Crypto Canary: Your Daily Crypto Rundown 🚀

January 15, 2025

🟢 Alpha Offerings

  • WeBears Mutant Premint: Complete tasks for a chance to win 1 ETH.
    Potential: $500-$750.
    Submit here.

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⚖️ Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame

  • Hall of Shame: Ex-engineer in Malaysia loses $2.1M to crypto scam 💀.
    Read more here.

  • Hall of Shame: Mosaic Exchange hit with $1.1M penalty in a crypto fraud scandal.
    Read more here.

📊 What Moved in the Crypto World Today

  • Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo makes a historic €1M Bitcoin purchase.
    Read more here.

  • Indian Railways to launch NFT train tickets for MahaKumbh Mela pilgrims.
    Read more here.

  • Bison partners with Deutsche Bank to expand banking network.
    Read more here.

🔧 Project Updates

  • BTguru and Chainlink team up to advance tokenization in Turkey.
    Read more here.

  • Sonic Labs launches points program to boost DeFi growth.
    Read more here.

  • Io.net partners with Injective for decentralized AI integrations.
    Read more here.

💼 Funding Announcements

  • Dfns: Wallet-as-a-service platform raises $16M in Series A led by Further Ventures.
    Read more here.

  • Sygnum Bank: Digital asset banking group secures $58M in strategic funding.
    Read more here.

  • METYA: AI-powered Web3 dating platform completes funding round (amount undisclosed).
    Read more here.

🐋 Whale Movements

  • Multi-sig wallet 0x7a6 deposited 1.4M ETHFI ($2.51M) to Bitget 🐳.
    More details here.

  • Smart trader 8TSfB swapped 789K WIF for 1.04M FARTCOIN ($1.15M) at $1.11.
    More details here.

🔓 Token Unlocks

  • Sei (SEI): $38.18M.

  • StarkNet (STRK): $27.07M.

🎙️ Coinversation Street

  • The Spartan Group: Article on 12 things exciting in Web3 for 2025 🔥.
    Read more here.

  • @theunipcs: Thread on developing conviction 🧐.
    Check it out here.

📅 Upcoming Events

  • Mallorca Blockchain Days 2025: Jul 10–13, 2025, Mallorca, Spain.
    Buy tickets here.

  • The Science of Blockchain Conference 2025: Aug 04–06, 2025, Stanford, US.
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