HashKey Capital has successfully closed the first round of funding for its fourth fund, raising $250 million.

**Dec 24 Crypto Brief** 1. Per Arkham monitoring: An address tied to Trend Research (Yihua Group’s subsidiary) borrowed $20 million from Aave and transferred the funds to Binance in the past hour. 2. Today’s update: Yihua Group’s investment arm Trend Research has amassed 46,379 ETH (valued at ~$137 million) via leveraged borrowing. 3. Yihua Group statement: “Trend Research is prepping an extra $1 billion to keep accumulating ETH.”

On December 24, China Evergrande Group (736 HK) announced its board of directors has approved moving forward with an asset allocation plan: The company intends to use its own funds to purchase and hold BNB and other suitable digital assets on the open market, as part of its strategic reserve assets—subject to compliance with relevant laws, regulations and risk control requirements.

On December 24th, on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reported that three addresses have deposited 2.47 million USDC as collateral into Hyperliquid over the past 24 hours. Together, they opened 1.69 million TST long positions worth $1.69 million—accounting for 42.3% of Hyperliquid’s total TST Open Interest and holding the top three long positions on the platform. The three addresses are likely linked to the same entity, per three key observations: 1. All exhibited identical behavior: transferring BTCB out of Gate, depositing it to Aster, then withdrawing USDT; 2. Their collaterals were all withdrawn from Gate or OKX in the past 24 hours, with direct deposits to Hyperliquid post-withdrawal; 3. The TST long positions are currently their only holdings on Hyperliquid. Notably, one of the addresses—0x48c…bc9d0—previously opened a TST long position in early December and netted a $31,000 profit.

December 24th — Matrixport has withdrawn 1,090 Bitcoin from Binance, per Onchain Lens data, with the assets valued at $94.7 million.

December 24 Decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket confirmed on Wednesday that a recent security vulnerability tied to a third-party identity verification provider has impacted multiple users. Earlier this week, reports of compromised Polymarket accounts began popping up on Twitter and Reddit, with affected users sharing details of their losses on social media. Per user accounts on those platforms, the issue appears to have hit users who registered for Polymarket via Magic Labs— a service that lets users log in with their email and create non-custodial Ethereum wallets. Magic Labs is popular among crypto newcomers who don’t yet have digital asset wallets. On Tuesday, Polymarket addressed the issue in an official Discord post, saying: “We recently identified and fixed a security issue impacting a small number of users. This issue stemmed from a vulnerability introduced by a third-party identity verification provider.” However, the platform did not disclose how ma