The following are the matters worth paying attention to this week, starting from October 12th.

Crypto Week Ahead summarizes the upcoming events in the cryptocurrency and blockchain fields, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will affect the digital asset market.

Before the Federal Reserve's October meeting, this week's U.S. inflation data will test the outlook for interest rates. Investors currently expect the Fed to keep interest rates unchanged and raise them in December.

The third-quarter bank financial reports will reflect lending, trading activities, and investor demand from another perspective.

In the field of cryptography, Ethereum developers will discuss the upcoming upgrades, while the consultation on stablecoins in Singapore will also come to an end.

Matters of note

Unless otherwise specified, all times mentioned below are in Eastern Time (ET).

Encryption

• October 15th: The USDG plan proposed by ArbitrumDAO is expected to enter the offline voting phase, with voting continuing until October 22nd.
• At 10 a.m. on October 15th: Ethereum developers will hold the 189th All Core Devs Consensus teleconference to discuss Glamsterdam, Hegot.
• October 16: In accordance with the phased closure plan approved by the agreement, Balancer partners have applied to extend the deadline for a specific v3 fund pool to November 30.
• 11:59 a.m. on October 16: The deadline for consultations by the Monetary Authority of Singapore regarding the regulation of stablecoins has passed.

Macro

• October 12: The U.S. bond market was closed due to Columbus Day, while the stock market opened as usual.
• 9:30 p.m. on October 13: China's CPI for September is estimated to be 1.0% year-on-year (previous value was 0.8%); PPI is estimated to be 4.5% year-on-year (previous value was 3.8%).
• 8:30 a.m. on October 14th: The U.S. CPI for September is estimated to be 0.6% on a month-over-month basis (previous value was 0.4%); CPI is estimated to be 3.6% on a year-over-year basis (previous value was 3.4%).
• 8:30 a.m. on October 14th: The U.S. core CPI for September is estimated to be 0.2% on a month-over-month basis (previous value was 0.3%); the core CPI is estimated to be 2.5% on a year-over-year basis (previous value was 2.4%).
• 2 a.m. on October 15: The UK's August GDP month-on-month forecast is estimated to be -0.1% (previous value was 0.4%).
• 8:30 a.m. on October 15th: The U.S. PPI for September is estimated to be 0.5% (previous value 0.4%); PPI for the same period is estimated to be 5.3% (previous value 5.4%).
• 8:30 a.m. on October 15th: The U.S. core PPI for September is estimated to be 0.3% on a month-over-month basis (previous value was 0.2%); the core PPI is estimated to be 4.4% on a year-over-year basis (previous value was 4.6%).
• 8:30 a.m. on October 15th: The estimated month-over-month retail sales for the United States in September are 0.3% (previous value was 1.2%).
• 8:30 a.m. on October 15th: As of the week ending October 10th, the estimated number of first-time applicants for unemployment benefits in the United States was 195,000 (previous value was 197,000); as of the week ending October 3rd, the number of people continuing to receive unemployment benefits was 1.716 million (the original text only lists the previous value).
• 11:30 p.m. on October 15th: Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh will have a dialogue with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
• 5 a.m. on October 16: The year-on-year final value for September in the eurozone is estimated to be 3.8% (previous value was 3.2%).

Financial Reports

• October 14: BlackRock ( BlackRock, BLK ), before the market opens, estimated earnings per share of $14.24.
• October 15: Before the market opens, Bank of New York Mellon ( BNY, BNY ) estimates earnings per share at $2.27.

Token Events

Governing Voting and Teleconferences

• Balancer is currently voting on an independent, self-funded fork proposal, with voting to conclude on October 13th.
• Compound is currently voting to propose extracting wETH reserves from its deprecated Ronin market and bridging them to the mainnet. The voting will end on October 13th.
• Gitcoin is currently voting to propose lowering the legal threshold of Snapshot from 2.5 million GTC to 1.5 million GTC, in order to reduce the number of voting rights required for valid proposals. The voting will end on October 15th.

Unlock

• October 15th: Starknet ( STRK, $0.1038) will unlock 3.37% of its circulating supply, valued at approximately $13.2 million.
• October 15: Connex ( CONX ) will unlock 1.39% of its circulating supply, worth $12.18 million.
• October 16: Arbitrum ( ARB ) will unlock 1.56% of its circulating supply, worth $18.07 million.
• October 17: Cronos ( CRO, $0.06175) will unlock 2.33% of its circulating supply, worth $73.08 million.

Token Launch/Airdrop

• October 15th: The final deadline for claiming the drops from Sonic Season 1 and Season 2.

Meeting

• October 12th to 14th: Paradigm Frontiers (San Francisco)
• October 15th: Pantera Blockchain Summit (San Francisco)
• October 15th: Ledger Op3n (Paris)
• October 15th to 16th: BGIN Block 15 (Washington, D.C.)
• October 17th to 18th: EDCON (Kuala Lumpur)

Author of this article: Francisco Rodrigues; Source: CoinDesk.