Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

February 28, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Primus

    • Potential: $400–$600

    • Connect your Metamask address, submit invitation code 09IK3TF, complete tasks

    • Get in HERE

  • Nodeops

    • Potential: $600–$800

    • Connect your Metamask address, follow updates

    • Join HERE

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: 73-year-old man charged in $2.4M crypto money laundering scam 💀. Read more HERE

  • Hall of Shame: Montana man found guilty of crypto money laundering conspiracy tied to romance scams. Read more HERE

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • South Korea launches official crypto crime prosecution unit 🔥
    Read more HERE

  • BitMEX seeks a buyer amid crypto derivatives shake-up
    Read more HERE

  • Deutsche Telekom joins Injective as a validator
    Read more HERE

🔧 Project Updates

  • Uniswap partners with Robinhood and payment platforms for seamless crypto-to-fiat transactions
    Read more HERE

  • Base L2 rolls out new features on testnet, with plans for mainnet deployment in Q2
    Read more HERE

  • Metamask to enable BTC & SOL support alongside smart contract features
    Read more HERE

💼 Funding Announcements

  • L1 blockchain for shared security, Imua (ex Exocore) raised $5M in a Seed funding round led by Draper Dragon, No Limit Holdings, and Paramita
    Read more HERE

  • On-chain fixed-rate lending protocol, Tenor Labs raised $2.50M in a Seed funding round led by Cherry Crypto
    Read more HERE

  • Decentralized restaking aggregation platform, Byzantine Finance raised $3M in a Pre-seed funding round led by Node Capital and Blockwall
    Read more HERE

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Five wallets (likely one whale) deposited all 5,843 ETH ($12.43M) to OKX via the same deposit address 🐳
    More details HERE

  • New whale G2YHM withdrew 96,128 SOL ($12.37M) from Binance at an average price of $128.61
    More details HERE

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Optimism (OP): $33.87M

  • Self Chain (HOPR): $9.27M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • AleaResearch shares their thesis about Sonic
    Read more HERE

  • TaikiMaeda2 shares his bull case for $MKR
    Read more HERE

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Crypto Expo Europe 2025 – Mar 02–03, 2025, Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
    Buy tickets HERE

  • Bitcoin Alive 2025 – Mar 08, 2025, Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
    Buy tickets HERE