Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 31, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Caldera NFT #9: Claim the Kinto Edition NFT with a potential value of $500-$2000. Requirements: At least 3 Ethereum mainnet transactions before Dec 22, 2024. Claim here

  • Initverse Beta Testing Airdrop: Earn $300-$500 by completing daily tasks such as token swaps and faucet claims. Start here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Fame: Vietnamese police bust a $1M crypto scam, safeguarding 300 victims. Read more here

  • Hall of Fame: Toronto fraud victim recovers most of $355K lost in an international romance scam. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • MicroStrategy acquires an additional 2,138 BTC, continuing its Bitcoin spree. Read more here

  • Real estate AI platform Janover announces acceptance of crypto payments. Read more here

  • Crypto.com partners with Dubai Islamic Bank to launch Sharia-compliant products. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • Sonic Labs partners with Immunefi to offer a $2M bug bounty program. Read more here

  • HyperLiquid enables HYPE staking with 16 validators. Read more here

  • Ondo Finance teams up with Plume Network to expand RWAfi use cases. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Pentagon Games, a zkEVM Web3 AI-based game publisher, received funding from Zero Seven One Labs. Amount undisclosed. Read more here

  • PoSciDonDAO secures funding from BoostVC for decentralized personalized medicine. Amount undisclosed. Read more here

  • The Grid, a Web3 metadata directory, raises $624K in an Angel funding round. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale bc1qc deposited another 778 BTC ($72.1M) to Kraken at $92,627 🐳. Txn details here

  • Whale FFDAa withdrew 10M PNUT ($6.09M) from Binance at an average price of $1.641. More details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Optimism (OP): $58.62M

  • Echelon Prime (PRIME): $10.01M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • Coinbase shares their 2025 crypto market outlook. Read more here

  • @defiprime thread on 2025 predictions. Check it out here

📅 Upcoming Events

  • ETHWomen 2025: May 13, 2025, Toronto, Canada. Buy tickets here

  • Bitcoin Ireland Conference 2025: May 24, 2025, Dublin, Ireland. Buy tickets here