Top DeFi news to pay attention to this week 🧠 1. @aeroxyz unifies Aerodrome and Velodrome on Oct 22. Aero launches across Base, Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Arc, Ink, Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum. AERO converts 1:1; VELO at roughly 0.044 AERO. 2. @fablesfi TGE on Oct 20, the Robinhood Chain DEX launches $FABLES with ve(3,3) voting, staking and emissions. Airdrop claims open at TGE. 3. @fhenix's confidential computing launches on mainnet on Oct 21. 4. @Kinetiq_xyz's Elysium approaches mainnet. The Hyperliquid L2 targets Oct 20, subject to the governance outcome. It settles to HyperEVM and uses HYPE for gas. 5. @Lighter_xyz is expanding beyond perps with an upcoming options product. Investor Q3 call is on Oct 21. 6. @infiniFi unveils $INFI. Tokenomics are out, with 45% allocated to the ecosystem, including a community airdrop. TGE is coming soon. 7. @StandX_Official cancelled its token launch and will distribute DUSD instead. Trading switches to reduce-only on Oct 20. Allocation checker: Oct 26. Claims: Nov 1, with no lockup. 8. @jumperapp opens a trading campaign this week for 2,500 waitlist traders and the top 2,500 Jumper Pass users. $JUMP incentives and up to $232K USDC in weekly rewards. 9. @Starknet voting on whether to research becoming an independent, post-quantum L1 ends on Oct 22. 10. @osmosis's proposal to stop new $OSMO issuance and fund staking rewards from protocol revenue opens for voting on Oct 20. At the current burn rate, roughly 2% of supply would burn annually without new minting to offset it.