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.

Dogecoin fell 1.21% over the past 24 hours to $0.1297, hovering near a key $0.128 support after a multi-year trendline break. On December 21, 2025, Ali Charts warned that sustained selling could open a move toward $0.090. House of Doge detailed 2025 milestones and payments plans slated to begin rolling out in Q1 next year.

Shiba Inu opened 2025 at $0.00002113 and held above $0.00001 for nine months, but on Oct. 10 it fell to $0.0000085 amid a flash crash. It is at $0.000007297, down 2.9% daily and 10.88% weekly; to erase a zero, SHIB must clear $0.0000095 and reclaim $0.00001 as support.

Spot XRP ETFs launched on Nov. 13 and have posted 32 straight trading days of net inflows. As of Dec. 19, total net assets stood at about $1.21 billion, with cumulative net inflows at $1.07 billion. On Dec. 20, Sentora said inflows have surpassed $1 billion, underscoring steady demand across Canary, 21Shares, Grayscale, Bitwise and Franklin Templeton funds.

On December 19, 2025, Cardano's development firm outlined an interchain roadmap to move beyond a single-chain paradigm. The five-year Cardano Vision coordinates 34 research streams across nine areas, with initiatives such as Cardinal—a trust-minimized Bitcoin–Cardano bridge—and partner chains intended to extend capabilities while preserving the network's security model.

On Dec. 17, Coinbase announced a partnership with prediction markets operator Kalshi to let U.S. customers trade event contracts, and on the following Friday it said it had filed lawsuits in states including Connecticut, Michigan and Illinois over related gambling law issues. Ripple CTO David Schwartz then joined an X discussion, clarifying how event contracts are classified as derivatives, while XRPL’s protocol-native lending system targeting institutional credit markets is expected to move into validator voting in late January 2026.

XRP climbed from $1.77 to an intraday high of $1.957, approaching the $2 level while forming a double bottom near the recent low. Trading volume dropped 42% to $2.8 billion, raising doubts about the strength of the move even as optimism around XRP ETFs and Ripple's new partnerships supports sentiment.

By late 2025, Dogecoin was logging its third straight monthly decline, with large holders showing little trading activity for four weeks. DOGE fell 21.69% in November and was down 11.42% so far in December, trading at $0.1294 below its 50-day moving average at $0.138. The token has dropped 64.3% on a one-year basis, even as 8.13 million nonempty wallets remain active on the network.

On Dec. 19, 2025, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted "I like @Solana," following the company's Dec. 17 systems update. He thanked the Solana team and highlighted the launch of Solana DEX trading via Jupiter inside the Coinbase app, with rollout in the U.S. The update also outlined stocks, prediction markets, and an institutional tokenization platform.