Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 23, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Caldera 10-Day Event: Earn $500-$1000 by completing daily quests. Day 1 quest: Start here

  • Unite Campaign: Earn $400-$600 by completing new tasks on Galxe and Zealy. Galxe Task here, Zealy Task here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: California residents indicted in a $22M crypto fraud case 💀. Read more here

  • Hall of Shame: HEX slumps as founder Richard Heart makes Interpol's 'Most Wanted' list 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Metaplanet acquires nearly 620 BTC in its largest Bitcoin bet. Read more here

  • Google to require UK crypto ads to register with the Financial Regulator starting January 2025. Read more here

  • Plume partners with Google Cloud to redefine RWA onboarding. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • Securitize proposes BUIDL Token as collateral for Frax USD stablecoin. Read more here

  • Unichain public mainnet to launch in early 2025, says Uniswap. Read more here

  • Marathon Digital warms 80,000 Finnish homes using heat generated from Bitcoin mining. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • BitDCA (Littlebit): Automated Bitcoin savings app raised $2M in a Pre-seed funding round. Read more here

  • DuckChain: TON’s consumer layer for Web3 raised $5M from DAO5, Offchain Labs, Kenetic, and others. Read more here

  • Kettle: Luxury watch trading marketplace raised $4M in a funding round led by ParaFi Capital. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0xddc spent 2.251M USDC to buy 6,813 AAVE at an average price of $330.37 🐳. More details here

  • Arthur Hayes (BitMEX founder) deposited another 2M ENA ($2.12M) to Bybit via a middle wallet. Txn details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Moonwell (WELL): $2.30M

  • zkLink (ZKL): $444.10K

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • PinkBrains_io: Thread about AI Swarms 🔥. Read more here

  • @sambroner: Thread about stablecoins 🧐. 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