Uptober Watchlist
Bought an alt basket and went to touch grass for a bit. Time to lock back in though. Here’s our watchlist below
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$NMR: agentic hedge fund + $500M fund investment commitment from JPMorgan + $1M buyback every half-year, $3.2M cumulative
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$AAVE: onchain RWA lending rolling out + weighing a burn of bought-back tokens
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$KMNO: TVL $800M → $1.3B, active loans $350M → $450M, clear rebound + Galaxy yield vaults & fixed-rate borrowing vaults w/ Figure and Hastra now live
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$GRASS: $14.53M H1 revenue from the AI data biz, backed by independent accounting verification
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$SYRUP: revenue doubled to $13.7M YTD + revenue-funded buybacks + bigger institutional push
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$ARX - Blackthorn GPU infrastructure for encrypted AI inference + listed on Korean exchanges.
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$AERO: Unified Aero dropping Oct 21, live across 7 chains
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$PYTH: ARR past $10.4M + revenue-funded token buys
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$PEAQ: machine token deposits + 50% exit burn, Doosan Robotics integration testing kicking off
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$NIL: Blacklight mainnet Oct 5 + Ethereum L1 migration in progress
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$QNT: picked to power The Clearing House's tokenized deposit settlement
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$SKY: surplus split of 22.5% to staking-reward buybacks + 5% to permanent buyback & burn Source
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$DRV: weekly buybacks rolling on, 137K
$DRV bought in round #85, 27.78M cumulative as of Sep 23
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$PUMP: 50% of revenue to auto buyback & burn for 1 yr from Apr 2026, 16.85% of initial supply burned as of Sep 28
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$PHA: OpenRouter usage now threatens
$VVV, but will the buyback actually happen? Whales already gave up in the last downturn. Phala 116.8B tokens/day vs. Venice 60.5B - 1.93× as of Sep 27, per Vantage.
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$NEAR,
$ZEC,
$HYPE: who's NOT watching these?