A cryptocurrency exchange store in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, was the target of a failed robbery attempt. The owner sustained minor injuries, and no property loss was reported.

On December 14, Brazil’s largest asset management firm Itaú Asset Management recommended investors allocate 3% of their funds to Bitcoin to hedge against foreign exchange and market impact risks. The firm cited Bitcoin’s low correlation with traditional local assets as a key reason, calling it a valuable diversification tool. Itaú noted market timing isn’t required and advised sticking to a disciplined long-term investment strategy. This recommendation aligns with Bitcoin allocation guidance from other major asset managers. Earlier this month, Bank of America approved a maximum 4% Bitcoin allocation proposed by its wealth advisors, while BlackRock has advised a 2% allocation.

Infrared, the liquidity staking protocol of the Berachain ecosystem, announced details of its IR token airdrop on December 14. The airdrop targets early community members, Boyco presale participants, and users active in community activities. Users can claim the airdrop early via a centralized exchange deposit process, while non-exchange claims will open on the Token Generation Event (TGE) day. The IR token is set to officially launch on December 17, 2025.

December 14: Spencer, CEO of Moonbirds parent company Orange Cap Games, announced that the Moonbirds token BIRB will launch on Solana in Q1 2026. Previously, on October 2, Moonbirds had already revealed plans to launch its birb token on Solana.

December 14: The Prysm team published a post-incident review report detailing that on December 4—during Ethereum mainnet’s Fusaka period—nearly all Prysm validator nodes experienced resource exhaustion while processing specific attestations. This led to delayed responses to validator requests and a large number of missed blocks and attestations. The incident impacted 42 epochs (spanning epoch 411439 to 411480), with 248 missed blocks out of 1344 total slots—an approximate 18.5% miss rate. Network participation briefly dropped to 75%, and validators lost roughly 382 ETH in attestation rewards. The root cause was Prysm receiving attestations from potentially out-of-sync mainnet nodes that referenced the block root of the prior epoch. To verify these attestations’ legitimacy, Prysm repeatedly replayed historical epoch states and executed resource-intensive epoch transitions, which caused resource exhaustion under high concurrency. The Prysm team deployed a temporary fix by enabli

On December 14, per monitoring from crypto analytics outlet HyperInsight (Telegram: @HyperInsight), well-known whale "Big Brother Whale" Huang Licheng opened a 25x leveraged Ethereum long position valued at $12.2 million. The position’s details: - Opening price: $3,190.92 - Liquidation price: $3,056.19 - Unrealized loss to date: $274,000 This structure aligns with U.S. news brief conventions—concise, data-focused, and clear separation of key position metrics for readability.

On December 14, this week, venture capital firms injected $176 million into the crypto sector. Crypto startups have raised over $25 billion so far this year—far outpacing analysts’ expectations. Key investors in this week’s funding rounds include Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and DCG. Even as the total crypto market cap has shed $1 trillion from its October peak, several institutions are ramping up investments. Below are the top-funded crypto firms in the second week of December: Cross-chain economic connectivity platform LI.FI closed a $29 million funding round led by Multicoin and CoinFund. The firm plans to expand into new trading verticals—including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets—and use the fresh capital to hire additional staff. Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization network Real Finance secured $29 million in a private placement. The funds will build infrastructure for RWAs; the round includes a $25 million capital commit