Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 09, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Sentient: Earn $300-$500 by pre-registering.
    Tasks: Connect with Twitter and complete initial tasks. Start here.

  • Crestal: Earn $400-$500 by joining the campaign.
    Tasks: Connect a new Metamask wallet, join Galxe, and complete all tasks. Start here.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Police arrest Dutch law student for a $4.6M crypto investment scam 💀. Read more here.

  • Hall of Shame: Thai authorities unplug illegal Bitcoin mine stealing millions of baht 🛡️. Read more here.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Revolut joins Pyth Network, pushing real-time financial data adoption. Read more here.

  • VC Giant a16z launches Spring 2025 accelerator for crypto startups. Read more here.

  • Thailand launches tourist crypto payments while shutting down illegal mining. Read more here.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Sonic and Galaxy Interactive launch a $100M fund for Web3 gaming. Read more here.

  • RareDex.io launches live exchange for tokenized rare earth metals on Arbitrum. Read more here.

  • Phala Network unveils Ethereum Layer 2 rollup on Polkadot. Read more here.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Movement Labs secures $100M Series B round co-led by CoinFund and Brevan Howard. Read more here.

  • SoSoValue raises $15M in Series A funding, led by HongShan Ventures. Read more here.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale 0xc09 deposited 300 WBTC ($28.5M) to Binance, netting a $9.98M profit 🐳. Txn details here.

  • Whale 0xb56 withdrew 2.248M OM ($8.95M) from Binance at $3.979. More details here.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Movement (MOVE): $43.37M

  • XAI (XAI): $7.65M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • Franklin Templeton shares their 2025 crypto outlook. Read more here.

  • @hosseeb posts 2025 crypto predictions 🔥. Check it out here.

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