Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

February 18, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Succinct

    • Potential: $500–$1000

    • Earn rewards by playing games and proving Ethereum blocks

    • Start HERE

  • 0G Testnet

    • Potential: $500–$1000

    • Claim faucet tokens, connect wallet, and use the Storage Scan tool

    • Join HERE

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: HashFlare co-founders plead guilty to running a $577M crypto scam 💀. Read more HERE

  • Hall of Shame: Scammers launch fake Saudi Crown Prince cryptocurrency, tricking investors. Read more HERE

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • OKX secures MiCA license, expanding crypto services across 28 EEA nations 🔥. Read more HERE

  • Meteora co-founder Ben Chow resigns amid LIBRA memecoin scandal. Read more HERE

  • Standard Chartered plans to launch HKD-backed stablecoin in partnership with Animoca Brands and HKT. Read more HERE

🔧 Project Updates

  • BitcoinOS unveils Grail Bridge Testnet app for cross-chain Bitcoin interactions. Read more HERE

  • Tether partners with the government of Guinea to drive stablecoin adoption. Read more HERE

  • Hyperliquid launches HyperEVM on mainnet, introducing general-purpose programmability. Read more HERE

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Soter Insure, a Web3 digital asset insurance company, raised an undisclosed amount in a Series A round led by Galaxy Digital. Read more HERE

  • BitRobot Network (FrodoBots), a crypto-incentivized embodied AI research platform, raised $6M in a Seed round led by Protocol VC 🤖. Read more HERE

  • GamerBoom, an AI-powered gaming data layer, raised $9M from Nvidia, Solana Foundation, Bing Ventures, and others 🎮. Read more HERE

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0xf44 unstaked and deposited 5,000 ETH ($13.63M) to Binance 🐳. Txn details HERE

  • Fresh wallet Guf5k withdrew 42,895 SOL ($7.57M) from Binance at $176.4. Txn details HERE

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Manta Network (MANTA): $5.24M

  • Fusionist (ACE): $3.07M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • ZeePrimeCap article on the rise of AI-powered robotics in Web3 🤖. Read more HERE

  • Old_Samster’s thread on Bittensor’s latest upgrade. Read more HERE

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025 – Apr 06–09, 2025, Hong Kong 🌍. Buy tickets HERE

  • Paris Blockchain Week 2025 – Apr 08–10, 2025, Paris, France 🇫🇷. Buy tickets HERE