Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 20, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Giza Quest: Earn $500-$1000 by completing the first quest in the Giza Points program, which rewards contributions to the agentic Web3 ecosystem. Start here

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⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Craig Wright, claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, sentenced to one year in prison 💀. Read more here

  • Hall of Shame: Vivek Ramaswamy’s X account hacked to promote a fake DOGE collaboration 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • El Salvador plans to continue Bitcoin purchases despite IMF concerns. Read more here

  • SEC approves Crypto Index ETFs from Franklin Templeton and Hashdex. Read more here

  • Crypto.com extends Formula 1 partnership through 2030. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • OKX unveils Ordinals Launchpad platform for direct Bitcoin inscription. Read more here

  • Aptos Labs announces CEO transition: Mo Shaikh steps down, Avery Ching takes over. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Lens: Layer-2 blockchain by Avara raised $31M in a funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. Read more here

  • Fraction AI: Decentralized AI data labeling platform raised $6M in a pre-seed round led by The Spartan Group and Symbolic Capital. Read more here

  • Flock: Web3 AI training firm raised $3M in a strategic round led by DCG. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Fresh whale 0x72f withdrew 5.65M ENA ($5.58M) from Binance 🐳. Txn details here

  • Pantera Capital transferred 154.035M ONDO ($262.7M) to 3 new wallets. More details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Boba Network (BOBA): $5.70M

  • Catizen (CATI): $3.20M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @naman_kapasi thread about decentralizing AI training 🔥. Check it out here

  • Bitwise shares their 10 crypto predictions for 2025 🧐. Read more here

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