto, ASKramer Law founding member Andrea S. Kramer, Coinbase Vice President of Tax Lawrence Zlatkin, and American Institute of CPAs Digital Asset Tax Task Force Chair Annette Nellen.

   

• The 221st Ethereum ACDE meeting focused on the Fusaka upgrade public testnet progress. Four client teams have yet to release testnet versions, but developers unanimously agreed to proceed with the scheduled October 1 upgrade activation.

    The meeting also decided to raise the default gas limit per block to 60 million after the Fusaka mainnet upgrade. Additionally, testing for Glamsterdam upgrade-related EIPs is advancing, and the EIP process will be optimized to assign contact persons for each proposal. OpenZeppelin engineers introduced EIP 7819, aimed at simplifying smart contract delegated account creation and updates.

• Japan's SBI Holdings announced it has signed equity transfer agreements with some CoinPost shareholders, planning to complete the acquisition of a majority stake in CoinPost on October 1, and incorporate it into the group.

    CoinPost is Japan's largest crypto asset and Web3 media platform, hosting Asia's largest Web3 conference WebX. Following the acquisition, both parties will strengthen synergies between media and financial businesses, expanding digital asset investment, information services, and jointly hosting industry events.

Token Unlocks

• SUI: Unlocks approximately 44 million tokens, 1.23% of circulating supply, valued at ~$144 million.

• EIGEN: Unlocks approximately 36.82 million tokens, 13.77% of circulating supply, valued at ~$69.22 million.

October 2

• US initial jobless claims for the week ending September 27, 2025, will be released on October 2, at 12:30 UTC.

    US factory orders month-over-month for August 2025 will be released on October 2, at 14:00 UTC.

• The Optimism proposal for Superchain 16a upgrade has been approved.

    It was deployed to Superchain Sepolia on September 22 and is scheduled for deployment to Superchain mainnet on October 2. This is a maintenance upgrade that will replace U16 with a more secure and flexible approach.

• DoubleZero mainnet Beta will launch on October 2 and begin deploying 2Z tokens. Its early production network mainnet Alpha launched on September 15 and conducted stress testing through batch validator verification.

    Since the testnet launched in March 2025, it has connected 386+ validator nodes, representing approximately 16% of Solana mainnet staking.

Token Unlocks

• ENA: Unlocks approximately 40.63 million tokens, 0.62% of circulating supply, valued at ~$24.34 million.

October 3

• US nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate, and average hourly earnings year-over-year/month-over-month for September 2025 will be released on October 3, at 12:30 UTC.

Token Unlocks

• IMX: Unlocks approximately 24.52 million tokens, 1.26% of circulating supply, valued at ~$19.49 million.

Token Unlocks Summary

Sept 30

• OP: 31.34M $OP, ~$21.38M, at 12 AM UTC

• BIGTIME: 333M $BIGTIME, ~$16.14M, at 12 AM UTC

• KMNO: 229M $KMNO, ~$15.65M, at 12 PM UTC

Oct 1

• SUI: 44M $SUI, ~$144M, at 12 AM UTC

• EIGEN: 36.82M $EIGEN, ~$69.22M, at 4 AM UTC

Oct 2

• ENA: 40.63M $ENA, ~$24.34M, at 7 AM UTC

Oct 3

• IMX: 24.52M $IMX, ~$19.49M, at 12 AM UTC

Source: Tokenomist

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