Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 13, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • Plume Quests: Dive into the Cryptoverse and earn your share of $300K USDT in rewards. Potential: $500-$700.
    Start here.

  • World Mobile Chain Testnet: Engage in faucet claims, bridging, and network exploration. Potential: $600-$900.
    Claim faucet here.
    Bridge here.
    Explore the network here.

⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: UniLend Finance exploited for $197,000. Read more here.

  • Hall of Shame: Mango Markets announces shutdown after $117M hack. Users given January 13, 2025, deadline to exit. Read more here.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Polymarket banned in Singapore as an "illegal gambling website." Read more here.

  • Indian crypto exchange Mudrex suspends withdrawals amid 200% growth in user base. Read more here.

  • Philippine banks collaborate to launch PHPX stablecoin for enhanced cross-border payments. Read more here.

🔧 Project Updates

  • Bybit suspends crypto trading services in India amid regulatory changes. Read more here.

  • HashKey MENA eyes expansion with conditional VASP license approval from Dubai’s VARA. Read more here.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Rena Labs: Verifiable AI platform raised $3.30M in a Pre-seed round led by Paper Ventures. Read more here.

  • Ooga Booga: Berachain's liquidity aggregator raised $1.50M in a Strategic funding round led by Primal Capital. Read more here.

  • Alpen Labs: Bitcoin layer-2 developer raised $8.50M in a Strategic funding round led by DBA and Cyber Fund. Read more here.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Whale D2Noa deposited all 11.98M WIF ($17.61M) to Binance 🐳. Txn details here.

  • Arthur Hayes (BitMEX founder) unstaked and deposited 7.9M ENA ($6.44M) to Binance and Bybit. More details here.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Sweat Economy (SWEAT): $2.81M.

  • Games For A Living (GFAL): $939.38K.

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • @Evan_ss6: 2025 crypto predictions 🔥. Check it out here.

  • @defiIgnas: Article on Crypto Truths & Lies for 2025 🧐. Read more here.

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Consensus Toronto 2025: May 14–16, 2025, Toronto, Canada. Buy tickets here.

  • Bitcoin Ireland Conference 2025: May 24, 2025, Dublin, Ireland. Buy tickets here.