Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

December 16, 2024

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • AlphaOS: Odyssey 1 is now live! Earn $500-$2000 by downloading the Chrome extension, enabling automining, and completing tasks. Get started here

  • Variational Testnet: Earn $700-$1000 by connecting to the Arbitrum Sepolia Network and trading on the Perpetual DEX. Start here

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Canadian rapper Drake’s X account hacked to promote fake meme coin 💀. Read more here

  • Hall of Shame: Fake Uber driver allegedly steals $300K in crypto from passengers 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Bitcoin powers to new highs above $106K on strategic reserve hopes. Read more here

  • Czech Republic implements crypto tax exemption as Argentina expands ETF access. Read more here

  • MicroStrategy secures Nasdaq-100 inclusion after bitcoin-fueled stock surge.

    Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

  • Sui Blockchain and Ant Digital partner to tokenize ESG assets. Read more here

  • Xverse adopts sBTC as the preferred scaling solution for Bitcoin. Read more here

  • Step Finance acquires Moose Capital to tokenize major stocks on Solana. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Waterfall Protocol: Scalable, decentralized smart contract platform raised $11.60M from BlueWave, Alpha Token Capital, and others. Read more here

  • Soarchain: Vehicle data and connectivity platform raised $4.50M led by Taisu Ventures and Plug and Play Ventures. Read more here

  • AgriDex: Solana-backed RWA marketplace raised $4M in a strategic funding round led by Portal Ventures. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Two fresh wallets jointly withdrew 2,802 ETH ($11.13M) from Binance 🐳. More details here

  • Justin Sun unstaked 52,905 ETH ($209M) from Lido Finance and deposited 196,380 EIGEN ($964K) to HTX. Txn details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Arbitrum (ARB): $90.94M

  • LimeWire (LMWR): $3.95M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @tradestream_xyz thread on liquidation flushes 🔥. Check it out here

  • @0xGeeGee shares market insights 🧐. Check it out here

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Bitcoin Medellin Conference 2025: Jan 17-18, 2025, Medellin, Colombia. Buy tickets here

  • Bitcoin Day Naples 2025: Jan 18, 2025, Naples, US. Buy tickets here