Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 17, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Vlayer Verifiable Badge Program: Earn $500-$700 by joining the Vbadge program, minting here, and claiming early roles on Guild. Start here

  • Anomage Claim Early Adopter: Earn $1000-$2000 by joining Discord, completing roles in the #get-roles channel, and claiming tasks. Claim here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Almost 800 people arrested in Nigeria over a massive crypto-romance scam 💀. Read more here

  • Hall of Shame: Pastor swindles $5.9M through a cryptocurrency scam 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • MicroStrategy acquires another 15,350 Bitcoin for $1.5B, raising its total holdings to 439,000 BTC. Read more here

  • Spain’s BitBase to install the first crypto ATMs in Argentina next year. Read more here

  • Ripple to launch its RLUSD stablecoin on December 17. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • Avalanche introduces the Avalanche9000 upgrade to reduce deployment costs. Read more here

  • Ethena officially launches USDtb, a stablecoin backed by BlackRock. Read more here

  • Lido to cease staking operations on Polygon and shift focus back to Ethereum. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Fantasy Top: SocialFi trading card game raised $4.25M in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. Read more here

  • Yei Finance: Decentralized money market on Sei raised $2M in a seed round led by Manifold. Read more here

  • Juicyway: Digital asset financial platform raised $3M in a pre-seed round led by P1 Ventures. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Two institutions, Mt. Gox and Marathon Digital, moved 23,664 BTC ($2.51B) after Bitcoin hit a new all-time high nearing $108K 🐳. More details here

  • Fresh wallet 0x720 withdrew 151.6 WBTC ($16.09M) from Binance at $106,162. Txn details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • ApeCoin (APE): $23.73M

  • Nuklai (NAI): $3.58M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @theiaresearch thread on regret-minimization in volatile markets 🔥. Check it out here

  • @game_for_one thread about crypto decision-making 🧐. Check it out here

📅 Upcoming Events

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