Institutional-focused event for digital assets and financial markets.

Blockworks

Digital Asset Summit 2026

Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade goes live on mainnet-beta on Oct 21, 2026 (~14:50 UTC), cutting finality from ~12.8s to ~150ms.

Solana

Alpenglow Mainnet Launch

Limitless will unlock 96,000,000 LMTS tokens, equal to around 64.99% of the current circulating supply.

Limitless

96M LMTS Unlock

CME Group plans to launch regulated Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures on October 19, 2026, pending regulatory review.

CME Group

Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures Launch

Scheduled BLUAI token unlocks for several Bluwhale allocations begin on October 21, 2026, around the token's one-year anniversary.

Bluwhale

BLUAI Token Unlock Begins

Kinetiq plans to launch Elysium, the first layer 2 for Hyperliquid, on mainnet around October 20, 2026, after a four-week public testnet.

Kinetiq

Elysium L2 Mainnet Launch

Fhenix, the FHE privacy stack for Ethereum, launches mainnet on October 21, 2026, bringing CoFHE and dual-mode public/confidential tokens.

Fhenix

Fhenix Mainnet Launch

Pi Network upgrades Mainnet to Protocol 28 on October 16, 2026; node operators must update by October 13.

Pi Network

Protocol 28 Mainnet Upgrade

Money20/20 USA 2026, the largest fintech and payments show, runs October 18-21, 2026 at The Venetian Expo, Las Vegas.

Money20/20

Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas

Soul Protocol launches its public mainnet on October 19, 2026, bringing cross-chain lending and borrowing of native assets without bridging.

Soul Protocol

Public Mainnet Launch

REX Shares and Osprey Funds set October 23, 2026 as the effective date of their Staked SEI ETF filing, a US ETF with spot SEI and staking.

REX-Osprey Staked SEI ETF Effective Date

Aero, the merger of Aerodrome and Velodrome, launches on October 21, 2026 across 7 chains, including Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum and Robinhood Chain.

Aero

Aero Launch

MINT, the crypto gaming, sports and prediction platform (mint.io), targets the $MNTD TGE on Robinhood Chain for October 20, 2026, with no public sale.

MINT

MNTD Token Generation Event

Thailand's SEC rules for spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs on the Stock Exchange of Thailand take effect October 16, 2026.

Thailand SEC

Bitcoin and Ether ETF Rules Take Effect

Fables, the ve(3,3) DEX on Robinhood Chain, launches its FABLES token on October 20, 2026, with up to 75M FABLES liquid at TGE.

Fables

FABLES Token Generation Event

DAC Chain, the quantum-secure EVM Layer 1, schedules the DACT token generation event for October 22, 2026 at 00:00 UTC per its official vesting repo.

DAC Chain

DACT Token Generation Event

Gotchi Labs (Sleepagotchi) runs its $500K CHI community token sale on Sonar by Echo x Coinbase; the USDC commitment window closes October 17, 2026.

Gotchi Labs

CHI Community Sale on Sonar by Echo

Capricorn (ex-aPriori) unlocks ~92.8M APR for early backers and core contributors on Oct 23, 2026, its first one-year cliff, ~33% of circulating supply.

Capricorn

92.8M APR First Cliff Unlock

deBridge unlocks 618.3M DBR (~10% of circulating supply, ~$13M) on Oct 17, 2026 in its scheduled quarterly vesting tranche.

deBridge

618M DBR Quarterly Unlock

StandX perp DEX on BNB Chain and Solana switches all perpetual markets to reduce-only on October 20, 2026 as it winds down operations.

Thailand SEC	Bitcoin and Ether ETF Rules Take Effect ...	16 Oct 2026
PIPi Network	Protocol 28 Mainnet Upgrade ...	16 Oct 2026

DBRdeBridge	618M DBR Quarterly Unlock ...	17 Oct 2026
CHIGotchi Labs	CHI Community Sale on Sonar by Echo ...	17 Oct 2026

SOSoul Protocol	Public Mainnet Launch ...	19 Oct 2026
CME Group	Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures Launch ...	19 Oct 2026

StandX	Perps Move to Reduce-Only Ahead of Shutdown ...	20 Oct 2026
Blockworks	Digital Asset Summit 2026 ...	20 Oct 2026
MNTDMINT	MNTD Token Generation Event ...	20 Oct 2026
FABLESFables	FABLES Token Generation Event ...	20 Oct 2026
KNTQKinetiq	Elysium L2 Mainnet Launch ...	20 Oct 2026

SOLSolana	Alpenglow Mainnet Launch ...	21 Oct 2026
AEROAero	Aero Launch ...	21 Oct 2026
Fhenix	Fhenix Mainnet Launch ...	21 Oct 2026
BLUAIBluwhale	BLUAI Token Unlock Begins ...	21 Oct 2026

LMTSLimitless	96M LMTS Unlock ...	22 Oct 2026
DACTDAC Chain	DACT Token Generation Event ...	22 Oct 2026

SEISei	REX-Osprey Staked SEI ETF Effective Date ...	23 Oct 2026
APRCapricorn	92.8M APR First Cliff Unlock ...	23 Oct 2026

Events

Upcoming events

Today

Thailand SEC

Bitcoin and Ether ETF Rules Take Effectlg...

PIPi Network

Protocol 28 Mainnet Upgradelg...

Tomorrow

DBRdeBridge

618M DBR Quarterly Unlocklg...

CHIGotchi Labs

CHI Community Sale on Sonar by Echolg...

18 Oct

Money20/20

Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegaslg...

19 Oct

SOSoul Protocol

Public Mainnet Launchlg...

CME Group

Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures Launchlg...

20 Oct

StandX

Perps Move to Reduce-Only Ahead of Shutdownlg...

Blockworks

Digital Asset Summit 2026lg...

MNTDMINT

MNTD Token Generation Eventlg...

FABLESFables

FABLES Token Generation Eventlg...

KNTQKinetiq

Elysium L2 Mainnet Launchlg...

21 Oct

SOLSolana

Alpenglow Mainnet Launchlg...

AEROAero

Aero Launchlg...

Fhenix

Fhenix Mainnet Launchlg...

BLUAIBluwhale

BLUAI Token Unlock Beginslg...

22 Oct

LMTSLimitless

96M LMTS Unlocklg...

DACTDAC Chain

DACT Token Generation Eventlg...

23 Oct

SEISei

REX-Osprey Staked SEI ETF Effective Datelg...

APRCapricorn

92.8M APR First Cliff Unlocklg...