Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 27, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Mycel: Earn $400–$700 by creating a Mycel address, minting test tokens, and completing tasks. Get in here.

  • Valhalla: Earn $500–$1000 by connecting a new wallet and completing social tasks. Get in here.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Austrian Police bust $1.3M crypto fraud 💀. Read more here.

  • Hall of Shame: Income tax raids in India reveal a $2M crypto-Hawala connection 💀. Read more here.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Brazil's Central Bank proposes a ban on stablecoin transfers to self-custody wallets. Read more here.

  • NYSE-listed KULR Tech acquires $21M in Bitcoin. Read more here.

  • BlackRock doubles down on IBIT exposure through its Global Allocation Fund. Read more here.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Vivek Ramaswamy-founded Strive files for ETF focused on Bitcoin-linked convertible bonds. Read more here.

  • OKX to launch perpetual futures for AI projects GRIFFAIN and ZEREBRO today.

    Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Bitcoin-Solana cross-chain bridge RuneMine raised $2M in a funding round. Read more here.

  • L1 blockchain and AI operating system ChainOpera AI raised $17M in a seed round led by Finality Capital, Road Capital, and IDG Capital. Read more here.

  • EYWA closes a strategic funding round for its cross-chain data aggregation protocol. Details here.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • James Fickel swapped 3,500 $ETH ($12.1M) for 122.67 $WBTC. Overall, he has swapped 10,000 $ETH ($34.6M) for 358.3 $WBTC. More details here.

  • Justin Sun deposited 70,182 ETH ($244.9M) to HTX at an average price of $3,489. More details here.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Immutable (IMX): $33.36M

  • Yield Guild Games (YGG) - $5.80M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • Delphi Digital’s article about DeFi 2025: Read here.

  • @brodyadreon shares his list of Bittensor Tokens: Explore here.

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