Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

February 20, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Monad Eco Project

    • Potential: $400–$700

    • Sign up with Google or X and get 15 free cards to start competing

    • Over 5,000 whitelist spots available

    • Get in HERE

  • Monad Eco Project: aPriori

    • Potential: $1000–$1500

    • Task 1: Connect wallet, stake MON to get aprMON HERE

    • Task 2: Go to Faucet, click on Claim & Autostake (repeat every 8 hours)

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Argentina President Milei faces fraud allegations over crypto scandal 💀. Read more HERE

  • Hall of Shame: Two UK men arrested for defrauding elderly victims in crypto scam. Read more HERE

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Brazil approves world’s first Spot XRP ETF by Hashdex 📈. Read more HERE

  • Metaplanet expands Bitcoin reserves with 68 BTC, now holding 0.01% of total supply. Read more HERE

  • Kraken eyes India relaunch after 2024 ban 🇮🇳. Read more HERE

🔧 Project Updates

  • Web3 cybersecurity company Blockaid raises $50M in a Series B round led by Ribbit Capital 🔐. Read more HERE

  • Modular blockchain execution layer Altius raises $11M in Pre-seed round led by Founders Fund & Pantera Capital. Read more HERE

  • Protocol designed to eliminate impermanent loss, Yield Basis, raises $5M. Read more HERE

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Ethereum transaction fees plummet 70%, hitting lowest levels since 2020. Read more HERE

  • Dutch firms Quantoz Payments, NPEX, and Dusk team up to launch a Digital Euro 🇪🇺. Read more HERE

  • DEX SecondSwap launches mainnet on Ethereum, plans Solana expansion. Read more HERE

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0x413 (possibly @sam_thapaliya) deposits 7M MOVE ($3.36M) back to OKX as MOVE price drops 🐳. More details HERE

  • New multi-signature wallet 0x64b spends 10M USDC to buy 200M WLFI. Txn details HERE

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • SpaceN (SN): $980.37K

  • Hatom (HTM): $965.07K

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @threesigmaxyz thread on potential governance attack on Maker. Read more HERE

  • The Time-Money Illusion: Are You Making The Right Trade?. Read more HERE

📅 Upcoming Events

  • ETHWomen 2025 – May 13, 2025, Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦. Buy tickets HERE

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