Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 27, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • RiftLend Waitlist

    • Potential: $500–$700.

    • Tasks: Complete tasks on RiftLend, connect wallet, and join the waitlist.

    • Join HERE.

  • PublicAI

    • Potential: $700–$1000.

    • Tasks: Connect Twitter, link your social accounts, download the browser extension, and explore.

    • Go HERE.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris' X account hacked to promote an $8M crypto scam 💀. Read more HERE.

  • Hall of Fame: FBI seizes $2.5M in crypto linked to Thailand's shocking pig-butchering scam. Read more HERE.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • a16z shuts London office to refocus on the US crypto market. Read more HERE.

  • Bitpanda secures MiCA license from the German regulator. Read more HERE.

  • Russia’s Rosseti to launch crypto mining operations. Read more HERE.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Brazil blocks Worldcoin’s pay-for-data model over ethical concerns. Read more HERE.

  • Jupiter acquires a majority stake in Moonshot, announces ‘Jupnet’ and a $10M AI fund. Read more HERE.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Radius: Trustless rollup sequencer for MEV raised $7M in a Seed funding round led by Pantera Capital. Read more HERE.

  • Swarm Network: Decentralized truth verification protocol raised $3M in a Seed round led by Y2Z Ventures. Read more HERE.

  • SignalPlus: Crypto options trading platform raised $11M in a Series B funding round led by AppWorks and OKX Ventures. Read more HERE.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0x030 spent 7.66M USDC to buy 77.06 WBTC at an average price of $99,400. More details HERE.

  • Whale 0x83c sold all 93.68B PEPE ($1.16M) for 376.867 ETH at a loss. Txn details HERE.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Yield Guild Games (RON): $3.47M.

  • Ronin (PMT): $49.08M.

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @zemariamacedo shares their 2025 predictions.
    Read more HERE.

  • @wassielawyer shares thoughts on Trump's memecoin.
    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.