On December 22, 2025, Kaspa traded above $0.048 after gaining more than 6% in 24 hours while approaching the $0.05 resistance level. The token's move comes as it prepares for a spot trading launch on HTX and follows a rebound from December lows near $0.040. Technical indicators now point to a possible bullish continuation, with traders watching higher price targets if momentum persists.

The Uniswap community is on track to approve the UNIfication proposal, which will burn 100 million UNI from the Uniswap Foundation treasury and activate fee switches on mainnet after a two-day timelock. Voting began on December 20 and is scheduled to end on December 25, with over 69 million UNI cast in favor and the token trading near $6.08 after a recent recovery from $4.88.

Over the past 24 hours, BNB climbed 1% to near $870, defying broader market weakness. The token is up 23% year to date and earlier this year set a record high at $1,360 before a 36% pullback. Traders highlight a key trend line and watch $900–$1,000 on a breakout, with scenarios pointing to $950 on strength or $700 if support fails.

Updated December 22, 2025, ETH saw sustained inflows to whale wallets, with 10K–100K-ETH addresses leading. According to Cryptoquant, these wallets collectively hold over 22M ETH, while the largest cohorts carry around 4.47M. Whales accumulated in 2025 at sub-$3,000 levels, offering support near $2,800 and signaling long-term confidence despite weak retail sentiment.

Since August, Ethereum open interest has fallen by about 50%, signaling a substantial deleveraging in the derivatives market and a broad reduction in leveraged risk. ETH is trading close to $3,040 while total liquidations hover around $48.5 million, with shorts contributing roughly $31.8 million and longs about $16.7 million. With leverage significantly reduced and volatility muted, Ethereum appears to be consolidating as traders wait to see how new leverage returns to the market.

According to ChatGPT, Ethereum is favored over Solana for 2026, with the AI model focusing on value capture, institutional alignment, and evolving layer-2 economics rather than raw activity. It highlights maturing rollups, rising blob-space demand, and constrained issuance for ETH, while noting year-to-date prices of $3,040 for ETH (down almost 9%) and $126 for SOL (down 33%) as of press time.

Ripple's Managing Director for the Middle East and Africa, Reece Merrick, has reflected on the five years since the SEC filed its lawsuit against the company on Dec. 22, 2020, saying the experience strengthened the team and his conviction in Ripple's success. He highlighted that 2025 became one of Ripple's most ambitious years, with around $4 billion deployed into the crypto ecosystem, several major acquisitions completed and its RLUSD stablecoin greenlisted by Abu Dhabi's FSRA. Merrick now believes the outlook is brighter than ever for both Ripple and the broader digital asset sector.

According to on-chain data, 11 newly created wallets withdrew about 1.567 million Chainlink, worth roughly $19.8 million, from Binance over the last three days. LINK remains in a corrective phase below key moving averages, while exchange outflows are reducing readily available sell-side supply and may reflect defensive accumulation rather than speculative trading.