On December 28, 2025, an XRP watcher highlighted Times Square's 2026 display using 589 lights, reviving a long‑running community motif. Bitcoin has three trading days left in December to hold the mid‑Bollinger near $88,929, opening a path toward $125,571 if defended. SHIB ended December negative and is targeting a January move that could delete one zero.

As late 2025 approaches, XRP is consolidating into a tight bullish triangle on lower time frames around $1.86, with traders eyeing a potential move toward the $2 zone. The pattern forms between resistance near $1.88 and support around $1.84, and a roughly 10% breakout could carry price toward $2.04 if buyers can push through overhead levels.

On December 25, 2025, BitMine Immersion chairman Tom Lee quoted an image circulating online that listed a $20,000 Ethereum target for 2026, responding with just "love this" despite the forecast later being flagged as fake. His reaction drew attention to BitMine's $11.83 billion crypto treasury, which holds 4,066,062 ETH and gains about $4.07 billion in paper value for every $1,000 move in ETH price. If ETH ever reached $20,000, that position alone would be worth roughly $81.32 billion, underscoring why such extreme numbers attract interest even when their origin is dubious.

Bitcoin's weekly chart signals a potential death cross with about two days left in the current candle, as price trades near $88,690 below the 23- and 50-week averages at $101,870 and $106,528. A weekly close back above that band would target $107,155; failure keeps focus on $80,600, $74,111 and the $67,026 zone.

On Dec. 26, Charles Hoskinson criticized Canton while highlighting XRP and Midnight, arguing that real Web3 networks and RWA scale cannot be fabricated. A sharp $24,111.22 wick on Binance's BTC/USD1 pair drew comments from Peter Brandt and a liquidity-focused response from CZ, while Dogecoin promoted a "naughty list" campaign targeting major brands that do not accept DOGE. The broader crypto market remained thin into the year-end, leaving these narratives to test whether they persist once liquidity improves.

On December 25, 2025, Charles Hoskinson said on X that Cardano's privacy spinoff Midnight will be a Manhattan Project for PET, chain abstraction and smart compliance. He is drafting 80–100 pages per day ahead of internal January workshops, while NIGHT trades at $0.07676 with a +19.57% weekly gain, $1.27 billion market cap, and $589.1 million 24‑hour volume.

On Dec. 25, XRP traded near $1.86, dipped, and recovered toward $1.87, finishing the holiday session in the green. According to CoinGlass, the last hour saw $12,510 in liquidations, mostly $11,802 in shorts, while the 24-hour total reached $828,440 with longs leading $481,670 versus $346,760 in shorts.

On Christmas, Shiba Inu's burn rate reportedly surged 505.74%, with 5,984,918 SHIB destroyed over a 24-hour period while the token traded around $0.00000719. Despite the headline jump in burns against a backdrop of over 410.75 trillion SHIB already removed from the initial supply, the price action stayed slightly negative and continued to reflect a pattern of lower highs into late December.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has publicly rejected renewed claims that he sold ADA near its 2021 peak around $3, insisting he did not offload tokens during the rally. As ADA trades around $0.35 on Binance after a prolonged downtrend, traders are watching key support near $0.30 and resistance between $0.38 and $0.50 to gauge whether any rebound can develop into a sustained recovery.