Kanye West Offered $2M to Launch Memecoin

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Crypto News

• ⭐️ Kanye West offered $2M to launch memecoin; asks to speak with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong concerning crypto.

• Ethereum $ETH developers set the dates for Pectra upgrade; Holesky testnet on February 26th, Sepolia testnet on March 5th, & mainnet in April.

• US SEC acknowledges Grayscale Solana $SOL 19b-4 filing; SEC previously refused to process Solana-related filings.

• Pump[.]fun deposits 140,285 $SOL worth ~$26M into Kraken; deposited 1,021,162 $SOL worth ~$208M in 2025.

• BNB Chain $BNB launches Malicious MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) Reduction proposal; proposes booting malicious block builders, voting out rogue validators, & upgrading the mempool.

• US Congressmen push for NFT legal protections with NFT ACT in revised FIT21 crypto bill; would designate some NFTs as non-securities.

• Ondo Finance $ONDO announces Ondo Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for institutional-grade RWAs.

• Ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky seeks 1-month delayed prison sentencing; cites time for his legal team to “review government submissions for accuracy”

• Tornado Cash Co-founder Alexey Pertsev released from prison; under house arrest with electronic monitoring as he works on appeal.

• Bybit registers with India's Financial Intelligence Unit after settling $1M fine; fined last week due to lack of regulatory compliance.

Alpha

• MegaETH changes Fluffle NFT mint structure; 1.5K free & guaranteed NFTs on Day 1 & 3.5K 1ETH RNG-selected NFTs on Day 2.

• ⭐️ Monad posts "gonna be a big month" on X; to launch testnet this month.

• Story Protocol introduces $IP and its tokenomics; 10% allocated for Initial Incentives & 38.4% allocated for Ecosystem + Community.

• Namada $NAM to launch Phase 3: Shielding Party soon; NAM transferability in Phase 5: NAM Party.

• OpenSea launches free commemorative Berachain NFT to celebrate mainnet being live on day one.

• Roadmap Calendar by LayerGG.

• List Of Upcoming TGEs, Listings, & Releases by ICO Analytics.

Airdrops

• Berachain launches $BERA airdrop claim; Berachain NFT holders, testnet users, Boyco users, & more are eligible.

• ICYMI Olimpio launches Berachain $BERA mass airdrop checker; no cookies, no tracking, no signatures.

• ⭐️ Solayer launches $LAYER eligibility checker; check allocation on February 10th & claim on February 11th.

• B3 to launch $B3 S1 airdrop on February 10th; 34.2% of token supply allocated for Community & Ecosystem

• Blast (Berachain) launches $BLAST airdrop eligibility & allocation checker; users who sold 100% of their BLAST (Blast) are eligible.

• ICYMI D3 Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• Airdrop Updates by Airdrop Official.

Finance News

• ⭐️ US President Trump to issue reciprocal tariffs to match those imposed by other countries; Trump did not specify which countries would be affected.

• BlackRock $BLK increases ownership of Strategy $MSTR (formerly MicroStrategy) to 5%; previously disclosed 4.09% ownership in September 2024.

• Trump Media & Technology Group $DJT to launch Made in America ETF, US Energy Independence ETF, & Bitcoin Plus ETF; to launch later this year.

• Gemini crypto exchange considers initial public offering this year; in talks with potential advisers but no final decisions have been made.

• Public Citizen, a US watchdog group, files complaint over President Trump's memecoin $TRUMP; cites foreign payment risk.

Security and Exploits

• UK Government secretly ordered Apple to create encryption backdoor; Apple likely to remove encrypted iCloud storage from the UK.

• SlowMist January 2025 Security Report estimates ~$98M of losses from Web3 security incidents; incidents include contract vulnerabilities, account compromises, & private key leaks.

• ⭐️ DeepSeek iOS app sends unencrypted user data to ByteDance servers; includes user registration details, device information, & organization IDs.

• Revoke[.]cash adds support for Berachain.

Token Unlocks

• Movement $MOVE / ~$27M / FEB 09th
• Aptos $APT / ~$64M / FEB 10th
• Polyhedra $ZKJ / ~$36M / FEB 12th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Superlogic raises $13.7M in Series A funding led by Powerledger.

• The Game Company raises $10M in funding led by Telcoin, BullPerks, & Singularity DAO.

• Fragmetric raises $7M in Seed funding led by Finality Capital Partners & Hashed.

• Prodigy raises $5M in Seed funding led by Quantstamp & Republic.

• Hex Trust raises an undisclosed amount in Strategic funding led by Morgan Creek Digital.

• Ostium receives grant from the Arbitrum Foundation.

• Keystone Hardware Wallet receives grant from the Avalanche Foundation.

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