Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 13, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Aggregata Gata Pass NFT Giveaway: Participate in the NFT giveaway to earn $500-$700. Join here

  • Shaga Glob Points Campaign: Complete the campaign and share your Solana wallet to earn 3,000 Glob Points ($600-$800). Claim here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Russian police arrest 300 in a raid on international crypto call center scammers 💀. Read more here

  • Hall of Shame: Ledger hardware wallet user reports $2.5M digital asset loss 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Hong Kong’s crypto broker OSL adds support for TON in OTC services. Read more here

  • Ethena Labs to release its synthetic USDe stablecoin on Dec. 16. Read more here

  • Bank of England demands firms disclose crypto exposure by March 2025. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • Grayscale launches Lido DAO and Optimism Trusts to expand Ethereum investment offerings. Read more here

  • SparkDEX Eternal launches as Flare’s first perpetual DEX. Read more here

  • Zeus Network validates the first Bitcoin transaction on Solana. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Commonware: Rust-based blockchain framework raised $9M led by HAUN Ventures and Dragonfly Capital. Read more here

  • Avalanche (Ava Labs): Raised $250M led by Galaxy Digital, Dragonfly Capital, and ParaFi Capital. Read more here

  • Sphere Labs: Operating system for stablecoins raised $5M from Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, and others. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Fresh wallet bc1pw withdrew 300 BTC ($30M) from Binance 🐳. Txn details here

  • Whale 0x148 further withdrew 1,491 ETH ($5.83M) from Binance. Txn details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Sweat Economy (SWEAT): $2.59M

  • Games For A Living (GFAL): $1.17M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @a16zcrypto shares their thoughts on what excites them for 2025 🔥. Check it out here

  • @0xbaba23 discusses retail buying coins and Reddit data 🧐. Check it out here

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