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Base L2 New Token: SEAM Airdrop
📈 Coinbase Adds SEAM Token
Coinbase Lists SEAM: Coinbase lists SEAM, the governance token of Seamless Protocol, as its airdrop begins, highlighting its unique distribution based on user involvement.
Seamless Protocol's Approach: Launched as a fork on Aave v3, Seamless Protocol is built on Base, focusing on decentralization without raising funds through equity or SEAM token sales.
SEAM Airdrop Details: The total SEAM supply is 100 million, with 69% for the community. Over 5,000 users are eligible for the airdrop, having acquired OG Points and participated in community quests. Read More.
️ On today's Top Picks:
- 🩸 ~$300M liquidated from cryptocurrency markets as Bitcoin falls below $42K.
- 📉 ARK sells an additional 335,860 Coinbase $COIN shares.
- 👾 Wormhole patches Wormhole Aptos contracts.
- 🔓 Aptos $APT token unlock worth ~$193M occurring today.
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Crypto News
• ⭐️ ~$300M liquidated from cryptocurrency markets as Bitcoin falls below $42K.
• Tether introduces new policy designed to combat activity connected with sanctioned persons on the OFAC SDN list.
• Binance introduces Fusionist $ACE on Binance Launchpool.
• Pudgy Penguins announces Pudgy World, a multiplayer game powered by zkSync.
• Sismo returns funds to investors and plans to deprecate.
Alpha
• Aptos launches Ecosystem Fundamentals campaign on Galxe, Quest One ends tomorrow.
• Fusionist $ACE thread on X by Crypto Snooper.
• ICYMI: Linea DeFi Voyage Wave 7 is live on intract.
• ICYMI: Gyroscope stablecoin $GYD is live.
Airdrops
• Orderly Network airdrop strategy by Earndrop.
• Everything modular thread on X by mztacat
Finance News
• ⭐️ Cathie Wood's ARK sells an additional 335,860 Coinbase $COIN shares worth ~$49.2M.
• Global hedge funds have lowest exposure to financial stocks since COVID-19 crisis.
• US FTC examines Microsoft $MSFT investment in OpenAI to determine if it may violate antitrust laws.
• Nasdaq to pay $4M settlement over apparent Iran sanctions violations.
• US Fed policy decision. (Wed)
Security and Exploits
• Slowmist weekly security report highlights ~$1.91M in estimated losses.
• AffineDeFi exploited for ~$145K.
• ⭐️ Wormhole patches Wormhole Aptos contracts after CertiK reports vulnerability.
• Compound DAO proposal that would award a developer who reported and fixed a vulnerability fails to pass after it falls short of vote quorum.
Token Unlocks
⭐️ • Aptos / 24.48M $APT / ~$193.27M / 11 DEC
• CyberConnect / 1.26M $CYBER / ~$7.79M / 14 DEC
• Flow/ 2.6M $FLOW / ~$1.99M / 15 DEC
• ApeCoin / 15.6M $APE / ~$25.74M / 16 DEC
Funding
• Data shows 3K+ private VC-backed startups have gone out of business this year; collectively raised over $27B.
• GFO-X, a UK regulated crypto derivatives platform, raises $30M in Series B funding led by M&G Investments.
• Nonco, a digital asset brokerage firm; raises $10M in Seed funding led by Valor Capital Group and Hack VC.
• Liquidium, a Bitcoin Ordinals lending platform; raises $1.25+M in Pre-Seed funding.
• Dovi, a Bitcoin Ordinals layer 2 solution; raises an undisclosed amount in a strategic investment from Kucoin Labs.
• ThenaFi, a BNB Chain DEX; raises $600K in a strategic investment from Orbs Network
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That’s it for today’s edition! See you soon.
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