Cardano (ADA) is trading around $0.37 after a bearish monthly MACD crossover and has declined 32% since that signal, with analysts monitoring potential support near $0.23. Momentum remains weak below the 9-week EMA at $0.45 and 21-week EMA at $0.66, while futures open interest has slid to about $660 million from above $1 billion earlier this year.

On 22 December 2025, Hyperliquid addressed community concerns over HYPE token selling. According to co‑founder Iliensinc, the wallet behind recent trades belongs to a former employee dismissed in early 2024 and is not tied to the current team. The company also reiterated strict policies barring staff from trading HYPE derivatives.

Hyperliquid said that a wallet its community identified for allegedly shorting HYPE belongs to a former staff member who left in the first quarter of 2024. The co-founder stressed that the person's trades do not represent the firm's ethics and reiterated that employees face strict bans on HYPE derivatives trading and use of material non-public information. HYPE, which launched near a few dollars in November 2024 and later touched about $60, was trading around $25.40, roughly 24% lower over the past year but still up about 290% since inception.

Shiba Inu continues to trade below key moving averages, with charts indicating that bears still dominate and no structural shift toward a bull market has formed. Recent price upticks appear to stem from a temporary pause in selling rather than stronger demand, while indicators such as RSI remain weak and flat. Without higher highs, reclaimed support levels and rising volume, the token faces a higher probability of further downside rather than a sustained recovery.

On December 16, 2025, Aave contributor @ernesto introduced a DAO ownership proposal for community discussion. On December 22, 2025, founder Stani Kulechov said it was advanced to Snapshot, and AAVE fell over 10% to $160 during early Monday trading, while some delegates and previously idle validators reportedly gained influence in the vote.

On December 16, 2025, BGD Labs co-founder Ernesto Boado submitted an ARFC proposal to transfer Aave’s brand assets from entities such as Aave Labs to a DAO-controlled structure. A vote on this "Transfer of Brand Asset Control" will be held on Snapshot starting December 23, 2025, potentially granting AAVE token holders direct influence over domains, social platforms, and naming rights. Ahead of the vote, AAVE trades at $161.35 with a market cap of $2.47 billion and has seen a 9.12% price drop in 24 hours, reflecting heightened volatility.

On 22 December 2025 at 09:44, XRP was reported to be pressing into a critical decision zone after years of moving within a long-term structure. Analysts note alignment between momentum and structure, while U.S. spot XRP ETFs have taken in more than $1 billion in net inflows, with no outflow sessions since launch.

On 22 December 2025, a new trading week begins with a broad set of token unlocks increasing altcoin supply across the market. Several projects, including GateToken, Humanity, Plasma, Jupiter, and Grass, will release tokens worth hundreds of millions of dollars in total, with some unlocks exceeding 5% of circulating supply. These events are spread from early week to the weekend and may heighten short-term volatility in an already fragile market.