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:

  1. 🩸 ~$300M liquidated from cryptocurrency markets as Bitcoin falls below $42K.
  2. 📉 ARK sells an additional 335,860 Coinbase $COIN shares.
  3. 👾 Wormhole patches Wormhole Aptos contracts.
  4. 🔓 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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