On December 23, on-chain analytics firm Santiment reported that XRP social sentiment had turned sharply negative even as the token's price stabilized near recent lows around $1.90. Historically, such fear-zone readings and contrarian sentiment extremes around XRP have often aligned with local market bottoms and subsequent rebounds toward key resistance levels such as $2 and the psychological $3 area, although broader crypto market conditions remain a critical factor.

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.

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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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.

Hyperliquid's HYPE token is trading near the $24.00 support area after retreating from a recent local peak around $25.4–$25.5, with the chart showing a series of lower highs and lower lows. The token remains well below its 50-day SMA at $33.78 and 200-day SMA at $34.47, while volatility at 11.70% and a 14-day RSI of 37.93 underline fragile, bearish market conditions. If $24.00 breaks decisively, price could extend lower, whereas a move back above the $24.80–$25.00 band would be needed to ease downside pressure.

On December 23, 2025, BitMine said in a filing it acquired 98,852 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to 4,066,062 ETH at an average cost of $2,991 per ether. The same day, onchain watchers reported about 29,462 ETH, worth roughly $88 million, moved via BitGo and Kraken. The firm aims to accumulate up to 5% of Ethereum's circulating supply.

U.S. spot Ether ETFs snapped a seven‑day outflow run with $84.6 million in net purchases on Monday. XRP funds also drew $43.9 million, their strongest daily intake since early December, while Solana, Chainlink and Dogecoin products showed mixed momentum, with the former two seeing steady accumulation and DOGE activity fading.