Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

February 17, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Symbootic – Expansion: The AI Frontier Flourishes (Part 2)

    • Potential: $700–$1000

    • Claim HERE

  • Abstract – Week 3

    • Potential: $500–$700

    • Tasks: Join the Atlas campaign and mint the Abstract Week 3 NFT

    • Claim HERE

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: India’s law enforcement confiscates $190M in crypto from BitConnect 💀. Read more HERE

  • Hall of Shame: Las Vegas man indicted for obtaining $24M from at least 400 investors in an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme 🛑. Read more HERE

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Argentina’s LIBRA meme coin crashes, erasing $4.4B after a controversial Milei post 💥. Read more HERE

  • Metaplanet’s Bitcoin treasury grows to $159M with latest 269 BTC purchase 📈. Read more HERE

  • Tether acquires a minority stake in Juventus Football Club ⚽. Read more HERE

🔧 Project Updates

  • Solana memecoin launchpad Pump.fun launches a mobile app. Read more HERE

  • Coinbase partners with Aston Martin F1, paying entirely in $USDC. Read more HERE

  • Hex Trust acquires Byte Trading, expanding into the institutional market. Read more HERE

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Plasma, an EVM-compatible Bitcoin-focused chain, raised $24M in a funding round led by Framework Ventures. Read more HERE

  • Teneo (ex-ELOOP), a decentralized data utilization and tokenization platform, raised $3M in a Seed round led by RockawayX, Borderless Capital, and Generative Ventures. Read more HERE

  • DeFi App, a DeFi SuperApp, raised $4M in a Seed extension round led by Mechanism Capital. Read more HERE

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0x755 spent 905,242 USDC to buy 3,530 AAVE at an average price of $256.46 🐳. More details HERE

  • New whale 0xc46 withdrew another 2,589 ETH ($6.91M) from Binance at $2,670 🚀. Txn details HERE

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • ApeCoin (APE): $11.10M

  • Nuklai (NAI): $1.18M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @Delphi_Digital insights from DeFi Year Ahead report. Read more HERE

  • @dberenzon thread about the on-chain payment landscape. Read more HERE

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Next Block Expo Warsaw 2025 – March 19–20, Warsaw, Poland. Buy tickets HERE

  • Mining Disrupt Conference & Expo 2025 – March 25–27, Fort Lauderdale, US. Buy tickets HERE