Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

February 25, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Abstract New Badge

    • Potential: $500–$600

    • Connect your wallet, create a character, claim the badge

    • Get in HERE

  • Bless Trial of Fellowship – Guild Role

    • Potential: $700–$1000

    • Join the guild, complete the tasks

    • Start HERE

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: US authorities seize $31M in crypto linked to Uranium Finance hack 💀. Read more HERE

  • Hall of Shame: Virginia police seize $1.4M in crypto from pig butchering scam. Read more HERE

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • USDC and EURC become first stablecoins approved under Dubai's new crypto rules 🔥. Read more HERE

  • EU adopts new sanctions, including crypto restrictions against Russia. Read more HERE

  • Strategy buys $2 billion more worth of Bitcoin 📈. Read more HERE

🔧 Project Updates

  • XDC Network and Archax launch four tokenized funds. Read more HERE

  • USDe issuer Ethena Labs integrates Chaos Labs' Edge Proof of Reserves Oracles for risk management. Read more HERE

  • Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade goes live on ‘Holesky’ testnet but fails to finalize. Read more HERE

💼 Funding Announcements

  • ResearchHub, a tokenized social network, raised $2M in a funding round from BoostVC. Read more HERE

  • Bitcoin staking protocol Acre raised $4M in a Strategic funding round from Draper Dragon, Big Brain Holdings, Orange DAO. Read more HERE

  • Cryptographic infrastructure platform Primus Labs (ex Pado) raised $6.5M in a Seed funding round led by Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, and VanEck. Read more HERE

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 3D8qA unstaked and deposited 96,155 SOL ($13.54M) to Binance via the same deposit address 🐳. More details HERE

  • Whale EwkH5 sold 763,583 TRUMPM for 9.47M USDC at $12.41 in a single transaction. Txn details HERE

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • AltLayer (ALT): $9.21M

  • Radworks (RAD): $1.23M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • Dynamic TAO guide by @0xPrismatic
    Read more HERE

  • @defi0xjeff thread about GambleFAI
    Read more HERE

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Mallorca Blockchain Days 2025 – Jul 10–13, 2025, Mallorca, Spain 🇪🇸. Buy tickets HERE

  • The Science of Blockchain Conference 2025 – Aug 04–06, 2025, Stanford, US 🇺🇸. Buy tickets HERE