Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

September 23, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Bullet: Earn $400-$500 by entering your email and participating in the testnet. Get in here

  • Scroll Badge: Earn $500-$1000 by minting and claiming the Scroll Keeper Badge 🤑. Get in here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: California judge orders $36M payout for crypto and forex fraud 💀. Read more here

  • Hall of Shame: . Argentine authorities dismantle a major Bitcoin mining smuggling ring 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Australia to regulate crypto start-ups with mandatory financial services licenses. Read more here

  • SEC approves options trading for BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin trust. Read more here

  • MicroStrategy buys $458M worth of Bitcoin, bringing total to 252,220 BTC. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • Travala expands booking support to Solana-based assets with SOL travel rewards. Read more here

  • Coinbase announces cbBTC for Solana. Read more here

  • BNB Chain integrates with Telegram to boost Web3 accessibility. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Sorted Wallet raises $1.50M in Pre-seed round from Tether 🌱. Read more here

  • Octra raises $4M for blockchain with homomorphic encryption. Read more here

  • Chaos Labs secures funding from PayPal Ventures for on-chain risk. management. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0x207 swapped 40,000 ILV ($1.49M) for 562.8 ETH 🐳. More details here

  • Ethereum ICO whale 0xB8c deposits 3,510 ETH ($9.04M) to Kraken after 3 months. Txn details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Worldcoin (WLD): $8.49M

  • Moonwell (WELL): $1.14M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @knowerofmarkets shares DePIN report 🔥. Read here

  • @Beacon_Early lists upcoming mainnets 🧐. Check it out here

📅 Upcoming Events

  • ETHSofia 2024: Oct 17-19, Sofia, Bulgaria. Buy tickets here

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