Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 23, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • $RIFT Airdrop
    Potential: $500-$1000.
    Tasks: Connect your Metamask, link your Twitter, complete ongoing tasks, and submit your SOL address.
    Claim HERE.

  • LayerEdge Testnet
    Potential: $400-$700.
    Tasks: Connect your wallet, use code 2NbCzJMr, start a node, and submit proof of tasks.
    Join HERE.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Nasdaq’s official X account hacked to promote fake memecoins 💀. Read more HERE.

  • Hall of Fame: Upbit and Bithumb to pay customers $2.4M compensation for the “Martial Law Blackout” case. Read more HERE.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Ethereum Foundation restructuring sparks debate with the introduction of a “Second Foundation” concept. Read more HERE.

  • Berkshire Hathaway increases its stake in Nubank, a crypto-related bank. Read more HERE.

  • Bitwise files registration for Dogecoin ETF. Read more HERE.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Argo Blockchain CEO resigns due to financial struggles. Read more HERE.

  • Ramp Network introduces direct cash out for Ethereum Layer 2s via MetaMask. Read more HERE.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Nexity Network: Operating system for secure RWA trade raised $8.20M in funding from Rollman Management Digital. Read more HERE.

  • GRVT: ZKsync-based hybrid crypto exchange raised $5M in a strategic funding round led by Further Ventures. Read more HERE.

  • Wingbits: Token-incentivized flight tracking network raised $5.60M in a strategic funding round led by Borderless Capital and Bullish Capital. Read more HERE.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0x6f6 spent $9M USDC to buy ETH, WBTC, and AAVE 🐳. More details HERE.

  • Smart whale 3AWDT dumped $24.97M worth of TRUMPM and MELANIA 🛡️. More details HERE.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Moonwell (WELL): $1.62M.

  • Pett.ai (PAI): $780.22K.

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @0xkyle__: Thread about navigating the crypto AI landscape.
    Read more HERE.

  • @redphonecrypto: Insights on Worldchain.
    Read more HERE.

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Digital Asset Summit 2025: Mar 18–20, 2025, New York, US.
    Buy tickets HERE.

  • Next Block Expo Warsaw 2025: Mar 19–20, 2025, Warsaw, Poland.
    Buy tickets HERE.