Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 08, 2025

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⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Finnish police seize $2.6M in luxury watches from Hex founder amid tax evasion charges 💀. Read more here.

  • Hall of Shame: Crypto trader loses $60K in two hours on new AI token MPLX 🛡️. Read more here.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Major Portuguese bank restricts crypto platform transfers. Read more here.

  • Bitfinex Derivatives receives DASP license in El Salvador. Read more here.

  • HashKey obtains crypto registration approval in Ireland amid global expansion. Read more here.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Digital bitcoin miner GoMining expands to Solana ahead of NFTs launching on Magic Eden. Read more here.

  • OCBC launches tokenized bonds for corporate investors in Singapore. Read more here.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Nakamoto Games: Play-to-earn gaming platform raised $10M in a funding round led by Make It Capital. Read more here.

  • Wave Wallet: Telegram-based Sui crypto wallet closed a Seed funding round led by KuCoin Labs (amount undisclosed). Read more here.

  • TONCASH: Crypto cashback Telegram Mini-App received funding from TON Ventures (amount undisclosed). Read more here.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale DWhUa withdrew 7.18M WIF ($13.3M) from Binance and 1.876M POPCAT ($1.26M) from Bybit 🐳. More details here.

  • Smart PEPE whale 0xbe2 deposited another 210B PEPE ($3.95M) to Kraken. Txn details here.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Hypercycle (HYPC): $8.55M

  • Masa (MASA): $2.35M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @game_for_one shares their current views on the markets 🔥. Check it out here.

  • Grayscale shares their research insights for Q1 2025 🧐. Check it out here.

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