Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 17, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Hyperlane Quests (Nexus): Bridge any amount of TIA.n from Arbitrum to Neutron.
    Potential: $1,500–$3,000. Claim HERE.

  • Slingshot AI: Join the waitlist to earn up to $500.
    Submit email HERE.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: California man indicted in cryptocurrency trading scam.
    Read more HERE.

  • Hall of Shame: South Korean woman allegedly steals $481K worth of crypto from a friend to pay off debt.
    Read more HERE.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Coinbase launches Bitcoin-backed loan services for U.S. users.
    Read more HERE.

  • Swiss bank PostFinance introduces Ethereum staking.
    Read more HERE.

  • MakersPlace announces market exit after six years in the digital art space.
    Read more HERE.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Idle launches on-chain private credit vault on Optimism.
    Read more HERE.

  • Tether launches USDT0 stablecoin on Kraken’s L2 Ink.
    Read more HERE.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Oh: Raised $4.50M in a Seed round for uncensored generative AI models.
    Read more HERE.

  • Brickken: Tokenization platform raised $2.50M in a Seed round from Psalion VC and others.
    Read more HERE.

  • Sol Strategies: Solana-focused investment firm secures $27.50M from ParaFi Capital.
    Read more HERE.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Multi-signature wallet 0xCAd withdrew $87.6M worth of top-cap cryptos from Binance.
    More details HERE.

  • Whale 0x7bc "jitrust.eth" deposited 4,669 ETH ($15.67M) to Binance.
    Txn details HERE.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • ApeCoin (APE): $17.90M.

  • Ancient8 (A8): $4.18M.

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @thesis_co shares 2025 crypto predictions.
    Read more HERE.

  • Oaktree Capital: Memo on watching bubbles in the crypto market.
    Read more HERE.

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