Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

October 28, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Berachain x Layer3: Earn $1000-$1500 by completing quests (Claim BERA, swap into STGUSDC, mint HONEY, trade on BERPS)

  • Pell Network Testnet: Earn $500-$700 in Galxe Loyal Points by participating in the testnet (ends Nov 30) 🤑
    🔗 Get in here: Berachain | Pell Network

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Russian influencer ‘Queen of Crypto’ faces $22M fraud charges 💀. Read more: Russian Fraud

  • Hall of Shame: User loses $92K in USDC after accidentally copying-pasting from history 🛡️
    🔗 Read more: USDC Loss

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Hong Kong Stock Exchange to launch BTC & ETH price indices. Read more here

  • Banco Bisa (Bolivia) introduces USDT custody. Read more here

  • Metaplanet grows Bitcoin holdings to 1K+ BTC with a $10.4M purchase. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • HKMA partners with Thailand, Brazil for cross-border tokenization pilots. Read more here

  • Bolivian bank Banco Bisa launches USDT custody service. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Moonwalk Fitness raises $3.4M in Seed funding, led by Hack VC. Read more here

  • Skyfire secures $1M from Coinbase Ventures and a16z for AI-driven finance. Read more here

  • Sparkball Opti Games lands $2M for community-driven multiplayer studio. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Wintermute wallet 5sTQ5 deposits 6.794M GOAT ($3.9M) to Gate.io via 77DXF. Txn details here

  • boby1337.eth withdrew another 2.8M EIGEN ($7.8M) from Binance. Txn details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Maverick Protocol (MAV): $7.90M

  • ECOx: $4.16M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • Shoalresearch explores AI agents in Virtuals Protocol 🔥. Check it out here

  • a16zcrypto releases the latest State of Crypto report 🧐. Check it out here

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Davos Web3 Roundtable 2025: Jan 22, Davos, Switzerland. Buy tickets here

  • Crypto Expo Europe 2025: Mar 2-3, Bucharest, Romania. Buy tickets here