Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 24, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Sentient AI: Earn $500-$700 by completing daily check-ins and simple tasks to accumulate points. Start here

  • Shardeum Atomium Testnet 4: Earn $600-$800 by completing new tasks in Level 4 and participating in Galxe. Claim here and here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: NFT promoters indicted for $22M rug pull fraud 💀. Read more here

  • Hall of Shame: FBI and Japanese police uncover North Korean links to a $300M Bitcoin hack 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Crypto.com launches a Polymarket-style sports prediction market in the US. Read more here

  • Nokia files patent for a digital asset encryption device. Read more here

  • MicroStrategy adds 5,262 BTC worth $561M to holdings, now at 444,262 BTC. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • Chainlink introduces an MEV recapture solution for DeFi. Read more here

  • Gate.io acquires Coin Master, returning to Japan. Read more here

  • Uniswap integrates Blockaid for enhanced token warning systems. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Usual Labs: RWA stablecoin developer raises $10M in Series A led by Binance Labs and Kraken Ventures. Read more here

  • Avalon Labs: Bitcoin-backed stablecoin issuer secures $10M led by Framework Ventures. Read more here

  • Rumble: Video-sharing platform raises $775M in a strategic funding round from Tether. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0x190 bridged 18.3M USDC to Hyperliquid and spent $12.22M on 428,867 HYPE at $28.50 🐳. More details here

  • James Fickel swaps 6,500 ETH ($22.44M) for 235.6 WBTC at an ETH/BTC rate of 0.0362. Txn details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • The Root Network (ROOT): $954.33K

  • LightLink (LL): $603.85K

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @VitalikButerin article on Deep Funding 🔥. Read more here

  • VanEck’s 10 Crypto Predictions for 2025 🧐. Read more here

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Web3 Amsterdam 2025: Mar 13-14, 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Buy tickets here

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