Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

🟢 Alpha Offerings

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⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

• Hall of Shame: Ex-Delphi Digital VP jailed for 4 years over $4.5M crypto embezzlement 💀. Read more here

• Hall of Shame: Fake Uber driver scams riders, stealing $300K in crypto 🛡️. Read more here

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

• El Salvador to limit Bitcoin activities for $1.4 billion IMF deal. Read more here

• Bitcoin surge drives mining machine costs in China, with more buyers from Russia. Read more here

• Deutsche Bank plans to build a Layer 2 solution on Ethereum. Read more here

🔧 Project Updates

• Kraken unveils Ethereum scaling layer Ink, months ahead of schedule. Read more here

• Ethena Labs partners with World Liberty Financial to add sUSDe to Aave. Read more here

💼 Funding Announcements

• Prometheum: Regulated digital asset securities platform raised $20M. Read more here

• Plume Network: Public L1 blockchain for scaling RWAs raised $20M led by Brevan Howard Digital and HAUN Ventures. Read more here

• Riot: Bitcoin mining and colocation company raised $594.40M. Read more here

🐋 Whale Movements

• Whale 0x182 withdrew another 800K OM ($3.19M) from Binance 🐳. More details here

• Smart SHIB trader 0xd6b deposited 399.99B SHIB ($9.69M) to Gemini at an average price of $0.00002423. More details here

🔓 Token Unlocks

• Polyhedra Network (ZKJ): $15.50M

• Pixels (PIXEL): $10.04M

🎙️ Coinversation Street

• @jvb_xyz thread on where crypto goes from here 🔥. Check it out here

• @jiraiyareal thread about consumer crypto 🧐. Check it out here

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