BitForex Goes Dark With $57M

️ On today's Top Picks:

Crypto News

• US Department of Energy halts investigation of cryptocurrency miner energy use following lawsuit.

• Binance $4.3B plea deal with US Department of Justice approved.

• ⭐️ MicroStrategy $MSTR buys an additional ~$155M worth of Bitcoin $BTC.

• Justin Sun suspected wallet buys an additional 13780 Ethereum $ETH.

• eToro CEO considers IPO after plans to go public via merger are scrapped.

Alpha

• Puffer Chapter 3 of Puffy's Crunchy Carrot Quest is live.

• ⭐️ Blast Big Bang Competition winners announced.

• Ethena Epoch 2 of the Shard Campaign is live.

• Uniswap posts, "The team is cooking this week T-1 day 👀" on X.

Airdrops

• Bebop Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• ⭐️ Aevo Co-Founder posts, "$AEVO soon?" on X.

• deBridge posts, "Loyalty will be rewarded" on X.

• SyncSwap posts, "wen" on X, potentially hinting upcoming token.

• Mute posts, "Soon ™️ Feb. 29th 🤫" on X.

• Element NFT Marketplace posts, "It seems like we need a DAO..." on X.

• FriendTech hints at an airdrop with X post illustrating parachutes and crates of diamonds.

• Parcl introduces $PRCL token with it coming in April.

Finance News

• Ark Invest sells an additional ~$16M worth of Coinbase $COIN shares.

• Goldman Sachs $GS & Mubadala sign $1B private credit Asia-Pacific partnership deal.

• BP $BP executive's husband pleads guilty to insider trading $1.76M after eavesdropping on work calls.

• Ant Group outbids Citadel for Credit Suisse's China unit.

Security and Exploits

• MicroStrategy X account hacked, posts wallet drainer links.

• RiskOnBlast rugpulls 420 Ethereum worth ~$1.3M.

• Aleo mistakenly exposes KYC of 10 community members due to copy/paste error in email metadata.

• Intmax launches bounty program for their Plasma Next architecture.

• LockBit Ransomware Group returns using new infrastructure after law enforcement previously seized control.

• Avast fined $16.5M for storing and selling customer information without their consent.

Token Unlocks

• Nym $NYM / 25M / ~$5.2M / FEB 26
• Yield Guild Games $YGG / 16.69M / ~$9M / FEB 27
• SingularityNET $AGIX / 8.97M / ~$6.6 / FEB 27
• Echelon Prime $PRIME / 1.66M / ~$21M / FEB 28
• Sui $SUI / 4M / ~$6.6M / FEB 28
• Optimism $OP / 24.16M / ~$88.7M / FEB 28
• Euler $EUL / 92.5K / ~$520K / FEB 29
• Manta $MANTA / 1.87M / ~$5.6M / FEB 29
• dYdX $DYDX / 33.33M / ~$117.7M / FEB 29
• ZetaChain $ZETA / 5.29M / ~$12.3M / FEB 29
• Acala $ACA / 27.43M / ~$2.9M / FEB 29

Funding

• ⭐️ Avail, a Web3 infrastructure layer; raises $27M in Seed funding led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly.

• OX FUN, a gamified perpetuals exchange; raises $4M in funding led by Foresight Ventures.

• Shuffle, a crypto casino and sports betting platform; raises $2.5M in funding.

• Singularity, an institutional-grade DeFi access layer; raises $2.2M in funding led by gumi Cryptos Capital.

• 5ire, an L1 EVM compatible smart contract platform; raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Gotbit.

• Delphinus Lab, a trustless computation provider; raises an undisclosed amount in funding from OKX Ventures.

The Degen Farmer