PEPENODE, a mining–GameFi hybrid, has raised more than $2.3 million in its token sale and lists a current price of $0.0012064. The project's design burns 70% of tokens spent on rig upgrades, features a declining on-chain emissions schedule, and offers staking yields of up to 546% APY from a pre-allocated pool, while several analysts and YouTubers have highlighted the initiative.

The Federal Reserve has released a proposal and opened a public feedback portal on creating so-called "skinny" payment accounts that would let certain fintech and crypto firms access its payment systems on a limited basis. Under the plan, non-bank institutions could clear and settle their own transactions via designated accounts linked to Fed master accounts, with strict caps, no interest, and risk controls, while some policymakers have raised concerns over safeguards against financial crime.

On Tuesday, veteran trader Peter Brandt revisited Bitcoin's history of at least 80% pullbacks after parabolic advances, while also projecting the next bull market peak for the asset in September 2029. XRP has reclaimed turnover leadership over Cardano's Midnight (NIGHT) after posting higher daily trading volume, and Shiba Inu (SHIB) is edging toward its so-called Black Friday support zone at $0.00000678. Across the market, Bitcoin trades in the mid-$80,000 range as traders watch defined upside and downside targets for BTC, XRP, NIGHT and SHIB.

On December 23 2025, Santiment reported that XRP's social media sentiment fell to one of its most negative readings in two months as the token traded more than 30% below recent highs. The article adds that a similar fear spike on November 21 was followed by a roughly 22% three-day rebound, while price recently slipped under $1.93.

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Bitcoin failed to sustain a break above 90,000 and slipped back into a retracement over the past 24 hours, while most majors traded lower. BTC is down about 2.5% near $87,5000; liquidations total roughly $250 million with nearly $200 million from longs, according to Coinglass, and altcoins from ETH to BNB also declined.

In the month leading up to December 15, Bitcoin's network hashrate fell by 4%, a development VanEck analysts Matt Sigel and Patrick Bush characterize as a historically bullish contrarian signal for future price action. Since 2014, Bitcoin has recorded positive 90-day forward returns 65% of the time after a 30-day hashrate decline, compared with 54% when hashrate rose, and negative 90-day hashrate growth has preceded positive 180-day returns 77% of the time with an average gain of 72%. Bitcoin trades around $88,400, while mining profitability is shifting as electricity breakeven costs drop and roughly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity in China allegedly shut down, with some energy potentially redirected toward artificial intelligence demand.

ETHZilla, backed by Peter Thiel, said it sold $74.5 million (24,291 ETH) to reduce debt and will discontinue its mNAV metric while pivoting to tokenization. The reversal follows mNAV slipping below 1 in early December and an October effort to prop it up with $40 million in ETH sales, as broader ETH treasuries and ETFs posted sizable outflows.