Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 03, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Berachain x Layer3: Complete 19 quests to claim rewards worth $1000-$1500. Claim here.

  • MBL Squid Game: Reward 777 $MBL tokens to 1000 random winners. Complete all tasks and submit your Ontology wallet. Join here.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: California man sues three Asian banks over $1M pig-butchering crypto-fraud scam 💀. Read more here.

  • Hall of Fame: Florida cybercrime unit recovers $2.4M in stolen crypto in three months. Read more here.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Morgan Stanley mulls crypto trading launch through the E*TRADE platform. Read more here.

  • Binance bags its 21st global crypto license in Brazil. Read more here.

  • South Korea’s WeMade expands blockchain focus with new products and social communities. Read more here.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Telegram introduces NFT collectible gifts, enabling third-party marketplace trading. Read more here.

  • BitFuFu signs a deal with BITMAIN to acquire 80,000 miners. Read more here.

  • BlackRock’s BUIDL token approved as backing for Frax USD stablecoin. Read more here.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • DataDance: Ethereum Layer 2 solution closes a seed funding round led by Hash Global (amount undisclosed). Read more here.

  • Silencio: A community-powered network addressing noise pollution raised $1.30M in a public sale round at a $60M FDV. Read more here.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Endaoment, a charity fund on Ethereum, sold 3,690 ETH for 12.53M USDC at $3,395 in a single transaction. Txn details here.

  • Whale 0x2a9 withdrew 4.258M FTM ($3.56M) from Binance at an average price of $0.837. More details here.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Neutron (NTRN): $3.69M

  • COCA (COCA): $694.44K

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @0xkyle__ shares his 2025 game plan 🔥. Check it out here.

  • @tombheads shares market thoughts for 2025 🧐. Check it out here.

📅 Upcoming Events

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