Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 10, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Mint x OKX Pioneer Explorer NFT: Limited to 20,000 pieces, offering unique privileges including $MINT. Potential: $300-$700. Submit here.

  • Starpower Genesis Drop: Earn $500-$700 by connecting your Solana Wallet and submitting the code. Claim here.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Scammers steal $2.2M worth of crypto from New York residents in a remote job scam 💀. Read more here.

  • Hall of Shame: K-pop giant Cube Entertainment’s CEO under fire for misleading crypto investment guarantees 🛡️. Read more here.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Hong Kong introduces a “supervisory incubator” to guide banks in blockchain adoption. Read more here.

  • Standard Chartered secures a digital asset license in Luxembourg. Read more here.

  • Layer-1 Blockchain MANTRA to tokenize $1B RWA for UAE-based DAMAC Group. Read more here.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Sonic integrates Circle’s bridged USDC. Read more here.

  • Solana DEX Raydium launches beta perpetual trading. Read more here.

  • Synthetix sunsets v3 perps on Arbitrum to focus solely on Base. Read more here.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Token Metrics: AI-powered crypto research platform raised $8.50M. Read more here.

  • The Go! Project: L1 AI-driven asset tokenization ecosystem secured funding from Alphabit, Animoca Brands, and others. Amount undisclosed. Read more here.

  • Starpower: Decentralized energy network raised $2.50M led by Framework Ventures. Read more here.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Wallet 0x6b6 withdrew 6,262 ETH ($20.64M) from OKX at $3,297 🐳. Txn details here.

  • Wallet 1KP7X woke up after over six years of dormancy and deposited 500 BTC ($47.1M) to Coinbase Prime at $94,202. Txn details here.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • SIPHER (SIPHER): $2.46M

  • Cetus Protocol (CETUS): $2.67M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @punk6529 thread about NFTs 🔥. Read more here.

  • @avocado_toast2 shares their thoughts on entering 2025 🧐. Read more here.

📅 Upcoming Events

  • ETHDam 2025: May 09–11, 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Buy tickets here.

  • Blockchain Futurist Conference 2025: May 13, 2025, Toronto, Canada. Buy tickets here.