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DeFi, Airdrops, and Crypto real time alpha notifications 🔔
What happened in the last 24hs?
1. ❄️ Celsius starts to open cryptocurrency withdrawals.
2. ⚽️ Cristiano Ronaldo sued for allegedly promoting unregistered securities.
3. 🎁 Gitcoin Grants 19, several hours left to donate.
4. 🔓 Velodrome frontend compromised.
5. 🌌 Wormhole raises $225M in funding.
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AlphaPacked Round-Up: Last 24hs in Crypto
1. 🌕 Do Kwon extradition approved.
2. 👮 Sam Bankman-Fried's new cell mates.
3. ⚽️ Atletico vs Whalefin lawsuit.
4. 🪂 Justin Sun's airdrop announcement.
5. 🩸 Kyber hack: $47M loss.
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AlphaPacked Round-Up: Last 24hs in Crypto
1. ⚖️ CZ & Binance plead guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act.
2. 🦑 SEC charges Kraken for alleged securities laws violations.
3. 💰 Mt. Gox trustee set to repay creditors in 2023 and 2024.
4. 🔓 HTX & Heco bridge hacked for ~$97M.
5. 🤖 Sam Altman agrees to return to OpenAI.
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Missed the Pyth Network airdrop? 🪂
Introducing 3 tokenless oracles, similar to Pyth.
Chronicle, Supra, and Redstone →
Both Supra and RedStone have active campaigns now! Chronicle secures over ~$6B compared to Pyth's ~$1.5B.
Highlights and strategies for each Oracle 👇
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https://x.com/earndrop_io/status/1726684849950576714
Pyth Network airdrop is live and claimable 🪂
• What is Pyth Network? Pyth Network is an oracle that publishes onchain data for apps similar to Chainlink.
• Pyth Network secures 120 protocols and ~$1.59B.
How to claim and who was eligible: https://x.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1726604503619715391
AlphaPacked Round-Up: Last 24hs in Crypto
1. ⚡️ Infura unveils partners that will power its Decentralized Infrastructure Network.
2. 🥊 ENS Founder criticizes Unstoppable Domains.
3. 🔒 Solana Labs refutes CertiK's claims regarding Solona Phone vulnerability.
4. 🪂 Pyth Network announces date for retrospective airdrop claim.
5. ⚖️ US SEC requests federal judge force Elon Musk to testify.
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Gitcoin Grants 19 went live today 👀
Here's a list of my favourite projects to donate to👇
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1724889437031608556
• Why donate? It is an opportunity to fund the projects and people you care about the most.
• That said, projects like Optimism and Celestia rewarded Grant donors in the past. We shouldn't expect anything in return going forward, but there is always a chance!
Alpha-Packed: Monday 13 November
1. ⚖️ FTX sues ByBit alleging fraudulent scheme.
2. 🤦 WSJ publishes alleged misinformation article regarding Hamas cryptocurrency funding.
3. 🚀 Former FTX general counsel launching cryptocurrency exchange.
4. 🛡 AAVE V2 and V3 markets unpaused.
5. 💰 ApeCoin unlock worth ~$22.47M set for Nov 16th.
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If you hold spot ETH, there are a few LSD protocols where you can stake it that don't have a token (🪂):
Many of them have some sort of "points" system.
• ether fi: just announced that points<>decentralized governance.
• mev io: 50M TVL and backers like 0xMa...
Full tweet: https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1722603674965340294
I introduced EigenLayer in January.
Also gave a few updates when they first opened deposits. As always, no talk of airdrop, but I wouldn't fade it.
There are 24hs left to vote on an EigenLayer proposal, there's speculation it could help being a criteria.
• Short, but effective strategy:
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1721958916295180491
Alpha-Packed: Friday 03 Nov ⚖️
1. SBF found guilty on all charges.
2. SafeMoon and its executives charged and arrested.
3. US authorities seize $54M in crypto.
4. Research shows ~40% of Celestia airdrop addresses are sybil groups.
5. Musk announces xAI will release its first AI.
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Alpha-Packed: Monday 30 October 🍬
1. Celestia's Mainnet and airdrop tomorrow.
2. Connext and others sign a unified letter calling for open bridge standards.
3. VanEck predicts price of $SOL could reach +~$3K.
4. ZachXBT alerts anyone who may have stored their seed phrase or private keys on LastPass to migrate their cryptocurrency assets immediately.
5. Gitcoin Grants 19 (GG19) is now open for applications.
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Many airdrops pay attention and support the developer community.
Scroll is rewarding users who deploy a smart contract to Scroll Mainnet with a "Scroll Origins NFT". No use for now, but... 👀
How to deploy a smart contract in Scroll 📜
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https://twitter.com/earndrop_io/status/1717910570111058301
Alpha-Packed: Wed 25 Oct 💰
1. FTX is in discussion with at least three bidders to buy the exchange.
2. Blackrock iShares Bitcoin ETF has been listed on the DTCC website since August.
3. Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to take the stand and testify on Thursday.
4. BlockFi emerges from bankruptcy.
5. Vitalik Buterin invests in Nocturne Labs.
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Bitfinex 2016 hack incident turns into fortune for its users 🧵
iFinex (Bitfinex parent company) has proposed a $150 million share buyback for victims.
Hack was 120M back then, valued at 1.7B now.
What happened, how we got here, and why it could be important:
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1716516068964073965
Last 24hs in Crypto
1. ☠️ Inferno Drainer shuts down.
2. ⚖️ SEC having trouble serving Richard Heart with its lawsuit.
3. ⚡️ Antoine Riard accuses Bitcoin developers of focusing on commercializing the Lightning Network rather than security.
4. 🪂 Cosmos co-founder Jae Kwon to fork Cosmos and airdrop $ATOM1 tokens to users who voted against reducing Cosmos inflation.
5. 💰 $DYDX ~$500+ million token unlock this week.
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Kyberswap is being drained, several sources report.
If you have assets, withdraw
https://polygonscan.com//tx/0xb58c81460ef0167f492fb4900e9da60cc6fa1117bd5b67b2100bb5b5e5df8b0c
https://debank.com/profile/0xc9b826bad20872eb29f9b1d8af4befe8460b50c6
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20hs ago a new "L2" launched, it's called Blast, and it already has +60M in TVL.
Investors include Paradigm, DegenSpartan — and it was created by Pacman, the people behind Blur.
Their airdrop has been confirmed. People are accumulating points right now.
How to participate: 👇
https://x.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1727079854389252168
AlphaPacked Round-Up: Last 24hs in Crypto
1. 🇦🇷 "Pro-Bitcoin" Javier Milei wins Argentina Presidential election.
2. 👮 Tether freezes 225M stolen $USDT.
3. 🪂 Pyth airdrop is live and claimable.
4. 💬 Justin Sun messages Poloniex hacker.
5. 🪟 OpenAI founders ousted, join Microsoft.
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Nocturne, a privacy protocol backed by Vitalik Buterin just launched on Mainnet 🚀
Tornado Cash, another privacy protocol; did an airdrop in the past. Aztec, also a privacy protocol; is rumored to be launching a token soon. Could Nocturne be next?
Guide and token info 👇
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https://x.com/earndrop_io/status/1725616605831524856
0xMaki Mystery 🧩
~1 year ago, 0xMaki (Sushi's founder, now at LayerZero), posted a cryptic message on Lens and Farcaster.
Today, we still have no answers nor do we know what the cryptic message means.
Could it be connected to $ZRO? An NFT project? Or something else? 👀
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https://x.com/earndrop_io/status/1725163023248003124
AlphaPacked Round-Up: Last 24hs in Crypto
1. 🪨 Blackrock denies the authenticity of XRP ETF filing.
2. 🛑 Starknet briefly halts for ~40 minutes.
3. 🦑 Charles Hoskinson tweets to Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell.
4. 💸 Gitcoin Grants 19 live.
5. 🦠 CertiK discovers bootloader vulnerability in the Solana Phone.
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Alpha-Packed: Friday 10 November
1. 💰 Celsius to give back 2B to customers (67-85%)
2. 🪨 Blackrock registers Ethereum Trust in Delaware
3. ⚫️ OKX deletes a video speculated to be related to LayerZero token
4. 🥷 Poloniex from Justin Sun Hacked for 125M
5. 📈 FTT pumps on potential FTX restart
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Alpha-Packed: Wednesday 08 Nov 📉
1. 📉 OpenSea valuation drops from $13.3B to ~$1.4B.
2. 🟣 Kraken aiming to build layer 2 network similar to Coinbase with Base.
3. 💰 Bitcoin temporarily stopped producing blocks for ~1 hour.
4. 🔵 Circle rumored to go public next year with an IPO.
5. 📆 Polygon Founder teases announcements set for Nov 9th and Nov 14th.
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Alpha-Packed: Monday 06 Nov 📅
1. Ethereum Cancun/Deneb upgrade delayed until Q1 2024.
2. Elon Musk or his companies will never create a cryptocurrency token.
3. OpenSea lays off half of its employees, shifts direction to OpenSea 2.0.
4. Prisma Finance unveils retroactive airdrop.
5. Monero community wallet exploited, source of the attack has yet to be identified.
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Alpha-Packed: Wednesday 01 NOV ⛔️
1. WalletConnect restricts availability in Russia.
2. Gary Gensler tweets Happy Anniversary to Bitcoin.
3. Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense concludes.
4. Pyth Network unveils retrospective airdrop.
5. Frax Finance temporarily loses control of domains.
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Alpha-Packed: Friday 27 Oct 👮
1. Kraken will share user data with the US IRS next month.
2. US lawmakers call on DOJ to consider criminal charges against Binance and Tether.
3. Sam Bankman-Fried blamed gross negligence for FTX's collapse and struggled during cross-examination in his testimony.
4. Citadel Securities denies allegations of being behind the collapse of the TerraUSD $UST stablecoin.
5. Elon Musk wants X to replace your bank.
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Chainchat by Zapper is a new FT alternative. 💬
Zapper, which is backed by Marc Cuban, has created an application similar to FriendTech, but differs in how it distributes fees.
Airdrop Strategy: exploring Chainchat and the potential for a Zapper token and airdrop. 🪂 🧵
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1717611226476491086
Week 3 of Arbitrum Odyssey 🔥
Featuring: Uniswap & ApeX
Complete all Week 3 tasks to be eligible to claim An Unexpected Friend and Galaxy of the Predatoooors NFT Badges.
Tasks and guide below 👇
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https://twitter.com/earndrop_io/status/1716919895840206981
Scroll Mainnet is live 🚀
The native zkEVM with over $80 million in funding just went live.
How to bridge and use Scroll, as well as some information regarding the Scroll token.
🪂 Airdrop Strategy:
https://twitter.com/earndrop_io/status/1716511308835881473