Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

🟢 Alpha Offerings

• Blockcast: Earn $500-$600 by creating an account, connecting your Solana address, and completing tasks. Get in here

• Mitosis: Earn $700-$1000 by exploring the Mitosis ecosystem and claiming rewards. Claim here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

• Hall of Fame: Taiwan introduces new crypto rules to tackle fraud and ensure AML compliance 💡. Read more here

• Hall of Shame: Former Fortnite pro accused of $3.5M memecoin scam 💀. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

• Japan’s new Prime Minister reorganizes Web3 and crypto policy units. Read more here

• Russia passes a bill taxing crypto transactions while exempting miners from VAT. Read more here

• Hong Kong proposes crypto tax exemptions to rival Singapore as a financial hub. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

• Celsius announces a second bankruptcy payout of $127 million to creditors. Read more here

• Lending protocol Echelon launches a debt-driven Move appchain. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

• Avant Protocol: Raised $6.50M in a seed funding round from Superlayer, GoGoPool, and Avalaunch. Read more here

• Bleap: Raised $2.30M in a pre-seed funding round led by Ethereal Ventures. Read more here

• Margarita Finance: Secured $1M in a pre-seed round from Tomahawk VC and others. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

• Whale 0x60F sold 4.64M VIRTUAL for 5.32M USDC 🐳. More details here

• Fresh wallet 0x7ab withdrew 3,000 ETH ($10.77M) from Binance. More details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

• Immutable (IMX): $44.82M

• Portal (PORTAL): $10.22M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

• @degentradingLSD thread on Saylor’s BTC buying strategy 🔥. Check it out here

• @S4mmyEth shares a list of AI agents and protocols 🧐. Check it out here

📅 Upcoming Events

• Consensus Hong Kong 2025: Feb 18-20, 2025, Hong Kong. Buy tickets here

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