🆒 Your weekly digest of cool news and updates

Welcome to another edition of the buidlbee newsletter, delivering the latest insights and developments from the world of cryptocurrency 🗞. Dive in to explore the most recent happenings shaping the Web3 landscape 🗻 with us. 

Here is what we have prepared for you:

• Solana Mobile 2 surges: over 100,000 pre-orders!

• Ripple Labs acquires Standard Custody & Trust Company;

• Starknet airdrop alert! 

• Bitcoin's journey: towards 75K?

• Mondelēz and Hedera collaborate for DLT adoption;

• Key crypto market Highlights (February 14-21);

• Ideas section: engage and explore.

📱 Solana Mobile 2 has over 100,000 pre-orders already

Many laughed at the launch of the second generation of the smartphone lineup given the non-super successful predecessor. 

But the team reported that in less than 30 days, the Solana Mobile 2 phone has been ordered more than 100,000 times. Because of this, pre-orders at $450 will close in 48 hours.

🤝 Ripple Labs acquires Standard Custody & Trust Company

Ripple Labs has struck a deal to acquire Standard Custody & Trust Company.

The purchase of the trust will allow the company to offer more internal services, including those related to the tokenization of assets.

The deal is pending approval from the New York Department of Financial Services. 

Over the past 24 hours, XRP has risen by 2.95%.

🪂Check your wallets – the Starknet airdrop is here

The long-awaited announcement from Starknet is here. The team has posted the criteria and website to check the drop.The $STRK token claim will be available on February 20. The snapshot was taken on November 15. The pool of 728M tokens can be claimed by several types of users. And they have until June 20 to claim $STRK.

At the time of writing, pre-launch STRK/USD perpetual futures were trading on Aevo at $1.75, which implies a market value of about $1.3B (based on the number of circulating coins and their current value).

Criteria for receiving $STRK:

• minimum of 5 transactions;

• 3 active months;

• volume of more than $100;

• wallet balance ETH 0.005+.

📈 75K for BTC?

Bitcoin (BTC) crossed the $51K mark today, reaching a market capitalization of $1 trillion for the first time since December 2021, CoinMarketCap data shows.

The rise came amid continued bullish sentiment for further growth in the largest cryptocurrency. Options traders are betting that the price will reach $75K in the coming months.

🙌 Mondelēz and Hedera joined forces to accelerate DLT adoption

Hedera Council, the organization behind the Hedera hashgraph, has partnered with US-based food and beverage company Mondelēz International to work on distributed ledger technology (DLT).

As a new member of the Hedera Board, Mondelēz is working to build Hedera-based solutions with a focus on digital transformation and supply chain management initiatives.

The HBAR token climbed 4.26% overnight.

🔑 Key crypto market highlights (February 14-21)

• Catgirl to launch Season 2 Farming (14.02).

• Sommelier Finance has announced that the distribution of vault fees to SOMM stakers will be conducted through a Dutch Auction (14.02).

• DUSK Network will release ITN testnet (15.02).

• FLOKI prepares to release Valhalla game (15.02).

• GooseFX will fully deprecate our NFT Aggregator (15.02).

• DIA: unclaimed tokens will be burned after the deadline (15.02).

• MainnetZ will launch its DEX (16.02).

• SuiPad holds a special giveaway (10-17.02).

• AI Power Grid’s first halving occurs at 100K blocks (17.02).

• ApeCoin (APE) tokens unlock – 15.6M coins, or 2.61% of the circulating supply (17.02).

• GS1 Global Forum 2024 (19-22.02).

• Oasis Network (ROSE) –  171M coins or 2.54% of the circulating supply to be unlocked (18.02).

• Kaspa holds a Valentine’s Day giveaway (19.02).

• Hedera will be upgrading mainnet to v0.46 (20.02).

• Binance will delist ANT, MULTI, VAI, and XMR tokens (20.02).

💲 Ideas

[1] 🔔 Attending the Mind Network testnet

Mind is a decentralized data storage platform. The team has raised over $2.5M from Binance Labs, HashKey Capital and others. The project now has a testnet and Galxe campaign.

Steps to participate in testnet:

• Adding the Mumbai and Sepolia test networks into your wallet;

• Request test tokens in faucets: Mumbai, Sepolia, CCIP-BnM Test Token;

• Register on the website using the Mumbai network and open the Transfer tab;

• Go to the Transfer section and send some tokens to any address (it must be registered in Mind Network, you can find one in the official Discord – branch Testnet-share);

• On the Bridge tab transfer Sepolia tokens to Mumbai;

• Go to Galxe and take points, mint NFT.

• Complete tasks on Zealy.

[2] 🔔 ROSEs are red…

According to the Signalyst latest analysis of Oasis Network (ROSE), the bulls took the upper hand in the long term after breaking above the $0.055 resistance. A breakout above the previous major high of $0.15 is needed for the bulls to regain full control. But bears will take the upper hand if the previous low of $0.11 is broken.

*Any technical analysis, in the long run, cannot accurately predict the movement because now is a very tough market and the news can swing currencies in all directions

[3] 🔔 It’s OKAY!

Okay Dogs is a new project on Ethereum from Okay Bears, one of the first blue-chips on Solana. Magic Eden recently announced that Okay Dogs will be the first project on their new ETH Launchpad. It's quite possible that airdrop will follow.

What to do:

• Go to the website;

• Add email and connect your X account;

• Complete the quests.