Trump has narrowed his choice for the next Fed chair to Kevin Warsh and Kevin Hassett, boosting Warsh’s chances. source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/trump-shortlist-raises-kevin-warshs-odds/

According to BlockBeats, venture capital firms have invested an additional $176 million in the crypto sector this week, bringing the total funds raised by crypto startups this year to over $25 billion, surpassing analyst expectations. Despite a $1 trillion drop in the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies since October, several institutions continue to increase their investments. The highest-funded crypto company in the second week of December is LI.FI, a multichain economic connectivity organization, which secured $29 million in funding led by Multicoin and CoinFund. LI.FI plans to expand into various trading sectors, including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets, and intends to use the new funds to hire additional staff. Real Finance, a tokenization network for real-world assets (RWA), raised $29 million in a private funding round to build the infrastructure layer for RWA. This round includes a $25 million capital commitment from digital asset investment firm Nimbus Capital, with participation from Magnus Capital and Frekaz Group. Infrastructure provider TenX Protocols completed a $22 million funding round, focusing on institutional-grade staking, validator operations, and crypto treasury (DAT) strategies. Its operations cover high-performance Layer 1 networks such as Solana, Sui, and Sei.

According to ChainCatcher, monitoring by HyperInsight reveals that Huang Licheng has significantly increased his Ethereum long position by 25 times, reaching a total of $12.2 million. The opening price for this position was $3,190.92, with a liquidation price set at $3,056.19. Currently, the position is experiencing an unrealized loss of $274,000.

According to ChainCatcher, data from Coinglass indicates that if Bitcoin surpasses $94,229, the cumulative liquidation intensity of short positions on major centralized exchanges will reach $828 million. Conversely, if Bitcoin falls below $86,317, the cumulative liquidation intensity of long positions on these exchanges will also reach $828 million.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has conditionally approved trust bank charters for prominent digital assets firms like Ripple, BitGo, and Circle, marking a significant step towards integrating cryptocurrencies with traditional finance. source: https://coincu.com/news/occ-approves-trust-charters/

Market data shows that FOLKS briefly surged above $40, reaching a high of $40.3, a daily increase of over 170%. As of press time, FOLKS is currently trading at $40.3, showing significant intraday volatility; investors should be aware of the risks.

Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity, Paxos, and Circle secure OCC conditional trust bank approvals. Pending conditions will integrate crypto with traditional finance. source: https://coincu.com/news/occ-approves-crypto-trust-banks/

According to ChainCatcher, the Prysm team, responsible for the Ethereum consensus layer client, has published an analysis report on the Fusaka mainnet issue. During the incident, nearly all Prysm nodes experienced resource exhaustion while processing specific proofs, resulting in an inability to respond promptly to validator requests. The fault affected epochs 411439 to 411480, with 248 blocks lost across 42 epochs, leading to a missing rate of 18.5%. Network participation dropped to a low of 75%, and validators lost approximately 382 ETH in proof rewards. The root cause was identified as Prysm beacon nodes receiving proofs from potentially unsynchronized nodes, which referenced block roots from previous rounds. To verify these proofs, Prysm attempted to reconstruct compatible states, causing repeated processing of past round blocks and costly recalculations of round conversions. The team temporarily addressed the issue by advising users to use the --disable-last-epoch-target parameter. Future versions v7.1 and v7.1.0 will include long-term solutions.

The Prysm team released a mainnet incident recap report stating that during the Ethereum mainnet Fusaka session on December 4th, almost all Prysm beacon nodes ran out of resources while processing specific attestations, resulting in their inability to respond to validator requests in a timely manner and causing a large number of missing blocks and witnesses. The incident affected epochs 411439 to 411480, a total of 42 epochs, with 248 blocks missing out of 1344 slots, a missing rate of approximately 18.5%. Network participation dropped to 75% at one point, and validators lost approximately 382 ETH in witness rewards. The root cause was that Prysm received attestations from nodes that may have been out of sync with the mainnet. These attestations referenced the block root of the previous epoch. To verify their legitimacy, Prysm repeatedly replayed the old epoch state and performed high-cost epoch transitions, causing nodes to run out of resources under high concurrency. The defect originated from Prysm PR 15965, which had been deployed to the testnet a month prior but did not trigger the same scenario. The official temporary solution was to enable the `--disable-last-epoch-target` parameter in version v7.0.0; subsequent releases v7.0.1 and v7.1.0 included a long-term fix, using head state to verify attestations and avoid repeatedly replaying historical states. Prysm stated that the issue gradually subsided after 4:45 UTC on December 4th, with network participation recovering to over 95% by epoch 411480. The Prysm team pointed out that this incident highlights the importance of client diversity; if a single client accounts for more than one-third, it may lead to a temporary inability to terminate; exceeding two-thirds poses a risk of an invalid termination chain. They also reflected on the unclear communication regarding feature switches and the failure of the test environment to simulate a large number of asynchronous nodes, and will improve testing strategies and configuration management in the future.

Despite the crypto market's pullback from its October highs and the loss of approximately $1 trillion in market capitalization, venture capital firms still poured about $176 million into the crypto sector this week, covering 16 startups. DefiLlama data shows that total funding in the crypto space so far in 2025 has exceeded $25 billion, significantly higher than the same period last year and far exceeding market expectations at the beginning of the year. Major investors this week included Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Digital Currency Group (DCG). Several industry insiders pointed out that the logic of capital allocation is changing; investors are gradually moving away from projects that rely solely on market sentiment and narrative-driven approaches, and are paying more attention to clear product positioning, genuine demand, and sustainable revenue models. Sebastián Serrano, CEO of the Argentine crypto exchange Ripo, stated that projects with clear product-market fit and stable cash flow are more likely to receive funding in the current environment. Specifically, cross-chain infrastructure project LI.FI completed a $29 million funding round this week. Its protocol integrates multiple cross-chain bridges and decentralized trading aggregators, and plans to use the funds to expand infrastructure for AI agents and stablecoin scenarios, as well as advance its intent and solver market launch in Q1 2026. Real Finance also completed a $29 million private funding round. This project builds an institutional-grade L1 blockchain based on the Cosmos architecture, focusing on compliant real-world asset tokenization, aiming to bring approximately $500 million worth of assets onto the chain in the short term. Another key project, TenX Protocols, completed a $22 million funding round and has been listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange. Its business covers staking, validator nodes, and digital asset treasury services for multiple high-performance public chains. The current funding structure reflects the market's continued interest in "infrastructure-type" and "institution-friendly" projects. Even with overall market pressure, capital is still willing to pay for projects with long-term competitiveness and clear business paths. (DL News)

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